Device & Virtue

S8E5—Does Twitter Survive 2023? A Birdseye View Of The “Public Square”

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Who hasn’t heard about Twitter these days? With all the controversy, Adam & Chris are talking about how private tech becomes a “public square”—and does Twitter have a future in 2023?

Big Questions
  • What is “free speech”?
  • What is the idea of the public square and how does it relate?
  • How has the long history of communications technology been controlled by the rich or the royal?
  • Who owned the most powerful communications network in the middle ages?
  • How should Christians speak and interact in the public square?
  • Should Adam & Chris delete the Device & Virtue Twitter account?
    • Links
    • A timeline of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter (NBC)
    • We’re witnessing the brain death of Twitter (MIT Technology Review)
    • Beyond the Public Square: Imagining Digital Democracy by Mary Ann Franks (Yale Law Journal)


      Dramatic Tweets
      • https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657?s=20&t=CVF4F0xrENuRCMb8-QztJg
      • https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097?s=20&t=CVF4F0xrENuRCMb8-QztJg


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