The Copenhagen School of Security Studies defines political threats as challenges to the legitimacy of the political unit relating to ideologies that define the state. In other words, threats that undermine an existing or desired political order... 1/
https://twitter.com/DHS_Wolf/status/1322285774952452097
...like a news story informing Americans of a certain presidential candidate’s history of corruption, or information relevant to public safety that is offensive or harmful to the narratives they favor 2/
Twitter and Facebook do not operate as mere “businesses,” but rather act more like nonstate actors, essentially as competing points of sovereignty -- who is in charge here? 3/
One solution is nationalization: either the threat of nationalization, using nationalization to reform these platforms into basically public utilities, or dissolving them altogether amgreatness.com/2020/10/19/nat… 4/
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