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    1. …in reply to @RadioFreeTom
      @RadioFreeTom Here out of respect to disagree. 1. Nation-state actors have to first consider Twitter as a potential and actual organizing space for their dissidents. Shutting that down is quite useful.
  1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
    @RadioFreeTom 2. Nation-state-size actors don't need Twitter to give their propaganda NYT-level credibility. They can buy full-page ads, endow chairs, host brand-name university campuses, open foundations, and buy newspapers.
    1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
      @RadioFreeTom 3. What they need on Twitter is to deter critics from ratio-ing their propaganda into the ground. And flooding Twitter with Nazis, racists, and other volunteer propagandists isn't so bad for that.
      1. …in reply to @CarwilBJ
        @RadioFreeTom Also, it's never a good argument to say something isn't a plot bc someone more strategic might have done the opposite to serve the same interests..