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Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets (techcrunch.com)
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Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.

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[–] paintbucketholder@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

It's absolute insanity that something like government emergency alerts get broadcast via an unregulated, privately owned, privately run for-profit service that answers to absolutely nobody.

One would hope that this episode would bring about some rethinking, but realistically, the reaction now is probably going to be "whew, crisis averted, let's change nothing and continue exactly as before."