• @blue_zephyr
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    Why would a government subject itself to potential censorship of whatever admin is running their instance? It makes perfect sense for a government to host their own instance from where they can freely broadcast announcements.

    And the free market has proven to be unreliable. You’re subject to whatever billionaire is ego-tripping at the top of whatever platform you’re using. The will of the people is nowhere to be seen.

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      It’s like saying government officers should use gmail accounts instead of writing their emails from their own government-run email servers.

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      • @blue_zephyr
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        So Lemmy and Mastodon instances are free market solutions, unless a government does it? I don’t even understand what your point is.

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          • @blue_zephyr
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            I think you’re fundementally misunderstanding the purpose of these state instances. They’re a one-way broadcast channel from the government to the people. It’s not a social platform and no one except the government can create an account.

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              • @blue_zephyr
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                It’s not worse or better than a social platform. It’s an entirely seperate tool. Broadcasting your official government messages through a community owned by other people that could delete your comments on a whim is not ideal. The people have already decided to put the owners in power through democratic elections, which are lightyears beyond the whims of narcisistic billionaires, admins and biased social media polls.

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                111 months ago

                It verifies that what you are seeing is actually from a government agency. Like how .gov as a TLD verifies that you’re in a government website.

                You’re really fundamentally misunderstanding this whole situation. This is like the government running their own webserver to host a blog. It’s not government controlling anything.