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   Margarita Estévez-Abe (japanprof@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 13-Nov-2022 22:18:03 JST Margarita Estévez-Abe

   #TwitterMigrate #TwitterMigration I really don’t care about Elon Musk. I’m on a post-Twitter mode. Twitter is his expensive toy now. It’s his private company and the only ones who could lose money are Musk and those who’ve lent him money. I really want a break from Musk and Trump. I dream of a day when we no longer see their names in the news. #PostTwitterWorld

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     Mayumi Naramura (narako@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 04:03:37 JST Mayumi Naramura

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     @JapanProf I’ve been thinking about Murdoch’s doomed purchase of MySpace many years ago. If you are not born a US citizen, media, both old (News Corp) and new (social media) is the way to rule the world.

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     Margarita Estévez-Abe (japanprof@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Nov-2022 06:07:59 JST Margarita Estévez-Abe

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     • Mayumi Naramura

     @Narako The nationality issue is only relevant if a government restricts media ownership to its citizens (the US). Like in almost all other product segments, media ownership used be more diffused. Murdoch has been one of the key "consolidator 'of media ownership and we know how he affected the quality of democracy wherever he went. Murdoch, Sinclair, Zuckerberg and Musk (if he doesn't push Twitter to bankruptcy) are all bad news for democracy. Zuckerberg probably is the worst of them all.