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Precisely. Who would have predicted that Twitter would have been used to organize people in a meaningful way during the Arab Spring?

The overthrow of tyrannical regimes is a noble cause that a startup would almost certainly never been able to focus on as a solution to a big picture problem.



…and then rejected that noble use by allowing other tyrannical regimes to censor content so it can't be used that way again.




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