S8E5—Does Twitter Survive 2023? A Birdseye View Of The “Public Square”

Who hasn’t heard about Twitter these days? With all the controversy, Adam & Chris are talking about how private tech becomes a “public square”—and does Twitter have a future in 2023? Big Questions What is “free speech”? What is the idea of the public square and how does it relate? How has the long history of communications technology been controlled by the rich or the royal? Who owned the most powerful communications network in the middle ages? How should Christians speak and interact in the public square? Should Adam & Chris delete the Device & Virtue Twitter account? Links A timeline of Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter (NBC) We’re witnessing the brain death of Twitter (MIT Technology Review) Beyond the Public Square: Imagining Digital Democracy by Mary Ann Franks (Yale Law Journal) Dramatic Tweets https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657?s=20&t=CVF4F0xrENuRCMb8-QztJg https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604617643973124097?s=20&t=CVF4F0xrENuRCMb8-QztJg Talk Back to Adam & Chris Reach out to Device & Virtue on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Talk back to Chris and Adam on Twitter (uh, the Vice & Virtue vote was to keep it?) Support Device & Virtue. Learn how. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices