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Comment by howunfortunate

7 hours ago

Can you expand on why you think this has a chilling effect on speech?

It's impossible for the nitter person to defend against X Corporation and so X will have what it wants done.

So access to X content will be restricted to X servers.

X server operators, Musk, etc, are subject to rules themselves of their home locale, and they are not a disinterested party in many discussion subjects. So one can reasonably expect that the content on X will be regulated by state parties as well as corporate interests.

Also, X has login requirements in order to view a lot of its content.

So, nitter is a backup That has no necessary obligation to corporate or locale jurisdictions, and it has no login restrictions.

Regular average everyday citizens can speak into x, and have distribution through it. But they can expect for their speech to be restricted per the above.

So speeches is freer through nitter.