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It's not too hyperbolic to say that WW3 could be started on a platform like Twitter. Having a "shutdown" button doesn't seem that extreme when essentially the entire site seems to be compromised. I'd bet my bottom dollar that Congressional hearings are going to happen.


What if you prevented the intentional start of WW3, that would be quite the trampling of some rights


If you make a shutdown button, that becomes a new target for hackers


There's always a shutdown button. Twitter can simply edit the DNS records to point to a static maintenance page.


Yup, people forget sometimes the core fundamentals here. These are just websites at the end of the day.


Any more of a target than the other administration/moderation tools Twitter has available?


To what end?


It hasn't gotten so far that heads of states end up in angry loops of escalation (yet). Luckily the only 2 hotheads in that position are Trump and Kim Jong-Un, I would argue and they seem to get along.


Ok but a few accounts asking for Bitcoin from rubes isn't WWIII


They got Obama’s account too. What would happen if they got Trump’s?




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