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Stephen Downes

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If Twitter is harder to resist than alcohol and tobacco, why do I have to force myself to remember to check to see whether anyone has written a message to @downes? (If I miss your comment, I'm sorry, I hardly use Twitter, and use it less and less as time goes by.) Related: Dave Winer on country-specific Twitter filters: "We should have tutorial sessions at every Internet policy conference that show people how easy it is to operate your own infrastructure. It's really there now, ready to teach users how to do it. But you have to make a commitment to standing up for the Internet. It will never be as easy as Twitter. However, if Twitter shuts you off, it won't effect your presence. That's worth a little more complexity." Amen.

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