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by passerby1 1480 days ago
Does it makes sense to push for representatives to discuss a law to forbid a city or state announcements to use any commercial platform for announcements?
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I think it makes more sense to mandate they post on a govt-funded platform simultaneously with any other media.

More media (Facebook etc) means reaching more people, that's not a bad thing, but it IS a bad thing for everyone else to get the info late if the govt only updates their "official" site once a week or something, but updates twitter every few minutes.

I'd prefer to see the primary content hosted on www.mytown.gov/announcements or similar. Then FB, Twitter, etc used to share/link that content.