Comment by zug_zug

Suppose tech companies were no longer legally allowed to use the network effect (i.e. they had to provide open-access to their public data via API).

Then this would enable alternative front-ends on twitter.

This would then enable me to filter messages by positivity, or whichever criteria I choose (e.g. non-Russian-bots, non-shills).

This is turn would then change the whole ecosystem. It would remove the perverse incentives of outrage-attention machine.