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'Company' and 'government' aren't radically different categories. They overlap.

Company = group of people working together; Government = entity in charge of something

Twitter is a company that governs people's usage of Twitter's platform. If Orwell's concepts are useful for understanding how it operates, we'll use them, and for that Twitter doesn't need to be a state.




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