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I really don't see how it's "public infrastructure." If Twitter disappeared tomorrow, most of the public wouldn't bat an eye.
by morgante 11y ago
I really don't see how it's "public infrastructure."
If Twitter disappeared tomorrow, most of the public wouldn't bat an eye.
- JBReefer 11y agoHell, I would be actively happy. I really don't like the impact Twitter has had on journalism and on outrage culture. It's too short to be intellectual and seems to encourage the "2 minutes of hate."
- 13thLetter 11y agoI have to second that. Twitter really does provide negative societal value, given that it's almost perfectly designed to drive outrage storms and incoherent, ingroup-pleasing snark in place of journalism. If Twitter suddenly vanished tomorrow, the quality of public debate in the United States would skyrocket.