Yeah, Twitter's got tons of potential. It did a lot to realize that potential back during the Arab Spring, when it was used as the primary communications platf

Yeah, Twitter's got tons of potential. It did a lot to realize that potential back during the Arab Spring, when it was used as the primary communications platform among activists. Twitter was proud of that, being such a huge part of social and political progress. But that's not the Twitter of today. Now I more often read about how they've censored this or that. A trending hashtag that they disagree with will be removed from the trend list. Political activists that Twitter disagrees with will see their accounts de-verified or even outright banned. They used to champion freedom of speech, now they are one of the internet's most prolific censors. To me, that is the Twitter Contradiction.