2 ms·
I don’t see how it ever would be. But that said, I remember the era of the Arab Spring where everyone said social media would liberate us all… of course it neve
by afavour 5y ago
I don’t see how it ever would be. But that said, I remember the era of the Arab Spring where everyone said social media would liberate us all… of course it never turned out to by true but I feel as though Twitter is still pretending that it will.
Being bought by Musk ought to bring about an end to any such perception. It’s going to be a rich man’s plaything (nothing new there, billionaires used to buy newspapers instead!) and who knows if it’ll be a success or not, but it has no higher calling and we’re probably all better off for recognising it.
- christkv 5y agoIs this anything different from Facebook or Google?
- afavour 5y agoI’d argue FB and Google stopped pretending to be about free speech and such a long time ago with Twitter being the one left that claimed to be a beacon of freedom (while not really being one).
- throwaway82652 5y agoAny website claiming to be a "beacon of free speech" is lying. The very idea of it is nonsensical from the outset, it's like a cartoon idea of what a website is supposed to be. One person's "free speech" is just another person's toxic abuse that makes the site unusable. That much is blatantly obvious from spending even just a small amount of time on Twitter.