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I'm being as kind as I can here: It's one very large, very visible social network that had a very dramatic, drawn out, and absurd takeover executed by someone

• refurb 4y ago
  Right, it gets clicks. But if I think of the impact of Twitter for most Americans and I’m not sure they’d notice if it disappeared one day.
  • dagmx 4y ago
    The impact if it disappears is perhaps minimal (though I do think it’s a valuable place for many topics like programming, art and game dev among others). However the real impact is if it becomes a service to push partisan agenda. Elon has already shown his biases multiple times and his duplicitous nature. He is very much on the cusp of being the new Murdoch. Whether or not many Americans use Twitter is going to be irrelevant compared to the impact it will have on society.
    • refurb 4y ago
      However the real impact is if it becomes a service to push partisan agenda. It already has? Do you remember the banning of the Hunter Biden laptop story right before the election. You know, that story that turned out to be 100% true?
      • dagmx 4y ago
        How very disingenuous of you. Anyone who paid attention knows that the issue was the conspiracies surrounding that event, which are most definitely not “100% true”. Even today, it’s not “100% proven” that the laptop did belong to Hunter Biden. So the goal was to curtail misinformation, which is clearly needed for folks like yourself.