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Okay, they got me. The Important Blue Internet Checkmarks made me chuckle. There's been so much inkled spilled over Twitter's profile icon in the past few weeks

Okay, they got me. The Important Blue Internet Checkmarks made me chuckle. There's been so much inkled spilled over Twitter's profile icon in the past few weeks, it's just silly.

api 4y ago
I’ve started to think Elon is being “chaotic good” here by showing people what’s wrong with these silos and also making a fool out of the world for thinking these sites are so important. Twitter never should have been any more important than Tumblr. The idea of that dumb site being central to world politics is the problem.
- sircastor 4y ago
  I don’t see how it’s any different than a smoke-filled back room, or the local grange where people meet together and try to convince one another of what’s important. The scale is substantially different, but just because it’s a different mode of communication doesn’t mean it’s less meaningful.
- colpabar 4y ago
  I’ve been thinking something along these lines as well. For years, whenever a conservative was banned from twitter, everyone would smugly say “it’s just a private company bro, why do you care so much?” And they were right in a way - it is just a private company and people shouldn’t care so much. The problem with that logic was that seemingly every politician used twitter extensively and a lot of public discourse happened there, which makes political bias an issue. But now that a conservative owns the private company, it’s the end of the world. My point is not to argue about political factions. My point is that twitter should not matter. If opening up verification to everyone willing to pay was indeed a 4d chess move, well done.
  - Spivak 4y ago
    I feel like the thing that ends up being missed here is that conservatives aren’t being banned because they’re conservative. If that was the goal and you support the private company argument the banhammer would have a much much bigger blast radius. Like good lord Ben Sharpie is still on Twitter. What you have is a bunch of high profile internet edgelords with persecution fetishes and who’s internet clout is dependent on whipping people into a frenzy and so bait bans by posting barely veiled hate speech as “comedy” and then milk that by whinging for months. And it happens to conservatives because of the weird internet culture that took hold and has its origins in 4chan where saying absolutely vile shit for the lulz are the kind smugly superior takes that get views. Liberals have their own smugly superior takes but it’s “haha I’m smart, you’re stupid, obvious racist is obvious.” There is a whole sea of conservatives who aren’t falling into this shit to get themselves into the news cycle. Sorry bud, no matter how many Youtube videos you make trying to say it’s one big grand conspiracy against you, you weren’t banned because you’re a conservative — you were banned you in particular are a hateful asshole.

Okay, they got me. The Important Blue Internet Checkmarks made me chuckle. There's been so much inkled spilled over Twitter's profile icon in the past few weeks, it's just silly.

api 4y ago

I’ve started to think Elon is being “chaotic good” here by showing people what’s wrong with these silos and also making a fool out of the world for thinking these sites are so important. Twitter never should have been any more important than Tumblr. The idea of that dumb site being central to world politics is the problem.

sircastor 4y ago
I don’t see how it’s any different than a smoke-filled back room, or the local grange where people meet together and try to convince one another of what’s important. The scale is substantially different, but just because it’s a different mode of communication doesn’t mean it’s less meaningful.
colpabar 4y ago
I’ve been thinking something along these lines as well. For years, whenever a conservative was banned from twitter, everyone would smugly say “it’s just a private company bro, why do you care so much?” And they were right in a way - it is just a private company and people shouldn’t care so much. The problem with that logic was that seemingly every politician used twitter extensively and a lot of public discourse happened there, which makes political bias an issue. But now that a conservative owns the private company, it’s the end of the world. My point is not to argue about political factions. My point is that twitter should not matter. If opening up verification to everyone willing to pay was indeed a 4d chess move, well done.
- Spivak 4y ago
  I feel like the thing that ends up being missed here is that conservatives aren’t being banned because they’re conservative. If that was the goal and you support the private company argument the banhammer would have a much much bigger blast radius. Like good lord Ben Sharpie is still on Twitter. What you have is a bunch of high profile internet edgelords with persecution fetishes and who’s internet clout is dependent on whipping people into a frenzy and so bait bans by posting barely veiled hate speech as “comedy” and then milk that by whinging for months. And it happens to conservatives because of the weird internet culture that took hold and has its origins in 4chan where saying absolutely vile shit for the lulz are the kind smugly superior takes that get views. Liberals have their own smugly superior takes but it’s “haha I’m smart, you’re stupid, obvious racist is obvious.” There is a whole sea of conservatives who aren’t falling into this shit to get themselves into the news cycle. Sorry bud, no matter how many Youtube videos you make trying to say it’s one big grand conspiracy against you, you weren’t banned because you’re a conservative — you were banned you in particular are a hateful asshole.