Imagine complaining about people posting links as a response on the internet. If carefully taking in their contents is an inconvenience for you, I’ll spell it

Imagine complaining about people posting links as a response on the internet. If carefully taking in their contents is an inconvenience for you, I’ll spell it out: the general narrative you’re invoking about twitter was always paired with specific pretense that it was conservative views that were somehow being unfairly squashed in discourse on twitter. To the surprise of no one who actually observed discourse on twitter (or understands certain frequent flaws in conservative psychology) it actually turns out that’s not true; they were plenty well represented and even arguably overamplified. Does this mean progressives were oppressed on twitter? You tell me — if you want to tell the story that even progressive representation is the real problem to be solved on social media, be my guest. But it ain’t gonna stop it from being obvious that the story of twitter’s purchase as a virtuous crusade to bring balance to discourse where conservatives just couldn’t get fair treatment doesn’t hold water — in addition, of course, to the ways the ensuing circus has made it clear that balance not the new owner’s motivation.