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Lost trust? Twitter was running an industrial censorship complex where dozens of 3-letter agencies were working hand-in-hand with the platform to decide what ge
by the_doctah 4y ago
Lost trust? Twitter was running an industrial censorship complex where dozens of 3-letter agencies were working hand-in-hand with the platform to decide what gets heard and what doesn't. Private citizens were targeted for censorship by government agencies. They deserved no trust to begin with.
- throwaway5959 4y agoAsk Matt Taibbi what he thinks of censorship on Twitter now.
- the_doctah 4y agoWhat does the substack notes thing have to do with governmental censorship or how does it refute my point in any meaningful way?
- wpietri 4y agoTell you what. You take an honest swing at connecting the dots here and I'll let you know if you missed anything.
- JeremyNT 4y agoTo quote Unforgiven: deserve's got nothing to do with it. However crummy Twitter was pre-acquisition, it was relatively stable with respect to its ad business, which steadily churned along. In that sense it was "trusted" despite any flaws the platform had. Musk just came in and knocked the pieces off the board and tossed a bunch of the client relations people right out the door, so it doesn't seem like a trustworthy business partner. If you believe Musk (I'm not sure why anybody would...) he's clawing back those advertising dollars, but it's got to be a questionable way to spend money when the platform is run so chaotically.