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> OWS, MeToo, Arab Spring, etc, all used Twitter. They wanted to happen, they would have used something else. Plenty of history happened before Twitter.

• mutant_glofish 3y ago
  Not really. That "arc of history" line is just propaganda. Twitter did play a roll in these changes. Whether these were towards "justice" or not depends on your viewpoint, of course.
  • xorbax 3y ago
    The people end up on top see the outcome as just Winner write history So whatever happens, it'll be called just...until it isnt
  • pmontra 3y ago
    To make an example of my point, how could the American Revolution start in 1765 without Twitter? Something else did play a roll and was good enough. That revolution even succeeded. Thousands of other data points scattered all along human history, successful or not.
• danuker 3y ago
  It gets more and more difficult to find "something elses" as each of them gets blocked or censored.
  • pmontra 3y ago
    Everybody is born with a mouth. It's all we had for so much of our history. Add ink. Those were enough for all the movements that shaped the ancient and modern world.
    • danuker 3y ago
      When have you last physically given someone something written?