It's amusing to consider that Musk could have bought one of the many dying alt-right Twitter clones and achieved the same results for billions of dollars less. But no, he had to turn Twitter itself into a dying Twitter clone.

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 52 points 11 months ago (23 children)

In doing so, he destroyed Twitter.

Which is exactly what was meant to happen, to either turn it into a tool of the right and foreign parties, or destroy it.

Remember, the first thing crackpot dictators did in the past decade, whenever there was an uprising, was to block Twitter from being accessed.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 10 points 11 months ago (14 children)

Every day I’m getting more and more convinced that demolishing Twitter was 100% intentional and part of the plan.

[–] RavenFellBlade@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

I've been saying that about Twitter and Reddit from the beginning. Both have been platforms responsible for significant progressive organization. The Arab Spring would likely not have happened without Twitter. Conservatives know they cannot compete in the "marketplace of ideas", so their only means to compete is to silence the competition by dismantling the platforms progressives use to organize and communicate their ideas.

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