Bottom line, folks are going to have to find another place to post.
I totally agree that Twitter had some superlative moments for organization and activism. But that time passed a good five years ago, when liberals realized what unchecked third party reporting looked like in practice. Its been getting heavily sanitized since BLM was squelched back in 2018. The COVID shit and the "Russian Disinformation" scare really choked off any discourse that wasn't satisfying some advertiser or political organ's agenda.
Now that Elon's out in front of this thing, he's just turning the site into 4chan. Which sucks, don't get me wrong. But we are so far beyond the Wikileaks era of citizen reporting, it barely seems worth pretending Twitter is still good.
Bottom line, folks are going to have to find another place to post.
I totally agree that Twitter had some superlative moments for organization and activism. But that time passed a good five years ago, when liberals realized what unchecked third party reporting looked like in practice. Its been getting heavily sanitized since BLM was squelched back in 2018. The COVID shit and the "Russian Disinformation" scare really choked off any discourse that wasn't satisfying some advertiser or political organ's agenda.
Now that Elon's out in front of this thing, he's just turning the site into 4chan. Which sucks, don't get me wrong. But we are so far beyond the Wikileaks era of citizen reporting, it barely seems worth pretending Twitter is still good.