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Cindy Cohn (EFF) Warns Jon Stewart That Americans Have to Make X and Meta ‘Less Important’ (www.thewrap.com)
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I suggest watching the video, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QkC1aK7jfLo but the article has an OK summary.

Also a Mastodon shout-out in the video.

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[–] 6 points 5 months ago (6 children)

What's frustrating about this "Your consumer habits are wrong, you should make them better" is that Twitter was (ostensibly) the space for the liberal intelligencia to go for journalism and debate and organizing until Elon Musk bought it.

Does anything stop a billionaire from buying up or shutting down the next social media platform? We can wax poetic about Lemmy/Mastadon as a decentralized and indie-operated environment. But crazy to think Joe Biden/Donald Trump can squash TikTok with a few swipes of the pen, that Feds can play wack-a-mole with ZArchive and Anna's Archive and Wikileaks, etc, while insisting the main hosts for the most popular indie media sites are bulletproof.

Might as well tell people to stop using the internet entirely.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

    Ill defer to you.

    Except lemme, ive had no social media for...3 years now.

    In that time, ive taken up muay thai, gratitude practices, doestevesky, made more rl friends and started a new business.

    From what little ive read, X/Twitter has never been for debate....but instead existed as a warzone.

    Thoughts?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    To me twitter started off as like how the facebook timeline used to be, people posted inane stuff about their day. The place for people to overshare. It was the evolution of early 2000s personal blogs now told in a daily stream of single sentence posts.

    Then it became celebrity gossip and it continued to be that until celebrities got on and it became the text version of Instagram. As in it was a major advertising portal. Then the scammers/wellness/influencers came in (just like Instagram) and it became where people tried to get people on financial multi level marketing schemes and special pink salt that removes negative ions from your surroundings (that's still advertising). Around that time Trump was a hot take artist on Twitter and managed to parlay that to the White House (he really worked the media well in 2015/2016 - Twitter was the ultimate guerilla advertising platform then). To that event, whatever good discourse was going on on Twitter was deep in obscurity by like 2012. It had been a culture warzone well before Musk bought it

    Everything becoming a punchline, I associate that with twitter. Like no delays joking about sex trafficking and Diddy became a joke day one of his arrest. Joking like that became mainstream on twitter a long time ago

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    In that time, ive taken up muay thai, gratitude practices, doestevesky, and started a new business.

    I mean, congratulations, I guess. I'm in Houston, so all of that just sounds like a ton of driving.

    From what little ive read, X/Twitter has never been for debate…but instead existed as a warzone.

    I've yet to hear of any bridges getting blown up because of a Tweet

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