this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2023
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People are free to either agree with the CEO view or to not use the platform. Sad but true. At least it reminds us all that it is a private for-profit company and always has been. No matter whether the "value" of it was mostly provided by user-created contents.
He's done everyone a few favors. He showed us that the government sticks it's fingers into social media in ways that are illegal, and he also showed us that corpos aren't a good alternative because they'll stick their fingers into social media in ways that are legal.
Decentralization and self-hosting is ultimately the only protection against forces that want to force us to see what they want us to see and nothing else.
Ah great. Here comes another believer of the "Twitter Files".
I mean, the Twitter Files are, pretty objectively, true
Sure, but they also don't actually contain 95% of what people claim they contain.