I just handed Twitter $8 for Blue, because the company has strongly implied that it will only show the things I post to the people who asked to see them if I pay ransom money. This is the latest battle in one of the internet's longest-simmering wars: the fight over #EndToEnd:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/10/e2e/#the-censors-pen

In the beginning, there were #Bellheads and #Netheads. The Bellheads worked for big telcos, and they believed that all the value of the network rightly belonged to the carrier.

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