Chuck JordanOne of the big lies I totally believed in my teens & early 20s was that David Letterman really was Stickin It To The Man when he mocked NBC and (then-owner) General Electric. It was all performative nonsense, obviously, but I’m reminded of it every time I see the end result of billionaires in control of “democratic” platforms that claim to give commoners a voice.
People love pointing to the “Arab Spring” as an example of how social media is essential, which completely (deliberately?) ignores how corporate-owned platforms being useful for organizing resistance movements is an unwelcome side-effect AT BEST.
No doubt a lot of people at Twitter genuinely believed in its value as a democratizing platform, but acting like that is its main mission statement is either disingenuous or outright deceitful.
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