The collapse of Twitter for (basically) self-inflicted reasons makes a strong case for building online infrastructure structured as a non-profit or public utility.
People rely on these platforms for public information, use them for democratic debate and many invest their livelihoods in them.
These platforms are too important to public safety, peoples’ livelihoods and democracy to leave in the hands of eccentric billionaires or the whims of stock markets.
@DystopicRedhead @llebrun maybe a little judgey of me, but Twitter's staff didn't even so much as sick-out or picket.
It says a lot about how techies, even when they have every reason to build an alternative, simply won't.
@DystopicRedhead The tech industry developed since the Reagan years, when they broke unions and stopped enforcing regulations. So the industry just ignores the rules.
People IN the tech industry are younger than those years and have no memory of that, The industry also purges people who pass a certain age.
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