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Dan Gillmor Nov 18, 2022

A lot of us moved our blogging to places like Twitter, because it was convenient and easier to be seen.

If this meltdown leads people to going back to their blogs, or at least learning the essential downside of centralization, that will be a positive outcome.

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DS-Tech Media ✅Nov 21, 2022

@dangillmor But why the exodus from Twitter? Because of Elon Musk? What has he done to make it terrible? Before he bought Twitter I saw some of the most depraved messages imaginable. Particularly people who refused the vaccine, and died of Covid. So many people celebrating their deaths. I've seen a lot online, but that stays with me.

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Dan Gillmor Nov 21, 2022

@drown The initial exodus (I still have an account there) is all about him. He strikes me as a sociopath. If there's a widespread exodus it'll be due to an accumulation of issues that ruin the product, which haven't happened yet.

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DS-Tech Media ✅Nov 22, 2022

@dangillmor I don't doubt that he's a sociopath. He's a billionaire. In my opinion he's a fraud too, and takes credit for the work of many other people. He plays into being a "rocket scientist", and takes credit for the work at Tesla. However, he bought the company who made the breakthroughs, and then made them agree to NDA's before rewriting it's history.
That being said though, Twitter was selectively & arbitrarily enforcing it's TOS, and censoring on behalf of governments.

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Dan Gillmor Nov 22, 2022

@drown If you think Twitter won't continue censoring on behalf of governments, you haven't been paying attention. Musk has explicitly said he will follow local laws including the most repressive ones.

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DS-Tech Media ✅

@dangillmor I realize they play along in foreign nations.But in the USA there should be no need to as there are no laws on speech. Twitter censored the New York Post, the nation's oldest paper when they did a story on the son of the president. They did this for political reasons. It would fall under election interference If it were the same story with Trump's son as the subject being suppressed by so many social media sites. Under Musk there shouldn't be censorship based on political biases.