Courtney Heard 🇨🇦Dec 11, 2022

I’m sick & tired of pretending that people still willingly using Twitter aren’t enabling this.

Every tweet, every login, every like is fueling his reach and god complex. If everyone who doesn’t support him would just leave the platform, he would have no choice but to reconsider how he is behaving & who he is platforming.

It’s the absolute BARE minimum we can do to stop the progression of online hatred & misinformation. YOU DONT HAVE TO DO *ANYTHING* TO STAY AWAY FROM TWITTER. #ElonMusk

Show threadCourtney Heard 🇨🇦Dec 11, 2022

It’s the “most vile & disgusting things I’ve ever seen” but still not enough to leave the platform?

You can delude yourself into thinking that you’re there to fight back & your tweets objecting to him are having some kind of an effect but this is just you making excuses to hang on to something you can’t let go of. He will NEVER consider your tweets.

BUT HE WILL CONSIDER A RAPIDLY DECLINING USERBASE.

Your continued presence only helps him, regardless of the content of your tweets. WAKE UP.

Show threadCourtney Heard 🇨🇦Dec 11, 2022
When this chapter is in the history books, people will wonder, “why did so many stay & enable him? How could they not have seen they were giving that man a platform? All they had to do was literally nothing & yet they chose, time & again, to login & be part of the data that made him feel like he was winning, and enabled him to invite advertisers back into the platform? Why didn’t they take a stand that *actually* would have hurt his platform? What would have had to happen for it to be enough?”
Show threadCourtney Heard 🇨🇦Dec 11, 2022
I am so upset about this, how many people are trying to justify staying & enabling this hatred. I am so frustrated & disappointed in *so* many people I had previously thought were better than this. SO many people have let us down & are paving the road that Musk & friends are using to march us towards fascism. I’m sorry I’m ranting I’m just completely dumbfounded at how many people out there sound great arguing against hatred but the moment they have a chance to DO something they back down.
Show threadJB Emmons

@godlessmom
Charitably, I think many of these folks really do mean well but overestimate their influence.

Slightly less charitably, some folks hate what's going on but are hooked on the illusory and fading sense of community on there, so they convince themselves (and let themselves be convinced by Twitter's metrics) that they wield more influence than they do so they can still have their fun.

Dec 11, 2022 at 4:57pmWeb
Show threadJB EmmonsDec 11, 2022
@godlessmom
Like, I get journalists and researchers reluctantly staying on Twitter because that's where they find the subjects they cover. But if you also find yourself gleefully tweeting through World Cup matches and TV awards ceremonies, maybe you're not so reluctant after all?
Show threadrevolt3dDec 12, 2022
@IntlLawGnome Right, if it's part of your job, whatever, do what you need to do, but most people aren't getting paid to be one twitter.