Drew HarwellDec 16, 2022
One point I do want to make clear: Twitter is Elon Musk's website. He paid all that money and can ban whoever he wants. It's his right, just like it's our right to point out when he's spreading bad information and contradicting himself.
Show threadDan Ciruli
@drewharwell And, of course, it's our right to never go there again.
Dec 16, 2022 at 7:05pmWeb
Show threadEllen BeldnerDec 16, 2022
@danciruli @drewharwell
Free speech don’t mean free ears.
Show threadJ🍩hn FünkDec 16, 2022

@danciruli @drewharwell This was, of course, birdboy's fatal miscalculation. He thought the bird site's status as the internet's town square was set in stone.

Turns out, town square status is determined by the people who use it. When you start kicking some people out, and others leave on their own in droves, they'll either find or build a new town square.

Show threadPhil RobertsonDec 16, 2022

@probablyjohnfunk @danciruli @drewharwell

Precisely. ->

https://robertsonp.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-the-twitter-quitter

In Defense of the Twitter Quitter

You don’t need to stay on Twitter and ‘fight’

Phil's Takes
Show threadKaren E. Lund 💙💛Dec 16, 2022

@danciruli @drewharwell Last night I made my tweets protected and today I closed all the open tabs for the sites. (Yes, I'm a tab slut.)

I will not delete my account because I don't want some troll to take my handle, but I'm on the road to everything short of that.