Mastodawn

Tea time.Dec 17, 2022

Any journalist who is happy *some* of you have had your #Twitter accounts restored, while others are STILL #suspended without a shred of justification, simply do not understand where #elonmusk is going with this.

He plans on monetizing the mob to humiliate you and keep you compliant. Your intentional targeting and discomfort will be a financially valuable form of entertainment.

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Paper Late Dec 17, 2022

@KraftTea I think it a bad idea to do it because I often block heavy users so they don't appear in my timeline so I can save time and focus on the accounts I care about. I don't want them to be demoted because I block them. Only very rarely do I have to block someone because they were mean because most people on Twitter are polite.

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Tea time.

@Paperlate The problem is, so many of these blue checks are kind of hivemind ideologue trolls, they WILL work in a more-or-less organized way to target journalists and those they oppose, to deny them an audience. This is likely to lead to a "winners and losers" situation that is *especially* hard on small, independent investigative journalists, while encouraging cults of personality. It shouldn't be what anyone wants, but if you give trolls a way of targeting people, they will use it.