Mastodawn

Jon Worth Dec 18, 2022

And based on what's happened the past 48 hours on Twitter... think forward

Imagine - say - Washington Post revealed abuse of workers at a Tesla plant in Shanghai

What would happen?

Would it be dealt with fairly? Now I really doubt it. The reporter(s) would get blocked, and links to the story flagged.

Twitter is no longer a reliable and predictable place for news and the first take on the news.

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Stone Bear

@jon Tesla crash on I-5, major traffic jam, first responder agencies tweeting "avoid the area", get deprioritized, cascade crash in the backup... I mean, great for ConAgra 🍿 but Bad Bad for both Tesla *and* the public... and think how much taxpayer money's gonna be involved in prosecuting the subsequent lawsuit.

No thanks. Public agencies need to come out of the Twitterverse.