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WOW. Elon Musk's Twitter straight-up banned the account for Mastodon. Just, wow.
I share Elon Musk's vision of him moving to Mars.
Let’s not forget that the insurrectionist president employed a noted white supremacist, Stephen Miller, for several years at the White House. We, the taxpayers, paid for it. He knows who these people are, folks.
Many commentators are tweeting & tooting that we need to expand the SCOTUS. That is not the answer to everything. Unless you just want a larger Court, not bound by ethics rules, engaging in the kind of behavior described in the NYT piece. What we need are guardrails - an understanding that the Court sits w/i our democracy. Our job us to strengthen it by creating the processes that promote impartiality & insulation from lobbying, not crossing our fingers & hoping for the best.

The collapse of Twitter for (basically) self-inflicted reasons makes a strong case for building online infrastructure structured as a non-profit or public utility.

People rely on these platforms for public information, use them for democratic debate and many invest their livelihoods in them.

These platforms are too important to public safety, peoples’ livelihoods and democracy to leave in the hands of eccentric billionaires or the whims of stock markets.