Twitter's response to US Government search warrant (turned over deleted DMs) [pdf]

That plan guarantees Russia can conquer the Ukraine rump state some time down the line.

The NATO staffer remark said “trade some land for nato membership for Ukraine”. Russia probably wouldn’t go for that one.

Historically, you could send a letter to a president. If the letter were unhinged, staff would throw it out. Thus, as a sociopath or a crazy, you'd have little or no access to a president.

Now, a president is bombarded by thousands of crazies per day, and he will actually read some portion of it. We're no longer ineffectually yelling at the TV: the man on the TV is listening. Anyone can easily gain a small part of a leader's attention, and collectively a group of crazies even without coordination can likely influence him.

Additionally, as a crazy prior to social media, you'd have to settle at best for periodicals from your extremist group of choice. Most of your life would be consuming mainstream information and interacting with normal people. This would balance you out a bit.

Now, you can consume extremist/conspiracy content all day long without ever coming close to running out, and your entire social group can be fellow crazies from around the world. You can create for yourself as pure an echo chamber as a cult in a commune.

It's a recipe for radicalization and induces the same strange-belief-conforming that can be seen in any and all religions.

This can play out at any scale. For instance, the majority of Republicans believe the election was stolen, liberal cities are overwhelmed by constant looting, and immigrants hoards are surging across the border. They truly live in an alternate universe, and it's driven by the information+social bubbles of social media.

I dub the phenomenon "bubbling". Whether the bubble is an internet troll funhouse or a fear-and-outrage feed or the welcoming arms of a coven of internet crazies, the bubble will shape most humans who enter one into the bubble's own image. You can and will be bubbled.

"Communications between Twitter and any person regarding the account including contacts with support services and records of actions taken"

Bureaucracy is what slows down larger companies, but that's because incentives aren't aligned. When incentives are aligned and priority is understood, often that bureaucracy fades away to a large extent, even if for short periods.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.39...

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> Nonetheless, the district court gave Twitter an opportunity to purge its contempt by producing the account information. When the court asked Twitter's counsel whether the company could produce the required materials by 5:00 p.m. that evening, counsel answered: "I believe we are prepared to do that. Yes, Your Honor."