I know it'll never happen because we live in the reality where everything must be awful all the time, but I'll continue dreaming of a day where large internet platforms are regarded and regulated as public utilities.
I know it'll never happen because we live in the reality where everything must be awful all the time, but I'll continue dreaming of a day where large internet platforms are regarded and regulated as public utilities.
Tweeting is the ultimate example of an activity that's designed to be engaging but is otherwise awful. I think it may be the very nature of popularity-driven ultra-short-form content that it encourages online mobs, cancel culture, dunks and hot takes.
If there's even a chance this is true then it would be criminal to calcify this medium in its currently known form as a permanent pillar of our public square - which regulating it as a public utility would do. We could be inflicting suffering on future generations that might have escaped it.
No. It's better to hope that we discover better ways of communicating, and tweeting becomes irrelevant and dies.
What "cancel culture"? Who got "cancelled" for real? Literally everyone of those whining about "cancel culture" who hasn't actually broken laws or is being suspected having done so (Tate) is still running around and making tons of money whining around to everyone.
Meanwhile innocent people on the left get their lives ruined by cancel culture twitter zombies that think harassing and stalking people makes them righteous. And just the usual, people who want to be assholes and just pick the 'socially acceptable' way to hurt other people. "The Left" is extremely cannibalistic among those who subscribe to a central "Left" dogma.