>After the election, users left the Elon Musk-owned platform in droves, unwilling to centralize the way they talk to people online around this one website.
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>Unfortunately, this is what all of the internet is right now: social media, owned by large corporations that make changes to them to limit or suppress your speech, in order to make themselves more attractive to advertisers or just pursue their owners’ ends.
twitter emigre were fine with centralization of power, suppression of speech, and appeasement of advertisers just a few years ago, back when Ministry of Trust and Safety commissars were on-call 24x7 to suppress speech they didn't like and summarily unperson the offenders.
>...
>Unfortunately, this is what all of the internet is right now: social media, owned by large corporations that make changes to them to limit or suppress your speech, in order to make themselves more attractive to advertisers or just pursue their owners’ ends.
twitter emigre were fine with centralization of power, suppression of speech, and appeasement of advertisers just a few years ago, back when Ministry of Trust and Safety commissars were on-call 24x7 to suppress speech they didn't like and summarily unperson the offenders.