Re:Twitter confirms Twitter Blue
by mbesto on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:53PM
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> It's not the same thing
Personification != same thing. I think you missed the point.
> That's not possible with sound waves at the town square.
Huh? I can simply not go into the town square.
> If we all agreed that twitter was trash and we all just stop going, then it's over - that village idiot has no power.
Exactly. but there are enough people benefitting from Twitter that they simply don't care that the village idiot has power (or they are the village idiot themselves).
Personification != same thing. I think you missed the point.
> That's not possible with sound waves at the town square.
Huh? I can simply not go into the town square.
> If we all agreed that twitter was trash and we all just stop going, then it's over - that village idiot has no power.
Exactly. but there are enough people benefitting from Twitter that they simply don't care that the village idiot has power (or they are the village idiot themselves).