Re:Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter
by vineyardmike on Monday April 04, 2022 @03:01PM
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> The square is empty and has a handful of people with a megaphone.
Have you ever been to a real town square? Its a handful of people with Megaphones trying to rally a crowd - and a bunch of people having private conversations around it. Thats twitter + DMs.
We're talking about these platforms in relation to "free speech". This implies it's used by the masses for speech, but that isn't the case.
We also call it our "digital town square". It isn't. The square is empty and has a handful of people with a megaphone.
Politicians, media and businesses consider the narratives on social media to reflect actual culture and political views, but this couldn't be further from the truth.
This matters because Twitter has an outsized cultural and political influence, which is not the case for all the other networks you mentioned.