CrimethInc. Ex-Workers on Nostr: Elon Musk bought Twitter with the express intention of destroying a platform that he ...
Elon Musk bought Twitter with the express intention of destroying a platform that he regarded as an obstacle to the aspirations of far-right billionaires like himself.
Now he is announcing that the block function will be discontinued. The only imaginable reason to remove the block function is to enable bigots to make the platform uninhabitable for everyone else.
Here's the backstory on how Twitter became a battleground:
https://crimethinc.com/TwitterBoughtWe are in a war with the forces of oligarchy and bigotry. We have to build communications infrastructure that they can never take over.
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2023-08-18 18:16:08Event JSON
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