I suspect part of what's changed is that we've lost hope in the Internet getting better. The early Internet was full of trolls, spam, and the like, but it was thought that was just growing pains and once the Internet reached mass adoption there'd be a new golden age of communication, information, and discourse. Instead all the problems of the early Internet have just gotten worse, the whole thing is increasingly controlled by a handful of people willing and shockingly able to mold the world into what they want, and we're realizing that humanity is just like this.
"What the fuck is wrong with state lawmakers?" No one pays attention to them, at least during election season, as national-level politicians suck up all the oxygen. That pretty much sums it up.
Unfortunately, I can see media companies making the argument "see? See?! You social media sites need us more than we need you, so pay your link tax dammit!" (Just ignore that Twitter was always a fraction of the size of Facebook...)
They would if Bluesky ever got out of beta, Threads had a single thing people wanted from a Twitter replacement, or people hadn't convinced themselves that federation and instances made Mastodon "too complicated".
If the Heritage Foundation supporting KOSA wasn't enough to give Democrats second thoughts, Koby supporting it with nonsense about LGBT people "sexualizing kids" definitely should.
When ideas that seem so blatantly false and/or discredited are persistently believed by a large enough chunk of the country as to influence the course of politics and even pose a threat to democracy itself, completely impervious to the facts of the matter, it's easy to see why many on the left might have soured on free speech when the premise on which it rests - that people can and do rationally sort out competing claims to the truth and the best course of action - seems to be increasingly clearly and demonstrably false.
There was another theory floating around surrounding Twitter's new rate limits: it coincided with the end of the month and when Twitter's Google hosting bill was due. And if you know how Elon has treated Twitter's bills...
What sucks is that corporations are very efficient at becoming friends with politicians, especially in the American system which is practically designed to keep them from preventing it until it's too late, and using them to help normalize their sociopathy.
In the interview, Huffman also praised the cost-cutting by Twitter owner Elon Musk, calling the reduced headcount there an example of how a social media site can be profitable without the massive revenue of a company like Google.
You're citing freaking Elon Musk's Twitter as your example of how a social media site can be profitable?!?
That may be the biggest sign yet that Huffman should be fired.
"But the path forward was obvious for years, it just required shaking off corruption."
Oh sure, so simple. If it was that easy to fix corruption in our government we'd be living in a utopia.
Why are so many Democratic politicians so often shown to be so bad at their jobs and so willing to take right-wing think tank nonsense at face value? It can't possibly be that they're really Republicans or otherwise more interested in the appearance of resisting theocratic fascist oligarchy while actually greasing the path to it than actually resisting it, can it?
Even if pornography addiction was a thing, trying to "solve" it by banning pornography is like trying to "solve" alcoholism or drug addiction by banning alcohol or drugs.
Wait...
My understanding is that British Summer Time is not the same as Greenwich Mean Time; GMT does not follow DST so GMT and UTC are effectively interchangeable. Which I suppose would mean, from your perspective, that there's no reason to use GMT at all.
I suspect part of what's changed is that we've lost hope in the Internet getting better. The early Internet was full of trolls, spam, and the like, but it was thought that was just growing pains and once the Internet reached mass adoption there'd be a new golden age of communication, information, and discourse. Instead all the problems of the early Internet have just gotten worse, the whole thing is increasingly controlled by a handful of people willing and shockingly able to mold the world into what they want, and we're realizing that humanity is just like this.
Assuming he isn't being tasked with killing Twitter entirely. Some of the people that helped fund the purchase would be mighty interested in that...
"What the fuck is wrong with state lawmakers?" No one pays attention to them, at least during election season, as national-level politicians suck up all the oxygen. That pretty much sums it up.
Welp, Twitter had a good run, but it's effectively dead now.
Unfortunately, I can see media companies making the argument "see? See?! You social media sites need us more than we need you, so pay your link tax dammit!" (Just ignore that Twitter was always a fraction of the size of Facebook...)
They would if Bluesky ever got out of beta, Threads had a single thing people wanted from a Twitter replacement, or people hadn't convinced themselves that federation and instances made Mastodon "too complicated".
The people who backed his purchase of Twitter are rationally counting on his trashing the place through his irrationality.
If the Heritage Foundation supporting KOSA wasn't enough to give Democrats second thoughts, Koby supporting it with nonsense about LGBT people "sexualizing kids" definitely should.
When ideas that seem so blatantly false and/or discredited are persistently believed by a large enough chunk of the country as to influence the course of politics and even pose a threat to democracy itself, completely impervious to the facts of the matter, it's easy to see why many on the left might have soured on free speech when the premise on which it rests - that people can and do rationally sort out competing claims to the truth and the best course of action - seems to be increasingly clearly and demonstrably false.
There was another theory floating around surrounding Twitter's new rate limits: it coincided with the end of the month and when Twitter's Google hosting bill was due. And if you know how Elon has treated Twitter's bills...
Specifically, Elon is a child of apartheid.
What sucks is that corporations are very efficient at becoming friends with politicians, especially in the American system which is practically designed to keep them from preventing it until it's too late, and using them to help normalize their sociopathy.
From the NBC interview:
"But the path forward was obvious for years, it just required shaking off corruption." Oh sure, so simple. If it was that easy to fix corruption in our government we'd be living in a utopia.
Why are so many Democratic politicians so often shown to be so bad at their jobs and so willing to take right-wing think tank nonsense at face value? It can't possibly be that they're really Republicans or otherwise more interested in the appearance of resisting theocratic fascist oligarchy while actually greasing the path to it than actually resisting it, can it?
Even if pornography addiction was a thing, trying to "solve" it by banning pornography is like trying to "solve" alcoholism or drug addiction by banning alcohol or drugs. Wait...
(Psst, I think you start to refer to "Irwin" by last name without introducing her properly first, unless I'm missing something.)
Ah, so that's where they got the idea for how copyright law should be rigged in their favor!
My understanding is that British Summer Time is not the same as Greenwich Mean Time; GMT does not follow DST so GMT and UTC are effectively interchangeable. Which I suppose would mean, from your perspective, that there's no reason to use GMT at all.