khm on Nostr: I'm just gonna highlight a couple specific places I strongly disagree: > The ...

I'm just gonna highlight a couple specific places I strongly disagree:
> The objective reality is that the view that twitter is a nazi bar is a minority,
Not sure how this is relevant. My opinions don't need to be popular to be right.
> Both happen in tandem, in response to the same action, as part of an orchestrated response.
No, that's not a fair assessment. Someone says "hey block this asshole," and people block the asshole, that's an orchestrated response. Someone says "hey block this asshole," and people send pictures of their house and "I know where you live," crime is happening and the commission of that crime is not ascribable to the orchestrator here. Someone says "hey block and/or kill this asshole" and THEN I accept that the two are part and parcel.
> 1/3rd of everyone in the US uses twitter.
According to ... twitter. Not buying that, either.

And finally, most importantly:

You whatabouted a couple organizations in here, and that's fine in general terms, because you're addressing a broader sort of trend. but I want to be clear about something.

Twitter, *specifically* Twitter, is a heavily-censored platform that has been bought and subverted by a person who I believe constitutes an existential threat to democracy, and the platform is *currently* being used to inflate its parent company's value in order to fast-track introduction to the S&P 500 and nail down "too big to fail" status for its owner.

I get that the usual "I don't like the stuff people post on Twitter" objection is insufficient reason for this level of vitriol, but I regard this platform as specifically and particularly being used as a weapon of aggression against me, personally, and my civilization, generally. I do not give a shit what minor conveniences it provides to people, and I regard people who work to enrich that platform's owner as personal enemies who are specifically trying to destroy my country. That is the context in which I'm evaluating the decisions of Twitter collaborators.

Microsoft sucks for a million reasons but I've never had reason to believe that they were trying to destroy my nation. I believe that Google is even more evil than Microsoft but they have not so far attempted to dismantle democracy. So while I accept *in general* that the thrust of your argument applies to multiple businesses/platforms/technologies/whatever, *in particular* I do not class Twitter amongst those arguments.

CC: Stefano Marinelli (npub1ef5…gcpc)