Berenson moving to Substack (albeit not of his own free will) might be the key pivot point away from Twitter for all the lockdown skeptics.
Twitter has some advantages over blogs. It's closer to being real-time, you find some good material on Twitter that wouldn't really work if posted as a blog, and it feels more like you're part of a mass conversation on Twitter than on a blog. But each of those advantages has associated drawbacks, and having most replies hidden behind the offensive content button dampens the mass conversation. It also feels as though nothing on Twitter gets remembered for more than a couple days.
Yes, reading some people's Twitter account is like reading their Substack two days ahead of time (perhaps including this very post!). But since every independent thinker is going to be expelled from Twitter eventually anyway, it doesn't bother me.
Yeah, one of the most fundamental principles of persuasion is scarcity; when something isn't available, people tend to flock to it and want to find out what it is. So all this censorship will backfire in a way. Cause more and more platforms are emerging.
And yeah, all these executive orders passed by Bush and Obama that condemn terrorists are pretty frightening, as they don't clearly define who a terrorist is. Everyone but the state, apparently, can see clearly that a concerned mommy isn't a terrorist.
with respect to Twitter, it's just gotten so, so bad just even in the past 9 months. They clearly hide your reply even if you say use 'Dr. Robert Malone' & 'mRNA' in the same tweet.
This era has created some strange bedfellows. Gab used to be the haven where people like Roger Stone and Alex Jones fled after they'd been deplatformed everywhere else. Just yesterday, I noticed that Steve Kirsch (@stkirsch) has set up an account there, as he anticipates his Twitter account will be suspended if he keeps posting his vaccine-unveiling videos.
Yes, growing censorship on the mainstream platforms has had the interesting effect of making the fringe platforms more mainstream as you push more and more centristy people over there by necessity (I have a Gab account myself now). It's an old story going at least back to talk radio. The independent of mind flock to the new platforms first, enjoying their ability to say and do anything. Over time, big money and the establishment takes over and eventually decides they don't really like those people that made up so much of the initial user base. They go elsewhere, repeat.
Berenson moving to Substack (albeit not of his own free will) might be the key pivot point away from Twitter for all the lockdown skeptics.
Twitter has some advantages over blogs. It's closer to being real-time, you find some good material on Twitter that wouldn't really work if posted as a blog, and it feels more like you're part of a mass conversation on Twitter than on a blog. But each of those advantages has associated drawbacks, and having most replies hidden behind the offensive content button dampens the mass conversation. It also feels as though nothing on Twitter gets remembered for more than a couple days.
Yes, reading some people's Twitter account is like reading their Substack two days ahead of time (perhaps including this very post!). But since every independent thinker is going to be expelled from Twitter eventually anyway, it doesn't bother me.
Yeah, one of the most fundamental principles of persuasion is scarcity; when something isn't available, people tend to flock to it and want to find out what it is. So all this censorship will backfire in a way. Cause more and more platforms are emerging.
And yeah, all these executive orders passed by Bush and Obama that condemn terrorists are pretty frightening, as they don't clearly define who a terrorist is. Everyone but the state, apparently, can see clearly that a concerned mommy isn't a terrorist.
with respect to Twitter, it's just gotten so, so bad just even in the past 9 months. They clearly hide your reply even if you say use 'Dr. Robert Malone' & 'mRNA' in the same tweet.
This era has created some strange bedfellows. Gab used to be the haven where people like Roger Stone and Alex Jones fled after they'd been deplatformed everywhere else. Just yesterday, I noticed that Steve Kirsch (@stkirsch) has set up an account there, as he anticipates his Twitter account will be suspended if he keeps posting his vaccine-unveiling videos.
Yes, growing censorship on the mainstream platforms has had the interesting effect of making the fringe platforms more mainstream as you push more and more centristy people over there by necessity (I have a Gab account myself now). It's an old story going at least back to talk radio. The independent of mind flock to the new platforms first, enjoying their ability to say and do anything. Over time, big money and the establishment takes over and eventually decides they don't really like those people that made up so much of the initial user base. They go elsewhere, repeat.