While I agree that online "organizing" was never going to be a substitute for the real deal, like it or not, many people this generation get their first "handshake" with actual organizing starting from online spaces. The Bougies and their reactionary lapdogs are well aware of this which is why we're seeing what we're seeing, rather than them just shrugging Leftists off as an annoying fringe.
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“I’ll have to repair nearly every article I’ve ever written since my tweets got wiped out,” journalist and videographer Vishal Singh wrote on Mastodon on Monday, after being banned from Twitter. “Hundreds of articles written by countless journalists used my tweets. From all sides of the political spectrum. Academic papers that cited my tweets. These links and embeds are now all broken.”
These are the same dipshits that call themselves professional journalists? Embedding tweets was the dumbest shit even for those that wanted to pretend Twitter was going to keep going forever.
Yes they are incredibly stupid. There's a reason you quote in articles you write instead of just waving your hand and being like "well its over there." But no, they wanted the embeds. To get the clicks. To get the likes. To get the validation they didn't get with their bullshit career choices.
It's like a Neal Stephenson parody of the burning of the library of Alexandria.
Bottom line, folks are going to have to find another place to post.
I totally agree that Twitter had some superlative moments for organization and activism. But that time passed a good five years ago, when liberals realized what unchecked third party reporting looked like in practice. Its been getting heavily sanitized since BLM was squelched back in 2018. The COVID shit and the "Russian Disinformation" scare really choked off any discourse that wasn't satisfying some advertiser or political organ's agenda.
Now that Elon's out in front of this thing, he's just turning the site into 4chan. Which sucks, don't get me wrong. But we are so far beyond the Wikileaks era of citizen reporting, it barely seems worth pretending Twitter is still good.
