One man owning Twitter will make things much worse for marginalized people on the world’s “town square.”
I’m the founder of a new social networking app, but I’ll also be the first to say that there is no other Twitter, no replacement, no competing platform that can offer a safer, moderated alternative. For all of its current ills, Twitter provides a global and democratized “town square” functionality—which is vital in times like now, when the world is faced by a plethora of global problems.
While social media platforms like mine are beginning to serve more specific communities, there will always be a need for the mass communication Twitter provides. In that, I guess I do agree with Musk on something. We saw its power in the Arab Spring; we have seen it recently in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, in the #MeToo, and we see it in key election debates that reach so many people because of Twitter specifically.
I was unsure whether to even put this out in the world, because I don’t want to face harassment just for criticizing one man. But ultimately, I feel like we all need to speak out now, because, yes, things can actually get worse. And we desperately need things to get better.
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