Ruined? Musk and team made it significantly better by halting the massive censorship scheme practiced by the previous Twitter regime for years. And that scheme included - like with Meta - censorship at the direction of the Biden administration. Not to mention, old Twitter effectively made an illegal campaign contribution and interfered in the election by banning the President under a flimsy pretense.
Now people can actually discuss things on Twitter freely and in an intellectually honest way. Free speech is a threat to the author and presumably Jacobin’s readers, and the article therefore tries to construct a convoluted argument by highlighting other things like optimizing revenue or “enshittification”. These may indeed be real issues but they’re certainly not unique to Twitter.
X is unusable if you're logged out, or have no account. It's worse on that basis alone, frankly.
I've long since lumped it in with other federally-operated surveillance slopware like Windows and Facebook. It's just more obsequious now that Elon is CEO.
Ruined? Musk and team made it significantly better by halting the massive censorship scheme practiced by the previous Twitter regime for years. And that scheme included - like with Meta - censorship at the direction of the Biden administration. Not to mention, old Twitter effectively made an illegal campaign contribution and interfered in the election by banning the President under a flimsy pretense.
Now people can actually discuss things on Twitter freely and in an intellectually honest way. Free speech is a threat to the author and presumably Jacobin’s readers, and the article therefore tries to construct a convoluted argument by highlighting other things like optimizing revenue or “enshittification”. These may indeed be real issues but they’re certainly not unique to Twitter.
X is unusable if you're logged out, or have no account. It's worse on that basis alone, frankly.
I've long since lumped it in with other federally-operated surveillance slopware like Windows and Facebook. It's just more obsequious now that Elon is CEO.