Every time I think I’m used to the pace of the 24 hour news cycle, the cycle finds a new way to shock me out of complacency. Today’s example is that the biggest news story is not a band of rebels both in and out of buffalo robes breaking into the US Capitol building. Instead, it’s that the president of the United States was banned by several social media websites, with several more taking actions aimed at punishing or quieting his followers. It should have felt weird to type that last sentence; that’s not a thing that should feel normal to say. The fact that it filled me with an only mild sense of despair and confusion makes me suspect the last couple of years have burned out some important abnormality-sensing neurons in my brain.
When you mess with Twitter you're not just messing with Twitter. The "tweet" has become the primary news source. To continue with TLP themes there are people grabbing power and people grabbing the trappings of power. - JLT
Trump's Social Media Bans Just Facilitated a Peaceful Transfer of Power, but With a Catch
When you mess with Twitter you're not just messing with Twitter. The "tweet" has become the primary news source. To continue with TLP themes there are people grabbing power and people grabbing the trappings of power. - JLT