Fight back, resist, and ask yourself this: What Would Howard Zinn do? Emma, the answer may be to read "A Peoples' History of the United States" then do what people have always done: protest, strategize, speak up, check your fears at the door, and put everything into bending the arc of history toward justice and away from white supremacists and other historical bigots of all varieties. No professor had a bigger impact on me, which is why I cannot remain silent in the face of simmering retrenchment of the minority rule thesis. Everything about this moment calls for collective action on and off the Internet. On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 5:48 AM Dr. Emma Briant <teflpolsoc@gmail.com> wrote:
I agree with you completely… but what do we doooo?
On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 at 05:25, Shulman, Stu <stu@texifter.com> wrote:
For those of us building tools to study the impact of Twitter on politics, it was always a rocky ride watching bad actors skirt the best efforts to regulate them. Now that a single bad actor is the sole regulator of the Twitter architecture, we are in a scary place with the former head of Trust & Safety literally in hiding because of Elon's creepy QAnon style doxxing attack. An argument I put in a short animated video in 2016 about Lawrence Lessig and his brilliant book from 1999 remains relevant to the debate, but we may need to add a fifth regulator: the reckless American oligarch monarchist. Elon Musk now controls the Twitter architecture in ways that evolve dangerously daily and thumbs his nose at markets, norms, and what Lessig called east coast code; the law. The fifth regulator is power. Raw, almost unlimited, power to take over where Trump left off, making Twitter a weapon. For what end, only one man knows.
On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 10:56 PM Dr. Emma Briant via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Dear Colleagues,
I’m sure all will agree that the mass censorship of, I think now 11 journalists from major news organisations today by Elon Musk is incredibly disturbing. I am wondering how one deletes all one’s tweets? Anyone know? I’m considering doing this but leaving my account as a placeholder, so I am not leaving that data there, and removing myself at this point from the platform. I was hoping not to do this, given that I network in Twitter for my research on propaganda and develop contacts. But this obviously crosses such a line. People need to push back somehow not just move to mastodon , but I’m honestly not sure how. I’m trying to process the implications and wondered other’s thoughts on this latest development.
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