I'm feeling genuinely depressed today seeing so many journalists, researchers and civil liberties and privacy advocates continuing to support Shitter, a platform that has just sued the ADL for doing nothing more than publishing research on antisemitism. I just don't understand. When people who I thought had principles can't stand up against a platform that actively threatens their very existence, what reason is there for optimism that the worst case scenarios hanging over us like the Sword of Damocles won't fall?
I'm sorry to my friends, sources and journalism colleagues for sounding like a broken record. Maybe I should just let it go. My non-stop criticism comes from a place of deep desperation and fear of what's likely about to happen (Trump in the Whitehouse seems entirely possible). I feel despondent seeing so many influential people continue to use Shitter.
Cognitive Dissonance. Twitter was popular, so they went all-in and now depend on it's reach for their audience; so now twitter being not popular, or a den of nazis, or having wildly inflated engagement numbers, or actually hurting the reputation of those still there - that's unthinkable. It's literally impossible to contemplate, as that would involve admitting they got duped, and don't *really* have a million followers, and are supporting thugs, etc etc.
(Insert image of "it's fine" dog sitting in burning building.)
