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- May 16, 2019
The internet has broken people's sense of time if a one-day suspension is a massacre and the potential of a week's suspension is the same as a lifetime ban. And frankly, considering how gleeful these people were about trying, and often succeeding, in actually getting people permanently banned, not just from Twitter but many other platforms, especially payment processors and CloudFlare, I think it's bullshit to treat their temporary loss of access to the blue bird app as some kind of censorship.
Generally agree, but there's whole industries right now whose existence depends on access to a single critical system. I'm in software dev, if I lost Internet access to data centers in a specific city for a day, I can't do any work at all. If something locks out my coworker's account on the ticketing system, they get zero work done.
Journalism has become wholly dependent on Twitter (and Google searches) at the moment. Take that away and the nu-journalist is crippled; they're cut off from sources, research, collaborators, background context, and the propaganda spreading network which gives their dribbling clickbait a veneer of importance.
A suspension is a calamity to them, because they can't do their pathetic version of "journalism" on their own. Normal people would shrug and continue touching grass. Nu-journo scum like Lorenz can only whine and hop to another platform, hoping their paid-for clout numbers will follow them.