Rabble on Nostr: “Both political parties have worked together to push [social media] platforms to ...
“Both political parties have worked together to push [social media] platforms to censor political speech. This is why meta now down ranks all posts from journalists and activists. And TikTok is similar where it’s suppressed political content.
People in power, whether they’re democrats or republicans seem to be able to agree on is that they want less online activism, and less speech. We’ve seen that throughout the Trump and Biden administrations alike, and I do think it’s concerning. When we look at the social media landscape, these apps that were originally ushered in things like the Arab Spring. People used to talk about their liberatory nature, now you can’t even say the word feminism on threads without getting down ranked. “ Taylor Lorenz (npub1d9n…udfv)
https://pca.st/episode/0c5b21ae-ea72-473f-b468-c0d631f34c71
People in power, whether they’re democrats or republicans seem to be able to agree on is that they want less online activism, and less speech. We’ve seen that throughout the Trump and Biden administrations alike, and I do think it’s concerning. When we look at the social media landscape, these apps that were originally ushered in things like the Arab Spring. People used to talk about their liberatory nature, now you can’t even say the word feminism on threads without getting down ranked. “ Taylor Lorenz (npub1d9n…udfv)
https://pca.st/episode/0c5b21ae-ea72-473f-b468-c0d631f34c71