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Let me know when Twitter shows up on your doorstep with guns and takes away your computer.


They don’t need to even show up - they can just block your journalism from ever being seen, all from the comfort of their plush offices, and so it doesn’t matter if you keep your computer. That’s what makes the algorithmic/censorship powers of social media platforms (TikTok, X, Meta, YouTube, whatever) far scarier.


Twitter can take down your blog and Facebook page and email newsletter? There are plenty of journalists not even on Twitter.

Is it censorship if I don’t let you shout slogans in my living room at 2am, too?




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