The Grift That's Smothering the Resistance
I wasn’t on Twitter during the Arab Spring. It sounds like it was a big deal. Millions of people across a continent throwing off the shackles of tyranny and demonstrating for the first time the power of online organizing. It’s widely regarded to be the least shitty thing that Twitter ever did.
Not that Twitter was entirely responsible for it, but it’s often cited as having been a major organizing factor and a proof of concept for social media and new technologies to be used for the greater human good.
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