Matt Taibbi

Will Twitter Become an Ocean of Suck?

The resignation of Jack Dorsey is the latest plot point in the story of the Internet's transformation, from democratizing tool to instrument of elite control

In the end, Twitter’s explosive growth has forced it to embrace something like the opposite of its original mission. It’s not an accident that the site now seems significantly overrepresented by upscale, monoculture-worshipping pseudo-intellectuals (seemingly every working journalist has an account, and certainly every censoriously woke one does). Like the Internet generally, instead of a machine for speech without “barriers,” Twitter is becoming, precisely, a mechanism for tightened elite control over expression, a thought-policed platitude sanctuary.