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Is the destruction of Twitter and Reddit a conspiracy or am I just paranoid? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've had this feeling that since there are forces that do not want us to have free speech, and that the destruction of Reddit and Twitter does this effectively, creating a chilling effect, destroying social links and communities. Might it not be an intentional effort to stifle the ability of the downtrodden to organize and fight the power?

There are so many other ways things are engineered to benefit the minority and prevent the majority from gaining power, why not this too?

Just a thought rattling around in my head.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not a conspiracy, it's just capitalism, which is worse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Conspiracy of the rich and the economic policies which they use to make more money and ruins them as well as everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm related to rich people. It's not a conspiracy, it would be easier if it was. It's just... imagine you're playing a game and if you're in a certain position and you're motivated to win there are just certain obvious moves to make. Everyone in the world is forced to play the game of capitalism and almost everyone in the position to "win" makes those obvious moves (and always has, for all of history). The ONLY solution is to change the rules of the game, but one of the obvious moves if you're "winning" is to do everything you can to prevent the other players from doing that.

If it was a conspiracy, you could call out the people involved, deal with them and we could all move on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I say, they don't have to conspire, because they all think alike.

The president of General Motors and the president of Chase Manhattan Bank really are not going to disagree much on anything, nor would the editor of the New York Times disagree with them. They all tend to think quite alike, otherwise they would not be in those jobs

Gore Vidal (Wikiquote source, emphasis mine)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They don't even need to actively conspire when they all have the same class interests.