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Tue Jun 15 19:54:02 +0000 2021

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Edward Snowden @Snowden

These responses are, in turn, elevated in proportion to their controversy to the attention — and prejudice — of the crowd. In the resulting zero-sum blood sport that public reputation requires, combatants are incentivized to occupy the most conventionally defensible positions... — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 15, 2021

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Edward Snowden @Snowden

(Thread:) This is the reality of the fully commercialized mainstream internet: an indigestible mass of shortest-form opinions, purposefully selected by algorithms to agitate us on platforms that are designed to record and memorialize our most agitated, reflexive responses. — PolitiTweet.org

Edward Snowden @Snowden

I want to revive the original spirit of the older, pre-commercial internet—if not in form, then in function. A slow… https://t.co/QV1N7PECa5

Posted June 15, 2021

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Edward Snowden @Snowden

...which reduces all politics to ideology and splinters the polis into squabbling tribes. The products of the irreconcilable differences this process produces are nothing more than well-divided "audiences," made available to the influence of advertisers... — PolitiTweet.org

Posted June 15, 2021

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