DELETE - TWITTER-X - NOW!
Public Institutions & Journalists Should Have Left Long Ago. What Are They Thinking?!
Social Media was never free speech. The public square is a place. Until they drag you away - speak up.
Twenty five years of the modern internet should have taught us that the ability to create user friendly platforms evolved quickly and was a matter of coding and product design. Not much has changed in five to ten years. The face of your smart phone looks the same. The design of the platforms is the same. The algorithms got better. A few plug and play media player options. Not much else.
The collective dependency on five corporate social media platforms, brought about by fad and laziness, is now putting our democratic way of life at risk. Enough with these goons. Does a school board really need TwitterX or Facebook to communicate with parents? No. The ability to communicate with the broader public is available with basic internet tools. Anyone who started out in media knows it’s all plug-n-play now. The technology is available, use it. Whatever equitable values that are professed, are cast aside for the ease of self gratification, that someone out there might be listening. Any institutional rationalizations are a ‘tell’ to personal behaviour. Church and State people. Leave your bad habits at home for the sake of the greater good and self determination.
We allowed a small number of corporate savants to highjack our public discourse and now our democracies, because of personal ego and laziness. Journalists especially have been TwitterX suckers for way too long. Governments, public broadcasters, school boards, service agencies, hospitals, journalists, news agencies etc all need to get off TwitterX immediately.
Not only are these public institutions enriching oligarchs at the expense of the public purse but they are also delaying what would otherwise be a normal progression to self sustaining alternatives, well within our collective technological abilities. If you are reading this on Substack….there you have it.
If Netflix normalized digital subscriptions and Substack has empower writers through subscriptions, then tariff threats have reminded us about the power of the consumer boycott. This is Benjamin Franklin meets Ralph Nader. Old school is new school.
There is a fantastic history of consumer boycotts. LEARN ABOUT IT.
Corporate social media platforms were never free speech. They are companies! You want power back, stop giving them power. It means you might have to get over yourself and what ever it might offer you, in the short term. Something better will take its place if you create the space for it to happen.
There is a family legend told around the dinner table about a newly married WWII wartime matriarch who, as a wedding gift from friends and family, received gas ration vouchers, so the bride and groom could drive the Niagara Falls. That’s a collective sacrifice in the face of tyranny.
All you have to do is click - DELETE ACCOUNT. - TWITTER -X