Post #1338761
2022-11-21 20:31 UTC
@mmasnick Twitter is just a final link in a long line of big companies monopolizing Internet discourse, including MySpace, Facebook, and recently Reddit (Reddit used to have an open source version of their server).
Hopefully, with Twitter users flocking to Mastodon nodes, we will come back full circle to where we were 20 years ago, when Internet communities were not controlled by big monolithic corporations.
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@boud@framapiaf.org 2022-11-23 06:45
@samboy @mmasnick Most people in this thread seem to have continued using the euphemism "advertising" instead of the word "propaganda" [1]. #EdwardBernays, the "father of public relations" [2], would be proud of his success! de-euphemised: "Interesting explanation from a decently large Twitter propagandist on why they've paused their propaganda budget on Twitter after keeping it running for the past couple of weeks." [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_%28book%29 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays