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 Phillip Bump @a29fcdfe wrote this piece for the Post slamming Elon Musk for his latest degradation of Twitter.

You can read it through my subscription: https://wapo.st/3F4di8C

What I found interesting was the discussion of how Google solved the Internet search problem by building a website that sent people to other websites.

"The more you send people away, the more they come back."

Sounds a bit like Activity Pub and the theory behind the fediverse. 
 @e184fd3c @a29fcdfe One of my favorite lines: 
"Musk once claimed he planned to do this for aesthetic reasons — this from the creator of the Cybertruck." 🔥 
 @e184fd3c @a29fcdfe thank you. He (and his Saudi founders)definitely wanted to do away with the town square. And then there’s this plan, from a white supremacist source https://bird.makeup/users/oneunderscore__/statuses/1709001742002581626 I believe this is part of the stage named “deplatforming”