Mike Monteiro:
Twitter, which was conceived and built by a room of privileged white boys (some of them my friends!), never considered the possibility that they were building a bomb. To this day, Jack Dorsey doesn’t realize the size of the bomb he’s sitting on. Or if he does, he believes it’s metaphorical. It’s not. He is utterly unprepared for the burden he’s found himself responsible for.
Twitter would have you believe that it’s a beacon of free speech. Biz Stone would have you believe that inaction is principle. I would ask you to consider the voices that have been silenced. The voices that have disappeared from Twitter because of the hatred and the abuse. Those voices aren’t free. Those voices have been caged. Twitter has become an engine for further marginalizing the marginalized. A pretty hate machine.
Monteiro voices the frustration many of us have with Twitter and its seeming lack of direction and its inability to solved the problems that are so obvious.
Twitter is the Internet’s sewer, despite its best intentions.
first, stop the asshole from tweeting. This is the president. This is the public record. You can’t be president sometimes. It’s a full time gig.
Because he says he tweets as a private citizen, his bullshit is no more newsworthy than yours, mine, or Rose McGowan’s. Censor him.
That’s a little unfair. Twitter is not just the Internet’s sewer; it’s also the Internet’s observation deck, galley, and a bunch of other things.
Unfortunately, Twitter-the-company doesn’t care about removing the sewer, so it permeates all discussions unless you bend ass backwards to avoid them.
And the irony that Twitter might get us blown up by the world’s most repressive dictatorship.
A place with a sewer that flows into the galley and across the observation deck isn’t so great. A fixer-upper!
my bullshit is newsworthy I just can’t afford the advertising
And then there’s North Korea.
…sorry. 🙂
I’m an admirer of Monteiro. Looking forward to reading this.