[awkwarddaturtle]

It's funny how similar the people on the left are to the people on the right. 9 years ago when Obama was elected with deft use of social media, the right was saying "myspace/youtube/social media" has damaged western civilization.

Now the left is blaming social media for the election of trump and damaging western civilization.

> But think about Trump. Twitter is his platform, and arguably he is the sort of President a platform like Twitter most directly enables.

Were you complaining about twitter when obama used it well to push his agenda?

> He gets direct unchallenged access to a mass medium, a mass medium which makes it particularly hard to counteract false claims or have reasoned debate.

You mean people have direct access to what the leader thinks? Is that so terrible? Do you really prefer a system when a handful of like-minded editors in media companies frame everything to their agenda?

> I don't have evidence to support my theory, all I can say is I don't think I want Twitter to succeed.

Because free speech is such a horrific thing when you don't get your way?