Twitter was never a "town square," but lazy reporters built that myth deliberately. They coasted for a decade, not actually reporting anything useful but instead writing vapid "Twitter reacts to" pieces.
Reddit was often plundered for similar reasons.
The internet was a town square before Silicon Valley got to it.
After that, it was an advertising space, and then they started taking money from ShareBlue...
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@amerika @pynkbites At first it was the town square, than turned into times square, now everyone looks and thinks like as square.
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To have a town square, you must have free speech.
To have that, ironically, you need to remove spammers.
Google just brought the spammers into its business model and now, their search engine mostly returns spam.