best take today is definitely "twitter shutting down vine is racism"
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Replying to @stribika
disproportionately black userbase and way in which it lends itself to remix culture means shutdown is (weak form) depriving...
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...them of or (strong form) actively stealing their platform for art from them
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I... don't see how at least the weak form is wrong, considering Twitter refuses to handle its abuse problem.
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uh assuming "the abuse problem" framing is even valid... "why is twitter shutting down vine instead of fixing abuse"...
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B/c Twitter doesn't listen to its userbase! That's kinda expected by now it seems T_T.
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if they listened better they'd already have been acquired
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^This is what I'm basing their "abuse problem" on; apparently Disney wouldn't buy them b/c of abuse.
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there don't seem to be a lot of other buyers lining up either. over/under on a Trump acquisition??

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trump's broke, I hope thiel buys it
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there's a future where we reach some kind of weird singularity of Thiel, Trump, Breitbart and InfoWars
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