Twitter essentially conceding that the vaunted blue check mark does confer some kind of validation beyond simple identity-verification opens the floodgates to people using "status rescission" as a way to attack political enemies.
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The phenomenon itself is a backfire. "We are living in an age of circuitous backfires and exploding dominoes."--Ozman Droom
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An editorial policy geared at maintaining revenues by appealing to everyone in a polarized society. It'll play, and it'll spread.
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But it doesn’t appeal to who establishment wants to marginalize. The framing in this tweet plays right into already existing bias. Pairs well with their many hyperbolic Violent, Intolerant Left pieces. Or Greenwald, Blumenthal as “Trump Defenders.”
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C'mon, a forced over-class of minorities? What could go wrong?
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mad online
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zip a dee doo da, a great way to start the day. that’s what so many designations come down to — profit. (the ADL call out of the animal rights activist was literally about damages.)
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Are real people actually doing this?
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What could possibly go wrong?
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