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First, an aside:
I owe Twitter a lot, but I do find that it has some limitations.
For example, when Omar Qazi (a.k.a. “The Ghost of Steve Jobs”) was excommunicated as a resonant voice on that platform due essentially to a technical maneuver by a person who essentially has no credible name at all, but who was attempting to gain a further name for himself as a blatant rabble-rouser without any particular useful goal aside from to gain himself a bit more notoriety (as if he didn’t have enough)…
…I breathed a sigh and thought maybe Jack had lost his sense of justice for a few minutes, making a somewhat irreversible but horrendously bad mistake.
Now the Twitter community is ‘twice bitten, thrice shy’ — and I know I am. [The previous occasion being inexcusable maneuvering by the SEC to put a leash on Elon Musk’s voice for a tweet he made a while back.] I dare not post true statements on it which might serve to better the state of things, because they are only allegations until the slow wheel of justice proves them to be true.
A writer backed into a corner has better means to handle him or herself than to wait under the roof of the American justice system until the rains go away. Especially when that system has been spun by special interest groups into nothing more than a ball of cotton candy for rich white kids who will never grow up to suck on.
If the pen is mightier than the sword, how might social media compare?
