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How the Internet closed (2015 – 2022)

By April 2, 2026No Comments

Source: @arctotherium42 on X—

How every major Internet platform went from broadly open with a few basic guidelines to strict narrative enforcement, often with the collaboration of govts and outsourcing moderation power to NGOs.

Twitter, which dominated among cultural elites (journos, academics, politicians) went from “the free speech wing of the free speech party” to an extension of a partisan FBI with many different tiers of algorithmic manipulation for disfavored stories.

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