The People's Line

The People's Line

If you obsess over online discourse policing, you’re probably a capitalist

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Carl Beijer
Jun 17, 2016
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Twitter is an online platform that has been engineered to amplify our capacity for socialization almost infinitely. It takes advantage of telecommunications to allow people to communicate with each other instantly over vast distances. It allows us to do this with an essentially infinite number of people by creating massive and infinitely scalable “follo…

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