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Twitter's "Hide Replies" Function Serves To Appease The Elitists Of The Political/Medi

• https://www.zerohedge.com by Caitlin Johnstone

...griped the popular statistician/establishment narrative manager Nate Silver on Twitter today, following angry backlash from American progressives for a controversial racially charged tweet a few hours earlier in which he referred to Bernie Sanders' diverse base as "residue".

We've been seeing many such complaints from elitists of the political/media class about the way Twitter's somewhat egalitarian structure allows ordinary citizens to effectively criticize their posts, and it's been growing louder and louder in recent years. Slate's Ashley Feinberg published an article earlier this month documenting New York Times columns over the last two years that have been dedicated to NYT columnists using their massive platforms to whinge about the comments they receive on Twitter. Feinberg's article was inspired by the hilarious melodramatic hissy fit thrown by neocon Bret Stephens over some random guy calling him a "bedbug" on the social media site, but it's amazing how many other columns the editors of the New York Times thought worthy of publication on this matter.


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