{"id":48627,"date":"2019-09-23T12:57:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T17:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48627"},"modified":"2019-09-23T12:57:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T17:57:22","slug":"twitters-hide-replies-function-serves-to-appease-the-elitists-of-the-political-media-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48627","title":{"rendered":"Twitter\u2019s \u2018Hide Replies\u2019 Function Serves To Appease The Elitists Of The Political\/Media Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Twitter\u2019s \u2018Hide Replies\u2019 Function Serves To Appease The Elitists Of The Political\/Media Class<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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\u201cI honestly think the annoyingness of a certain candidate\u2019s supporters on Twitter prevents other reporters\/analysts from pointing out that said candidate\u2019s campaign obviously isn\u2019t going that well,\u201d 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> a few hours earlier in which he referred to Bernie Sanders\u2019 diverse base as \u201cresidue\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve been seeing many such complaints from elitists of the political\/media class about the way Twitter\u2019s somewhat egalitarian structure allows ordinary citizens to effectively criticize their posts, and it\u2019s been growing louder and louder in recent years. Slate<\/em>\u2018s Ashley Feinberg published an article earlier this month<\/a> documenting New York Times<\/em> 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\u2019s article was inspired by the hilarious melodramatic hissy fit<\/a> thrown by neocon Bret Stephens over some random guy calling him a \u201cbedbug\u201d on the social media site, but it\u2019s amazing how many other columns the editors of the New York Times<\/em> thought worthy of publication on this matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This ongoing meltdown by elitist narrative managers over the fact that mere commoners now dare address them in public without reverence and respect is the result of the novel nature of this dynamic. It used to be that the unwashed masses were kept quarantined from the narrative makers of the plutocratic media; they\u2019d stay safely insulated among their own kind and they\u2019d tell the rabble what to think from behind a wall of inaccessibility. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Twitter\u2019s \u2018Hide Replies\u2019 Function Serves To Appease The Elitists Of The Political\/Media Class \u201cI honestly think the annoyingness of a certain candidate\u2019s supporters on Twitter prevents other reporters\/analysts from pointing out that said candidate\u2019s campaign obviously isn\u2019t going that well,\u201d griped the popular statistician\/establishment narrative manager Nate Silver on Twitter today, following angry backlash from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17039,120,5081,27237,819],"class_list":["post-48627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-censorship","tag-elitist","tag-media-class","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48628,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48627\/revisions\/48628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}