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Charles Barbour, Associate Professor, Philosophy, Western Sydney University

How the internet became enshittified – and how we might be able to deshittify it

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Remember when Twitter used to be good? I reckon it peaked somewhere around the first COVID lockdowns.

In those days, there was a running gag on the site where everyone would refer to it as a “hellscape”. And it did invite some of the worst that humanity has to offer. Opinions, as the old joke goes, are like assholes: everybody has one.

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