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Nilay Patel
Welcome to hell.

Twitter 1.0 was particularly notable for standing up to government censorship around the world. Twitter 2.0 under Elon Musk is actively complying with authoritarian government censorship demands ahead of elections. Well done. This is what hell looks like.

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