Kim Kardashian addresses Twitter’s real issue: Where’s the edit button?
We previously wrote on how The Wire creator David Simon’s recent Twitter suspension is indicative of a larger trend of Twitter having its priorities all wrong. Instead of policing the platform’s thriving bounty of actual death threats and race- and gender-motivated harassment, CEO Jack Dorsey and his team are instead choosing to punish non-threatening insults and the mere mention of Jake “The Snake” Roberts’ finishing move.
It’s okay, though, because we might be getting that [Checks notes.] edit button we’ve all been yearning for. Kim Kardashian, who just did a good thing by convincing President Donald Trump to commute the absurd life sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, is now using her celebrity in ways that are decidedly not good.
While an “edit” button sounds nice on its surface—who hasn’t knocked out a tweet with an embarrassing typo?—it opens the door for an entire litany of issues, not the least of which relates to our president’s obsession with using it to spread misinformation.