Social media's existential crisis and the collapse of the virtual town square has begun.
Despite Elon Musk's grandiose ambitions of turning Twitter into a haven for speech without consequence, he recognized the danger of his own company when he banned accounts tracking his location through publicly available flight data.
Musk sees the danger of social media in a way that the media, politicians and even the public fail to acknowledge: Twitter not only serves as a conduit for criminal activity- the very nature of the platform rewards it. And even activity that may not be criminal can be dangerous. Most importantly, Musk's actions are an admission that he believes the company has a responsibility to act before people get hurt.
And people have been hurt.
The coordinated, frenzied attack campaigns on Prince Harry and Megan Markle, Amber Heard, and myself have been outwardly ignored by Twitter. Internally, Twitter was complicit.
The company knew the activity happening on its platform sought to…
