Yeah, Twitter&#x27;s got tons of potential.  It did a lot to realize that potential back during the Arab Spring, when it was used as the primary communications platform among activists. Twitter was proud of that, being such  a huge part of social and political progress.<p>But that&#x27;s not the Twitter of today. Now I more often read about how they&#x27;ve censored this or that. A trending hashtag that they disagree with will be removed from the trend list. Political activists that Twitter disagrees with will see their accounts de-verified or even outright banned.<p>They used to champion freedom of speech, now they are one of the internet&#x27;s most prolific censors. To me, that is the Twitter Contradiction.