My conspiracy theory on this is that Twitter Blue isn’t doing well so they’re doubling down on ad revenue.

Public likes disincentvise interactions, which is one metric that could be used to measure engagement, so hiding likes, along side their recent policy changes about NSFW stuff, is a way to encourage more engagement towards attention grabbing content that users were otherwise not inclined to interact with.

In other news, water is wet.

They’re not marketing to kids becuase:

A) it’s illegal in some countries

B) It should rightfully be looked down on

Probably good that a junk food merchant isn’t marketing to kids to heavily.

People really do love to try and tie every world issue into one thing, when the fact of the matter is that things like “the patriarchy” or “capitalism” are just tools of the oppressor and not the oppressor themselves.

It doesn’t matter what ideology you run a society with if the people are the top are all shortsighted, self interested ideologues.

People accosiate monarchs with oppression for a reason.