DAN GAINOR: We got Twitter/X as a platform 20 years ago and global censors still hate and fear it

I’ve been online for more than 30 years. Sometime this July, my Twitter/X account turns 18. That means it’s old enough to vote. The site itself launched publicly 20 years ago, on July 15, 2006. In all, I’ve been online since before the World Wide Web was worldwide back in the 1990s. I’m still a fan of print, but the impact of social media is undeniable. What mankind is still wrestling with is whether that’s good or bad. To be fair, it’s a lot of both. And that’s an unpredictability governments a