De-platforming works, the same way book burning, secret police and elections with one party on the ballot work There is a peaceful way out of this that involves technology to route around censorship. Let's do that!https://twitter.com/hilaryagro/status/1183867815754756096 …
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
There's no peaceful way out of this because they can't tolerate listening to their enemies and when you can't communicate, war is inevitable. You can't route around censorship if they will only engage on censored, safe platforms.
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I don't actually think that's true. I think the problem is that we have structured information dissemination in a way that strongly helps one particular kind of falsehood. Change the structure and the incentives will change.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
Not even close to what I've observed. If there's ever a forum where right wing opinion is allowed the left either abandons it or demands that it be moderated away - every time.
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yes, which is why we need something that is impossible to ban
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
It's not impossible to ban but http://gab.ai is pretty hard to kill (been cut off from payment processors, ad networks, etc.) and doesn't ban users except for legal violations How does the left / mainstream react? "That's the white nationalist / nazi twitter"
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
I get the impression that Gab has other problems though, like a lack of *quality* content.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
It's circular though. Mainstream institutions are hopelessly infiltrated / compromised by the left but they're mainstream for a reason - if you read a fact in the NYT, it's likely not fabricated. 1/2
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Covfefe Anon Retweeted Roko
Like you say, you need incentives for true / insightful content to rise out of the morass of nonsense. This requires reputation which requires permanent identities, which means doxing and loss of livelihood. 2/2https://twitter.com/RokoMijicUK/status/1184515507627679744 …
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Something like gab is potentially the beginning of it with a free for all (step 1 in sorting for good content) but the lie machine sees the threat and tries to strangle it in the cradle (successfully)
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