Social media platforms that initially attempted to be neutral, open, & freewheeling are now moving to a model of consciously manufacturing consent. This implicitly concedes something about the left’s inability to compete in a true marketplace & some failures of democracy.
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It also conceded something, I think, about the challenges of pluralism and the impossibility of neutral public morality. Public morality, which has been historically varied and localized, is now being defined - and imposed - globally in Mountain View.
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It also marks a turn on free speech. There’s no longer a consensus that free speech is good. Free speech is now seen by the left as a manifestation of a particular public morality rather than as a neutral principle. From their perspective, free speech = bad outcomes.
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This thread would make a lot more sense if the right hadn’t spent so much time freaking out that a football player wouldn’t stand for a magic song
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