What do you think about this comic in this context? Because they are publicly traded the private platform argument no longer holds? https://xkcd.com/1357/
We have to destroy our democracy to save ithttps://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1026580187784404994 …
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Political movements & govrnmnt regulations both play huge roles in this censorship behavior (e.g. the Google Damore firing very closely related to "hostile workplace" regulations). Here's a U.S. senator calling for widespread censorship via tech tyrants:https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1026580187784404994 …
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It's not an easy question ... How to balance between private companies doing what they think is right (even enormous ones) and letting people have all available information? Private US company censorship is a far, far cry from what is happening in China, IMO.
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Not so big a difference as I would wish. It's still heavily influenced by gvrnmnt regs, and very heavily influenced by political activists. Also they are global services. Chinese and German regulations, as well as U.S. regulations, influence what bots let us see in the U.S.
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Behind nukes, the overarching Big Brother / censorship threat is the most ominous political threat now simmering; it gets realer every day. China bans Orwell and Winnie the Pooh and much else, Turkey bans Wikipedia, not to mention surveillance. Those oblivious need to wake up!
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Wait so are you supporting the deletion of Infowars accounts? If so I just lost all hope in bitcoin...
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No. (Sigh -- as they say irony doesn't work on Twitter, but I try anyway...)
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Szabo+Comment+Context=Sarcasm/Irony. That much was clear. But one would need to know all three inputs.
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Luckily I interpreted it wrong, for a minute I had a daymare that the FED made btc in order to escape the massive debt bubble and create the one world currency.
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Wait, so these guys are platforms or publishers? which is it?
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Whichever is more convenient for tptb.
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Thinking as hard as I can, I don't see how we can save our democracy. How can we instill critical thinking into each individual so that preposterous claims and stupidity are dismissed on sight? Anyone?
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Do what they did... Take over the education system, then instill (instead of deter) critical thinking skills... and over 40 years people will be able to think again.
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But this — doing something against someone's will — is not democracy, but dictatorship. How do we solve this paradox?
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o_0 What are you doing against someone's will? Teaching critical thinking skills? And FYI: No country in the world has ever been a democracy... the US is a republic.
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All modern Western societies operate under the premise of democracy, regardless of how each country governance is actually structured. Also, for whatever reason, democracy is conflated with freedom (perhaps because in places where there is no democracy, there is also no freedom).
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So shall we start by declaring democracy is dead (as
@NickSzabo4 suggests)? FYI I have great respect for the United States but I myself come from Bulgaria and during my lifetime I've suffered from lack of democracy & freedom. For me & my generation democracy was earned. -
You, like virtually everyone today, confuses "Democracy" (which is the people vote on laws) for "Democratically elected *Republic*" (which the people vote on their overlords.) There are no democracies on a large scale. Though, from time to time, laws are put to a public vote.
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No, I don't limit my understanding of democracy to elections and voting. Democracy is also a manner of interacting with other members of the society: I assume we're all equal. Hence I abhor the idea I could govern what others should know or do.
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