The idea that messaging apps are a problem (or for that matter the suggestion that QAnon believers shouldn't be allowed to talk to one another) is a poisonous direction for this debate to take. The problem is one of a major political party embracing extremism and irrealityhttps://twitter.com/donie/status/1400231752963088386 …
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How to bring back a shared public sphere, when a third of the electorate has floated off into la-la-land ,is the most pressing question in American civics. But making up our own scary fantasies, or forbidding our ideological opponents from speaking, is no solution to that.
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I'm really glad someone made this point. Why do I rail against cryptocurrency and defend encrypted messaging, when both can be used for bad or for good? Because the nature of money means nefarious activity swamps laudable use. That's not true with speechhttps://twitter.com/JudeCNelson/status/1400301439101120514 …
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Evil people don't have millions of times more need to talk to one another securely than regular people. But they do need to send enormously more money than regular people. So the tradeoff is different for these two technologies. Moreover, encrypted messaging at least works.
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The same basic tradeoff—use cryptographic tools to move some areas of human interaction out of the reach of government—has divergent implications depending on whether you're talking about money or speech. Where I land on this is "talk all you want, but hold on to your wallet."
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(For the record, I do support size limits on E2E encrypted chat. I wholeheartedly support anyone's right to private conversation, but don't want to live in a world where 10,000 people can have an unmonitorable chat room. Luckily, Telegram removes the dilemma by being unencrypted)
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Eh, not rly on board with this one. You don't need a lot of organization, you just need a broadcast channel (social media) and some people with guns on your side. They were scary close in DC, and succeeded in michigan and Oregon in taking over and disrupting the legislature.
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Also, if you visit right wing spaces online, it absolutely is common to believe a violent revolution is necessary and coming soon. There is definitely a tide of sentiment there that I think is enough to make it a sort of movement that we're gonna have to deal with for awhile
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No doubt the movement is impotent and the threat exaggerated for political gain. On the other hand, people died. The lie of a stolen election is driving anti-democratic legislation in several states. It should not be ignored or swept under the rug.
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