SV engineers are in denial about what structural role their platforms play; most media in denial about their industry. Trump made it plain.
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Replying to @zeynep
Two concrete actions SV corps can do to atone: (1) cut him and his nazi fans off their platforms. Sudden sweeping permanent ban.
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(2) donate billions to D house/senate campaigns.
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Replying to @RichFelker @zeynep
These two actions would probably begin Civil War II. We must not convert SV incompetence & native denial into overt partisanship.
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"Don't resist or there'll be a civil war" is not a valid position to take. If things are that bad it's a mandate to resist.
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Resistance != getting social media companies to become political & "boot off users". At least not useful, productive, successful resistance
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Nothing is non-political. Hosting them is a political act. And a morally indefensible one.
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It cuts both ways though. Once you go down the road of defining 'illegitimate' political content there is no telling where it will end up.
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Advocating denial of somebody else's humanity is not a political position. It's hate speech & most of civilized world recognizes that.
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US is uniquely awful in glorification of standing up for nazi/KKK/etc as some sort of moral high ground.
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