The case Khoo makes here for viewpoint diversity--a sort of free speech anti-trust--is interesting. But I doubt it would be applied in the ways backers might think. Also, suffers from the same implementation problem: who's the free speech FTC here?
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The general pessimism in this article seems entirely unsound. Absurdly, obviously, false. I think his mistake, like many, is that he has mistaken his own beliefs for the best beliefs.
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I myself am not ready to abandon free speech. Values are precisely those things you're willing to sacrifice something for. Shootings are bad, but squelching free speech is still worse IMO.
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I agree, but I just don't think things are bad in the first place. Given the increase in communications capacity (and political discourse) over the last twenty years or so, political shootings and such haven't seemed to increase proportionately.
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Right. They're not that bad. The 60s were way worse. Nobody proposed changing 1A fundamentally then. What's really happened is that we've become a soft and wealthy society that values security over freedom. That's the real change.
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I wouldn't disagree, though I'm nervous about putting my finger on one thing.
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I believe we may be under-weighting the effect of the learning curve for this sudden technology shift. In my experience it is baby boomers whose brains have been utterly wrecked by social media. They’re used to legacy news that’s vetted. They believe everything they see
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Yeah. They're the last non-Internet generation. The GenX bridge generation (which has totally adapted, but remembers the previous order) is freaked out, but not completely misled. I'm hoping the younger generation saves us.
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I think the younger generation will "save us" by not giving a shit about much of anything.
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