[1/*] Thanks to Twitter's continuing "we really want the future to look just like the past" social conformity changes, I realized something depressing about computing that I had not considered before. I thought I might share it with you so you can be depressed, too.https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1427706890113495046 …
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Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow
Oh come on. I enjoyed the early internet, but it was a small audience of academics and techs and there was no money involved. Rules have to be different with a vast audience, organized crime and propaganda, giant corporations etc.
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The internet is not the old usenet. And stopping malevolent political organizations from using platforms for terrorism and dishonest propaganda is not depriving us of any freedom.
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Replying to @vyodaiken @Jonathan_Blow
You're my point, right. There were _some_ of you then, but not _enough_ of you to enforce the conformity you want onto everyone. Now there are enough of you, so you can.
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