[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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In a way, it is depriving us of some freedom. But sometimes it's a freedom we're willing to give up in order to enjoy simpler things. The problem is when you're perceived as malevolent. Who defends you then?
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So, for example, women on twitter who are repeatedly subject to vile abuse, rape threats, doxxing, organized harassment, etc. should just put up with it because it makes some geeks feel uncomfortable to have to live with rules?
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(Like I said - you're my point. The arrival of enough of you is what makes things become repressive. You are welcome to argue that it is for the best - but what you can't argue is that it's what happens. Because it obviously does, and you are the reason.)
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Nonsense. The early internet was censored by limited access - you needed permission of some giant impersonal institution to even join. And I'm not ashamed of demanding conformity to basic standards. If your freedom to spread e.g. nazi propaganda or racism is limited, so be it.
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Like I said, you're my point. Like I literally couldn't have asked for a better person to show up and demonstrate exactly the kind of thing that I'm talking about. "Centralized control must be enforced because otherwise NAZIS, RAPE AND COVID-19!!!!"
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