The most interesting thing of this to me is how low the bar for “Things I dare not tweet” has become. The days of freely speaking your mind on social networks are over.https://twitter.com/Austen/status/1079737187233492994 …
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred
How do you prove that that is actually true? I mean, look at who is running this country and what they are allowed to say versus what was acceptable in the Overton window of discourse a decade ago. We should just go back to the halcyon days of sharing latte art.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
I think him being in office is in a small part the backlash of that reality
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Replying to @Austen @AustenAllred
The backlash to the backlash or which lash are we talking about?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Yes. I was in rural America during most of@the election cycle. The number of times I heard people say, “I don’t agree with what he’s saying but at least he isn’t politically correct” would shock you
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How about half a dozen studies? https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/15/16781222/trump-racism-economic-anxiety-study … Or maybe Austen’s conversations with people he happened to meet in rural areas in 2016 should be the evidence gold standard here.
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Anyway, the underlying point is that none of us has a way to definitively prove whether people are or more less free to speak their mind on social networks than five years ago. But if you were to design such an experiment, what would it look like?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
Not statistically perfect, but you could ask them
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Dave Zohrob 📈 Retweeted Andy Baio
not scientific but i found this illuminating:https://twitter.com/waxpancake/status/999699093277442048?s=21 …
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Andy BaioVerified account @waxpancakeWant to see what your Twitter timeline would've looked like 10 years ago today, if you followed all the same people you do now? https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=filter%3Afollows%20until%3A2008-05-25%20-filter%3Areplies&src=typd …Show this thread2 replies 2 retweets 4 likes - 3 more replies
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