Maybe we've become more influential, but most of the problem here is another change that has happened simultaneously: the acceleration in the rate of new taboos.
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How do we prove that that is true?
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @paulg and
Today I have a megaphone to 40K people, which I didn’t have 5 years ago. That’s like going from a dinner party to speaking on-stage in front of thousands of people at Central Park. That means I need to speak with more care and precision, since anyone in the audience can now tell
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @paulg and
When the audience size goes from ~dinner party to 40k ppl in a stadium, the burden of responsibility shifts from speaker to listener. If you don’t like what eg The Grateful Dead might have to say, don’t go to their concert
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @TrevMcKendrick and
and teams are ultimately funded by Silicon Valley, in turn influencing the kinds of tech and culture underpinning that tech that the world adopts later, some people might want to stay and talk about blind spots that he or the institution he built might have.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @TrevMcKendrick and
Or if you want to get into a more specific conversation about listener’s rights, listeners’ legal free speech rights have gradually been subordinated to corporate free speech rights over the last generation within American case lawhttps://law.stanford.edu/publications/expanding-the-periphery-and-threatening-the-core-the-ascendant-libertarian-speech-tradition/ …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @TrevMcKendrick and
which is contributing to this conflict between aggrieved media figures who say they are being censored by politically biased platforms, which are exercising their corporate free speech rights, which were (ironically) enshrined and expanded for them by largely conservative judges
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @TrevMcKendrick and
That’s super interesting but unsure how that relates to outraged mobs going after people like PG. Nitpicking is pervasive and mostly fine but it does feel like the Overton Window online keeps closing. For eg, talking about research on gender differences.
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Replying to @sarthakgh @TrevMcKendrick and
Yeah it’s not a direct response. Just an interesting side thread.
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Anyway, PG is arguing that there are more taboos. But maybe now that PG has 1M followers, it is statistically just more likely that for any given thing he says, 2-10 people out of those 1M people might be bothered enough to complain about it and/or trigger a mob.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @TrevMcKendrick and
Yea that makes. So, as with with most things post internet, more people are increasingly exposed to different ideas that they never thought existed. Which triggers a mob. That could make the recipient of the outage think taboos are on the rise. Media stories amplify this.
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