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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Dec 2020

      One difficulty when trying to ban ideas on social networks is that it's the edge cases that matter most, but bans are enforced by low-level employees who don't understand them.

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    2. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Dec 2020

      I've thought enough about this problem that I'm pretty sure there are no obviously good solutions. Ergo if there are solutions at all, they'll be counterintuitive. Two possibilities: Have the users do it. Have smart people do it, aided by staff and software.

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    3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Dec 2020

      Both of those potential solutions have big drawbacks. That's why I describe them as counterintuitive. But perhaps there are clever ways to overcome them. It's still too early in the evolution of this technology to know what's possible.

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 15 Dec 2020

      Paul Graham Retweeted Massimo

      As if on cue, this is the latest thing in my feed:https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973b/status/1338794551666991105 …

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      Massimo @Rainmaker1973b
      The account @Rainmaker1973 has been temporarily blocked by Twitter due to a tweet reporting a news about a research by the Tel Aviv University about COVID-19. The tweet was deleted, but the account cannot operate for 12 hours. Sorry for the inconvenience.
      2:38 AM - 15 Dec 2020
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        1. Jordan Moore 𐃏‏ @jordanmoore 15 Dec 2020
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          Jordan Moore 𐃏 Retweeted Jordan Moore 𐃏

          I have noticed that my account gets throttled for certain topics. They didn't like this one which was merely suggesting that it's at _least_ worth looking at if only to take it off the table.https://twitter.com/jordanmoore/status/1279097190355546112?s=20 …

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          Jordan Moore 𐃏 @jordanmoore
          For example, it shouldn't be controversial to suggest that it's at least worth investigating to *rule out* a virology lab in close proximity to the wet market in Wuhan as a potential source of COVID-19 rather than a happenstance of nature in the same area.
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        2. m_hossein‏ @hos_kaos 15 Dec 2020
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          Well, it gets even worse, when governments start bugging into these social media companies. As Iranian users saw last year, the whole #iranprotests in #november2019 was labeled as fakenews by so-called Iranian journalists [apologists] which happen to be followed by @Jack Dorsey.

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        3. m_hossein‏ @hos_kaos 15 Dec 2020
          Replying to @hos_kaos @paulg @jack

          I forgot to say the result was murdering of #1500نفر during 10 days in which the internet was cut off in Iran.

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        1. Will Young‏ @wynot1234 15 Dec 2020
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          Unreal

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        1. DataFox‏ @datafox21 15 Dec 2020
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          People read the comments. If they feel something is said in error. Have an auto post to that article/link.

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        1. Martin ISDN‏ @IsdnMartin 17 Dec 2020
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          i've never seen such tuned up censorship as the covid-19 in the entire history of social media anything strictly out of the official version is forbidden that's strange considering it's a new thing so even the officials could be mislead by the short term interpretation of data

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        1. Vishi Gondi‏ @vishigondi 18 Dec 2020
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          It boils down to, what is it optimized for: Speed? Consensus? Revenue? I think it should be Beauty: https://meltingasphalt.com/a-natural-history-of-beauty/ …

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