https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/11/28/the-digital-maginot-line/ … Renee @noUpside is, as far as I can tell, what we used to call a "moderate liberal." Her homepage says "She has advised Congress, the State Department, and other academic, civic, and business organizations" and lays out an impressive tech/policy resume.
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She wrote a piece straight-up calling for government agencies and social media platforms to treat ideologically opposed speech as war. "Combatants are now...leveraging real, ideologically-aligned people to inadvertently spread real, ideologically-aligned content."
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"More authoritarian regimes, by contrast, would simply turn off the internet. An admirable commitment to the principle of free speech in peace time turns into a sucker position against adversarial psy-ops in wartime."
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"The solution to this problem requires collective responsibility among military, intelligence, law enforcement, researchers, educators, and platforms. The government has the ability ...to make it an unquestionably bad idea to ...manipulate American citizens."
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"the stakes are staggeringly high: the legitimacy of government, the persistence of societal cohesion, even our ability to respond to the impending climate crisis."
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In other words: if online speech is not regulated -- INCLUDING speech produced by people who legitimately believe the ideology they express -- people might doubt the legitimacy of government!
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DiResta also is the director of research at New Knowledge, a firm that uses AI to help firms respond to "disinformation campaigns" to "protect their brands" against scandals and PR crises.
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U.S. government, big business, and the military (!) need to unite to actively fight speech that makes them look bad? "revamp national defense doctrine to properly contextualize the threat of modern information operations"?!
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Conservatives and libertarians have been worried about censorship for a long time, but this isn't great for the Left, either. Do you really want Nike to have tools to keep you from embarrassing them? (A real case study on the New Knowledge site!)
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https://jmrphy.net/blog/2018/02/16/who-is-afraid-of-free-speech/ … Political scientist @jmrphy's observation that it's *moderates*, not radical leftists, who are most opposed to free speech, is apt here.
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The "illiberal center" is an alliance between government, much of the press, and the largest corporations. The rest of us should notice that, despite our differences, we have an enemy in common.
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