tech acting only when it is both politically safe to do so, and unsafe not to, due to election results, shows weakness, not strength... it shows they have a healthy fear of political power: now in new hands
It would be a flex if they’d acted when there *wasn’t* a political shift
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Related... all the people gravely issuing ominous warnings about this being the *real* incitement to civil war etc etc, get a grip. The gun nut militia types were always a threat and remain so. The sheeple larpers never were and continue not to be.
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I’m tired of doing things based on anticipating the reactions of the “look what you made me do” crowd who never take responsibility for their actions anyway.
Oh really, the tech clampdown made you retreat to Signal to plan bombings? And you were working for world peace before?
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They’re going to do what they’re going to do. The rest of us can only do the only thing that has ever overwhelmed hearts of darkness: build wealth and an interesting future, one imaginative action at a time. Creation compounds over years. Destruction eventually runs out of steam.
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not sure, it's just political pressure. Advertisers may hold more power here and by extension corporate America
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No, advertisers have little to no power on social media. Its a self-serve commodity market. It’s not like TV. It’s political power at work here.
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I’ve never yet met a company for which that was a useful guide for any detail-level operational decision. It affects decisions like which quarter to recognize revenue and M&A. Stuff like this is a dozen layers of messy human circumstantial judgment away from that duty.
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I thought this Exponent Stratechery episode today about censorship, big tech, regulation, democracy was pretty good.
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Yep. They were the *last* to turn on Trump long, long after he lost support of his own party, the military, etc.




