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When attention is very scarce, and you have some discretionary ability to boost signals, any act of public curiosity becomes a political act. Whatever the content of your opinion on X, simply being publicly curious about X (minimum=liking a tweet) sends a message.
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Internet pollutes the concept of "public". Here's a 2x2, privacy/audience: - open channel/wide reach (news) - open channel/selective reach (blog) - closed channel/wide reach (open invite chat) - closed channel/selective reach (private chat) Only news is political by default.
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IMO the Hanson type issue occurs when you have a open blog with a selective base, and you accidentally tread upon a wider audience's sacredness norms. Could argue "make your blog private" but that partly eliminates the (IMO essential) discovery aspect of the Internet.
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The ability to perform such a hypothetical is a learned skill. I assume the general public is not so much refusing but instead are incapable of thinking abstractly near their sacredness boundaries.
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