Wanted: recommended idealogues who — actively reject "cancel culture" — can disagree, even angrily, without making attempts to deplatform — sometimes say objectively weird stuff — make predictions that seem to bear out Left- or right- aligned, secular or religious, etc.
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Replying to @webdevMason @kaleidic
I don't wanna detract from the thrust of your point but do you mind if I ask you why deplatforming - not anger - is the bigger sin, here?
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My guess would be: because anger is just an emotion, as natural as any other. Unless it turns into hostile action, it does no harm. I don't entirely agree, but anger by and of itself does seem like a thing that hurts less than deplatforming.
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I don't necessarily think anger is a good thing, and perhaps I'm more permissive of it than I ought to be because I'm prone to it myself (regrettably). But... deplatforming attempts to control what others are allowed to hear, and that's something I'm extremely concerned about.
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I take it you don't consider stochastic terrorism an actual thing then?
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I do, I just don't think the concern there justifies authoritarian top-down control over information, or that the potential harms of the former outweigh the potential harms of the latter
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The existance of fox news (or NBC or the BBC or whatever) is already a form of top-down control over information. How is for example getting someone fired from there worse than someone never having a voice there to begin with? Also: there is a place in between the extremes.
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I don't care *as* much about individuals losing employment, moreso them being blocked from platforms where they address a personally-cultivated following. There's a difference between being prevented from representing a corporation & being prevented from representing yourself.
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I see your point. Although twitter, facebook etc... are also corporations. And your followership there is "personally cultivated" but also furthered by algorythms that connect you with people you would never have found on your own in these numbers.
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