Besides the obvious: Thinking how friends in Sri Lanka had told me how they begged Twitter & Facebook to act on accounts instigating ethnic cleansing but often couldn't even get any response and what a coincidence everyone acts one day after Democrats get a legislative trifecta.
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But I'm a bit wary of topics outside of my expertise, you know.
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Anyway, the house is on fire and we aren't going to nitpick the fire extinguisher rating or if the fire brigade buckets are the optimal size or leaky. We'll get through this one first. But getting through American fires via Calvinball doesn't solve the problem. Not even close.
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Reminiscing about the numerous lectures many of us endured for years especially from Silicon Valley folks—"the answer to bad speech is more speech". Easy to say when your house isn't on fire, country on the brink of civil war or chaos, I'd try to explain. <insert repeat lecture>
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One overly-tweety president and a single chaotic day later—a breeze in comparison to many countries we'd been worried about—and Mark Zuckerberg discovers the risks of Trump being able to post are "are simply too great" & Twitter realizes inspiring violence deserves permanent ban.
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Anyhoo, I'm realizing that many people who followed me in the last year really don't know of my work on technology & society! (Gotta establish credentials since I always stay in my lane.) My Wired cover story on free speech/attention in the 21st century. https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-tech-turmoil-new-censorship/ …pic.twitter.com/LVlaj66Usc
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Too long. Will look up cliff notes.
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Replying to @zeynep @ProfThibodeau
If you had your choice, who would you get to write the definitive Cliff notes entry?
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Replying to @NloganPerry @zeynep
Ideally it would be done by an artificial intelligence algorithm.
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