The Musk-up over at Twitter continues, with this past Friday's drop of highly damning evidence regarding Twitter's censorship of the New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story.
My personal druthers is that I'd sleep better at night knowing people could observe Kanye West's jackassery if they choose, rather than him being "banned". Sunlight is the best disinfectant to bad ideas. The Left however, believes in this bizarre concept of "stochastic violence" - which I can hardly comprehend, even with a postgraduate understanding of the statistical term stochastic and a large whiteboard. I think we're all better off when the village idiot is free to beclown himself and we can each choose to scold those who take seriously his rantings.
Agree. Bans and deplatforming doesn't dissuade behavior, it merely martyrs people who perhaps shouldn't be martyred in some cases, and potentially draws them sympathy.
Going back to our often exchange on market forces .vs. public utility board......
It looks like indeed with Elon' purchase of 'twaddle' the market force righted the disaster.
I still assert its become an IPU (internet public utlity) and should have controls mostly for the recourse of those who are blocked/banned. THats one thing i hope Elon enforces is a support staff who opens cases and manages them to completion.
In the 'early days' the goal (chatroom format) was open exchange, a certain amount of near-realtime interaction had its own mitigating effect on how much BS one could say w/o getting called on it, consequence-for-action was not lost, as it is with Twaddle/FacePlant/InstaBlam.
The BLOCK and whisper features were a direct result of the early desire to deal with craptalk, many of us who ran the early sites shared the specific code/algorithm to make it easier to hide an original blocked user so reply/reply/reply didn't expose the blocked users original post.
The general interaction of the room had an effective moderation on the 'clowns/haters/trolls' and those of us who admin'd looked at the frequency of blocks and listened to user service requests. We even had our share of FBI inquiries especially around the timing of the bombing of the Marine barracks, and a user told no one but called the local branch. Back then it was a discussion not an bureau edict, much has changed.
A block was for immediate issue/threat/clear-present-danger, often as not when users complained in the room of a bad-actor, it triggered a really heartening discussion, folks worked thru to a consensus (often stunning results, and appreciated by the admins)
The Left penchant for reliving/transference to make everyone pay for their senseless anxieties and generalize it to everything from micro-triggers to trigger phrases is the proof of their gutless assaults on those seeking reasonable change.
I agree keeping things away from emotion, Musk' empirical approach to righting the mess is a sound step forward, i hope he moves the show to Texas, since business drenched in the coastal slime is doomed to fail.
My personal druthers is that I'd sleep better at night knowing people could observe Kanye West's jackassery if they choose, rather than him being "banned". Sunlight is the best disinfectant to bad ideas. The Left however, believes in this bizarre concept of "stochastic violence" - which I can hardly comprehend, even with a postgraduate understanding of the statistical term stochastic and a large whiteboard. I think we're all better off when the village idiot is free to beclown himself and we can each choose to scold those who take seriously his rantings.
Agree. Bans and deplatforming doesn't dissuade behavior, it merely martyrs people who perhaps shouldn't be martyred in some cases, and potentially draws them sympathy.
Such an excellent piece! And so many lines I would quote, but I think I'd end up with the whole piece here, so I'll stick to this:
"Applaud the action rather than idolize the person. A philosophy that we should apply to everything and everyone."
That's the truth right there! Bravo!
Nicely Done, like the article alot.
Going back to our often exchange on market forces .vs. public utility board......
It looks like indeed with Elon' purchase of 'twaddle' the market force righted the disaster.
I still assert its become an IPU (internet public utlity) and should have controls mostly for the recourse of those who are blocked/banned. THats one thing i hope Elon enforces is a support staff who opens cases and manages them to completion.
In the 'early days' the goal (chatroom format) was open exchange, a certain amount of near-realtime interaction had its own mitigating effect on how much BS one could say w/o getting called on it, consequence-for-action was not lost, as it is with Twaddle/FacePlant/InstaBlam.
The BLOCK and whisper features were a direct result of the early desire to deal with craptalk, many of us who ran the early sites shared the specific code/algorithm to make it easier to hide an original blocked user so reply/reply/reply didn't expose the blocked users original post.
The general interaction of the room had an effective moderation on the 'clowns/haters/trolls' and those of us who admin'd looked at the frequency of blocks and listened to user service requests. We even had our share of FBI inquiries especially around the timing of the bombing of the Marine barracks, and a user told no one but called the local branch. Back then it was a discussion not an bureau edict, much has changed.
A block was for immediate issue/threat/clear-present-danger, often as not when users complained in the room of a bad-actor, it triggered a really heartening discussion, folks worked thru to a consensus (often stunning results, and appreciated by the admins)
The Left penchant for reliving/transference to make everyone pay for their senseless anxieties and generalize it to everything from micro-triggers to trigger phrases is the proof of their gutless assaults on those seeking reasonable change.
I agree keeping things away from emotion, Musk' empirical approach to righting the mess is a sound step forward, i hope he moves the show to Texas, since business drenched in the coastal slime is doomed to fail.