BREAKING: Mark Zuckerberg tells Joe Rogan that Facebook algorithmically censored the Hunter Biden laptop story for 7 days based on a general request from the FBI to restrict election misinformation.
Sam Harris refuses to talk to Joe Rogan or Bret Weinstein based on the argument that he would be platforming bad ideas, but then constantly talks about them on other podcasts and drives millions of views to their ideas.
Not making sense.
Banning everything that makes us uncomfortable will make our species so incredibly weak we will crumble at the slightest adversity.
Discomfort is required for growth.
Twitter is brazenly playing chicken with Jordan Peterson & The Babylon Bee in the midst of closing a deal with
@elonmusk
.
Their game is about coercing users into admitting guilt in the same way authorities manipulate innocent people into confessing to crimes they didn't commit.
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
- Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
"The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
"You never apologize to a mob. You're not dealing with individuals who you can reestablish a relationship with. You're dealing with a soulless idea that has people in its possession."
-
@jordanbpeterson
The funny thing is that
@elonmusk
can now expose exactly how
@vijaya
and the Twitter moderation team were and ARE collaborating with DHS to censor lawful content.
What percentage of requests were accepted? How many?
Was there any pushback? Was there any pressure?
#DHSLeaks
“We’re destroying words – scores of them, hundreds of them, every day. We’re cutting the language down to the bone. The Eleventh Edition won’t contain a single word that will become obsolete before the year 2050.”
– George Orwell, 1984
'The claim "hate speech is not free speech" implies "free" is a type of speech, as opposed to how speech is treated in a free society.'
-
@michaelmalice
The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.
- Philip K. Dick
Banned words just morph into new words.
Any social media app that blanket bans words is dumping fuel on the fire of global dialogue.
They aren't creating safe spaces, they are creating fake spaces devoid of context and social commentary.
That is more dangerous than bad words.