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I find it strange that a piece on how political lunatics (painted with an overly broad brush, to be sure) are building bastions of free speech has no mention of
by jenkstom 9y ago
I find it strange that a piece on how political lunatics (painted with an overly broad brush, to be sure) are building bastions of free speech has no mention of Tor, EFF, etc. The article is more biased in what it leaves out than by what it actually discusses.
- devmunchies 9y agoApparently to the author, social media is the internet.
- LyndsySimon 9y agoWhat I know of the communities in the article leads me to believe that there isn't much overlap between them and the crowd that supports the EFF and Tor. Gab is an interesting study in and of itself. I have an account there and really wanted it to succeed - I even advocated on their behalf across the diverse range of communities in which I participate when they launched a set of more advanced content filtering capabilities than Twitter. Sadly, they seemed to have been quickly branded as "alt-Right" when Milo was banned from Twitter, and I've since given up trying to attract more diversity of opinion to the platform. I don't think I've logged on there more than once in the past year or so.