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Well I decided yesterday to convert my own social media platform (quanta.wiki) to fully decentralized where each user runs the full system, like a blockchains.
by WClayFerguson 6y ago
Well I decided yesterday to convert my own social media platform (quanta.wiki) to fully decentralized where each user runs the full system, like a blockchains. Then people can communicate as long as the internet is kept running.
People like you aren't going to admit there's a problem until your own phone, power, or banking account is cut off. People on the left are happily giving up their rights and freedoms because they think the government won't come after them too some day, but if you understand history, human nature, and power, you should realize that's quite an ignorant stance.
- wpietri 6y agoYou're the one advocating taking away rights, bub. I'm the one saying that as a general rule, both people and their businesses have the right to free speech and free association. If you're all that concerned about government power, then why are you advocating to increase government power?
- WClayFerguson 6y agoI think stopping AT&T (or Twitter, which is merely the more modern form of telecommunications) from censoring the public provides greater freedoms to the society at large without taking rights away from anyone. The hypocrisy on the left is truly stunning because you know if BigTech was mainly republicans censoring democrats, the dems would suddenly be able to recognize the "freedom" issue quite easily.
- wpietri 6y agoTwitter, etc, right now has freedom of association and you'd like to take that away. At least be honest. And it's ludicrous to say that Twitter is the modern AT&T, which had a national monopoly on real-time person-to-person communication. I can't take responsibility for "the left", but what I'd be doing is looking toward alternatives. Which I expect would work just fine for the left, which has always tended toward decentralization.
- WClayFerguson 6y agoEven if we can't agree on whether monopolies should be allowed to censor [legal] public speech, we can probably agree that decentralization and federation (like some kind of social media blockchain) is the best solution. ...because there's no way any gov't can ever determine if some company is shadow-banning and manipulating feeds of the people they don't like, and if I can even get you to admit bigger government is almost always the worst solution to any problem then I've even made progress on that front as well.
- wpietri 6y agoTwitter is not a monopoly. You are the person advocating increased government intervention in social media, not me. And I definitely don't agree that adding blockchain snake oil is the best solution to any problem.
- WClayFerguson 6y agoIf you think BigTech companies (providing email, messaging, etc) should get to censor at their whim, I do wonder if you'd afford them the same level of discrimination if they were right-leaning rather than leftist.
- wpietri 6y agoGood thing I don't think that, then.
- WClayFerguson 6y agoYou were arguing "against" any controls on Twitter. Not "for" controls. Let's be clear.
- wpietri 6y agoI did not do that. You seem very eager to make straw men out of everything I say, so I think I'm done here.