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That's interesting. The disgorzation produced by all the bans will probably impact votes for conservatives for a long time despite not censoring that many peopl

That's interesting. The disgorzation produced by all the bans will probably impact votes for conservatives for a long time despite not censoring that many people indeed.

AlphaWeaver 6y ago
Maybe. The outcome of banning "connectors" typically reduces connectedness between cliques, rather than within cliques themselves. (In graph theory, when a group of people are well connected that share similar interests, we typically call that a clique.) When people complain that people are increasingly finding themselves in echo chambers, and that "people don't talk to people from the other side," connectedness across the graph is dropping, while connectedness within cliques remains strong or increases.
adventured 6y ago
Of course. The people that claim voter suppression, are the biggest voter suppressors, using all the levers they control. The people that claim to be in favor of free speech, are the most against free speech in practice. The people that claim to be the most tolerant, are in fact the most intolerant by a wide margin. The people that claim to not like war, keep finding an excuse to bomb and topple more countries. The people that claim to care about civil rights, write a major crime bill that hammers civil rights. The people that claim to care about journalism, actually persecute journalists more than any others ever have in US history. The people that claim to care about human rights, demolish human rights with vast, illegal domestic espionage. The people that claim to care about the working poor and the middle class, those with jobs and wages most susceptible to being undercut by cheap labor competition, flood the system with hyper regressive cheap labor to destroy the poor and middle class workers. Next up in the coming years, a new war closer to home. It'll be called the war on domestic terrorism (or extremism, whatever branding works best), again by the people that claim to love human rights. And it'll be as fake as the war on drugs and the foreign war on terrorism, with one goal in mind: to wipe out as many civil liberties as possible (including and particularly going after encryption, privacy, speech/expression). Nothing can stop what they're about to do, unfortunately. And you can be certain that big tech is fully onboard, you can already see that in their behavior, just like they all lined up so nicely for PRISM et al. You know what all of these people - big state, deep state, military industrial complex, big corporate, whatever you call them by, the whole lot of various power interests that are persistent in DC - hated the most about Trump (far more than his character or policies)? His chaos, how he made a mess of everything, made a mess of their system, made it impossible to make progress on their various goals, such as continuing the pursuit of things like banishing encryption. They made almost zero progress on that under Trump, very little got done. It's really difficult to get things done with that much chaos. Well, they've reset the board back to the way they like it, and are about to get back to making big gains again. And when they say it's some powerless clown in a buffalo hat trying to pull a coup, they're actually the ones attempting a power coup - seizing more power, seizing an opportunity to install new levers in place to control people and curtail rights. Never waste a good crisis, as with 20 years ago and the Patriot Act.

That's interesting. The disgorzation produced by all the bans will probably impact votes for conservatives for a long time despite not censoring that many people indeed.

AlphaWeaver 6y ago

Maybe. The outcome of banning "connectors" typically reduces connectedness between cliques, rather than within cliques themselves. (In graph theory, when a group of people are well connected that share similar interests, we typically call that a clique.) When people complain that people are increasingly finding themselves in echo chambers, and that "people don't talk to people from the other side," connectedness across the graph is dropping, while connectedness within cliques remains strong or increases.

adventured 6y ago

Of course. The people that claim voter suppression, are the biggest voter suppressors, using all the levers they control. The people that claim to be in favor of free speech, are the most against free speech in practice. The people that claim to be the most tolerant, are in fact the most intolerant by a wide margin. The people that claim to not like war, keep finding an excuse to bomb and topple more countries. The people that claim to care about civil rights, write a major crime bill that hammers civil rights. The people that claim to care about journalism, actually persecute journalists more than any others ever have in US history. The people that claim to care about human rights, demolish human rights with vast, illegal domestic espionage. The people that claim to care about the working poor and the middle class, those with jobs and wages most susceptible to being undercut by cheap labor competition, flood the system with hyper regressive cheap labor to destroy the poor and middle class workers. Next up in the coming years, a new war closer to home. It'll be called the war on domestic terrorism (or extremism, whatever branding works best), again by the people that claim to love human rights. And it'll be as fake as the war on drugs and the foreign war on terrorism, with one goal in mind: to wipe out as many civil liberties as possible (including and particularly going after encryption, privacy, speech/expression). Nothing can stop what they're about to do, unfortunately. And you can be certain that big tech is fully onboard, you can already see that in their behavior, just like they all lined up so nicely for PRISM et al. You know what all of these people - big state, deep state, military industrial complex, big corporate, whatever you call them by, the whole lot of various power interests that are persistent in DC - hated the most about Trump (far more than his character or policies)? His chaos, how he made a mess of everything, made a mess of their system, made it impossible to make progress on their various goals, such as continuing the pursuit of things like banishing encryption. They made almost zero progress on that under Trump, very little got done. It's really difficult to get things done with that much chaos. Well, they've reset the board back to the way they like it, and are about to get back to making big gains again. And when they say it's some powerless clown in a buffalo hat trying to pull a coup, they're actually the ones attempting a power coup - seizing more power, seizing an opportunity to install new levers in place to control people and curtail rights. Never waste a good crisis, as with 20 years ago and the Patriot Act.