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from what i understand it's a matter of ideals combined with the technologist's desire to see the machines (all types, including sociopolitical) work correctly.
by a-dub 5y ago
from what i understand it's a matter of ideals combined with the technologist's desire to see the machines (all types, including sociopolitical) work correctly.
he wants to see the first amendment function with autistic precision. he wants to remove any messy personalization because it interferes with that purity. he wants fully transparent moderation and proof of fairness. he doesn't like the idea that one organization has such control and he likely wants to turn the company into a dao. he's searching for a problem to apply cryptocurrency technologies to.
what i think he doesn't get are the messy realities of the real world. we're already on the cusp of world war iii, can we chill for just a few minutes?
- lettergram 5y agoI think musk believes we wouldn’t be on the midst of WWIII if free speech was allowed.
- psyc 5y agoI have this recurring fantasy in which some Satoshi figure creates a decentralized global bulletin board, such that anybody can post and view anything anonymously and untraceably, and nobody - not the U.S. government, nor the CCP, nor the Mossad, nor the NSA - can stop it short of dismantling the whole Internet and starting over. Nobody can blame anybody, because nobody can stop it. Not because I think such a thing is technically possible. Certainly not because I have any fancy argument for why such a thing ought to exist morally! But simply to sit back and watch the world lose its fucking mind over it. To see the whole psyche of human kind projected into public view, and the accompanying apoplectic, impotent outrage. I might also settle for a really quality sci-fi novel in which this takes place.
- hooande 5y agoThis is 4chan. Your recurring fantasy is 4chan
- joncrane 5y agoAbsolutely not. They regularly turn over IP logs to law enforcement for various reasons.
- tsol 5y agoSo it was 4chan before they made enough trouble to get law enforcement attention. In the beginning it was just a bunch of pissed off nerds posting anime that no one took seriously
- psyc 5y agoNot even close. 4chan was vulnerable to censorship from day one, and succumbed to it completely over Gamergate, of all things.
- sweetbitter 5y agoThe moderators' biases shape 4chan and which userbase it has, not the users' own subjective choices. Similar but not quite.
- iratewizard 5y agoThis is the sort of take you hear from a Reddit dopamine addict who's idea of 4chan comes from the losers on his favorite marketing platform.
- brewtide 5y agoYik-Yak vs. the world style. I'm down.
- 8note 5y agoIt breaks immediately. Somebody writes a unlock euqivalent and maintains ban lists. Everyone subscribes, because otherwise it's full of ads, spam, and edgy 14 year olds repeating slurs like it's Xbox live.
- haliskerbas 5y agoSurprised that he wants to see the “social machine” work but is fine mocking the homeless, the poor, or the hungry. In my opinion the fundamental needs of humans being meant is part of the social machine. Not rich people getting to whine.
- chernevik 5y agoYou have absolutely zero awareness of the ideas of those you disagree with.
- arrosenberg 5y ago> he wants to see the first amendment function with autistic precision I really wish we'd stop defining social media broadly as a first amendment issue. Elon Musk has the right to speak his mind without fear of government reprisal, he doesn't have a constitutional right to broadcast his asinine opinions to millions of people.