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Do you have any sources that indicate anti-censorship is “hugely unpopular” with the mainstream intellectual community? For example, esteemed scientists speakin
by bigmealbigmeal 5y ago
Do you have any sources that indicate anti-censorship is “hugely unpopular” with the mainstream intellectual community? For example, esteemed scientists speaking out against it?
It may be important here to separate journalists and political activists from the intellectual community. Not to say that they aren’t intellectuals, but the issue could be limited to that set of intellectuals in particular.
- kyrra 5y agoSee NYT "hit" pieces on substack: * https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/business/media/substack-newsletter-competition.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/11/business/media/substack-n... * https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/business/media/substack-growth-newsletters.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/13/business/media/substack-g... Along with one of Substack's founders responding to it: https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1514318085083340807 https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1514318085083340807
- bigmealbigmeal 5y agoThanks for sharing these. From what I can see, the criticism here is coming entirely from journalists/activists. It makes me wonder: how many of the opinions that we are exposed to originate from journalists/activists? How much are we mixing up the opinions of these people as representing the opinions of scientists, engineers and philosophers? How much are we mixing up the opinions of journalists/activists as representing those of your average person? I'm starting to see a deep issue with the preeminence of journalist/activist opinion.