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One nuance these judges don't understand is that picking one person to amplify is often de facto muzzling another because bandwidth is finite in the age of zero
by hackerlight 4y ago
One nuance these judges don't understand is that picking one person to amplify is often de facto muzzling another because bandwidth is finite in the age of zero friction social media. These dinosaurs are trapped in a 20th century paradigm.
- brightball 4y agoEven in a 20th century paradigm, opportunity cost exists. Something gets more time or budget, something else gets less.
- hackerlight 4y agoSocial media has dramatically magnified these preexisting 'material contradictions' to America's sociolegal conception of free speech. The absurdities are becoming larger and larger and cracks are showing. Stochastic terrorist there. Fascist elected here. 500k anti-vaxxer deaths over there. What will come first, will the dam finally break in the form of society collapsing into conspiracy driven dictatorship, or will the ideologues realize that their constructs can't cope with the modern world?
- brightball 4y agoWhat is a stochastic terrorist?
- hackerlight 4y agoA perpetrator of stochastic terrorism. In this context, a lone wolf who is radicalized online.
- detaro 4y ago"Stochastic terrorism" is the concept that a media campaign with large enough reach that vilifies and dehumanizes a target group will cause a rise in attacks against them, without any central planning who is attacking whom when, but rather because it pushes random (hence "stochastic") at-risk people to commit random attacks.
- galaxyLogic 4y agoA good and clear explanation. God Damn the Pusherman. Would you say that this is what happened on January 6th?