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Freedom to "yell into the void" isn't really a freedom of speech. They might as well post-it on the bathroom walls.
by attentive 4y ago
Freedom to "yell into the void" isn't really a freedom of speech. They might as well post-it on the bathroom walls.
- oska 4y agoYour 'yelling into the void' here is every yell being recorded and kept, every person who has a link to a recording being able to hear it, every person who follows a chronological playback of your yells being able to hear them all, etc, i.e. there is no 'void'.
- somat 4y agoYelling into the void is the central mechanism of twitter and platforms like twitter. I is why when I joined a mastodon server the whole thing felt so weird to me, I was expecting irc. Whom am I talking to? No one and every one. You yell into the void and hope someone is listening. Note that the same could be said for any mass publishing platform, posting a web page is also yelling into the void. or publishing a book or writing a newspaper article.