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I'm not worried about social media, and even though I think its highlights often the vapid and banality of our societies, I'm not going try to stop someone from

I'm not worried about social media, and even though I think its highlights often the vapid and banality of our societies, I'm not going try to stop someone from waddling in the cesspool. >I don’t think we should want a world where people bigger / stronger / richer than you or me can do whatever to our detriment. What "we" want, matters not. I have no desire to change the course of a legal system. People bigger / stronger / richer than you or me try everyday to influence all sorts of decisions i make, some important me, some not so important to me. I'm not going to rely upon a legal system to instill some misguided sense of protection from them on the ones I find most important to me and will take matters into my own hands, no matter how futile it will be.

afinlayson 4y ago
So you’d honestly want social media to be more like legal system than both being better? Personally I’d like to see more optimism in the world.
- cinquemb 4y ago
  Your optimism is reliant upon the threat of force on peoples actions... lol I'd think i'm plenty optimistic, just not in legal systems. Decentralized permissionless systems make me very optimistic.
  - afinlayson 4y ago
    ok so again, you want to allow people with power to have a system more like the legal system. A powerful person can insight a mob attack on twitter, (breaking it's own rules) because he's powerful. I'm just suggesting that rules should be uniform. If you or I can't do it he shouldn't be able to do it. They had rules, if they don't agree with those rules, remove them. But then everyone else can swat, or doxx or other kind of terrible actions - which is a hellscape not a town square. Law isn't equal, but really should be.
    - cinquemb 4y ago
      > ok so again, you want to allow people with power to have a system more like the legal system. Where the hell did I say that? If anything, nothing is stopping you from doing research, putting a hole in such a powerful person, dumping your cig ash on them. Sure, there might be consequences for you. But those powerful people who do something you don't like will learn that they cannot expect to abuse a system and always get away from it. A temporary hellscape, to keep those "in power" in check. If you wanna waste your time with the legal system (which also creates a temporary hellscapes, but under terms that you believe in) because of your faith in what it should be, be my guest. One would be a fool if one thinks that stopping someone from supposedly inciting w/e on some social media platform will magically solve the underlying problems (like, why would so many people even listen to this person in fhe first place if they were placated and happy? totally not possible for them to eventually find someone else who says some similar shit to go to ends of the earth for... lol). And even more of a fool if one thinks a nations laws will be sufficient (even at some idealized level to whatever scale your belief in it is maximized). I'll protect my self from such fools, esp if they come at me personally with that nonsense. In the mean time, ill help other people have the same means as I do so they can fight their own battles, whatever those happen to be (at least those who have grown tired trying to outsource it to people).

afinlayson 4y ago

So you’d honestly want social media to be more like legal system than both being better? Personally I’d like to see more optimism in the world.

cinquemb 4y ago
Your optimism is reliant upon the threat of force on peoples actions... lol I'd think i'm plenty optimistic, just not in legal systems. Decentralized permissionless systems make me very optimistic.
- afinlayson 4y ago
  ok so again, you want to allow people with power to have a system more like the legal system. A powerful person can insight a mob attack on twitter, (breaking it's own rules) because he's powerful. I'm just suggesting that rules should be uniform. If you or I can't do it he shouldn't be able to do it. They had rules, if they don't agree with those rules, remove them. But then everyone else can swat, or doxx or other kind of terrible actions - which is a hellscape not a town square. Law isn't equal, but really should be.
  - cinquemb 4y ago
    > ok so again, you want to allow people with power to have a system more like the legal system. Where the hell did I say that? If anything, nothing is stopping you from doing research, putting a hole in such a powerful person, dumping your cig ash on them. Sure, there might be consequences for you. But those powerful people who do something you don't like will learn that they cannot expect to abuse a system and always get away from it. A temporary hellscape, to keep those "in power" in check. If you wanna waste your time with the legal system (which also creates a temporary hellscapes, but under terms that you believe in) because of your faith in what it should be, be my guest. One would be a fool if one thinks that stopping someone from supposedly inciting w/e on some social media platform will magically solve the underlying problems (like, why would so many people even listen to this person in fhe first place if they were placated and happy? totally not possible for them to eventually find someone else who says some similar shit to go to ends of the earth for... lol). And even more of a fool if one thinks a nations laws will be sufficient (even at some idealized level to whatever scale your belief in it is maximized). I'll protect my self from such fools, esp if they come at me personally with that nonsense. In the mean time, ill help other people have the same means as I do so they can fight their own battles, whatever those happen to be (at least those who have grown tired trying to outsource it to people).