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by gorwell 5y ago
Oh please. Usenet was a free speech platform. IRC was a free speech platform. The 90s internet was a free speech ecosystem and the prevailing ethos was anti censorship. And guess what? It wasn't an endless hellscape. It was great, most
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by gorwell 5y ago
> If this influence will result in their profit, you have the "motive". Case in point: The pharmaceutical industry.
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Paging Orwell. The American Medical Association takes on politics of language(washingtonpost.com)
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by gorwell 5y ago
The people who preach the loudest often do so to overshout their own past. It’s no coincidence that the loudest proponents of cancel culture have a history of bigotry, racism and bullying. Today, this the most effective way to bully someone
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by gorwell 5y ago
Exactly, that's why the corporate media is so threatened by this average Joe.
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by gorwell 5y ago
Huh? Does Rogan run a shop selling trinkets and snake oil? He's a comedian chatting with people and sharing the discussion that you can choose to watch or not. The controversy around him is largely manufactured by a dying corporate med
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by gorwell 5y ago
The Patriot Act was when I realized you can't judge a bill by its name.
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by gorwell 5y ago
It helps to remember that every time you see a giant multinational corporation promoting diversity that they are talking about other rich people who think just like they do and are working to protect the status quo, but who have a few cosme
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by gorwell 5y ago
Right. What the ruling class wants is `free speech` being restored to what it was before the days of the Internet. When you could say anything you liked but it never got amplified because the bourgeoisie controlled whose speech got to reach
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by gorwell 5y ago
For the millionth time, the media is fabricating a moral panic around their belated discovery that Facebook does what they do, but better, more scalably, and more profitably. This is the 2016 Facebook panic all over again, but with fewer Ru
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by gorwell 5y ago
There's a book about this called `Revolt of the Public`. That's more or less the thesis in a nutshell. “All over the world, elite institutions from governments to media to academia are losing their authority and monopoly control o
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by gorwell 5y ago
One side is blindly downplaying, the other is blindly catastrophizing as you have done here: "kills 1-3% of people as hundreds of thousands of their neighbors die painful deaths". It's clear what tribe you are in, just as it&
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by gorwell 5y ago
On twitter I'm constantly clicking on "Show additional replies, including those that may contain offensive content" and "view sensitive material" warnings, and 99% of the time it's entirely mundane. It feels ju
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by gorwell 5y ago
That's the problem with `hate speech`. It can be defined as anything you don't like, including science.
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by gorwell 5y ago
Long dead Hitler and Goebbels are included too, but why stop there? Where's Joseph Stalin and Vlad the Impaler. https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21083819/pages/facebo...
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by gorwell 5y ago
As an atheist that grew up in a religious environment, the techniques and patterns of religions are recognizable. You may not realize it, but you are introducing religion into the workplace. A Christian posts on HN: merely saying "we a
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by gorwell 5y ago
They have chosen a specific mission. The point is to focus on said mission, not N missions. If you want to work on a different mission, work at a different company. Why do people find this so hard to understand?
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by gorwell 5y ago
Every company that continues to let itself get embroiled in Twitter's Political Topic of the Week is at such a distinct disadvantage it will ultimately fail. It's inevitable if you extrapolate. They won't survive the evolutio
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by gorwell 5y ago
The twitter mob doesn't like to hear that but it's absolutely true. It's illiberal, intolerant and regressive. Actual progressives and liberals see this clear as day. Most of us are just too afraid of the mob to say it.
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by gorwell 5y ago
If it bleeds, it leads. The corporate media has been the primary sower of division and spreads plenty of misinformation itself. Polarization and vitriol precedes these platforms. Facebook, twitter, reddit, they all make it worse, I agree wi
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by gorwell 5y ago
From the page I linked: The correct answers to hospitalization risk can be calculated using data from the Department of Health and Human Services (via HealthData.gov) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). One needs
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by gorwell 5y ago
A lot of comments here asking for specific numbers and making comparisons to other risks. That's exactly how one should be looking at this. What I don't understand is why people don't apply this same critical thought process
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by gorwell 5y ago
I'd be more than happy if facebook disappeared. They are a disaster, no doubt. That's not what's going to happen though. Facebook will get exactly what they keep saying they want: regulation and oversight. Facebook will be ju
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by gorwell 5y ago
The internet hollowed out the legacy media's business model, but it's more than that: It also destroyed the ability of the ruling class to control the narrative. Now everything they say and do is endlessly scrutinized by the inter
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by gorwell 5y ago
It may be that facebook can't fix itself, but what makes anyone think an even larger and more powerful organization is the answer and won't itself succumb to its own system of incentives? She is pushing for the equivalent of The
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by gorwell 5y ago
I agree, and further it smacks of Manufactured Consent. First, notice the surge in specifically anti-facebook stories over the past month. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa... While twitte
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by gorwell 5y ago
I had the same feeling that it doesn't quite add up. The use of the term `whistleblower` has been dubious from the start with little to no new information, she just admitted to only deciding to come forward after facebook dissolved her
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by gorwell 5y ago
The idea that authoritarians exist only in one wing has long been a misunderstanding and an ideological blindspot that is now smacking us in the face. The Atlantic recently did a good piece on this, noting that there are common traits betwe
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by gorwell 5y ago
How did they ask that question? How direct are they in determining a candidate's ideology and political leaning?
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by gorwell 5y ago
This is not progressive, it's regressive.

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