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by khawkins 6y ago
It doesn't have to be a system where the government can pick and choose who they want to ban/keep, but rather a system where businesses must go through a legal government process to ban someone themselves. That platforms need to b
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by khawkins 6y ago
Supposedly there are a lot of "really smart people" who are behind this censorship push. Certainly they have researchers at these companies who have studied human behavior and know the outcome? Certainly they know that suppressing
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by khawkins 6y ago
While we're at it, let's remove internet access from everyone with mental disorders. Clearly they can't handle the responsibilities of internet access. /s
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by khawkins 6y ago
You're the one who said these people are the same group, the onus is on you to provide evidence of your claim. But it should be self-evident that tech giants maintain a near oligopoly of social media discourse and people aren't go
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by khawkins 6y ago
Well they know corporations are going to be a colossal pain in their ass if they pass something, but that the citizens won't do anything. Might make the local news, but nothing more. If only there was a little enthusiasm in this arena,
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by khawkins 6y ago
A policy prescription requires weighing of values, which a scientist should avoid at all costs. It's quite literally the point of science, to understand how the world works without injecting your personal biases about how the world sho
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by khawkins 6y ago
Since when do people only vote for people they completely agree with and not the "better of two evils"? If the choices are the party that actively wants to censor you and the party that doesn't want to pass legislation to pro
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by khawkins 6y ago
Section 230(b): It is the policy of the United States- (1) to promote the continued development of the Internet and other interactive computer services and other interactive media; (2) to preserve the vibrant and competitive free market tha
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by khawkins 6y ago
You're conflating different groups of people because you don't understand the nuances of the different groups at play. These are not the same groups in the slightest.
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by khawkins 6y ago
This is only a utilitarian ethical argument. If people approach from a deontological perspective, the measurements may not matter. Suggesting a policy prescription in the title of a scientific study puts the legitimacy of the study in compl
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by khawkins 6y ago
I don't think this is ever going to work in practice because there is a significant incentives misalignment. The people moving to other platforms are doing so because the tech giants are trying to stamp out free speech. Someone who use
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by khawkins 6y ago
I don't trust that your definition of an "actual nazi" isn't significantly colored by your own prejudices. That we could actually agree on who are the extremists in society who are equally damaging.
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by khawkins 6y ago
Louis Rossman owns a repair shop in NYC and has been touring the nation lobbying for Right to Repair. He's rarely sees success though because the lobbyists for places like Apple have deep pockets and there isn't a lot of public ou
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by khawkins 6y ago
Banning things left and right is inciting more violence than the content itself. They're making a lot of people desperate who were already extremely distrustful of authority. They don't need Steve Bannon to tell them that tech com
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by khawkins 6y ago
I guess the chickens really did come home to roost.
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by khawkins 6y ago
Because the definition of Nazi is applied so liberally that Winston Churchill himself would receive the label from those who use it in today's discourse.
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by khawkins 6y ago
Probably a little of the other countries, followed predominantly by China, and that the common denominator was unrestricted free trade with poorer countries. As the other countries liberalized and conditions for workers improved they became
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by khawkins 6y ago
Across the US political spectrum free trade has been embraced by economists and politicians alike, all with the idea that capitalism will force liberalism in places like China. And yet, here we are 50 years later and the CCP is as strong as
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by khawkins 6y ago
I'm not totally against, in general, artists and celebrities publicly sharing political opinions, but I am saying that those places which are supposed to be shared, places of common unity, shouldn't become places of polarization.
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by khawkins 6y ago
It's always fair to be upset when people use a powerful platform to spread ill-considered ideas, slander, and/or divisive rhetoric. Everyone agrees with this. If celebrities are significantly more likely to do this because they li
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by khawkins 6y ago
Your deconstruction of "political spaces" is deflecting from the concept which is intuitively understood by us all. Politics in this context means discourse about contentious government policy. Political spaces are places where th
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by khawkins 6y ago
That you assume I'm privileged because I want a more peaceful society suggests you will constantly seek to divide and set social groups against each other for the sake of some personal satisfaction.
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by khawkins 6y ago
The fact that you pose this question admits the political nature of these cultural conflicts. There are multiple avenues of resolution, some which involve government, some don't. We're all welcome to have differing opinions on how
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by khawkins 6y ago
Are we supposed to pretend it's the only thing that determines our governs our day to day lives?
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by khawkins 6y ago
Past 40 years.
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by khawkins 6y ago
Clearly there is a palpable difference between the sociopolitical climate of today and the sociopolitical climate 20 years ago. There were other times in history where it was similar to this, but not in most of our lifetimes.
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by khawkins 6y ago
Those are even worse. Why can't we let political discourse stay in political spaces? That used to be the norm and everyone was far less stressed out and amicable for it. Now every space has become a battleground for sociopolitical disc
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by khawkins 6y ago
What a horrible world this sort of thinking wants to build. Nearly everything in civilization balances safety with freedom. She wants to hold a grudge against large swaths of the population because she believes them not deserving of the fre
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by khawkins 6y ago
But we've been living with the reality that the flu does this every year, and yet now it's personal?
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by khawkins 6y ago
First of all, we're not even talking about the censoring of terrorists, dictators, and extremist groups, which Twitter actually has allowed to persist on the platform in the past (e.g. Nicolas Maduro and ISIL). The current censorship a

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