[ExI] This is my last post to the Extropian List

Fri Feb 5 14:42:17 UTC 2021

From: Gordon Swobe <gordon.swobe at gmail.com> 
Subject: Re: [ExI] This is my last post to the Extropian List

>…Thanks spike. I came back because I got sucked into the facebook nightmare and am trying to extricate myself from it…

Eh, it isn’t only FaceBook, Gordon.  It isn’t even just the social media in general.  In our day we are facing a very good question: how should a public forum be moderated, if at all?

Suppose we say that the usual social constraints, such as how one carries oneself at a party or public park, should be sufficient.  Then… what if they aren’t?  What if a person shows up on a forum such as Extropians and posts a lot of stuff that is insulting and drives away valuable contributors.  Then suppose that forum has a moderator who allows everything, but that moderator clearly sees that this policy is damaging that forum severely and tries to get the offender to stop, but the offender will not stop.

Social media in general are wrestling with that question, particularly FaceBook and Twitter.  When a mainstream medium decides it will filter content or block a user, it becomes a de facto endorsement of every post it allows to remain.  

Look at some of the vile garbage Face Book and Twitter suddenly endorsed, oh mercy: racism, sexism, genocide, the works.  If they are going to moderate content, then they must do it across the board.  Otherwise, that content is theirs to own.

spike

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 9:12 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> > wrote:

From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org <mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> > On Behalf Of Gordon Swobe via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] This is my last post to the Extropian List

>…. I am surprised, but not too surprised, to see all the old familiar names here. You used to give me major grief for my heretical (by extropian standards) views on Strong AI and digital uploading of consciousness. You are actually one of the reasons I stopped participating here. Even so, I hate to see you go!

-gts 

Gts we are glad to see you back.

spike

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