[ExI] Section 230 and Antitrust

[Omar Rahman]

Hi Spike,

Speaking personally, I currently dip into the list once in a while in digest mode and see if something interesting has come up. When I first joined there were many more authors here also. (In fact it was an author friend of mine who told me to subscribe to the list.)

In general I post here when I feel I have something to contribute. But sometimes my contributions of the past were to FLAME MIGHTILY IN YODA MODE when others would make absurd claims such as "people of country X have an average IQ of VERY VERY LOW". 

One internationally published author contacted me after one such exchange to express his dismay and commiserate, and I’m not sure if he is still a list member.

I will offer you the paraphrased wisdom of one Mitt Romeny, (who is someone I would never vote for but would have a glass of lemonade with), last week he said in the senate something to the effect that: “Our duty as leaders is to show these people who have been deluded by conspiracy theories the truth.” (Obviously he is now considered a “traitor”.)

Simple truth telling could be enough.

Ridicule is perhaps sometimes the best gift though, because arguing with someone about “facts" is futile when the “facts” are actually article of faith. Tyrants and conspiracy theories are quite susceptible to scorn.



"OUT PEACE!”, Yoda say, “Anders Sandberg in Internets search will I."

(“Yoda Inversions” speech a delightful exercise is!)




> On 17 Jan 2021, at 17:45, extropy-chat-request at lists.extropy.org wrote:
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> From: spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com> <spike at rainier66.com <mailto:spike at rainier66.com>> 
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>>> ? Our most munificent ( and not at ominously named) censor ?SPIKE?! Hail Spike of the Mighty Clicks!
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>> ?Hi Omar, thanks for the worship.  Thou art too kind, humble servant.  But I never used that power.  ?spike
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> This brings up an interesting question in general: should completely unmoderated sites exist?  ExI was for many years: I didn?t moderate people based on content.  That has its drawbacks: good contributors who post high quality valuable posts don?t want to be associated with the kind of content that is allowed on such a site, so they go away.  Example: Anders Sandberg.
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> OK suppose a site does moderate based on content.  Not everyone will agree on how it is moderated.
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> American society is now at the point where there is no clear place where completely unmoderated material can be posted.  This too might be a bad thing, for it gives the moderated platforms too much unaccountable power.
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> I don?t know what the right thing is there, but I am eager to hear ideas.
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