[ExI] I salute Elon Musk, Captain of Spaceship Earth!

[William Flynn Wallace]

If the hate speech on the medium gets out of hand (and who decides that?),
simply create Twitter II or FAcebook II, and put all the 'problem' posts
there rather than denying someone his voice.   Hate unfortunately has its
place and in its way is valuable data.  bill w

On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 10:31 AM BillK via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Apr 2022 at 15:30, spike jones via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for that Giulio.
> >
> > Here is a challenge to all who have a public speech platform: you don't
> need
> > to be non-partisan, you don't even need to be fair.  Just be transparent.
> > Let everyone see how you roll.  Be open.  It's what we always did here on
> > this forum: transparency.  Keeping a filtering algorithm secret is
> > unaccountable power, which always leads to corruption.  So... wield the
> > power, accept the accountability that goes with it, be transparent.
> >
> <snip>
> > spike
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> Transparency is a two-edged sword.
> I don't use Twitter and I suspect you don't either.
> But nowadays, we are dealing with the 'Cancel' generation who are very
> easily offended if someone doesn't use the latest Newspeak terminology
> and support the latest trending opinions.
> When the Twitter crowd of trolls decide to pile on someone, the volume
> of tweets containing hatred and prejudice is unbelievable.
> It has driven some people to suicide.
> Surely you have read about this despicable behaviour?
> Twitter and Facebook moderators make little attempt to stop such
> hatred campaigns.
>
> Fortunately some old-fashioned email lists (like Exi-chat) are still
> able to allow free speech that doesn't menace other list members or
> ruin the list atmosphere.
>
>
> BillK.
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