[ExI] bee having fun

[William Flynn Wallace]

There is an interesting extension being made that speech in our world today
isn’t done primarily by the voice but the words we post on the internet.
We paid for that, so we have a right to it.  spike

I don't get this.  Whadda mean, we paid for it?  The internet?  We paid for
fighter jets too, but don't have the right to fly them.  What sort of right
do you mean?   bill w


On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 4:42 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >>…Billw, we have a constitutional right to free speech.  So we don’t
> need to move.  They do.    spike
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> >…AGreed,   - do you or anyone think that an abridgement of free speech
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> Depends on how you look at it.  The right to free speech means the federal
> government cannot prosecute citizens for their speech.  There is an
> interesting extension being made that speech in our world today isn’t done
> primarily by the voice but the words we post on the internet.  We paid for
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> >…  Does the government have a right to examine the algorithms?   Should
> they?    bill w
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> If it doesn’t say so in the constitution, the government does not have the
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> The more interesting part to me is that Musk is buying Twitter at enormous
> cost saying nothing about modifying or changing the filtering algorithms.
> He is only saying he will make them public domain.  It has become the
> biggest debate topic in some time, which is remarkable in itself.
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> Is there a legitimate reason, or even a logical illegitimate reason for
> stopping a guy from buying social media in order to make its filtering
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> Plenty of the public seem to think it is a bad thing.  Is it a bad thing
> for a social medium to tell them something?  How can it be argued that it
> is a bad thing for a company deciding to now offer you something which it
> didn’t give you before?  The company is not forcing you to look at the
> filtering algorithms, ja?  So… making those algorithms public cannot
> possibly harm anyone, ja?  But it can certainly satisfy some long-standing
> curiosity so some can benefit.  So… why is there any debate?
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