[ExI] bee having fun

[William Flynn Wallace]

My legal team has disputed the use of 'right' to refer to using the
internet, or for that matter, highways.

Oh I wanted to fly a plane so badly.  Two problems:  deaf in one ear and
too tall (though not too tall now I think).

Yes, I know about DARPA. Even me.  I recently read that many countries are
trying to imitate it.

And Good Morning to you!  We are having beautiful days here - a dry spell
after much rain.  How are you on gardening?  Flowers and such?  love  from
roz and bill

On Fri, Apr 29, 2022 at 7:31 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> >…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
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> >…I don't get this.  Whadda mean, we paid for it?  The internet?
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> Ja.  The internet grew out of the US Department of Defense as a project to
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> The ARPANET, Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork it was.
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> Billw, you paid for the jets, you have the right to be protected by them.
> You also had the right to join the service and compete with skerjillions of
> others for the assignment to fly those planes.  Did you try for that duty?
> Neither did I.  They still cover our asses.  Life is good.
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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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> 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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