[ExI] Twitter and free speech

[William Flynn Wallace]

OK - so have a warning "Here there be dragons."  For the banned/censored
stuff people really want to read.

Peyton Place - just titillating - not a good book.  I did read it and was
not titillated.  Maybe the worst book that everyone read.  Catcher was, I
think, an experimental book - sort of a stream of consciousness book.  It
succeeded spectacularly but is not a good book.  bill w



On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 9:32 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *…*> *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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> >…Why not have two Twitters: one censored, one totally open?  Now we'll
> find out just what people really want to say.   bill w
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> Excellent idea BillW, with a stipulation: Twitter will stay and be the
> open one.  It can still be censored in a way, but generally by software,
> and everything must be open to all: have a list of links to tweets that are
> censored and a list of posts that are shadow banned, even while recognizing
> that publishing shadow banning is a logical contradiction.
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> Of course that will lead to the banned-book paradox, where so many read a
> book because it was banned, wanting to know why.  That’s the reason I read
> Catcher in the Rye rather than Peyton Place (bad example of course, because
> Catcher really is confusing garbage, whereas Peyton is delightfully
> titillatin’.  But still.)
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> For years, when people complained they were being unfairly censored and
> shadow banned and all that, they were told to go to hell, find another
> social medium, or another company, or start your own Twitter competitor,
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> So… OK we don’t actually need to compose anything new for those who are
> the loudest complainers now.  Just post what they themselves told others a
> few years ago.
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> Oh I love that.  My friends, what a time to be living!  This all makes a
> most joyful noise, like Christmas songs without all the religion and stuff,
> the kind of sound that those three rock stars sang of 60 years ago: the
> hammer of justice and the bell of freedom.  Let it bang and let it ring,
> all over this land.
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