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Comment by mlyle

4 years ago

"Go start your own" is not a great response to someone being concerned about corrosive effects of the concentration of market power -- especially when those concentrations are brokering critical speech and political discourse.

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notch656a  4 years ago

Whoops you started your own, now I see all the methods of payment you use have been shut off by their various vendors. Oh you used crypto? Hope you know every single address that has interacted with a sanctioned address and never accidently accept payment from them...

Gordonjcp  4 years ago

Have you ever considered that if nobody wants to touch your content - nobody wants to even consider allowing it over their network - then it might actually be your content that is the problem?

  • mlyle  4 years ago

    Have you ever considered that you're straw-manning and not engaging with what I've actually said?

    I'm not supporting Kiwifarms having a platform.

    I'm saying speech being effectively squelched by a small number of powerful parties is problematic. If the small party is the government, this is obviously problematic. If Facebook is a huge part of people's discourse, and subtly tilts the playing field in various ways, this is problematic, too.

    I can insulate myself (mostly) from the effects of Facebook's curation. But there are still profound social costs.