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Comment by afavour

5 months ago

That it could be dangerous to readmit people who broadcast disinformation? The connection seemed pretty clear to me.

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vintermann  5 months ago

I certainly guessed that was what you wanted to say. Funny how polarization makes everything predictable.

But what I just realized is that you don't explicitly say it, and certainly make no real argument for it. Ressa laments algorithmic promotion of inflammatory material, but didn't say "keep out anti-government subversives who spread dangerous misinformation" - which is good, because

1. We can all see how well the deplatforming worked - Trump is president again, and Kennedy is health secretary.

2. In the eyes of her government, she was very much such a person herself, so it would have been pretty bizarre thing of her to say.

Ironically, your post is very much an online "go my team!" call, and a good one too (top of the thread!). We all understand what you want and most of us, it seems, agree. But you're not actually arguing for the deplatforming you want, just holding up Ressa as a symbol for it.

  • n4r9  5 months ago

    > We can all see how well the deplatforming worked - Trump is president again

    Not a compelling argument...

    Jan 2021 - Twitter bans Trump (for clear policy violations)

    Apr 2022 - Musk buys Twitter

    Aug 2023 - Twitter reinstates Trump's account

    Nov 2024 - Trump re-elected, gives Musk cabinet position

    • vintermann  5 months ago

      So deplatforming works, unless people become so unhinged at the efforts to shape them that they do crazy stuff like buy major media platforms? Guess what, they do!

      But at least the Covid dissenter deplatforming worked, right? Or was the problem Musk there again?

      One of my mantras is that powerful people believe all the crazy things regular people believe in, they just act differently on them. I think both Musk and Kennedy are great examples that you'd appreciate, as are Xi and Putin with their open mic life extension fantasies.

      It's not long ago that Musk and even Trump himself, was aligned with your competent technocrats wielding the "suppression of irresponsible speech" powers.

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