JA Westenberg
@joanwestenberg.eth
Last night, I deactivated my own Twitter account and walked away from an audience of 30,000 followers. Because I no longer believe a moral argument can be made for staying on Twitter/X in 2023. https://joanwestenberg.medium.com/there-is-no-moral-argument-for-staying-on-twitter-x-cdef14b04730
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@quillingqualia.eth
That's commendable. But I don't think he has to be a perfect example of what he advocates for either. Regarding hate speech, my view has been that hate speech = free speech. Incitement to violence is the only that needs to be banned. Followed on medium 🔉
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
ok but let's say that there was a type of word you could say that caused people's nose to bleed, and it just so happened to affect people such that if their nose *didn't* bleed they would really itch to say the word. If you ran a social platform, would you take any efforts to mitigate the virality of that word?
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@quillingqualia.eth
Interesting conundrum. I'm going to meditate on the answer for a while, but I think the answer to that would be somewhere in challenging the premise
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Connor McCormick ☀️
@nor
thought experiments are not made useful by challenging the premise. You could challenge the strength of the analogy. But the whole point of the thought experiment is that it somehow reduces the complexity of the problem so that principles can be extracted and evaluated in isolation. Just like any controlled experiment
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