Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real
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1/ On decentralised social media and free speech: Free speech doesn't guarantee the right to say anything without consequence, because "absolute" free speech can infringe on the rights of others - it does not override another person's right to live without fear of hate or violence. Equally, decentralisation does mot mean "no rules" or that formal rules regulations, social norms or contracts are absent. The opposite rather, because control and decision-making are distributed across a network, the absence of centralised authority makes social contracts and upholding them even more critical.
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Swampnet
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The society you describe sounds eerily familiar as a US american 😢
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Michail / Opium Hum / Hyper Real
@opiumhum
Didn't want to explicitly say it, but its my European take on the American tendency to misread the first amendment, yes.
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Swampnet
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It reads that way for sure! coming from a US context (I’ve always been progressive or what I might have previously described as ‘liberal’), it really resonates with me because we were always taught that things in the USA could indeed be terrible, but we had rights that people in other countries didn’t. -
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Swampnet
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Even the most progressive leftists I knew would say things like “I don’t agree with [insert terrible hate group who opposes my existence] but I would defend their right to free speech.” It always felt weird to me, like why would a society tolerate hate speech? but I just accepted it as true.
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