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Vitalik Buterin
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One meta-note on the situation, is that in my timeline I have seen exactly zero non-western people defending Durov's arrest, but quite a few western people. Definitely don't want to say that they don't exist (after all, my timeline is biased just like anyone's), just this is what my sample is so far. IMO this is another example of the decoupling of liberalism and westernism that https://x.com/MacaesBruno often talks about.
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Mac Budkowski ᵏ
@macbudkowski
Same on my timeline, feels like some Western people forgot the fundaments of their culture
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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
Western culture produced JS Mill and Milton Friedman, it also produced colonialism and Hitler (and, to give a third category, FDR). All civilizations' cultures have many strands, I expect the default path is that the strand that gets emphasized at any given time is the strand that fits the interests of that time period, and perhaps reacts against bad things in the previous time period. WW2/Nazism as negative example ("secular replacement for Satan") is weakening as people with direct memory of it pass away. If you analyze the situation looking at raw interests, the first-order conclusion is that smaller countries will be the more liberal ones, because they have more to gain by connecting and less to gain by dominating (and more to lose by being dominated). So while more authoritarian-flavored westernism is a risk, on the flip side we may get to enjoy more diversity in different types of liberalism (so maybe this is a daoism bullpost?)
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timdaub
@timdaub.eth
Europe has always imposed the responsibility of a digital service on the operator. That‘s literally why all the Americans are mocking us over at /europoooooor and that‘s why Europe has no tech companies. I‘m sounding like an annoying European Western apologist but haven’t these rules always been here? I think they suck, but I also don‘t know how to change this. Would everyone be happy if there was a section 230 law in the EU?
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