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[PANIC @TechnophobiaOrg]

Big brother won’t save us from techno-dystopia.

[PANIC @TechnophobiaOrg]

@garrytan So good

[Louis Anslow @LouisAnslow]

Johnathan Haidt is to the world of bits what Paul Ehrlich was to the word of atoms.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Ehrlich's legacy includes mass sterilization campaigns in India, China, and Peru.

India's program was at such a massive scale that, in one year, they sterilized 15 times more than the Nazis did during their entire reign.

[Ogiel (Moe Lane) @Ogiel23]

Paul Ehrlich has died. He was 93.

He is survived by 8,300,678,394 people (134% increase from 1968), with a daily worldwide average calorie intake of 2,800 kcal (a 22% increase).

[PANIC @TechnophobiaOrg]

It’s time to build an institution that helps humanity build a firewall against freakouts.

[Louis Anslow @LouisAnslow]

What if the death of Ehrlich gives birth to an uprising against irrational pessimism?

[PANIC @TechnophobiaOrg]

It has never been more important to heed this.

Even if you think humanity does face new novel risks, irrational pessimism should be considered a fatal distraction from identifying and mitigating them.

[Pessimists Archive @PessimistsArc]

It is really important that we don’t forget the risks and harms of irrational pessimism.

[Pessimists Archive @PessimistsArc]

It is really important that we don’t forget the risks and harms of irrational pessimism.

[Pessimists Archive @PessimistsArc]

Same vibe https://t.co/myQSkmKgnT

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

What if you had to upload your government ID or scan your face to use a VPN?

That's what the UK is proposing

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

They're tweeting out a dubious poll from a far right think tank that opposes abortion and gay marriage to manufacture consent for a law that would treat every single app on the app store as if it's porn (including weather and calculator apps).

[Marko Jukic @mmjukic]

Very normal stuff coming out of the UK.

[PANIC @TechnophobiaOrg]

Amazing moment @RossKemp realizes he’s been mislead by incel moral panic narrative mid-documentary.

Really refreshing.

[Jonathan Wong @WONGthink]

Ross Kemp made an entire docuseries on inceldom after watching Adolescence.

This was the moment he found out.

[PANIC @TechnophobiaOrg]

Big brother won’t save us from techno-dystopia.

[Louis Anslow @LouisAnslow]

Imagine if this had been written into law and all book purchases required ID + a database of who read what.

That is what is happening with the internet now

[Jacob Mchangama @JMchangama]

You'll never guess Putin's pretext for creating "The Red Web", Russia's pervasive system of online censorship....

[PANIC @TechnophobiaOrg]

A good way to ’think of the children’ is to not erode their future adult civil libraries

[Jacob Mchangama @JMchangama]

You'll never guess Putin's pretext for creating "The Red Web", Russia's pervasive system of online censorship....

[PANIC @TechnophobiaOrg]

Technology journalists have failed to

1.) learn from history
2.) question moral panic
3.) treat the open web as sacred

The free and open web is experiencing a controlled demolition, the fate of the free word is at stake.

WRITERS AND EDITORS GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER NOW

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Lawmakers, who claim to care about children, could pass broader social and economic policies that we know would meaningfully improve children’s lives. Any policies that limit online access should centre on the most vulnerable children and adults. https://t.co/Nyu66hrTmC

[PANIC @TechnophobiaOrg]

We want to set up a war room to fight for the free and open internet; a movement is swelling be needs more shepherding.

Looking for volunteers, donors etc.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Once built, this surveillance infrastructure will be abused, just as every prior expansion of government surveillance and censorship power has been. We must do everything in our power to stop these laws where we can and preserve a free and open internet. https://t.co/Nyu66hrTmC