Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor

None the wiser.

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@leashless So it's obviously not about the geographic area is it.

Did you read the rest of that thread?

I'm starting to worry about you dude - a couple of days ago I said Elon was spreading Nazi propaganda, and instead of defending Elon, you defended Nazism. In writing, in public.

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@MJTruthUltra And the Mexicans are going to pay for it !

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@omniharmonic Art came before language

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@IrvineWelsh I'm not entirely sure why, but I'm finding myself watching that video over and over and over again.

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@johnrobb Bollocks. Twitter isn't a freedom of speech machine, it is a surveillance and behaviour modification machine.

Banning twitter is attacking free speech the same way banning Uber would be attacking taxis or banning Airbnb attacking housing.

If anything it is the opposite.

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@JoshuaLisec Don't know, but Withnail described it as "Very expensive to those who can't afford it, free to those who can".

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@erikphoel Where is that quote from?

This whole thread echoes Samo Burja's thing about a major % of any technology being undocumented procedure - which means technologies die when they don't have people actively working in them

https://t.co/WArO0lim8U

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@leashless It's worth giving this guy a listen apropos of that.

https://t.co/WArO0lim8U

He talks about the major % of any technology being unwritten procedures, and when the population crashes we lose them. Also other slightly more dubious views you might like as well :)

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@leashless Freedom begins where necessity ends - "choice" automatically assumes constraint.

Who chooses the choices? The Coastguard.

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@leashless And it's noon again, so I need to do some work :)

I do social media etc in the mornings.

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@leashless Speaking of context, part of mine on this comes from Hannah Arendt via Timothy Snyder - and there's about a 5 minute outline of this here:

https://t.co/IdksGWYbdh

From which I could make a pretty good case for algos not being a free-speech conduit at all.

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@leashless Pretty sure the European crackdown on free-thought happened in the Renaissance/reformation, but that aside - what these advertising platforms optimised for addiction and conflict are doing is a long long way from "free thought".

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@leashless Mark Blyth said that there needed to be a huge post-brexit import of people so the universities didn't go bust... but that is not a description that matches your 2nd para.

And I would need to see data on that.

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@leashless In the same way that you say The 2nd Amendment isn't fit for a world with basement Crispr... the 1st Amendment isn't fit for a world with behaviour-modification super-weapons like Twitter / FB etc.

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@leashless What Hannah Arendt referred to as "the temporary alliance of the elite and the mob". We've seen it happen before, and it's happening again, and what Elon is doing is qualitatively different from what you are doing, due to context and scale

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@leashless Aye - but what is actually "crippling" the UK is not foreign rapists, it's austerity. A recent study putting the death-toll of tory austerity at around 300000

That is the context, and what the Nazis are doing is using an unrelated organised crime problem to scapecoat foreigners

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@leashless Anyhoo - it is time I actually did some work.

It is as always, the most excellent pleasure talking to you.

I've joined the 60s btw :)

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@leashless Fairly sure he wasn't doing journalism

"The outsider is always a criminal and the crime is always rape - which is used to tar the entire community" -Jason Stanley

I would prefer to defer to an actual seasoned feminist over whether ethnic rape is a bigger problem than non-ethnic

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@leashless I'd say promoting Nazi propaganda - especially in the context of the UK riots was a bit of an abuse. Apparently Lula has a problem with his behaviour as well.

But then I also think that any free-speech advocate funding the project 2025 candidate is pretty problematic as well

[Nick Taylor:: https://kolektiva.social/@nicktaylor @ikostar]

@leashless Well that I'd have less of a problem with to be fair

Apart from the minor snagette, that we actually do have 40 apps, and Musk is abusing his power, and here we are.

Addictive interfaces huh? Who could have guessed.