Quote (Goomshill @ Jun 26 2019 03:45pm)
Tech censorship comes in many forms
Macro, micro, algorithmic, self-censorship.
Its not about silencing one voice, its about silencing all of them. That has always been what censorship is about. When random users can no longer discuss freely with each other. When I have to make 30 accounts and farm them up and wade through a dozen filters to make a comment, what happens to those not as determined as me?
Their goal is to suppress Trump supporters ahead of 2020. They want to kill the engagement, censor the news, prevent any groundswell and organization. As long as the coordinated and high activity meeting places get shut down, as long as the media can run propaganda without any high visibility counterbalanced narrative to call them out, they may yet achieve their goal in 2020.
Trump got support as a result of tech-censorship-lite. so you want me to believe that 1 scoop was good for Donald but 3 scoops will kill him? or?
from a moral standpoint i find the censorship bad, from the perspective of a trump voter tho it doesnt seem to be effective. the sheer number of interactions in the micro compared to what's affected will be nothing, 10 to 1, maybe 100 to 1. and furthermore as the censorship rolls out people will ebb and flow around it, and it will actually drive up engagement.
will 1 out of 100 soldiers fall? yes. and will 99 make it across the beach, yes. and will there only be 100 in the first place due to the censorship, yes.
the_donald will split into 5 different subs, or be restored and grow larger for it. twitter will get an influx of anti-censorship posting generally and the right will gain centrist support as a result. there will actually be people who see Trump as a victim, and shift sides, even if they are few. the tech sector will learn slowly and by force the error of their ways, and the harder people kick and scream as they flounder about the faster we get to the robotic overlord. both sides are royally fucking this up.