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Why use the incredibly loose 4-wounded threshold? I mean, I actually know why, but still... smh
I appreciate that a lot of work went into this and I generally like @germanrlopez's stuff, but the only reason anyone anywhere uses 4-wounded threshold for "mass shooting" is to get a really big headline number, and everyone knows this and the jig is up on it.
The FBI's active shooter definition is far closer to what people think of when they think of "mass shooting." But then you'd only have a number in the teens, which sparks less outrage I guess.
Anyway, I know the Vox folks could've written this thread for me. There is probably an internal slack chat predicting one exactly like it from somebody. Everybody has to play their part in the public ritual, I guess.
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The JS community is sadly a hotbed of this kind of project-destroying crusaderism. There's some of this in the Ruby world, as well, but it's not as widespread.
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In the present culture war, it seems that everything that can be weaponized will be weaponized. The only thing that has yet to be weaponized are literal weapons, but y'know give it a minute. 🤦‍♂️
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He’s right but this is only half of it. Other half is they’ll appropriate left’s argument (made re: Russia) that social media manipulation is an attack on democracy, and recast ham-fisted moderation as RU-style attacks that delegitimize election results they don’t like.
This angle will be effective because it’s not entirely wrong, and we’ll all be arguing over the degree to which it’s an exaggeration.
If Trump were gone from office tomorrow, the battle over Russiagate would still be less than half over. We’re going to be fighting over what level of algo-and moderation-driven platform bias casts a cloud over election results for years.
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I've come to the conclusion recently that I've not done a good enough job of talking about the 3D printed gun issue. I don't think anyone has really. There are too many smart, open-minded people who are like "yeah but these files are dangerous so how can u not want 2 delete them?
"Ok, so you convinced me that bad people cannot just print guns. Still, this stuff is bad so why should it not get deleted? Why should we not delete dangerous files and content from the 5 computers we all share?"

I've failed to give a good answer to this.
The problem is structural. The case for censoring these files can be summed up quickly & grasped by a five-year-old. The case against censoring them is complicated & requires specific knowledge in multiple domains.
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