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Eric Weinstein
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So:

Instagram “Demotes”

FaceBook “Deboosts”

Twitter “Down-Ranks”

Google “Debiases”

Etc...

Okay. Sure that admittedly sounds quite bad....but just thank god no tech platform shadowbans or biases their users’ experience.

Because everyone in tech agrees that would be wrong.
I’m looking to see if this is applied to @emrata. By standards applied to men, she seems inappropriate. She walks around NYC in her underwear happy to induce cab drivers to gawk & involuntarily crash their taxis.

Yet despite that cringeworthy description, she has 22M followers.
Will inappropriate behavior be determined by how hot you are? By your gender? By your age? What if some want to see things that others want to display?

Looking forward to having these rules spelled out in explicit detail so we can all see what we are being protected from.
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Eric Weinstein
@EricRWeinstein
When we ban people from spreading conspiracy theories we can no longer discuss conspiracies.

In 2017, I spread a conspiracy story.

Q: Should I be deplatformed for alleging that the US has a proven ability to destroy lawful US citizens by planting fake news in mainstream media?
Think about this: the US has had a proven history of conspiring repeatedly against its own citizens and destroying lives. Our check against that tyranny is FREE SPEECH/PRESS including the freedom to discuss & test wild hypotheses that begin as...wait for it...conspiracy theories.
Right now, EVERY major platform (@Google, @Apple, @facebook & @Twitter) both spreads and profits from hate, violence, misinformation and offensive speech. I will defend them in the same terms I defend all those they deplatformed pretending that they have a zero tolerance policy.
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Eric Weinstein
@EricRWeinstein
I have been relatively quiet for a reason. Amidst a large number of discussions misframing the IDW recently, I thought I was losing my mind. Even people close to me have become completely confused. Why??

This article gets it right to first approximation:

thefederalist.com/2019/04/23/sto…
Right now cancerous ideas are ubiquitous as institutional models are collapsing simultaneously from Journalism to Universities to Political parties. These bizarre ideas are flowing like water (Open and Zero immigration are both cancerous as an example).

So, we are fighting that.
I am the first to admit that I cannot always keep my footing out here. If you can, your a better human than I am. Really. I know I’m not up to the task as I am being pulled apart by all those I respect who need Left/Right institutional or media anchors which seem to be going mad.
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Eric Weinstein
@EricRWeinstein
Communal sense making crisis:

“Rules out..”
“No Evidence of..”
“Rules out for now..”
“Multiple Church Fires..”

“Rules out” does not mean “No evidence of” and there’s simply no such thing as “Rules out for now”. Similarly reporting on multiple fires isn’t helping. #GetItRight
I don’t know how to say this politely. This is Norte Dame. Journalists need to tell us what happened & not jump the gun. Take your time and pass us information, but only the information.

We have time. Just don’t incite our passions or lie to us to cover anything up. Just facts.
*Notre.
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Josh Russell
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I want to circle back around and keep mentioning this, while facebook and twitter have improved somewhat #Instagram still remains full of conspiracy theorist, hate speech, and russian propaganda/disinformation.
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#Facebook & #Twitter are reported by the Russian state press to “report on their compliance with Russian regulations requiring companies to store Russian users’ data on servers located inside Russia. 👇🏼
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Ikenna Ronald Nzimora
@ronaldnzimora
Okay, this here thread will show you a way into the e-commerce game.

I'll tweet as much as I can but I don't want this to be too long a thread. At the end, if you want to explore further, I'll give a link to a course.

It's NOT my course (would have loved it to be) but it works.
So this is about importing simple products (or even complicated ones) from China and reselling them here for profit, many times A LOT of profit.

My business has an arm that does this with great success. I don't preach what I do not do.

Now that we have a premise, let's begin.
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Tom G Stark❌
@TomStark913
A thought as to why this might be...
cnet.com/news/google-is…
See, Google is very well positioned in the market. They are tied to the Android phone platform (the only viable option other than @Apple) not to mention "Google it" is synonymous with answering questions. That's whats called massive brand aweness.
Google has prositioned themselves as a utility. Utilities don't need to be fresh or hip. They need to work and work effectively.
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Google it.
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