FYI, I am going to sign off for the day shortly, and not only for the usual Shabbos break: Saturday night this week is the beginning of the (two-day) festival of Shavuos, meaning that I am going to leave you to take care of yourselves for THREE DAYS! >
I'm not going to tell you I'm worried sick over this EVEN THOUGH I OBVIOUSLY AM.
But there is nothing to be done about it. You are going to have to get by on everyone else's lukewarm takes and midwit content until Monday night. >
And I am going to have to hope and pray that THIS TIME you don't let them start another plague or join some war or get into the liquor cabinet AGAIN.
But I am leaving you, at the very precipe of my 72-hour departure, with THIS: >
An almost nearly unprecedented THIRD EXCERPT from a #ColemanNation episode - the one I've been going on about all week with @CountDankulaTV of course (full ep here )
THIS is the COMPLETE singularity connecting the Dank Count, #censorship & @theslants!
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Now anyone who has followed me for any amount of time knows that for all my talk about free speech, I am n not a free speech absolutist. Nor do I think any platform has to put up with harassment or even a reasonably comprehensible and balanced definition of "hate speech" >
I don't do a lot of tattling, but I do report gross antisemitic trolling.
I did not say I report antisemites or even eruptions of poor taste or prejudice. I don't require everyone, even everyone I associate with, to love all mankind all the time . >
There's nothing I repeat as often to clients and prospective clients concerned about confidentiality (often including anonymity) is that as lawyers, maintaining confidences is our single most important task. >
Even if you take the most jaundiced view of lawyers and our ethics, every one of us knows that improperly betraying client confidences is likely a one-way ticket to discipline, including potential disbarment. law.ua.edu/pubs/jlp_files…
A friend just asked me, well what do you, if you're running a social media platform, with the fact that so many countries do have "hate speech" regulations and other forms of censorship?
This is a problem as old as the world wide web, of course.
My view is this: >
If you want a platform that complies with every regime's content regulation standards, you can. But you're going to trim away so much "offensive" content, as designated by one view or another, you end up with one hell of a bland conversation. And it will only get more bland. >
And not only bland as in uninteresting, unentertaining and un-fun: The forum will lose all capacity for functioning as an agent of change - change of any kind, or, worse, change of certain forbidden kinds. Not "disruption," that's for sure.