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Mar 3 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
WIRED: Silicon Valley gay networks are so influential because gays are "cross-generational" allowing settings where "established wealth meets emerging talent." Image
Gays run Silicon Valley, lesbians and fat people hardest hit. Image
How the gay mafia was built. Image
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Take with a grain of salt, I don't trust WIRED.
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Mar 4
Another thread on the closure of the Internet. Amazon, like other major tech giants, had little content policy beyond "no illegal content, spam or scams/fraud" in 2015 and by 2020 had a well developed censorship infrastructure for both the web store and AWS.
Amazon is particularly important for two reasons: (1) AWS making it, like Google Search, a major Internet chokepoint and (2) 50% book and 80% e-book market share; Amazon banning a book is the closest a non-classified book can really come to being banned in the US.
The first cracks in Amazon's neutrality appeared in June 2015, when a media blitz and political pressure campaign (sparked by Dylan Roof) led to Amazon removing all Confederate flag (a completely normal American symbol) merchandise from the site. Image
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Mar 3
There is a common Hollywood upwards mobility narrative for early 20th century European immigrants. It's not really true; for most origins earnings for both first and second generation were similar and were already above average in generation 1. Image
Relative rank order didn't change much either. Image
I know you might be wondering "why are Italians so high and Norwegians, Swedes, etc so low." Answer: farms.
Read 4 tweets
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Mar 2
More on the 2016-2019 closure of the Internet. In 2015, Reddit, like YouTube, had almost no content policy beyond banning illegal activity, doxxing, harassment, and involuntary or underage pornography. By 2020, Reddit had purged political dissent from the site. Image
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Much of Reddit's shift was motivated by one thing: that r/The_Donald, the hub of internet Trump support, could consistently reach and dominate the front page. Reddit repeatedly changed their algorithm and policies specifically to suppress r/The_Donald before banning it. Image
The first major crack in Reddit's freedom of speech stance was in 2016, when the CEO of Reddit, Steve Huffman, was caught personally editing user's posts on r/The_Donald. He then changed Reddit's policy to exclude r/The_Donald from the r/popular Reddit homepage. Image
Read 14 tweets
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Mar 2
The most important platform to be closed off 2017-2019 was YouTube. Before 2017, YouTube was a very open platform, with easy monetization and almost no moderation of legal content. By the end of 2019, thoughtcrime (anything to the right of Ben Shapiro) was thoroughly purged. Image
In March 2017, several news organizations (The Times of London, the Guardian, WSJ) published coordinated articles about ads appearing next to "problematic" content on YouTube. This led to the British government summoning Google to explain and an advertiser boycott. Image
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[as an aside, no one sane believes that an ad appearing next to a YouTube video implies the company behind that ad endorses or knows about the content of the video; this was 100% astroturf. No one knew or complained until the news articles hit]
Read 17 tweets
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Mar 1
It is stunning how quickly the Internet was closed off 2017-2023. Perhaps most importantly, Google began politicizing search results in April 2017 with "Project Owl," which sought to suppress "problematic searches" [their term, not mine]. Image
To accomplish this, Google began removing "problematic" autocomplete selections. Since then, there have been a number of cases of Google's autocomplete bias getting so heavy-handed it went viral on other platforms, but the thumb on the scale is usually invisible. Image
Google also began manual rating/curation of their "featured snippets" answers. Image
Read 7 tweets
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Feb 26
It is completely false that redlining was "explicit racial gatekeeping." 92% of redlined homes were white! Redlining was based on bureaucrats trying to predict if home values in an area would go up or down so as to avoid wasting taxpayer money on bad loans. Image
Almost all black neighborhoods were redlined because black neighborhoods tend to be poor, violent, dirty, and getting worse (because of black behavior), and so not places people want to move to. This was true in 1936, it was true in 1966, and it is true today.
The current view of "redlining" in the popular consciousness is a (wholly, 100% false) narrative to frame current black lack of housing wealth as the result of past white malfeasance and hence justify white expropriation.
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