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This is all funny until it suddenly isn’t. We need changes in legislation now.
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Then they will pay the price in the next election when Musk bankrolls Reform. I doubt they’d fancy that.
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Not sure what the complaint is when whatever rules are made would apply to them too.
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Per the Institute for Government, it’s illegal (‘Foreign companies and individuals … not on the UK electoral register cannot make political donations. The only exception is for “reasonable costs” of an overseas visit’) so the money might come via a UK-registered local corporation acting as a front.
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The time to act against foreign influence is now, when it’s still about to sprout. Anything less will see it growing beyond control in no time at all.
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I had no idea this chap was a fellow of the RSoc. This is dumbfounding.
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Very interesting. I for one still can’t pick a favourite between Autobahn and The Man-Machine, but Autobahn was clearly the more influential of the two for the industry.
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Hopefully we will. But we likely won’t what with his closeness with the next US administration.
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And who’s stopping you here?
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You should direct your question to the person to whom I replied, whose comment enabled this metaphor in the first place.
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Reminds me of Friday Night Dinner.
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Interact and follow others I suppose. The typical social media dance.
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Abortion. If you put a bullet in, you are free to take it out and aren’t compelled to fire your gun at any cost.
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It brings up interesting questions, though. If they don’t publish it they risk perpetuating echo chambers and proving right-wing accusations of partisanship. If they do publish it they’re accused by the left of pandering to the right. When there’s no winning, publishing may be a sign of neutrality.
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When you say superior, in what ways do you mean? We can have a more nuanced debate about it than blanket claims of ‘superiority’.
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Lay-Tech is how it’s always been for me.
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Curbing this can be a great step to preventing BlueSky from becoming another Twitter.
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Fascinating chap.
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What on earth was he on about?
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And going by history, we’ve definitely learnt a lesson from it.
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Can’t argue with that.
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Neither of these is possible on existing centralised sites. If you don’t like Twitter—the one run by Musk and co.—there is no other instance of Twitter so you’re forced to give up a platform despite being a victim. As for the second point, there’s no question of such quarantining on existing sites.
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To add to this:
1. Everyone can moderate, not just the targeted, so there will always be a supportive community available.
2. Communities of Nazis can effectively be quarantined by blacklisting them and sharing the blacklist across servers, which is a practice already in place.
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The federation allows you to create your own server, or switch to more trusted servers, preventing hegemony. It allows users to set up their own rules and blacklist other servers (like gab, truth social) effectively isolating the bigots from the federation itself.
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The federation is precisely what you’re describing. It would be easy—even in its nature—to isolate bigots, facials, racists, homophobes etc. And taking an interest in such an architecture/tech and supporting its widespread use counts as playing a part in creating the kind of platform we all desire.
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Precisely. There’s a black-and-white view of the world that people resort to when they haven’t given themselves time to think things through. Moderation is important to combat racism, sexism and all other forms of separation. And the federation is probably our best bet to get there for now.
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Agreed. I think work needs to be done to make platforms welcoming to and accepting of every individual and group. I also think the Federation is the most promising approach that exists today that can help realise such a platform/set of platforms.
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Isn’t this more human error than a protocol fault?
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Guess I’m late to the party. Hold on while I track down a raccoon.