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Cory Doctorow

The online free speech debate is stupid because it has all the wrong focuses:

* Focusing on improving algorithms, not whether you can even *get* a feed of things you asked to see;

* Focusing on whether unsolicited messages are delivered, not whether *solicited* messages reach their readers;

* Focusing on algorithmic transparency rather, not whether you can opt out of the behavioral tracking that produces training data for algorithms;

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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory

* Focusing on whether platforms are policing their users well enough, not whether we can leave a platform without losing our important social, professional and personal ties;

* Focusing on whether the limits on our speech violate the First Amendment, rather than whether they are unfair:

doctorow.medium.com/yes-its-ce

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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory

The wholly artificial distinction between "freedom of speech" and "freedom of reach" is just more self-serving nonsense and the only reason we're talking about it is that a billionaire dilettante would like to create chokepoints so he can extract payola from his users and meet his debt obligations to the Saudi royal family.

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Cory Doctorow replied to Cory

Billionaire dilettantes have their own stupid definitions of all kinds of important words like "freedom" and "discrimination" and "free speech." Remember: these definitions have *nothing* to do with how the world's 7,999,997,332 non-billionaires experience these concepts.

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Billionaire dilettantes have their own stupid definitions of all kinds of important words like "freedom" and "discrimination" and "free speech." Remember: these definitions have *nothing* to do with how the world's 7,999,997,332 non-billionaires experience these concepts.

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javitel replied to Cory

@pluralistic is there a tool for this app that puts together a thread that you can then share outside the app? Sort of like threadreaderapp.com did for the bird site?

Cory Doctorow replied to javitel

@javitel they're all collected at pluralistic.net

Amandine Bourg replied to Cory

@pluralistic thank you so much for this thread.

JohnW replied to Cory

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Incredible thread Cory!

Birdshite vs. Mastodon is a good microcosm of it.

I'm watching this information war unfold with a lot of apprehension.

Unfettered, unaltered online conversation has the worlds biggest target on its back right now.

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