I got some real intense responses to the Substack stuff last night, and I don’t have time to Write A Post About It, so.
AFAICT, within tech capitalism, the only levers we have are law, norms enforced by ~market behaviors, and revolutionary actions. A lot of people are devoted to one of those modes to the point of considering the others a form of harm; I feel that in my heart, but I’m a convert to everything-all-the-time. (1)
So I think it’s good when otherwise fully captured tech insiders elect to defend a norm despite an industry-wide sprint into the void! I think it’s good when corporate social platforms are punished financially for refusing to make or enforce policies about even the most widely reviled forms of genocidal racism.
Harm reduction isn’t as good as harm elimination, but it’s…better than harm acceleration. (2)