Tucker Carlson, above, mentions this article, and interviews David Rubin on his "Don't Burn This Book" (July 2019, Penguin). Amazon lists an audio book with a 5+hour listening time.
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
"Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal" after Covid settles down; David Rubin's meta-book
The Atlantic has a rather shocking long essay by Jack
Goldsmith (Harvard Law School) and Andrew Keane Woods(University of Arizona), “InternetSpeech Will Never Go Back to Normal” In
the debate over freedom versus control of the global network, China was largely
right and the U.S. was wrong.”
The tone of the article is a bit Marxist, heeding to the
discipline of China’s social credit system and saying that tech companies are
being nudged by the general climate of social justice (more centered around
inequality than anything else) to implement social credit de facto.
The Coronavirus problem creates a real emergency. Tech companies
can reasonably fear that well-intentioned videos or blog posts could make
social distancing look like a debate, that naïve or illiterate people will be
persuaded by a misread of a poster’s intentions, disregard legitimate medical
and local government orders to stay home, and more lives will be lost.
But as the article points out there have been tremendous
problems of other kinds of harm accumulating, perhaps since about 2014. Ten years ago, the writers argue, the accumulation
of systemic harms (particularly against less literate people) had not really
started to accumulate exponentially. The
authors talk about Snowden’s revelations in 2013, and the Russian trolls in
2016 with the election of Trump (not to mention Cambridge Analytica).
I think the inequality makes many users cynical about what
they see online, as those who criticize them don’t have skin in the game or
have to pay their dues. That’s the “privilege
of being listened to” in my own third DADT book.
Tucker Carlson, above, mentions this article, and interviews David Rubin on his "Don't Burn This Book" (July 2019, Penguin). Amazon lists an audio book with a 5+hour listening time.
Tucker Carlson, above, mentions this article, and interviews David Rubin on his "Don't Burn This Book" (July 2019, Penguin). Amazon lists an audio book with a 5+hour listening time.
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