censorship
Who gets to remove what: speech, code and money, and whether a state prosecuting a platform is regulation or something else.
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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordsthe 2020s should be an absolute flowering of Chinese pop culture like the 90s were for Japan, but it won't, because CCP censorship is just bad enough to make Chinese pop culture boring af
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Pieter Levels quoted
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone
Our readingMonopoly power can capture politics
Their wordsOne interesting thing about Brazil more recently is how the Supreme Court judges are allegedly used by the ruling president to influence politics, censoring speech against the current government
- 2 weeks earlier
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Ben Thompson quoted
Writes Stratechery, a subscription newsletter…
Their wordsviewpoints that don't harbor dissent inevitably lead to bad outcomes.
- 5 days earlier
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Preshit Deorukhkar quoted
Indian technology consultant and writer
Their wordsYour entire internet presence is largely controlled by large organizations and is at the the whims of people sitting in executive chairs who don't have even an iota of understanding the effects of their actions.
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Pieter Levels quoted
Their wordsNext in regulatory capture will be banning open source and/or Chinese models, mark my words
↗With regulatory capture we will speedrun to a new feudalist timelevels.io
- 4 days earlier
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Peter Woit quoted
Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics…
Their wordsThe Fascist regime now ruling the US both enables this and has effectively used bogus accusations of "antisemitism" to damage and exert control over prominent institutions they consider to be enemies.
↗The Situation at Columbia XXXVIImath.columbia.edu 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 7 days earlier
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Dean W. Ball quoted
Head of strategic futures at OpenAI
Their wordsBut a society that does not have anonymous speech does not really have genuine freedom of expression, and we should embed this principle into any digital identification system we attempt.
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Dean W. Ball quoted
Their wordsSo many of the people who think about the governance of superintelligence, myself included, avoided that unpleasantness and bowed to the social pressure to self-censor.
- 1 day earlier
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Chris Coyier quoted
Front-end developer and writer; co-founder of CodePen
Their wordsSometimes I get super nervous that someday the US government is really going to fuck with the web. Like they are going to decide they just don't have enough control over it and are going to get really heavy-handed somehow.
- 7 days earlier
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Naval Ravikant quoted
Co-founder of AngelList
Their wordsThe left is on a project to enforce equality, despite biology and markets. The goal of equality gives claim to the moral high ground, but contradicting biology and markets requires censorship and violence, which makes the whole project immoral.
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Naval Ravikant quoted
Their wordsThe people who want to censor (code, speech, money) are the bad guys.
- 9 days earlier
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Travis Kalanick quoted
Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber
Their wordsyou know Elon buying Twitter is like the beginning of us being able to speak our minds and for disagreeing to not be illegal. That's a big deal. We should all thank Elon for that.
↗Travis Kalanick: How AI Will Transform the Physical Worldyoutube.com 14th of 14 in this recording
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Ryan Holiday quoted
American author of The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy
Their wordsA library is not an endorsement of every book inside it. Reading something is not the same as agreeing with it.
↗This Is Why We Opened A Banned Books Library (In Rural Texas)ryanholiday.net 1st of 3 in this piece
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Ryan Holiday quoted
Their wordsAmerica is, and always has been, in less danger of top-down Chinese- or Soviet-style suppression and much more vulnerable to short-sighted or even well-intentioned democratic censorship.
↗This Is Why We Opened A Banned Books Library (In Rural Texas)ryanholiday.net 2nd of 3 in this piece
- 10 days earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Their wordswhat should we expect next? That it reports users for thought crime, and locks the network-connected doors until the authorities arrive?
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordswe desperately need strong open-weight models to protect ourselves against this kind of soft ideological tyranny
- 2 weeks earlier
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Balaji Srinivasan quoted
Co-founder of Counsyl and of Earn.com
Their wordsthe vast majority of Americans had no practical freedom of speech unless they owned a media corporation or were employed by one.
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Balaji Srinivasan quoted
Their wordsAfter the financial deplatforming of Western proles and foreign elites, of Canadian truckers and 145M Russians, it’s clear that digital finance is a weapon of war.
- 4 weeks earlier
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Ada Palmer quoted
Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas
Their wordsmini thesis, every time there's a new information technology, there's a subsequent wave of censorship to try to censor the new technology and a bajillion books get banned all at once.
↗Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmeryoutube.com 21st of 26 in this recording
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Ada Palmer quoted
Their wordsand you may now use the actual Inquisition record of you having gone through censorship as the document to prove that you and only you have the right to print the book and therefore you can sue people for plagiarizing it or printing an unauthorized edition. And so, the very first version of copyright is the Inquisition.
↗Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmeryoutube.com 24th of 26 in this recording
- 5 weeks earlier
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Yihui Xie quoted
Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages…
Their wordsThe point is a user is looking for help, and a maintainer is willing to help and knows a solution. They are all real humans. You guys are hurting them by closing and deleting the question.
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Yihui Xie quoted
Their wordsAll they need before they can truly appreciate empathy and humanity is one thing: have one of their own posts closed and deleted by another group of gatekeepers.
- 2 weeks earlier
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Anil Dash quoted
Technologist and writer, a blogger since 1999
Our readingAuthoritarian governments seek to destroy or falsify public records, including digital ones.
Their wordsThe traditional authoritarian impulse to destroy or falsify the public record has not spared the digital realm under the current administration.
↗Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr?anildash.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
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Dan Wang quoted
Writer and analyst of Chinese technology and industry
startupsventure capitalSilicon Valley
Their wordsStartups don't need dissent; they want workers who can grind until the network effects kick in. VCs don't like dissent, showing again and again that many have thin skins. That contributes to a culture I think of as Silicon Valley's soft Leninism.
- 2 months earlier
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Dan Houser quoted
Co-founder of Rockstar Games
Their wordsThe never right outcome is, “Oh, you’ve said the wrong thing. You should be removed now.” That should never ever be a thing we should lean towards.
↗Dan Houser: GTA, Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar, Absurd & Future of Gaming | Lex Fridman Podcast #484youtube.com 18th of 22 in this recording
- 4 weeks earlier
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Pavel Durov quoted
Founder of Telegram, and before it of VK
Their wordsThat's how you end up in an endless loop of ever-increasing taxes, ever-increasing regulation, which ultimately suffocates free market, free enterprise, and free speech. So, you do want to have very, very strict limitations on the extent the government can increase its powers at the expense of citizens.
↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 13th of 28 in this recording
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Pavel Durov quoted
Their wordsThe investigation itself should have never been started. It's an absurd and harmful way of solving an issue such as complicated as regulating social media. It is just the wrong tool.
↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 14th of 28 in this recording
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Pavel Durov quoted
Their wordsAnd I would rather lose everything I have than yield to this pressure because, if you submit to this pressure and agree with something that is fundamentally wrong and violates rights of other people as well, you become broken inside, you become a shell of your former self on a deep biological and spiritual level.
↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 15th of 28 in this recording
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Lex Fridman quoted
AI researcher and host of the Lex Fridman Podcast
Their wordsI think this situation, this historic wrong that’s been done is, put simply, is just a gigantic PR mistake for France. There’s no entrepreneur that sees, that aspires to be the next Pavel Durov to create the next Telegram, sees this and wants to operate in France after seeing this.
↗Pavel Durov: Telegram, Freedom, Censorship, Money, Power & Human Nature | Lex Fridman Podcast #482youtube.com 18th of 28 in this recording
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David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Our readingWords are not violence
Their wordsWhat I cannot come to terms with, though, is the modern equation of words with violence