08-23-2018, 08:18 PM
(08-19-2018, 10:32 AM)Ed Hurst Wrote: Good outline, Jay. I note there are multiple free and open source blog packages you can install on your own site. WordPress is also the name of one of those software packages. There are others named things like Ghost, and so many others I can't list them here. This is an area you either learn because you need it, or you ignore it because it's not your mission.
Yes. I only know so much, and it's not really that deep, but a few simple steps can do a lot for people's online presence.
I feel like this whole thing, not just with deplatforming, but with shadow banning and sneaky things like that, it's really something of a wonder in a civilization that has reached peak "free speech." There are laws in the West protecting it, everyone knows about the concept and understands it, tech companies are ostensibly bend-over-backwards with being "transparent" and letting users "have control" over their data...all of this using a technology (the Internet) that is literally built on sharing information and data--we're at peak secular "free speech" and having the means to communicate distributed to a lot of people, yet there is still all of this going on. The old canard about free speech referring to government censorship is only part of it; that's just 2nd amendment stuff, particular to Americans. Normal folks tolerate dissenting opinion, but only up to a point. Once a threshold is crossed, certain ideas are literally "dangerous." It's no different than pre-Bacon ideas about certain words or ideas causing actual physical harm and sickness--the types of words blasphemy laws address.
I honestly think that the "free speech" is just fancy moral/logical concept that we can live with for a bit, and nothing more. Humans are tribal at heart, and maintaining stability within the tribe necessarily means there can't be free speech.