(Audio version of today’s post.) Well, I was all set to write a nice post about Stargate Atlantis and Ivan Illich (yes, that’s what I said, I’m sure you also think of Ivan Illich while watching Stargate Atlantis), but the world goes crazy quickly and you feel the need to speak to it with some urgency… at least I’ll have time to read more
Berenson moving to Substack (albeit not of his own free will) might be the key pivot point away from Twitter for all the lockdown skeptics.
Twitter has some advantages over blogs. It's closer to being real-time, you find some good material on Twitter that wouldn't really work if posted as a blog, and it feels more like you're part of a mass conversation on Twitter than on a blog. But each of those advantages has associated drawbacks, and having most replies hidden behind the offensive content button dampens the mass conversation. It also feels as though nothing on Twitter gets remembered for more than a couple days.
Yeah, one of the most fundamental principles of persuasion is scarcity; when something isn't available, people tend to flock to it and want to find out what it is. So all this censorship will backfire in a way. Cause more and more platforms are emerging.
And yeah, all these executive orders passed by Bush and Obama that condemn terrorists are pretty frightening, as they don't clearly define who a terrorist is. Everyone but the state, apparently, can see clearly that a concerned mommy isn't a terrorist.
with respect to Twitter, it's just gotten so, so bad just even in the past 9 months. They clearly hide your reply even if you say use 'Dr. Robert Malone' & 'mRNA' in the same tweet.
This era has created some strange bedfellows. Gab used to be the haven where people like Roger Stone and Alex Jones fled after they'd been deplatformed everywhere else. Just yesterday, I noticed that Steve Kirsch (@stkirsch) has set up an account there, as he anticipates his Twitter account will be suspended if he keeps posting his vaccine-unveiling videos.
Berenson moving to Substack (albeit not of his own free will) might be the key pivot point away from Twitter for all the lockdown skeptics.
Twitter has some advantages over blogs. It's closer to being real-time, you find some good material on Twitter that wouldn't really work if posted as a blog, and it feels more like you're part of a mass conversation on Twitter than on a blog. But each of those advantages has associated drawbacks, and having most replies hidden behind the offensive content button dampens the mass conversation. It also feels as though nothing on Twitter gets remembered for more than a couple days.
Yeah, one of the most fundamental principles of persuasion is scarcity; when something isn't available, people tend to flock to it and want to find out what it is. So all this censorship will backfire in a way. Cause more and more platforms are emerging.
And yeah, all these executive orders passed by Bush and Obama that condemn terrorists are pretty frightening, as they don't clearly define who a terrorist is. Everyone but the state, apparently, can see clearly that a concerned mommy isn't a terrorist.
with respect to Twitter, it's just gotten so, so bad just even in the past 9 months. They clearly hide your reply even if you say use 'Dr. Robert Malone' & 'mRNA' in the same tweet.
This era has created some strange bedfellows. Gab used to be the haven where people like Roger Stone and Alex Jones fled after they'd been deplatformed everywhere else. Just yesterday, I noticed that Steve Kirsch (@stkirsch) has set up an account there, as he anticipates his Twitter account will be suspended if he keeps posting his vaccine-unveiling videos.