One of my regrets about the Twitter Files is that I think we failed to convey the scale of the ideas being envisaged, like common international databases of speech offenders or the use of “content moderation” to re-shape the public’s understanding not just of news, but history.
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This clip by Obama hits at the most dangerous theme in new censorship movements, the idea that “facts” are singular things that can be identified by committees of experts. Experts are frequently wrong, which is why Obama is wrong – we do need to allow “alternative facts.”
Free speech on social media was narrowly saved by Elon’s acquisition of Twitter followed by Trump’s historic election, but AI provides a second bite at the apple (and a much greater opportunity at that) for the censorship-industrial complex to achieve total information control.