On Misery
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Second, while the ability to spread disinformation at scale is a huge danger for our society, I would also prefer to absolutely remove the "squeaky clean" feeling from social networks, for example what you get while visiting LinkedIn, or when people have to use words like "seggs" or "unalived" to avoid idiotic filters. Fuck, I want to be able to say fuck without being downvoted to hell. LinkedIn, despite being the most "positive" social network, is the most toxic and useless one, because all interactions are robot-like. There must be some "dirty" part of 9gag and 4chan present in social networks too. This is what makes interactions sincere. And yes, this brings ugly parts of our societies also to light - racism, bigotry, hate. But there is no light without darkness. I hope by removing some of the guardrails social networks become more "raw", but social too, otherwise its a corporate nonsense space like LinkedIn. You may as well replace all users with chatGPT bots. I may be wrong on this one, though, idk.
My least favorite style of polemic writing. Very common with progressives. Immediately assumes no one can have reasonable disagreements about anything in this topic, or they are some sort of blood-drinking satanic sociopath
Having said this it is fairly clear to me that Zuckerberg would have been doubling down on the 'fact/narrative checking' department if the 'democrats' had won the election and that the only reason he's now suddenly trying to portray himself as a paragon of free speech is that he realised early that the 'progressive' wave was faltering. Once the wind turns again he'll bend with it so as to make sure his bread is buttered on both sides.