📢NEW FROM ME! On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state "outside the scope of this paper" leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose. lpeproject.org/blog/social-me…
A huge thank you to @udbhav_tiwari, @veenadubal, @ambaonadventure, @j_e_brandt, @HaradaWins, #JoshLund, and #NinaBerman for your edits, suggestions, and generative questions. They made the piece much stronger ♥️🙏
@mer__edith This is not about privacy, but rather social engineering and manipulation at scale. Facebook enables similar behavior but at a lower scale.
@mer__edith An aside: x.com/sobroquet/stat…
‘Giving the President the power to determine which apps are foreign adversary controlled. Well, there is only one People’s Republic of China. I’m not as fussed about the the US Gov having my data. TikTok isn’t used in China as you probably know and it’s not a language issue. It’s got to go
Fascinating reading and sourcing. You are doubtlessly highly intellectual, albeit a little idiosyncratic, which simply indicates extensive erudition: "...the libidinal pull of culture and culture-makers..." "...these implicit assumptions look increasingly like a counterfactual diorama, a pretty archetype..." Thank you for this highly revelatory summation.