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@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ It does not mean that everyone has to listen to you.
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You also have the right to call someone an asshole, or stop listening
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to them.
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There is no requirement to read every spam that crosses your email
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inbox to preserve freedom of speech; neither is there to listen to
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inbox to preserve freedom of speech; neither is there a requirement to listen to
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someone who is being an asshole.
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The freedom to filter is the complement to freedom of speech.
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This applies to both individuals and to communities.
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@ -301,12 +301,12 @@ hear them.
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What is Evan trying to say here?
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Most contemporary social networks are run by surveillance capitalist
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organizations; in other words, their business model is based on as much
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"attention" as possible as they can sell to advertisers.
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"attention" as possible since they can sell it to advertisers.
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Whether or not capitalism is a problem is left as an exercise for the
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reader, but hopefully most readers will agree that a business model
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based on destroying privacy can lead to undesirable outcomes.
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One such undesirable outcome is that these companies subtly affect the
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way people interact with each other not dependent on what is
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way people interact with each other: not dependent on what is
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healthiest for people and their social relationships, but based on what
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will generate the most advertising revenue.
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@ -359,8 +359,8 @@ it may be time for some re-evaluation.
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The object capability community has a phrase that is almost, but not
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entirely, right in my book: "Only prohibit what you can prevent".
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This seems almost right, except that there may be things that in-bound
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of a system, we cannot technically prevent, yet we prohibit from
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This seems almost right, except that there may be things in-bound
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of a system that we cannot technically prevent, yet we prohibit from
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occurring anyhow, and which we may enforce at another abstraction
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layer, including social layers.
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So here is a slightly modified version of that phrase: "We must not
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