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If you search 'Robert Smith' on Google Images you find page after page of the lead singer of The Cure and, ironically enough, no pictures of you

A "digital town square" is a race to the bottom, as is the idea that "the solution to bad speech is good speech." Let me know if you'd like to know why.

Sadly for her, our current reality kills her argument in favor of a digital town square. Elon has enabled the con artists, racists, and Nazis to drown out any sort of existence in that town square. And she still chooses Elon’s hate filled universe. That’s why she’s being called out.

Americans are also reading a British columnists in a British newspaper, laughing at her silly British name, howling they don't get her British references & missing the British context (Bsky migration post-Elon UK riot tweets) V reminiscent of this lol 👇🏻(6/11) www.gawkerarchives.com/culture/i-sh...

Ironic also that the neoliberal behemoths completely fail to understand that their 'Markets' god is just another face of Demos, the people.

again, not irony. swing and a miss

See, I'd be interested in reading a treatment of that point, because I very much disagree -- not about BlueSky, per se, but about the desirability of a "digital town square", which I think is in fact deeply undesirable.

It amuses me that this never seems to get addressed by anyone defending the "twitter is the town hall" bullshit.

I'm so sick of people with no skin in the game when it comes to schools of thoughts that are threats to marginalized groups existence arguing that letting those ideas out into the open is actually good for everyone.

which is it, 'theoretical' -- that is, never existed -- or 'no longer exists' my goodness you self-congratulatory bin of wankers seem incapable of the most trivial mentation as everyone else has the 'be more explicit' bit handled in regards you, i shan't bother

The assumption that BlueSky is a walled garden is being made without support both by you and by her. Her article doesn't explicitly state it but the only reason she mentions is that Nazi content isn't tolerated. So that's what people latched into. If that wasn't meant that's just poor writing.

From your long screed that is clearly arguing that far-right extremists need to be listened to, it is clear you work for the Fascist Times. No decent person is interested in hearing your opinion on anything Nazi appeaser.

I kinda think #1 does need explanation

2) There were pillories, beatings, excommunications and other regulations that made those town squares nazi-proof, unless the town liked nazis, then they were jew-proof. Never in human history has there been a public venue where people were not disciplined for unpleasant views and attitudes.

1) There were no other communication tools to speak of. No phones, no cars. The town square was the only place to see people you don't already know.

“Some people prefer a more enjoyable social media experience to a digital town square where they have to see engagement farmers posting videos of people getting killed as well as actual Nazis saying Hitler was right”. Damn bro, you got me with that one.

But you can argue everyone who prefers X to Bsky must also be aware of the risk of being exposed to racist content. So the same 'logic' could and presumably should be applied to all of those people too.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-BV...

Part of the problem is that she didn't argue *anything* coherently. X is terrible, but also bsky should be more of a "town square," but also a "town square" without Nazis may not be possible, but there's *definitely* something bad about bsky users liking this space. ... OK?

At the risk of stating the obvious, she noted racist hate speech on X and deemed the result to be superior. Do you really find it ‘strange’ that people extrapolated the 2 implications listed, or are you being disingenuous?

You should really read the piece before you try to defend it.

I feel like mild critics like myself think that if we give credence to her beliefs in this instance: to wit, there’s not enough racism on Bluesky, we’d be given credence to her other beliefs: to wit, trans people should not exist

That "Stoke Newington drinks party with the truffle flavoured crisps" analogy trolled us, the target audience beautifully. It succeeded in generating more engagement than its rather bland and innocuous "serious" themes would otherwise have merited.

Maybe you could post through it?

Any other day a white guy avatar tells an entire social site to search "Jemima" and it probably isn't anything to do with whatever this tempest in a teapot is.

O RLY? You can somehow guarantee that ALL of the people you're referring to had THAT objection, and not a single one had a more reasonable objection? Please share with us how you acquired this mind-reading ability.

But that’s the irony, because Bsky boosters say they are trying to create a more civil discourse than Twitter bsky.app/profile/bond...

Ok but you aren't entitled to being seen and listened to by people?

Stopped reading right here because that is NOT what she called BlueSky. Weird how no one seems able to defend what was actually said in the article.

well this is an obvious and easily falsifiable claim

dude she's just wrong and annoying. Bluesky is so far from perfect, never boasted utopia, it's literally just a bunch of people arguing with each other. But Twitter banned me twice, it's authoritarian.

Blaming the victims you bully is some real psychopathic and freaky shit.

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