What's going on here is that unrelated libertarian principles are being recoded as issues of free speech. All of sudden preventing algorithmic harm becomes leftist censorship, and the culture war is used as a bulwark against government regulation of discriminatory technologies.
"Algorithmic decisions about parole, loan approvals, interest rates, program admissions, insurance premiums, security clearance, etc. that depend on race and ethnicity? That's not discrimination, it's *speech*."
And he's funding Post, which in itself is enough for me to stay clear of that platform.
@Mikal Yeah, I had a bit to say about this over there in my first post since immediately after learning about his involvement.
@ct_bergstrom @Mikal Post has EXACTLY the same goal as Elon has with Twitter, just more tact about how to do it:
Undoing the democratization of the flow of information and herding journalists into a bubble that billionaires control.
Post is just making them feel like VIPs rather than bombarding them with nazis.
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