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.
I read it. Ugh.
This is the thing that even I'm still having trouble fully absorbing about Mastodon: the completely different incentive structure and affordances built in to something that is user operated and governed, transparent, and non-commercial.
At this point, I can't really see much value in building the next VC bro's surveillance cash cow and fascist incubator.
There is nothing Post is doing that smart people couldn't build off of ActivityPub and federate.
Carl T. Bergstrom
My camera shoots fascists
Ken