ForeignSubstance â
So, how did @elonmusk mark the 2-year anniversary of an outrageous event that nearly ended democracy in the USA?
By reinstating the account of one of the biggest disinformation-spreading assholes in America.
Michael Flynn
Red Faster@ForeignSubstance Silicon Valley isn't hosting the Politburo anymore. Deal with that first and the rest comes easier: it doesn't matter.
@RedFaster Now they're hosting Goebbels.
@ForeignSubstance I have given this a lot of thought.
It's better for social intelligence to try not to segregate people off into their own echo chambers where they are more likely to multiply their own madness.
@RedFaster Much thought, too. (And no great answers.) For a non-algo-driven SM like Masto, I'm inclined to agree. Twitter amplifies madness, however. So Flynn's intellectual virus is more contagious there, than here. Already, it's infected Elon, it would seem.
Why ban Flynn in the first place is a valid Q, but so is why invite him back. The system has suddenly run short of effluent? No, it's not that, of course.
@ForeignSubstance Why invite him back? The cat is out of the bag! The whole thing was populated by bots and professional trolls with a steady trickle of unsuspecting actual humans prime for fleecing.
Multiplying the actual human population is probably priority one before any ideological objective. That is the why.
Social media always has been a surveillance and brainwashing operation. I'm shocked that the FOSS side of things isn't applauding the end of an era.
@RedFaster Not sure I would put Flynn under the "human" rubric, however. ðĪŠ The guy is like a capacitor that got fully drained, and so no longer works.
@ForeignSubstance Apt metaphor! Hypernormalization is a fate that I have to hope a person can recover from.
The gravity of consequence as it relates to the broader human condition is one of the terrible concerns of our times, I think.
Food for thought:
