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1. techos+eA[view] [source] 2024-08-27 14:44:23
>>southe+(OP)
The thing I'm getting out of this Zuckerberg letter is that we've basically learned nothing. It's a nakedly partisan letter designed to signal to Republicans that he's not taking sides. Which I guess is fine, but I'm thinking about Paul Graham's recent tweet about the next round of social networks being designed to be built in to combat trolling, and it makes me think.

This time there was valid concern about issues like the lab leak theory being censored on social media, I predict in the next crisis, social media will be useless adjacent for almost everything.

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2. giantr+Cc1[view] [source] 2024-08-27 17:47:27
>>techos+eA
> This time there was valid concern about issues like the lab leak theory being censored on social media

You need to be very clear about what you mean by "lab leak theory" because that term has a number of definitions that are very different.

There's the definition where COVID was the result of gain of function research that leaked from a lab through negligence. There's also a definition that it was an entirely natural virus being studied that was leaked through negligence. Then there's the definition that the virus was "leaked" with malicious intent from the virology lab in Wuhan.

While the definitions are similar they have very different implications. Because social media tends to perform nuance destroying compression of concepts down to sound bites no two individuals using the term "lab leak theory" can be assumed to be using the same definition.

You even have an assumed definition of what you mean when you say "lab leak theory". Of everyone that reads your post your definition doesn't match that of half the audience. Even then, plenty of people claimed to be banned from social media for one reason while the reality they were banned from a network for other (or a combination) of reasons. So even the general statement of people being "social media censoring lab leak theory" elides important information and nuance and derives its validity from third hand accounts.

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3. Djdjur+ae2[view] [source] 2024-08-27 23:35:40
>>giantr+Cc1
> You need to be very clear about what you mean by "lab leak theory"

Why? Are you implying that it was okay to censor discussion of some versions and not others?

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4. elpool+Fs2[view] [source] 2024-08-28 02:12:08
>>Djdjur+ae2
Sure, it’s ok for them to decide what kind of content they want on their own platform.

Edit: not ok for govt to coerce them into it though

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