What if we all uploaded extremely high bitrate, high resolution videos of white noise to break their encoding servers and skyrocket their storage costs?
I quit both twitter and facebook 8 years ago as I could see the rise of fascism. I feel good about my choice.
if only we could get them to use mastodon and not pay that “x” lover a 10
If a liberal does the right things for the right reasons, are they still a liberal?
Doing the right thing for the right reason is the definition of being a liberal.
That is literally not the definition of liberal though. Liberalism is a political ethos based on a number of tenets surrounding individual rights, private ownership of property and capital, governing consent via democracy, and an equal application of the law. There is plenty of room for those things to go very awry, and become what most would consider the wrong thing, for the wrong reason.
But as a liberal, I’m in favor of free speech. X is the only platform committed to that. Why would I cancel?
X is the only platform committed to that.
As long as you’re not too critical of Elon Musk.
For this reason https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
The paradox of tolerance is only “paradox” if you start with the ridiculous premise that universe tolerance is good.
It’s not. That premise is only used in college courses on the day this “paradox” is introduced.
The paradox of tolerance is used to try and nullify the entire concept of tolerance, as a way of giving people license to be evil.
The actual theory of tolerance is much more nuanced than that. There are certain things which are chosen to be tolerated by society, and that set of things isn’t structured in a way that gives rise to this paradox.
Paradox of Tolerance is taught as a way to destabilize that more nuanced and functional theory of tolerance, to provide cover for people who want to overturn the old, functional, hard-won values of freedom.