Two quick follow-ups on my post yesterday about Apple removing Infowars from their podcast directory, and related actions by Facebook and YouTube. First, Alan Jacobs summed it up really well on his microblog:
What Alex Jones is being deprived of is amplification. Not the right and freedom to speak, but multiple megaphones.
And I love this quote from the Onion:
What we see here really could be the beginning of a slippery slope towards a horrific ordeal in which any citizen who violates hate speech policies or blatantly spreads lies that cause other individuals to receive death threats will immediately be discredited and, perhaps, even asked to host their demonstrably false content on a website that they actually own.
The best satire is often true. We’re seeing a major shift in how mainstream users view the role of these huge social networks.
💬 John Philpin great quotes - I love how the Onion is increasingly indistinguishable form satire
Alan Jacobs Thanks for the shout-out! But here’s a weird thing: when I click on your link to my post, it shows up; but if I go to social.ayjay.org and scroll, that post is missing. Which is ... as I say, weird. Is it missing from the timeline for you as well?
Manton Reece @ayjay That is strange... I'm looking into it now.
Mayo Jordanov related to ayjay’s comment - I’m pretty sure you posted over the weekend there was some issue with notifications, and I’m pretty sure I read that post (at least I hope so, otherwise I must’ve dreamt it). But I can’t find that post anymore as if t didn’t exist. Also related, notifications still don’t seem to work for me.
Manton Reece @oyam I posted that one from @help. But I'm still working on the push notifications issue.
Manton Reece @ayjay I see it in the timeline, but I think it was removed from your blog and the post page is still cached and hasn't been cleared out yet. Want me to restore it? (It's odd because any deletion should've removed it from the timeline too... I'll try to figure out what happened.)
Dr. Adam Procter @oyam ha I had the same thoughts 👍
Alan Jacobs Restoring it would be great. I don’t think I removed it, but who knows? Thanks!
Mayo Jordanov Whew, so I didn’t image it! I totally forgot about checking @help. Thanks!
