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RE: LeoThread 2025-08-17 05:22

in LeoFinance2 months ago

good reasons. And that if anything, our reaction, the mainstream press's reaction to the 2016 election actually played right into that strategy. But that ultimately all of that exploits our internal weakness, which stems from the lack of accountability, the understandable loss of trusted institutions, and the larger technological problem that we have, which is that this marketplace of idea, so to speak, which was enhanced by the promise of a free and open internet, has been captured by these platforms that increasingly define people's sense of reality and moderate conversation such that even the word censorship doesn't really make sense anymore, because every manifestation of speech on these networks is a discretionary choice of the platform that happens almost entirely at the level of algorithms in an automated fashion, amplifying or suppressing one thing or another, because it's basically impossible to run these platforms in any other way and make them actually usable and useful for (30/44)