Feel free to report this tweet. It is time to BREAK the Terms of Service. It is acceptable to say: “Please don’t hoard masks because we the authorities FAILED to take care of our health workers in harm’s way.” @WHO can’t say: “Masks are ineffective & unnecessary.” #SlipTheDISC Originally tweeted by Eric Weinstein (@EricRWeinstein) on March 28, 2020. … [Read more...] about Time to BREAK the Terms of Service
Terms of Service
Consciously Contradicting Twitter’s Terms of Service
I‘m interested in *directly* & *consciously* contradicting Twitter’s terms of service prohibiting disagreeing w/ health authorities & governmental authorities where they are lying or giving dangerous information. I claim masks work. @WHO is not to be trusted on matters of fact. I encourage you all to be defiant on matters where authorities are self-evidently lying or deceiving the public about issues of fact to cover for their own *inability* to prepare for, analyze, respond to, or … [Read more...] about Consciously Contradicting Twitter’s Terms of Service
Tilted Playing Field
I am going to be increasingly *ignoring* various issues, campaigns & provocations on Twitter. If you are determined to screenshot the fact that I blocked you, I’m now much more happy to accommodate. We mere mortals with flaws have a right to be protected from our betters here. I tried civility. I tried engagement. But this platform is engineered to allow all sorts of problems. One of them is anonymous networks of accounts/bots engaging named humans. Another is privacy based attacks. A … [Read more...] about Tilted Playing Field
Open and Decentralized
Do not ignore this quoted tweet. There are layers and layers with this. I think @jack is likely moves ahead here. Don’t let your frustrations with current Twitter and it’s Terms of Service or Trust & Safety issues blind you to what is likely to be the fate of social media. Do you want to blow your own mind? Ok. What if the future of social media is CEOs who don’t want responsibilities that no one can possibly shoulder because the challenges are impossible? What if the CEOs lock … [Read more...] about Open and Decentralized
The Algorithms that Direct our Attention
I will be coming back to this old tweet repeatedly. A plan to reassert narrative control before 2020 was evident immediately after Trump’s win shocked our institutional elite. “Fake news” was it’s placeholder buying time to figure out how to end rivals to “authoritative sources.” It would appear we are being psychologically prepared for a change in the algorithms that direct our attention.Eric Weinstein - Nov 28, 2016 "Demonetization" on YouTube, the "fake news" narrative on MSM, & … [Read more...] about The Algorithms that Direct our Attention
Bury the Lede
It would appear I missed an important memo from our friends at Google. They are going to start algorithmically burying content that doesn’t violate their terms of service. YouTube & Google constitute much of our market place of ideas. Is that a Free Market? An Open Market? https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/continuing-our-work-to-improve "We’ll continue ... this year, including taking a closer look at how we can reduce the spread of content that comes close to—but doesn’t quite cross … [Read more...] about Bury the Lede
