Excellently put. We must be on guard against censorship, especially self-censorship due to fear of society. If we self-censor, it ought to be because we have evaluated the work on its own merits and found it to be wanting or in gross violation of some internal mores, not some nebulous social or cultural touchpoint du jour. But in the end, censorship often has the opposite effect, at least in pockets, and it's there that dissent and reformation can live on.
Who are designing the map of accepted narratives now?
The machines trained by humans to filter and prioritize what is said online.
Aha! And who are writing these angorithms?
Humans with blind spots and biases. As we all have. Sounds like you have someone in mind?
Yeah - excuse me, Benjamin. I was trying to lure you into my theory. https://open.substack.com/pub/historyisnow/p/revenge-of-the-nerds?r=29bmr&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Excellently put. We must be on guard against censorship, especially self-censorship due to fear of society. If we self-censor, it ought to be because we have evaluated the work on its own merits and found it to be wanting or in gross violation of some internal mores, not some nebulous social or cultural touchpoint du jour. But in the end, censorship often has the opposite effect, at least in pockets, and it's there that dissent and reformation can live on.
There are good reasons to leave things unsaid. Fear is seldom a good one.
Precisely.