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I asked awhile back, "where are the patriot hackers"? Well, it turns out at least some of them have been pressuring MAGA (Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon) to deplatform Trump and his Legion of Morons:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/10/apple-suspends-parler-from-app-store

You won't learn that from the articles, though. What's interesting to me is their rhetoric about being deplatformed smells A LOT like Jonathan Haidt's rhetoric that launched the Heterodox Academy. And it's similar to Joe Rogan's plausible deniability defense against accusations that he provides a megaphone for wackos like Mikhaila Peterson: https://youtu.be/7fncJdVjy5U "before we realized you don't need greens to survive".

While it seems reasonable to zoom out and let these memes fight for survival in the long run, that synoptic view insulates itself from the *pain* they cause their hosts. Sure, it may be just fine to let budding Breatharians run their little experiments, and most likely die, so that the meme is steadily disproven. Or to let the QAnon's live their little lives believing nonsense. And, sure, sometimes, like with the storming of the capitol last week, those memes accumulate enough to cause reality to take a slightly different trajectory, at least for a little while.

But as long as it's all sorted out in the LONG RUN, right? Never mind the pain suffered by the host(s), right? The arguments put forth by the supporters of Heterodox and Joe Rogan's platforming of wackos seem to provide near-canonical examples of the relevance of ethics.


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