zeke5123
2yr ago
That’s a fig leaf for a forum like Twitter to block views that are abhorrent to the people who run Twitter. Oh — this post criticizing Soros prosecutors is just anti-semitism so we are banning it.
Well, Soros choose to give a lot of money to elect prosecutors who seem to only like prosecuting people who defend themselves. He should be criticized regardless of whether it may or may not be a dog whistle.
That’s what it always devolves to so the only way to really run a program at scale that isn’t going to devolve into censorship of ideas I dislike is the free speech paradigm.
zeke5123
2yr ago
I don’t know why these people find it tough. It just isn’t. Don’t censor. But someone said something I consider naughty? Who the fuck cares.
zeke5123
2yr ago
I do think Greenwald is becoming…more conservative. His core convictions relate to free speech and military isolationism. Hanging out in that crowd has I think impacted some of his views on other things making him a bit more rightist compared to where he was a decade ago (though he did publish even in Cato like 20 years ago so he was never opposed to working with more libertarian publications that were outside the mainstream left wing publications).
zeke5123
2yr ago
Yep. There are tons of people I don’t like (rather agnostic about Brand — I did like him in Forgetting Sarah Marshall) that seemed to have a coordinated media smear. I hate the coordination because it suggests when the eye of Sauron turns on you (for political reasons) none can withstand. I would give the devil the benefit of the law for my own sake.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Let’s say they are dumb. It doesn’t follow from that government is the rigger decider. First, government is also staffed with a lot of stupid people. Second, government suffers from Acton’s problem coupled with little skin in the game. Third, dumb people with local knowledge will outperform smart people lacking said knowledge (Hayek’s key insight and proven with the Soviet experience). That is, even a government of angels often will underperform.
Singapore is interesting but my perhaps faulty understanding is that Singapore depending on the issue is either super authoritarian or super liberal. It doesn’t get stuck in the middle.
zeke5123
2yr ago
But that isn’t rape. It isn’t sexual assault. Consent for criminal law purposes must be the reasonable 3P standard. Otherwise you really run into a mens rea problem
zeke5123
2yr ago
I’m not sure Weinstein got a fair trial. He was basically convicted first in public opinion.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Once you just start looking for a crime, you’ll find something. Really is disgusting UNLESS the article is poorly written and some allegations happened first followed by investigation.
Nevertheless, I can’t help but notice the man hours spent by the media to try to prove this yet the amazing lack of curiosity into Joe Biden’s corruption.
zeke5123
2yr ago
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I agree we should view it as terrible awful behavior. Not sure it should be criminal.
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Question is whether there is the possibility of forgiveness. Brand seems to have gotten his life together and decries what he did previously.
zeke5123
2yr ago
The article stated that the alleged victims were anonymized when provided to Brand. So it isn’t clear what exactly he has been provided
zeke5123
2yr ago
It’s surely different than BK. But…apparently the investigative reporter was doing this for a very long time and gave Brand 8 days and anonymized the alleged victims? Seems like that isn’t really truth seeking.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Yeah we have a word for that…boorish. Something can be socially condemned without calling someone (socially and criminally) as a rapist. Being a boorish man is bad; being a rapist is evil.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Okay. But then these women shouldn’t be allowed to make any decisions (eg they shouldn’t be able to drink, shouldn’t be able to sign contracts, shouldn’t be able to vote). If that isn’t the standard, then they have agency and can consent to sex.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Businesses that aren’t selling Etsy art are very likely to be incorporated via a single member LLC (unless the owner is a complete idiot).
zeke5123
2yr ago
Not saying it is. But the current system isn’t broken. Why fix it?
Recall the government claims FATCA would collect untold billions. To date, the only people who’ve collected material money from it are the Big 4.
This is probably similar but more sinister.
zeke5123
2yr ago
My concern is that government will use this info to freeze assets of the Goldstein of the day.
zeke5123
2yr ago
I think the bigger issue is if you go looking for a crime without regard to some impetus you will end up finding some people who will claim XYZ if you are famous and there is plausible deniability. This is especially true in the context of rape where we as a society have significantly expanded the context of what constitutes lack of consent in the mind’s of women.
By finding multiple women, it elicits people’s perception of “where there is smoke there is fire.” This is probably a useful heuristic for Joe six pack down the street; less useful for someone like Brand.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Yes because I understand that by doing Step 1 you make Step 2 much more likely to occur.
I don’t see much of a benefit to Step 1 but see a big downside to Step 2.
zeke5123
2yr ago
It is unreasonable because it doesn’t stop with them “just knowing.” It is sorta like guns. Step 1 is figure out who has them. Who can object to that? Step 2 is more malicious but once you give up Step 1 then Step 2 becomes easier to implement.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Of course, if property rights are subject to the vagaries of who is elected (ie if Bernie could just confiscate wealth) it isn’t really a right is it
zeke5123
2yr ago
This reminds me of the “you didn’t build that” argument. Yes, government built roads but it doesn’t imply that because of that whatever the government wants the government can take.
Likewise, the grant of limited liability (premised on the idea that small investors wouldn’t want to expose their entire wealth to liability based on a small investment in Corp x) doesn’t mean it is reasonable for the government to do whatever it wants.
zeke5123
2yr ago
Except violence is generally seen as kaldor hicks negative and commerce as kaldor hicks positive. One is pro social.
And we can look to places that lacked what we moderns would call a government that still have property rights. It’s just that enforcement is more difficult.
zeke5123
2yr ago
I’m not sure markets are made for men. As you note, it is an emergent phenomenon that will exist precisely because it is evolutionary. It would be like claiming nature is for man, not man for nature.
With that aside, yes governments are natural responses by men who are good at fighting or politicking but not good at commerce to try to steal value. We should try to keep that to a minimum.
In part, probably because the only people who saw those ads were “bad people” anyhow so there was no taint to their brand. But then the media blew their spot up.
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