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andrewducker) wrote2017-08-16 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 16-08-2017
- Advice to the Only Actor Who's Realized They're in a Shitty Film
- (tags: movies bad advice )
- Why Nazi symbols should not be covered by Freedom of Speech
- (tags: freespeech nazis )
- Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong
- (tags: mathematics research )
- Who runs a social media campaign without checking how it can be abused?????
- Seriously. How incompetent do you have to be nowadays???
(tags: twitter fail OhForFucksSake viaSwampers ) - Words Used to Describe Genitals in Fanfic
- (tags: fanfic genitals funny language )
- Amazon’s Instant Pickup turns it into Argos
- (tags: Amazon )
- Same-sex couples do not influence their adoptive children's gender identity
- (tags: lgbt gender children )
- Video presentation on C# 7
- (tags: programming c# microsoft )
- Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome (fascinating, and related to autism)
- (tags: social anxiety autism psychology )
- Red panda and bull amongst animals that escaped Edinburgh Zoo - one of which made it to Cramond!
- (tags: zoo edinburgh animals fail )
- America At The End of All Hypotheticals
- (tags: freespeech nazis politics usa )
- The companies who want to dissolve your dead body
- (tags: death chemistry technology business )
- Deep in the belly of a giant fiberglass triceratops, eight rare bats have made a home
- (tags: bats dinosaurs )
- SNP-Labour coalition in Edinburgh reveals plans for the next five years
- (tags: Edinburgh )
- More intelligent people are quicker to learn (and unlearn) social stereotypes
- This would be me. I had to go through stereotypes and out the other side to get any kind of understanding of people.
(tags: stereotypes Intelligence )
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How would it be possible to run a social media campaign involving Twitter hashtags that wasn't subject to possible abuse?
Free Speech and Twitter Abuse
I'd say they were definitely in conflict. And also with the piece from a couple of days ago: http://cahwyguy.dreamwidth.org/364019.html
I'm fine with that - I don't think there's a single "right" answer here. Some people will passionately defend free speech on the grounds that government control of speech leads to Very Bad Things. Others will defend censorship of hate speech as vital to prevent Very Bad Things. Short of a time machine and the ability to run both approaches, I don't think there would ever be a way of telling which approach led to less badness in the long run. (And even then I think there would be space for reasonable people to disagree).
As for media campaigns - anything which allows a route for text submitted to individuals to be part of a marketing campaign, without having a sensible person vet every submission, is going to be gamed/abused. Either do it properly (and have people vet the submissions before making them public), don't do it at all, or be comfortable with people taking the mickey out of your campaign.
Re: Free Speech and Twitter Abuse
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By any chance, is the appearance of this old(ish) blog post on your links page in any way related to the appearance of a claimed proof of P≠NP on the Hacker News top-ten list yesterday?
(Thanks for reposting it, also – point 10, with the analogy about ocean-crossing, is one of those things I should have long since written down in my handy file of things I keep wanting to quote at people, and now I have another chance not to forget to do so. :-)
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I think someone posted it in the comments over there, and I discovered that despite reading it some time ago I'd never actually linked to it!
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...because sexuality [who you are sexually/romantically attracted to] and gender identity are two totally different things?