We have a number of "whitelists" that we go by. Including a rather extensive whitelist for this platform and youtube as well. Tim is most certainly "whitelisted" otherwise I wouldn't even be here.
There are a large number of people who are smeared by legacy media as "far-right reactionaries" and "agents of online radicalization" that neither my company, nor it's clients, think of in any way similarly.
They didn't even have BASIC logistics set up in almost every location. Certainly the 6 different Occupy camps I checked out were more of a public health risk than a public safety risk.
There is nothing more I despise than "politicised truth." I work in the realm of facts and fact-patterns and I don't have any use for "truth" much less "politicised truth."
People don't really understand how the 1st Amendment actually works in law and where the rubber meets the road. For instance, "Freedom of Speech" has neer applied on personally owned private property.
Additionally, we were in very good shape to implement a protocol that more or less guaranteed uncensorable speech by 2001 - certainly by 2005. Instead, we poured billions into private platforms, and now we have a censorship problem.
@paradigm I remember all of that. Saw where the direction was heading back then too. Is anyone here old enough to remember the 1995 "Cryptographer's Manifesto"?
That document spelled it out rather clearly. Loquaciously, but clearly, nonetheless. Sometimes sound-bites are not the way to communicate critical information. It takes "War and Peace" to spell it out accurately.
