In 1951 Willard Van Orman Quine, one of the great analytic philosophers of the twentieth century, wrote a short paper called “Two Dogmas of Empiricism.” Quine put to the torch two key assumptions made by the logical positivists, a philosophical school popular in the first half of the century. Who is ignoring or attacking that point, I do not know.Īt any rate, a general critique of Antonio’s article this post is not.
“It’s simply not the case,” he says, “that freedom of speech is some legal binary switched between an abstract allow/not-allow state.” Maybe, then, the point is that we must think about the effects of algorithmic amplification. We’re told, for instance, that “freedom of reach is freedom of speech”-which sounds like a nod to the New Left’s call, in the 1960s and 70s, to seize “the means of communication.” But then we’re told that “Twitter isn’t obligated to give you reach if user interest in your speech is low.” So Antonio is not demanding reach equality. I’m not sure what to make of some of Antonio’s claims. Antonio believes that the “regime” and its opponents are locked in an epic battle, and that we all must pick a side. In April, Antonio released a piece on his Substack, Freeze peach and the Internet, in which he asserts the existence of a “‘content moderation’ regime that is utterly re-defining speech in liberal societies.” That “regime” wants, Antonio contends, to “arbitrate truth and regulate online behavior for the sake of some supposed greater good.” It is opposed by those who still support freedom of speech.
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But we never got to an important topic-Antonio’s take on free speech and the Internet. We did the episode, and we had a great time. Antonio is witty, charming, and intimidatingly brilliant (he was a PhD student in physics at Berkeley, and it shows). Thu, Jul 21st 2022 01:40pm - Corbin BartholdĪntonio García Martínez recently invited me on his podcast, The Pull Request.
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