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Individuals will retain the freedom to speak even if we shutdown social networks.

That's the point you are missing.

> whatever you're doing isn't making the world better.

Imagine what a nation founded to avoid taxation and that became a superpower by securing resources in half of the World by starting wars or supporting dictators that committed genocides is doing to make the World better...

It might surprise you but being in the spectrum doesn't mean being autistic as in the cliché.

It's, as the same implies, a spectrum.

I've lived in the US, New York, Los Angeles and Columbus Ohio for a brief period.

(I also lived in Berlin and Barcelona, but that doesn't really count as a radically different experience for an European)

I have strong northern African looks, but am still white and loved every moment in the US.

But the devil is in the details, I could not ignore that when my friends there told me that some neighborhood was dangerous it really was dangerous, not dangerous as we usually mean it when we say it in Italy.

I could not ignore the staggering amount of homicides reported in the news.

This year LA will surpass 300 homicides in a year, Italy has 12 times the population of LA and there were "only" 270 homicides last year.

I could not ignore that the police is scary there and you should not talk to them or engage in any way.

I swear I notice a difference when I see one.

Having said that.

Globalization is real, but the media here are not trying to exploit my weaknesses to sell me ads, they are putting ads on their products, generic ads, not "I know who you are and I know you're gonna like this" ads.

I'm ok with the first kind, not so much with the latter.

The point of decentralised web is a misguiding one.

The decentralised web is the web!

Everyone can build their own website and host it at home on a raspberry PI on their connection.

That's what made the web a novelty that could (hopefully) spread culture and knowledge.

The dicotomy between centralised and decentralised web was born because the web has been taken away from people and transformed in a targeted ads delivery machine by the same companies that sell ads (FB, Twitter, Instagram and most of all Google, they sell ads as a primary business)

They are fighting to get screen attention so that they can deliver even more ads to the people.

And when we say ads we are not simply talking about product advertisement, we are talking about political ads used to radicalise the debate, that the same companies selling ads control, thanks to the network effect.

And since the majority of companies doing it are American, I blame the USA that let them do it

As paradoxical as it might sound China doesn't need to sell ads to people to convince the people to support this or that position, because there is no alternative position.

They rely on good old State propaganda, which existed for centuries ans has been studied for decades and is a well understood topic.

> More than 1 in 15 Chinese people are not part of the Han ethnic group

Are you jocking right?

1/15 is about 7%, did I say or did I not that ~92% of the people in China are from Han ethnic group?

92+7 = 99 so yeah, there are mostly the same people in China

I never said that the other ethnic minorities are uniformly distributed or that they do not exist.

For example anybody would say that in Italy the population is mainly formed by Italians.

And that would be true even though Italians in Italy have dropped to around 90% of the total.

Less than the Han in China.

I did of course

Did you ever lived outside of it?

Not as an occupant of course, because that's what usually Americans living abroad do

The point is to prove that "freedom of speech" said by American corporations is ridiculous and nobody should believe it, on the contrary, everybody should start to worry

I'm sorry if Han people make up for 92% of the population, there are over 1.2 billion of them

I will rephrase this way

"92% of Chinese people are part of the Han ethnic group but that doesn't mean that they are mostly the same people... oh no wait! IT DOES!"

> Weird and revealing double standard you got there, comparing "Chinese" as a collective to "many" Americans.

Chinese are collectively more or less in the same situation, they are ethnically mostly the same people and live under the same rules, Americans are not.

Few very reach Americans enjoy all the freedom power can buy, everyone else either comply or suffer the consequences

You really did not know?

> Chinese who are much, much, much less free than nearly all Americans

Nope.

I don't believe in the kind of freedom Americans believe to possess

It's simply a different kind of tyranny

Unless you mean the freedom to be shot in the streets.

For example: there are 700 people in jail every 100k citizens in USA, they are only 115 in China.

In 2008 USA had the 25% of the global World jail population

And you know why?

Because the private prison system in USA is highly profitable

USA has the lowest life expectancy of the whole west and it's only one year longer than China, despite being the country with the highest spending per capita in healthcare in the entire globe.

Is this the freedom you're talking about?

So no, USA is not a benchmark for anything good, including the exercise of free speech, which is only a lame excuse to not take action against extremists propaganda

> Indeed

So sometimes you experience moments of lucidity when you see yourself for what you really are?

That must hurt!

Italy too

But that's about carrying them, not owning them

The point is that you can buy a butcher knife or a chopper from IKEA but not a rifle gun

For obvious reasons

They always looked for places where to share their opinions with other people

Those places didn't weaponize their feelings and weaknesses against them to sell them ads

Want to make a global social network?

The State should be able to control them (every single state they operate in) and their decisions should be held accountable in court

The SN banned you?

They should have human support to solve the issues and a judge could overrule the decision, while now they are black holes

I trust the State, more than Facebook, if someone doesn't they shouldn't impose their decisions on other groups, including other countries

It's weird to read that people living in countries where the police can arrest you for not stepping out of the car or saying to a police officer to f*ck off defend the right to wear swastikas or private companies keeping public speech hostage in the name of freedom

Decentralised web can exists only among many small actors, when there are a few behemoth that control everything, of course segregation is gonna be the most obvious response: Russian internet, Chinese internet and let's hope European internet soon.

Nobody wants to suppress free speech, just private controlled public speech.

Free speech is not gratis.

It needs care.