by Henry Oliner | Jan 7, 2022 | Media
When the news media or echo chamber of social media blocks someone who offers an opinion they deem ‘dangerous’ they do not silence them, they amplify them for two reasons. The first reason is that they can find outlets elsewhere they can not control. Joe...
by Henry Oliner | Oct 12, 2021 | Media
From Joel Kotkin at Newsweek, The New Face of Oligarchy: The real question when it comes to big tech is not the one posed by Haugen’s testimony—whether Facebook and the other tech platforms allow “misinformation” or “hate speech” on their...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 6, 2020 | Philosophy, Politics
From the Saturday WSJ Review section, Land of Free (and Fettered) Speech by Adam Kirsch: excerpts: At a town meeting, however, people are speaking to their neighbors, who they know in real life and might meet the next day. In those circumstances, there’s a pressure to...
by Henry Oliner | Dec 4, 2017 | Philosophy, Politics
by Henry Oliner One of a few themes that I return to in this blog is the fascination with poor decisions from very intelligent people. It has led me from reading history to reading about the way we think and the blocks to sound thinking. Nassim Taleb in Black Swan,...
by Henry Oliner | Nov 20, 2017 | Education, Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism
From Glenn Harlan Reynolds in The USA Today, Social media threat: People learned to survive disease, we can handle Twitter: Likewise, in recent years we’ve gone from an era when ideas spread comparatively slowly, to one in which social media in particular allow them...
