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so long as the communication is in public, that person or group is counted as an interlocutor in such a conversation

That suggests some term to describe a discussion which has the appearance of beingclosed and private, but is in fact public or observed.

"Parasocial" is the term used to descrbe the relationship between a public figure, often an entertainer or informer, and their audience. See especially fandoms.

"Paraprivacy" might be the term for a false sense of a close and intimate discussion, though the participants themselves are together on a public stage.

As are we here.

Is there an existing term?

@hhardy01 @carcinopithecus @cjd @CaseGage @jaranta

#paraprivacy #parasocial

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Situation under control.

Sandberg's position boils down to this: "if you're gonna get a fox to guard your henhouse, we should be that fox."

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A monopolist's first preference is not to be regulated.

A monopolist's second preference is to be regulated in a way that only it can comply with - and that none of its competitors can comply with.

Oh, hai, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg!

"I think [the insurrection was] largely organized on platforms that don’t have our abilities to stop hate, and don’t have our standards, and don’t have our transparency."

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1348721745688211460

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I don't think people realize why its important to remove white supremacists from your board/forum/web community.

- They are extremely motivated.
- They have a tradition of recruiting via meme(in the classic sense).
- They have centuries of effective propaganda.
- They will take over. Slowly at first then suddenly.
- They will always create more moderation work for you. They will never stop pushing.

Every society struggles with this. And it's not some conspiracy.

My relationship with old computers. Half of which don't work anymore

People constantly ask why I refuse to use Signal.

I have been meaning to do a detailed write-up for this, however in researching for it I discovered this post which covers several of my biggest issues well.

https://drewdevault.com/2018/08/08/Signal.html

seeing a lot of takes starting to make the rounds Elsewhere that seem to point to there suddenly being a lot of armchair experts about cults and cult deprogramming and maybe think twice before you think you have a great and simple working solution to share if you haven't actually done significant work disassembling cults and rehabilitating the victims thereof, hm?

fucking with people's heads to try and get them unfucked can be just as dangerous as what fucked them up in the first place.

if it was easy, cults would not be dangerous.

@djsundog as a person who's been into cults for decades, I think the saying "nobody joins a cult" is the most helpful thing I've ever heard. People don't go in thinking it's a cult. It's so much more complex.