Comment on We are not "Right Wing"
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years agoInstitutional power is always corrupt. I've become more and more anarchist as this last year goes on. Just take it all down and revert back to tribal nations
Comment on We are not "Right Wing"
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years agoInstitutional power is always corrupt. I've become more and more anarchist as this last year goes on. Just take it all down and revert back to tribal nations
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I have many thoughts on this, but haven't been able to write it down.
I don't think you are wrong. I thought about this for several years, specifically Wikipedia. A democratic platform to share knowledge became a propaganda piece in just 10 years.
What happened to Wikipedia could happen to every alt tech platform that becomes too big. If we do not understand the mechanism and have anti-corruption from the grassroots, we will never be free of corrupt big platforms.
The Problem: How did it happen ? On Wikipedia on every controversial page, e.g. Project Veritas or AntiVax doctors like Robert Malone, several editors try to balance the extreme left and make the articles objective. But they are outnumbered by more active Leftists......
Why ? Most Lefty activists are sponsored by Diversity Initiatives, where govts and Big companies pay millions to create "Equity". E.g. Google spent 100s of millions into the extreme Left Vox media or the Young Turks, and similar extreme left propaganda platforms. They can freeload on this $$ and do full time activism.
On the right and center, there are no such sponsorships to pay good editors. The rational editors on Wikipedia have day jobs and families. They can't spend all day fighting these nuts. This is how everything from journalism to big tech to Wikipedia is corrupted.
Possible Solutions: Make it easier for general public to make a change. On Wikipedia the edits of a new user can be trashed by long time activists and you can be banned just like other censorship platforms. If new users had same amount of power as long time ones, and could not be banned, gate keeping would end.... very fast.
Every Astroturf, be it Soros/Gates/Google sponsored DEI, Russian troll farms, Chinese 5 cent army, can be outnumbered by real users, if there are no "Gatekeepers"
That is my proposal to solve corruption of platforms -> more democracy and free speech.
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
community edited wiki's are good for lots of information not accurate information. multiple personal works examined in context is better for accuracy.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Yes, I have found articles with large number of editors, both right and left to be very unbiased and objective. But most controversial ones, lets say Rittenhouse, get a majority of left wing activists, and the spin is mad.
This is Corporate money corrupting journalism basically.
Even if a completely new platform was created, it would eventually be corrupt the same way.
Other than getting a lot of conservatives to pump money into hiring good editors - which is really hard, since conservatives generally don't spend money for such causes, do you have any ideas ?
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
No ideas at all
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
A simpler solution would be to turn off the internet, and that's kind of happening in certain bossy cultries. No matter what you do, all rules, laws, and regulations are subject to manipulation in the name of the one true law, the law of the jungle. Idealism only works when it is backed by real and actual power.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
The jungle is more civilized than people think. Emergent morality and "fair play" are instincts even in small mammals like Rats. I have seen this myself (owned around 50 rats)
Dominance through physical power is very unstable. Dictator chimp catches a cold and doesn't feel too well, nr.2 and 3 gang up, castrate and kill him.
If members of a tribe are treated well by the leader, we get a stable solution. History shows, fair play is the formula for "internal peace"
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I actually live in the jungle, but i've never had any rats.
Power is not just physical, but that notwithstanding, it is quite the norm in other species to imply physical threat and for older alphas to be overthrown by younger ones
By "LOTJ is the whole of the law", i mean that it is the norm in civilised society to lie and jockey for power and disongenuously use any rule to win in any scenario. I think of workers rights and how most employment law is useless in reality, or in human relationships, how power - as in the ability to make things happen - is what people really mean when they talk about the imagined effects of wealth. Women aren't particularly attracted to wealth, but by its power, and also other forms of power, such a popularity/influence/wit, and skills to solve practical problems or keep income flowing.