Re:Koo, India’s free-speech Twitter alternative
by mantap on Saturday February 20, 2021 @10:01PM
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Indeed, most people are not shopping for other ideas. Most people are too busy with their lives to think too deeply about the world, and are content to simply let the ideas find them.
That is the bargain of politics: "give us power and we will tell what to think". For such people, Twitter is entirely sufficient. The design of twitter as a textual broadcasting platform is ideal for a unidirectional transmit/receive of ideas.
I really don't think most people are shopping for "other" ideas, and they're not concerned with free speech... just hearing their own ideas echoed back. Free speech for most folks only comes up when they don't hear an echo, or even just enough of an echo.
The level of tolerance for even just hearing other ideas seems ultra low these days.