<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 7:48 PM Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <<a href="mailto:kwlug-disc@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc@kwlug.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
"The infamous federated timeline" </blockquote><div><br></div>Personally, I have no interest in re-joining social media of any kind after going cold Turkey</div><div class="gmail_quote">six or more years ago. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">However, this discussion about content that maybe illegal or objectionable to some relates</div><div class="gmail_quote">to previous discussions here on Twitter and Musk. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Basically, it started with the September That Never Ended (when AOL opened Usenet to <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">its users), followed by spam on Usenet and emails, ending up with social media companies</div><div class="gmail_quote">having to deal with the inevitable objectionable content. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">The social media companies are private entities and want to make money. That money comes</div><div class="gmail_quote">from advertisers. If there is too much objectionable content, they will cease to advertise. It is <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">like "no shirt, no shoes, no service". This gets entangled into free speech, and that is why this</div><div class="gmail_quote">whole Twitter saga is unfolding ... <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Maybe I will write an article on that on my blog on this, so as not to go on tangents here. <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Regardless, it is the tragedy of the commons of sorts. I have even seen this in comments on <br></div><div class="gmail_quote">my web sites with spam, scams, vulnerability probing, and so on ... <br></div></div>