Mike Gifford, CPWA @FOSDEM@mgifford@mastodon.social
@xnite@infosec.exchange @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl I do appreciate you interested in dialog. Very few opinions actually change that way mind you.
Bigger issue is the platform nor those on it. What gets amplified or silenced. There is a clear bias in X that uses free speech as a cover for an anti-woke agenda.
xnite@xnite@infosec.exchange
@mgifford@mastodon.social @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl I may be wrong but doesn't that very same platform, X, support free speech both ways? I understand for sure how much it's become a hate machine within itself. I notice it every time that I've logged in over these past couple of years and it's almost as if you can't escape hearing a racial slur or hateful comment against an entire group of people. I absolutely see that as a problem. What I don't see is people combating those views or even trying to create a dialogue of any form of understanding. Very rarely do I see an opposing view. From my perspective those who would disagree the loudest have walked away and left the entire platform one sided. Those who are left get dog piled with none of their own "dogs" to jump in and defend them.
Does true change not come from within? What happens to a society when that society does not speak up against the things that tear them apart from the inside out?
The most important question: Do you ever feel like maybe we are living in that part of history where the future children, who are learning about our time, raise their hand and ask "why didn't anybody do anything to stop them?"