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Re: Freedom for boys and the social media age

Posted by diogenes on 2026-March-28 07:10:34, Saturday
In reply to Re: Freedom for boys and the social media age posted by Errant on 2026-March-28 05:54:09, Saturday

BoyChat is a tiny corner of the internet whose existence supplies a meeting place for an unpopular minority. Its position is quite different to social media sites that are used by over 4 billion people every day and which are owned by billionaire oligarchs in order to make money. These oligarchs do not provide a platform for us in any shape or form, but heavily censor the expression of our views in the spaces they own. I don't see how social ownership of such social media spaces can be a threat to free speech when their current ownership structure erases our free speech anyway.

My argument, which you do not directly address, is that the ownership of online social spaces by oligarchs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg is something we should be critical of, because otherwise, if we are not to seem indifferent to the well-being of the young, it will be difficult to resist the call for further online protections for the young, which only reinforces the ideology of protectionism which has such detrimental consequences for ourselves and for boys.

With regard to the wisdom of crowds, as always the point of the reference, and the connection with my argument, is elusive, but I would draw attention to the section of the page you link to about 'Failures of crowd intelligence', many of which are very apposite when it comes to our situation.


diogenes

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