Bard spotting thread 03 July 2024

On Reddit in r/reddit

zenethics:

I just want people on the left who feel like they're winning to consider a world where Elon Musk directs Twitter to consider misgendering (in his worldview, calling someone by a gender that you know mismatches their biological s*x) as hate speech and forbidden or where Vivek Ramaswamy starts a conglomerate to buy shares in Reddit similar to how he has done with Buzzfeed and starts demoting socialist content (or something).

That is, you have to understand that there is a whole world of people who disagree on every topic and that this only works if there are actual choices people can make to use other platforms.

Politics swings back and forth over the decades and if you don't think we're about a decade away from cultural consensus being firmly in the other camp... well, pay attention to this upcoming election I guess, I don't know what to tell you.

We are now in a world where the very rich get to decide what we can say and it's not clear that this is better. Suppression: coming soon to an opinion near you.

Reply by Bardfinn:

Misgendering is hate speech. Transphobia is fascism.