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Someone has brought to my attention the possibility that this is in fact designed to silence social dissidents, rather than to facilitate civil disagreement: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/05/12/asia/cancel-culture-law-singapore-intl-hnk/index.html

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Sep 3, 2023Liked by Katy Barnett

An added consideration when furthering a conversation about the roles/goals of social media, intended as a means, is to address its ultimate, but maybe not desired, 'end:' Placing everyone back onto the same 'island,' and thereby, abolishing what once was given primacy - Privacy. Within such a conversation, one needs to apply both the hermeneutic of suspicion and the hermeneutic of retrieval.

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Perhaps we could make cancellation attempts costly by crowd funding an public archive of names and tweets.

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"However, that’s a matter for United States law." No it isn't; US sovereignty stops at the 12 mile limit. You might want to be cravenly submissive to the subverting of your nation, however I don't think you'll find very many agreeing with you.

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