Tuesday, February 04, 2020
Missing the Shannon, missing the metrology
"Independent" writers are protesting against publishers acting like publishers.
Typical example from Michael Krieger:
If I were to be personally banned from Twitter, my voice in the public sphere would be materially diminished. This is when you’re supposed to instruct me to start my own Twitter or join an alternative, but the truth is Twitter dominates the very socially and politically important micro-blogging space in the U.S. It’s the preferred communications platform of President Trump for crying out loud. You end my existence there and you extinguish my voice in a very material way for the foreseeable future, yet Twitter can do this at any moment for whatever reason. If a social media company decides they want you gone, they can always come up with an excuse eventually. Is this a major problem? I think so.Well, there ARE lots of alternatives, and Krieger is USING one of the alternatives to get his point across. I can read him there if I want to. Nothing lost. The Shannon point is this: We learn MORE by observing the bans than we do from reading the tweets. When @Jack bans an author, we learn which viewpoints are currently Crimethink and which are Goodthink. This is VALUABLE information that isn't accessible elsewhere. It's a CALIBRATION STANDARD. Trump is not banned, which RELIABLY INFORMS US that Trump is working for Deepstate. = = = = = Or maybe I'm thinking of the wrong 1950's social scientist. Should be thinking of Skinner instead of Shannon.
Labels: Metrology
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