Casey Newton

So anyway, my point is just Congress, maybe not the best example of where we want to set our speech rules because truly anything goes there. But, you know, the truly most alarming part of these new guidelines to me was in these new guidelines, Metta says you are allowed to say a trans woman isn't a woman, it's a pathetic, confused man, or a trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it.

So anyway, my point is just Congress, maybe not the best example of where we want to set our speech rules because truly anything goes there. But, you know, the truly most alarming part of these new guidelines to me was in these new guidelines, Metta says you are allowed to say a trans woman isn't a woman, it's a pathetic, confused man, or a trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it.

Again, I regard that language as very harmful. It is dehumanizing, like truly just actually denying the humanity of another person. And now you have people at Meta who are just writing these statements and giving users carte blanche to say them and also to say, this will not be removed.

Again, I regard that language as very harmful. It is dehumanizing, like truly just actually denying the humanity of another person. And now you have people at Meta who are just writing these statements and giving users carte blanche to say them and also to say, this will not be removed.

Again, I regard that language as very harmful. It is dehumanizing, like truly just actually denying the humanity of another person. And now you have people at Meta who are just writing these statements and giving users carte blanche to say them and also to say, this will not be removed.

I mean, that is basically asking me to predict the position of an atom in two years. Like, good luck to any of us who would hazard a guess. The range of possibilities for that question is basically infinite. But maybe I could sort of sketch out two scenarios. Yeah.

I mean, that is basically asking me to predict the position of an atom in two years. Like, good luck to any of us who would hazard a guess. The range of possibilities for that question is basically infinite. But maybe I could sort of sketch out two scenarios. Yeah.

I mean, that is basically asking me to predict the position of an atom in two years. Like, good luck to any of us who would hazard a guess. The range of possibilities for that question is basically infinite. But maybe I could sort of sketch out two scenarios. Yeah.

One scenario I've been thinking about is this question of, will the social networks that we once had, which were very large and monolithic, splinter into more partisan versions of themselves? And so eventually you have like the Fox News version of Facebook. And this actually did start to come to pass. You see the rise of a platform like a Truth Social or a Parler, right?

One scenario I've been thinking about is this question of, will the social networks that we once had, which were very large and monolithic, splinter into more partisan versions of themselves? And so eventually you have like the Fox News version of Facebook. And this actually did start to come to pass. You see the rise of a platform like a Truth Social or a Parler, right?

One scenario I've been thinking about is this question of, will the social networks that we once had, which were very large and monolithic, splinter into more partisan versions of themselves? And so eventually you have like the Fox News version of Facebook. And this actually did start to come to pass. You see the rise of a platform like a Truth Social or a Parler, right?

One scenario that I've been thinking about over the past couple of days is like, maybe Facebook becomes the Fox News version of Facebook, right? Maybe there is just this kind of right word lurch in social networking in general, because when Meta runs the numbers and they're obsessive about numbers, they just find this is better for our business.

One scenario that I've been thinking about over the past couple of days is like, maybe Facebook becomes the Fox News version of Facebook, right? Maybe there is just this kind of right word lurch in social networking in general, because when Meta runs the numbers and they're obsessive about numbers, they just find this is better for our business.

One scenario that I've been thinking about over the past couple of days is like, maybe Facebook becomes the Fox News version of Facebook, right? Maybe there is just this kind of right word lurch in social networking in general, because when Meta runs the numbers and they're obsessive about numbers, they just find this is better for our business.

And if there is some tiny remnant of screeching liberals, they can go elsewhere and Meta will be fine. So like that is a possibility. The other scenario, though, is that this is just Mark Zuckerberg making another 20-year mistake in the opposite direction. And in the same way that he gave the left so much of what they asked for after 2016 and found that he got nothing for it,

And if there is some tiny remnant of screeching liberals, they can go elsewhere and Meta will be fine. So like that is a possibility. The other scenario, though, is that this is just Mark Zuckerberg making another 20-year mistake in the opposite direction. And in the same way that he gave the left so much of what they asked for after 2016 and found that he got nothing for it,

And if there is some tiny remnant of screeching liberals, they can go elsewhere and Meta will be fine. So like that is a possibility. The other scenario, though, is that this is just Mark Zuckerberg making another 20-year mistake in the opposite direction. And in the same way that he gave the left so much of what they asked for after 2016 and found that he got nothing for it,

he will now give the right everything that they asked for for so many years, and we'll find that he gets almost nothing for it, right? It's the kind of, if you give a mouse a cookie problem, right? Okay, you have now sold out all trans people to the Republican Party. Did you think they were going to stop there? No, there's going to be another ask, right?

he will now give the right everything that they asked for for so many years, and we'll find that he gets almost nothing for it, right? It's the kind of, if you give a mouse a cookie problem, right? Okay, you have now sold out all trans people to the Republican Party. Did you think they were going to stop there? No, there's going to be another ask, right?

he will now give the right everything that they asked for for so many years, and we'll find that he gets almost nothing for it, right? It's the kind of, if you give a mouse a cookie problem, right? Okay, you have now sold out all trans people to the Republican Party. Did you think they were going to stop there? No, there's going to be another ask, right?