What Role Should #Religion Play in the #PublicSquare? — A #Black #Christian and a Black #Secular #Humanist Debate and Discuss
https://religiondispatches.org/what-role-should-religion-play-in-the-public-square-a-black-christian-and-a-black-secular-humanist-debate-and-discuss/

Newcastle Civic Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, 15 March 2022 #public #civic #civiccentre #publicsquare #theobelisk #civiltwilight

Newcastle Civic Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne, 15 March 2022 #public #civic #civiccentre #publicsquare #theobelisk #civiltwilight

Unity is the only path forward.

#politics #progression #progress #progressive #conservative #left #right #libertarian #liberal #classicliberalism #freespeech #anticensorship #debate #discussion #publicsquare

took this back in 2016 which was shortly after the new #PublicSquare in #cleveland was finished.

#water #fountain #night #photography #photo #city

For all y'all still posting on that foul site in order to help prop it up for people to have access to the #PublicSquare I've provided free access through my subscription to this article on how you staying on there helps to give legitimacy to the disiinforrmation warriors using it to undermine our liberal world order, #JustSayin

The Russian government is far more successful at manipulating social media and SE it appears. https://wapo.st/3o7Zjta

@atomicpoet @KansasGrant @skotchygut @jrm4
Would you still stay on Twitter if the #Resistors with big followings left?

I like the argument that AtomicPoet makes that we shouldn't have our #PublicSquare on a privately owned platform, but to me I view ELoon as part and parcel of an existential threat to democracy so I want people to leave his platform in order to help neuter his power some.

As my feed seems to be mostly made up of 'reply guys' and people biting back at reply guys, I thought I'd offer a thought or two on the phenomena.

#ReplyGuys #Speech #PublicSquare #SocialComment

https://robert.winter.ink/on-replies-and-reply-guys/

RT @doctorow
It abandons even the pretense that Twitter exists as a #PublicSquare, where we participate. Instead, it makes Twitter into #ShittyTelevision, where you lean back and get fed by a feed - like a foie gras with a gavage tube.

How many people think @elonmusk bought #Twitter to #bankrupt it for a foreign power?

#PublicSquare #ForeignPower #InfluenceOperations?

"One awful man should not be able to destroy something the world created together, for good or ill. No, we didn’t create the code or rent the offices, but without the words we put together in those little boxes, Twitter is and was nothing. Humanity made that place, and it is all our best and our worst." https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

#PublicSquare #Togetherness #Community

Musk sees Twitter as a publisher, not a social media site:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604588904828600320

Which is why he's so indifferent to the collateral damage from this payola/hostage scam. Yes, Twitter is a place where famous and semi-famous people talk to their audiences, but it is primarily a place where those audiences talk to each other - that is, a #PublicSquare.

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When platforms' #enshittification strategies overshoot, users flee in droves, and then it's time for the desperate platform managers to abandon the pretense of providing a #PublicSquare. Yesterday, #ElonMusk's #Twitter rolled out a policy prohibiting users from posting links to rival platforms:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221218173806/https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy

This policy was explicitly aimed at preventing users from telling each other where they could be found after they leave Twitter:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221219015355/https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1604531261791522817

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And maybe it's time to consider, we shouldn't have one but millions of them!

#publicsquare

"We have never had even a national public square, let alone a global one, because communities and cultures differ on what norms and values should shape their common spaces. "
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/elon-musk-buy-twitter-free-speech/629571/

And maybe it's time to consider, we shouldn't have one but millions of them!

#publicsquare

"We have never had even a national public square, let alone a global one, because communities and cultures differ on what norms and values should shape their common spaces. "
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/elon-musk-buy-twitter-free-speech/629571/

The discussion of Elno-driven chaos on the bird site centers almost entirely on the effects in the US. Does anyone have insight into the effect on international accounts there? #internationaltwitter #publicSquare #ukraine

@pluralistic He's absolutely correct, of course.

PS: As to that "no atheists in foxholes" thing, most atheists I know are also pacifists, or lean strongly in that direction.

#FreeSpeech #SocialNetworks #PublicSquare

RT @doctorow@twitter.com

"Do you know the saying, 'There are no atheists in foxholes'? There’s no #FreeSpeech absolutists who run #SocialNetworks, because you realize the nuance of that #PublicSquare and the responsibilities to the users and society, and that it’s a lot messier' -@Tumblr@twitter.com CEO @photomatt@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1603027120045051904

RT @doctorow@twitter.com

"Do you know the saying, 'There are no atheists in foxholes'? There’s no #FreeSpeech absolutists who run #SocialNetworks, because you realize the nuance of that #PublicSquare and the responsibilities to the users and society, and that it’s a lot messier' -@Tumblr@twitter.com CEO @photomatt@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1603027120045051904

"Do you know the saying, 'There are no atheists in foxholes'? I think that there’s no #FreeSpeechAbsolutists who run #SocialNetworks, because you start to realize the nuance of that #PublicSquare and the responsibilities to the users and society, and the fact that it’s a lot messier." -#Tumblr CEO #MattMullenweg (#WordPress, #Automattic, etc)