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   Frank Bennett (fgbjr@indieweb.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 16:00:05 JST Frank Bennett

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   • Jeff Kosseff

   @jkosseff Free speech absolutism meets bounded rationality is the new Bambi Meets Godzilla.

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     Jeff Kosseff (jkosseff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 16:00:06 JST Jeff Kosseff

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     One person suggested that I left Twitter because I don’t value free speech. That is not the case. Twitter can decide what speech to distribute. And I can decide whether I want to read that speech.

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     Jeff Kosseff (jkosseff@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 16:00:07 JST Jeff Kosseff

     I began regularly tweeting in 2019, first just to promote my books. This month I decided to stop tweeting not for any political reason or to make a statement, but because the product had degraded. My feed was filled with a bunch of nonsense that wasn’t fun to wade through. As a consumer (and content creator), I decided to go elsewhere. And that is exactly how it should be: platforms should be free to decide how to moderate, and consumers should be free to decide whether to go elsewhere.