"Lots of people support us, they're just ashamed to show it in public", the modern iteration of "The lurkers support me in email", seems to be gaining a lot of ground lately, first Calabresi, now Musk.
They just can't imagine so many people don't like them. It HAS to be social pressure.
Tell me you’re building a platform to normalize misogyny and white supremacy without telling me you’re building a platform to normalize misogyny and white supremacy.
His high-profile nazi assholes have been complaining for a long time that they aren't getting the engagement they deserve. This is to appease them (people won't be afraid to like me!)
Also, it makes it easier to inflate the number of likes when there is no public paper trail.
Our failure, as a society, to even articulate, much less resolve, the fundamental questions of public and private advocacy in the digital age is going to continue to haunt us.
