Ep. 112: Plato's Metaverse
Young Heretics
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Twitter's Corporate Statement on Civic Integrity - A Bid to Create the Metaverse
Twitter's corporate statement on civic integrity articulates a rationale for this kind of behavior. After the election, when president donald trump began making accusations of electoral fraud and claiming he had won, he was removed from twitter facebook. This total revision of accepted truth came without apology or even introspection from reporters who had previously smothered the story. Making a bid to create the metaverse means making a bid to construct the contours of the world. It is an attempt to gain control not just over what can be said, but over what reality itself looks like. And it is presented as a gesture of liberation, as if we are being broken free from a restrictive and outmoted reality.
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