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    "text": "## Free Listening Manifesto\n\nWhat is free speech? Looking at the history of this term, I think free speech is _really_ about printing presses. It means that the government is not allowed to throw you in jail (or burn you at the stake) because they do not like what you are saying.\n\nBut free speech does not mean that anyone is obliged to read your pamphlets! You still have to publish things that other people _want_ to read, if you want people to read it. If people get upset about what you have to say, and express that loudly, that is not censorship - that is actually _more free speech_.\n\nIf other people getting upset affects you, congratulations! you have empathy!\n\nIf an individual chooses to ignore you, or advise others to ignore you, that is also their freedom. This becomes censorship when _someone in a position of power uses a technical means to make decision for others_ - for example, by throwing your into prison or kicking you off a centralized service.\n\nAlthough, that act may well represent the will of the other users of that service - This may be fairly evident when someone is kicked off, say, a forum with a small community.\nThis is harder to establish on large centralized platforms such as twitter - but anyway, judging from the amount of harassment on those platforms, they are not effective at censorship anyway. The inept censorship they do manage only seems to amplify the voices of those they feel obliged take a stand against... (because a high profile banning becomes a viral news piece)\n\nI think we need a new concept: Free Listening.\n\nFree Listening is the missing right of the internet age. There is so much information that choosing what _not_ to read becomes a major challenge. Getting access to the material you want to read is already achived, but we lack power to _filter_ what we don't want. This right is based on individual freedom and thus does not conflict with free speech. I think this freedom will be empowered by sharing information for the filter - things the the ability to subscribe to other's moderations.\n\nThis is power given not power taken, free listening via free speech.",
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