What you build compels its own use
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when you build when you build it, it's there. And it compels it's compels its own use. You don't build something just for the other guy. It when you build it, it's it's going to be used again.
Episode 150: Eshitification (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:39:42 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
Dave's 'big red button' idea: once a control system like a censorship list exists, it will get used, and eventually on everyone, including the people who built it for 'the other guy'. Thinking otherwise is ignorance of history.
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Episode 78: Dice in the Can (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:13:40 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
if having a thing behooves the use of that thing. So there's just there's something about having something available to you to use, that makes you it makes it inevitable that you're going to use it.
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Episode 78: Dice in the Can (episode page, opens in a new tab) 01:16:57 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
can maybe can, compels ought, yeah, if you can do something, you're going to do it.
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Episode 150: Eshitification (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:40:29 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
And when you create a master censorship list, you're gonna earn a censorship regime. That thing is going to be used for everybody.
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