Re: <nettime> Sign the BAN X in EUROPE petition and join the campaign

[Pit Schultz via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

1/12 SAY NO X FOR A U: A Critique of Digital Erasure

2/12 Blocking and banning content on parasocial platforms is a futile
erasure. These tycoon-owned hellscapes reflect authoritarian media control
that seeks to manufacture dissent during political crises.

3/12 Digital history is littered with extinct platforms like CompuServe and
AOL. Their demise was evolution, not execution. Advocating prohibition of
new tech (Metaverse, VR) misunderstands media's fluid nature.

4/12 Revolution must germinate from within. The exodus from Facebook left
no agents of change behind. We need experimental implementation of
alternatives to avoid a pure escapism of the post-everything.

5/12 Today's zeitgeist: dissidents become influencers, the abject
normalizes, hatred standardizes. Mass atrocities justified by "values."
This digital age raises more questions than it answers.

6/12 Niche digital groups aren't panaceas. Their relevance ebbs with
cultural tides. These enclaves may transform members but aren't more
virtuous than mainstream - just human constructs at different scales.

7/12 Rejecting Musk's agenda doesn't justify platform prohibition. It's a
regression in free internet culture. Platforms die organically. We should
invest in alternatives, not censorship or repressive tolerance.

8/12 The "Bartleby option" ("I prefer not to") should always be open. We
need a nuanced approach that addresses issues plaguing our entire digital
discourse, not just X. Active engagement trumps passive cancellation.

9/12 While not endorsing X's current state, calling for its ban echoes the
authoritarianism it claims to fight. Users need new strategies for digital
resistance that don't compromise on achieved internet freedom.

10/12 This moment of political uncertainty demands active engagement. A
campaign urging Musk to embrace his "Rosebud moment" and exit gracefully
would be more intriguing than wholesale platform rejection.

11/12 Power manifests as a relation, not as the imagined non-existence of
the undesirable. Cancelling entire media (TV, radio, YouTube, memes, games)
is cultural warfare from an illusory high horse.

12/12 Let's embrace complexity and reject simplistic solutions. The power
user´s goal should be to craft compelling alternatives that address root
issues, without resorting to censorship or platform bans.
13/13 bonus track: no matter who wins in the USA . since i do not have the
option to vote i couldn´t  care less of getting "falsely influenced" by
actively engaing on twiX, other than swimming against the current.
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