Again I have found a reply to a Mastodon post has me blocked from a user’s timeline, and browsing the timeline as an anonymous user I find posts and responses subsequent to mine has people comfortably agreeing with the original poster, the original author thanking people for their responses. This is not a passive sieving, but rather the very active, intentional construction of silos.
If you look at this guy’s timeline you find he is literally a basket weaver. The address of course is New Zealand. The responses to the post about book burning are pretty notable to me. „Let’s imagine you’d opened the cover and discovered that Mein Kampf was under it. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The Turner Diaries. The NZ shooter’s manifesto.“ You know, if I opened the cover of a book and found Mein Kampf I would honestly be really pleased to have a copy of Mein Kampf, because I can’t legally buy one here in Germany without a bunch of commentary telling me all the horrors Hitler’s 1925 book was going to create in the decades ahead. What if what I really want to do is read the book the way it was originally published? Nope, can’t do – too dangerous to trust you with this. I find this attitude quite troubling.
I wonder if when they block me various social media users righteously see me as a sort of living Hitler, their blocking of my Twitter or Mastodon account a sort of noble burning of Mein Kampf? Whew! Glad I torched that one in time, before it could take over Europe!
