Author: Curt Doolittle

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    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-19 18:10:30 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2002079108516491730

  • Q: “To what degree, and in what manner, should the internet be regulated?” To wh

    Q: “To what degree, and in what manner, should the internet be regulated?”

    To what degree, and in what manner, should the internet be regulated to regulate anti-social and parasitic behavior, particularly in online dating (if it is to exist at all), social media and online communities? Also, should legal features also exist on these apps, like suing for defamation, and should there be international standards and ways to manage disputes between individuals from different nations? Relevant domains include online dating, online discourse and speech, content moderation, and determining what types of online activity should not be permitted. Jordan Peterson often discusses this, often related to online anonymity (which he says allows this) and the influence of individuals with dark tetrad traits (psychopathy, Machiavellianism, sadism, and narcissism) to use it for their dark objectives and expresses their dark traits. He has stated something approximating that nobody has figured out how to properly regulate the internet.
    Short answer (decidable):
    • treat the internet as an informational commons, not a feelings forum.
    • Permit any speech that is truthful under warranty;
    • throttle or tax anonymous reach;
    • prohibit parasitism (fraud, defamation, brigading) by restoring liability and restitution in proportion to harm.
    Result
    • Platforms become insurers and record-keepers;
    • users choose identity/liability tiers;
    • courts (or bonded arbitration) enforce reciprocity across borders.
    The necessary change is extending the involuntary warranty we already impose on goods and services to amplified speech and transactions.
    Cause → consequence → function
    • Cause: scale converts gossip into industrialized lying. Unwarrantied amplification monetizes falsehood and externalizes costs into the informational commons. Necessary correction: testimonial due diligence and warranty for public (amplified, monetized, or political) speech.
    • Consequence: without liability, predators specialize in deception (what you call dark-tetrad behaviors), and platforms profit from irreciprocity. Western law solved analogous problems by tort, defamation, oath, jury—i.e., truth under liability. Sufficient remedy: make online behavior pass the same reciprocity and warranty gates.
    • Function: operationalize “free warrantied speech” instead of “free speech without costs.” Restore defamation and require restitution for harm to demonstrated interests in the commons.
    A) Identity, reach, and liability tiers (users choose the trade-off)
    • Anonymous: read + low-reach post; no ads; no political amplification; no accusations; no commercial solicitation. Reason: no counterparty for liability → minimize upstream harm. (Visibility preserved, externalities minimized.)
    • Pseudonymous (bonded): higher reach if you post under a platform-held bond or insurance that funds restitution for proven harms (defamation, fraud). (Contingent freedom; insured risk.)
    • Real-name (verified + warrantied): maximum reach/commercial/political privileges conditioned on testimonial due diligence for factual assertions and offers. (Freedom proportional to warranty.)
    B) Platform duties (they’re running a commons)
    • Duty of care as insurer: log evidence, preserve trails, offer bonded arbitration, pay when users default; recover from user bonds. (The platform sells insured reach, not unpriced virality.)
    • Defamation/false-light switch: reinstate defamation for amplified claims; platform provides a fast counter-speech + escrowed-restitution workflow. (Truth under liability instead of censorship.)
    • Algorithmic warranty: if you curate/recommend, you accept proportionate liability for foreseeable harms—same as a publisher of ads or financial products would under tort. (Publishing ≠ common carriage.)
    C) Moderation by law, not priesthood
    • Replace moralizing with justiciable categories: fraud, incitement to actionable harm, defamation, doxxing, brigading, impersonation, commercial misrepresentation. Each maps to restitution schedules under tort. (Decidable, operational, reciprocal.)
    • Evidence standard = testimonial truth: realism, naturalism, operationality, due-diligence warranty—precisely the same tests we use for responsible scientific or commercial claims.
    D) Online dating (if it exists at all)
    • Two-track market: (1) low-liability social browsing (no claims, no promises); (2) bonded courtship with verified age/sex/intent, consent-logging, STI/result attestations, and escrow for costly deceptions. False claims trigger automatic restitution from user bond. (Insurance replaces theater.)
    • Reputation = insured testimony: ratings are statements under warranty, not anonymous gossip; platforms must filter unwarrantied criticism as irreciprocal pollution of the informational commons.
    E) Social media and communities
    • Throttle unbonded virality; privilege insured testimony; demote inflationary grammar and outrage that fails due-diligence tests. (We reward contribution; we tax noise.)
    • Distinguish dissent from sedition: protected dissent = truthful, warrantied, and without external principal; coordinated deceit with external alignment crosses into punishable offense. (Visibility, reciprocity, sovereignty preserved.)
    F) Legal features inside apps
    • Yes: in-app defamation and fraud claims with bonded arbitration and exportable judgments; liability proportional to demonstrated harm; loser-pays to deter nuisance. (Courts for the commons, speed for the parties.)
    • Cross-border disputes: default to domicile law of the alleged victim for harms to person/reputation; require platforms to hold multi-jurisdictional bonding and to honor arbitration awards across signatory standards of natural-law reciprocity. (Sovereignty respected; enforcement tractable.)
    G) International standards (minimum viable nomocracy online)
    • Baseline: reciprocity (no parasitism), testimonial truth (due-diligence warranty), and computable restitution. States opt-in by treaty; platforms that serve opt-in citizens must meet the standard or face blocking + surety forfeiture. (Market of polities forces convergence.)
    Why anonymity “causes” the mess—and what survives
    • Anonymity is compatible with listening and low-reach speaking; it is not compatible with accusation, solicitation, or political persuasion at scale without warranty. Therefore, anonymity remains for consumption and low-risk speech; insured identity is necessary for influence. (Freedom preserved; parasitism priced.)
    1. Mandate identity/liability tiers; require platforms to sell insured reach as a product.
    2. Restore defamation, fraud, and impersonation remedies with fast, bonded arbitration.
    3. Require testimonial due diligence for amplified, monetized, or political content.
    4. Institute evidence logging and exportable judgments; enforce loser-pays.
      For dating: verified intent tracks, consent logs, and deception restitution from bonds.
    5. Cross-border: adopt reciprocity treaty for informational harms and platform surety.(All steps convert undecidable moralizing into decidable, insurable exchanges.)
    You don’t need new censors; you need old law—truth under warranty, reciprocity under tort, and platforms as insurers of the informational commons. That combination is necessary and sufficient to suppress anti-social parasitism while preserving maximal speech and association online.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-19 17:54:26 UTC

    Original post: https://x.com/i/articles/2002075063311556647

  • yes

    yes


    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-18 22:29:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2001781962214904130

  • @SissyJade @patriottakes Sharon (A Karen?); This technique of posting one’s repl

    @SissyJade

    @patriottakes

    Sharon (A Karen?);
    This technique of posting one’s replies assists those who follow you from not missing an argument that may be of use to them.
    You are irrelevant and demonstrating female undermining in lieu of competent argument and as such that’s evidence of why no one asks you to repost your replies.
    There are people who archive my posts for their own future use.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-18 21:51:19 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2001772288799314057

  • We work on this data exhaustively. But it’s clear the police aren’t biased. And

    We work on this data exhaustively. But it’s clear the police aren’t biased. And it’s clear the judges aren’t biased. I can’t testify to the bias of juries. What I do know is (a) the christian agrarian culture was effective, and post-christian urban culture is not, (b) lack of remorse in court (c) it’s not economic, it’s absence of neotenic domestication syndrome preserving older human behavior’s impulsivity.
    Human populations in tribal circumstances are hyper-regulated by others with constant chatter and monitoring of each other. And they are brutal in their punishments.
    This capacity is retained in dense agrarian cultures unified by church rituals.
    This capacity failed because of the ‘slaughter of the cities’ which was caused by the democratic party’s communist wing imitation of the soviet relocation projects, by moving black from the rural south into the cities.
    This killed the high-feedback loop necessary for more impulsive populations to maintain domesticated behavior.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-18 21:47:45 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2001771390115205441

  • @sissyjade @patriottakes Sharon, I am not only a fan of intelligent women, I’ve

    @sissyjade

    @patriottakes

    Sharon,
    I am not only a fan of intelligent women, I’ve dated or married them. The problem is, you are, as a woman, neither educated nor trained, since you are demonstrating one of the most common female cognitive biases which is inverting the true for the preferable.

    You do this because you resist adaptation. You resist adaptation because it would force you to rely on reason instead of instinct and intuition. Your instinct and intuition are female.

    As far as I know I’m the world’s foremost expert in sex differences in cognition applied to deceptive negotiation. You don’t even know you’re engaged in magical thinking.

    The origin of our bias is the instinct to give children time to adapt rather than be ostracized, left behind, or worse.
    You just think it’s reason.
    Its not.
    Mostly it’s the organization of the female brain in favor of in-time empathizing instead of over-time systematizing combined with a healthy dose of oxytocin.
    You would notice a significant change in you upon your third or fourth child, and certainly the more traditional fifth or sixth – at which time the resolution of conflicts between your children would force you into the male systemizing frame of reference.

    Evolution did its work.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-18 21:42:14 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2001770004363301190

  • Selection follows a very simple rule

    Selection follows a very simple rule.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-18 21:34:42 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2001768109208932739

  • Here is how old this observation is: Aesop’s fable “Hermes and the Arabs” (also

    Here is how old this observation is:

    Aesop’s fable “Hermes and the Arabs” (also known as “The Cart of Lies”), from Laura Gibbs’s translation of the ancient Greek text:

    –“Hermes filled a cart with lies and dishonesty and all sorts of wicked tricks, and he journeyed in this cart throughout the land, going hither and thither from one tribe to another, dispensing to each nation a small portion of his wares. When he reached the land of the Arabs, so the story goes, his cart suddenly broke down along the way and was stuck there. The Arabs seized the contents of the cart as if it were a merchant’s valuable cargo, stripping the cart bare and preventing Hermes from continuing on his journey, although there were still some people he had not yet visited. As a result, Arabs are liars and charlatans, as I myself have learned from experience. There is not a word of truth that springs from their lips.”–

    Low trust, faceless, culture.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-18 21:33:04 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2001767697479250133

  • Not sure where you’re getting that from. Semitic ethics are low trust ethics. (E

    Not sure where you’re getting that from. Semitic ethics are low trust ethics. (European: truth before face, East Asian: Face before truth, Semitic: facelessness – it’s still admirable to ‘get away with’ something. ‘The ethics of the bazaar.’) Africa never progressed until christianity beyond the ethics of the four family types so it’s not easy to discuss their ethics. Christianity was a reform using theology (semitic mythicism) as a means of making semitic peoples capable of cooperation sufficient to resist the european-persian (indo european) superiors. Talmudic Judaism was a revolt that attempted to adopt western rule of law in semitic terms. Islam was a revolt against the corruption of their tribal elders during the period where europe and persia had exhausted themselves. Fundamentalist islam was a revolt against the introduction of european thought into semitic civilization. The reasons for these revolts are largely understood as natural conflicts between populations with vastly different intelligence, institutions, and trust for ancestral reasons. Unfortunately, when the middle east converted to christianity it made progress, but the barbarism of islam – the most backward people in the region – resulted in the most digressive group strategy on earth – which is why islamic cultures is the last to adapt to modernity.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-18 21:30:10 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2001766966202359952

  • Trump might be whatever unpleasant term you label him with – the fact is that he

    Trump might be whatever unpleasant term you label him with – the fact is that he’s correct in just about every policy he implements.
    FWIW: You are simply demonstrating the female cognitive bias by concerning yourself with his likability instead of his policies. And if you disagree with his policies you’re either wrong or immoral or both. Mommy-instincts exist for the survival of fragile children and do not scale to social, economic, political, or geostrategic ends.
    The fact that you don’t know this and/or can’t internalize it is a failure of either your upbringing or education or both.


    Source date (UTC): 2025-12-18 21:22:58 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2001765154103660880