ChristerMLB

That’s exactly the idea. The process of rational discussion and consideration is supposed to take care of the quality.

Obviously this was before the birth of the internet, and also before the birth of the think tank :l

Maybe before recording and communication technologies allowed us to see and hear the best stuff all the time? Or before American Idol hammered the point home?

I dunno, I think it’s pointing at something real, although it’s more a change in degree

Sloppy reading on my part as well. Seems like you want something between the standard windows/macos experience and i3, and that sounds like a good idea, but I’m not sure it exists

If you read the classical texts defending freedom of speech (Mill, Spinoza, Kant, et.c.), you’ll see that the point was supposed to be to get as many ideas as possible up on the table, so they can be rationally discussed and considered.

They were quite clear that harassment, shaming and other ways of shutting people up, goes against this purpose - and while they might not want the government to get involved, I don’t think they’d have a big problem with platforms doing content moderation to prevent those sorts of things.

Fedora has an i3 flavor, you could try that - or just install whatever WM you want to check out on your current setup. You can usually select your WM on the login screen once it’s installed.

I think it would be better for privacy to just ban certain kinds of social media for everyone. Maybe introduce such strong limitations on targeted advertising and behaviorist addiction techniques that it is practically a ban on the worst offenders.