Fighting For The First And Second Amendments

Posted by freedomforall 7 months, 1 week ago to Philosophy
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"In a post earlier this week ("Digital Second Amendment Unveiled: Anti-Woke AI Bot Equips Users With 'Newest Weapons Of Digital Age'"), Zero Hedge wrote about Cody Wilson's new alternative to Open AI's ChatGPT, GatGPT ("Gat", from "Gatling" is an urban colloquialism for "gun"):

The team that built GatGPT, led by Cody Wilson, contends AI safety is a pretext for censorship and political control. They have declared a "[[Digital Second Amendment]]" that pledges to protect and distribute "the newest weapons of the digital age, not just to defend ourselves against corporate and government depredation, but to defend our civic identity and humanity."

Cody Wilson has also led the fight for another kind of Digital Second Amendment, one that overlaps with the First Amendment: the right to distribute software that enables citizens to 3D print their own guns. That fight is the subject of an upcoming documentary called Death Athletic: A Dissident Architecture. Director Jessica Solce explained the "Death Athletic" part of the title in a Vice interview this week:

Death Athletic comes from the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijl. He's talking about “death athletes” as martyrs for religious purposes, but I kind of modernized it. To me, it is the idea of someone who looks death in the eye, and death is no longer tyrannical. It becomes emancipatory. Being death athletic, to me, is someone who is steadfast in their motivations and stands for their principles, despite the obvious retribution or anger they're going to inspire.

There are plenty of forms of retribution the current left-liberal establishment has to work with against rebels like Cody Wilson, as Adrian Vermeule noted on X yesterday. "
SOURCE URL: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-09-21/fighting-first-and-second-amendments


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  • Posted by $ 25n56il4 7 months ago
    Miss Rachel Levine or whatever his/her name is needs to brush up on the Constitution. She can' t tell me what I can or cannot say. She doesn't even know what sex she is, why should I trust him?
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