Nation of ulysses free#

Because Ulysses isn’t about the value of obscene words. In other words, we would have a world where a book like Ulysses would be legal to publish and yet no longer possible to write. The Game of Thrones Prequel Suggests HBO Didn’t Learn a Thing From How It Ended How Do We Even Begin to Understand The Rehearsal’s Controversial Finale? The Worst Person in the New Game of Thrones I’ve Read Nearly All the Books by Former Trump Officials. The world would edge closer to a white noise of spam and propaganda and abuse and reflexive shouts where no one is actually talking to anyone.

We may be facing a future in which A.I.-powered bots can swarm every Twitter account and dominate every hashtag, driving away many of the humans on the platform and, by their influence, remaking those who remain in their bleak mechanical image.

Nation of ulysses free#

A private company like Twitter is usually free to moderate or censor speech, but that could change if the courts agree with Musk that Twitter is essentially a public place-a “town square.” Even laws requiring that bot accounts be identified as bots might be unconstitutional, if they are not completely ineffective. So is marketing and advertising, the anonymity of bot designers, lies (in many cases), and intentionally inflicting emotional distress upon public persons.

And when it does, the legal groundwork for bot protection will be in place. There’s at least one disturbing possibility that seems not to have occurred to this free speech absolutist: What if bots are protected by the First Amendment? No federal court has ruled upon the constitutionality of bot speech, but it’s probably only a matter of time before a case arrives. The problem is so dire to Musk (despite Tesla’s own apparent use of bots) that he has threatened to rescind his offer if Twitter’s bot accounts exceed its estimates. Just about the only speech that Musk wants to silence is bots-automated accounts run by machines posing as humans.