The impossible problem of due process

I wrote this entire post in February of 2023, during the fallout from the TIME article. I didn't post it at the time for multiple reasons:

• because I had no desire to get involved in all that nonsense
• because I was horribly burned out from my own community conflict investigation and couldn't stand the thought of engaging with people online
• because I generally think it's bad to post on the internet out of frustration or outrage

But after sitting on it for a full year, I still think it's worth posting, so here it is. The only edits I have made since February 16th, 2023, were to add a couple interstitial sentences for clarity, and change 'recent articles' to 'articles from February 2023'. So, it's not intended to be commenting on anything more recent than that.

I am precommitting to not engaging with any comments, because I am [...]

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First published:
January 16th, 2024

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sJEcNgqnSL2n35QWR/the-impossible-problem-of-due-process

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Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.