In a WordPress post, I quoted Benjamin Franklin: “We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” I tried to publicize the post containing that quotation. There followed a tale of AI incompetence, aided and abetted by human incompetence, which forced me to bowdlerize Franklin’s words.
All I had to change to make the post palatable was to paraphrase the quotation: “Franklin also suggested that if we all agree to stand together and speak truth to power, there aren’t enough masked men in black to arrest all of us.”
If you have a high school education and ever once paid attention in US History, you would realize not a threat. It is not a call to violence. It is not racist (ala Strange Fruit). It’s something one of our founding fathers said.
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