Never ceases to amaze me that every time urbit comes up here all you guys can come up with is "it's racist" and "hoon is weird". There are valid criticisms to make, but these ain't it.
Two main things lacking are a coherent concept of the good, and a notion of proper subsidiarity. In the US case, we're hashing out a synthesis of LGBT and GDP as the greatest value, and then forcing solutions developed from pop scale of millions onto communities of thousands.
" by providing a place for users to optionally access context and authoritative speech when they want it. This means that such functionality could even be required by law, just as nutrition facts are for foods. It might be required for all messaging and social media apps over a certain size, built into operating systems, or mandated through Apple App and Google Play stores."
"Oi do you have a loicense for that decontextualized piece of information?"