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Litter boxes, stolen elections, and the Pelosi attack

Hey Elon: Let Me Help You Speed Run The Content Moderation Learning Curve by Mike Masnick

It’s kind of a rite of passage for any new social media network. They show up, insist that they’re the “platform for free speech” without quite understanding what that actually means, and then they quickly discover a whole bunch of fairly fundamental ideas, institute a bunch of rapid (often sloppy) changes… and in the end, […]

Twitter’s new owner faces a difficult regulatory landscape around the world.

Bullshit Reporting: The Intercept’s Story About Government Policing Disinfo Is Absolute Garbage by Mike Masnick

Do not believe everything you read. Even if it comes from more “respectable” publications. The Intercept had a big story this week that is making the rounds, suggesting that “leaked” documents prove the DHS has been coordinating with tech companies to suppress information. The story has been immediately picked up by the usual suspects, claiming […]

Democrats are losing on "crime" even though they have the most popular policies for dealing with crime: more cops, fewer guns.

Free speech in America is endangered by bad-faith court cases, Section 230-based workarounds to the First Amendment, and a misguided backlash against Big Tech.

Donald Trump was right about pandemic politics.

Conservatives have responded to David DePape’s attack on Paul Pelosi and plan to torture Nancy Pelosi by questioning the events or refusing to condemn it. The right has followed this pattern with other extremist elements like QAnon and January 6.

Embracing the politics of sadism, the GOP base hits a new low.

On the Matter of the New Twitter Boss and Other Things by John Scalzi

Elon Musk is buying Twitter, apparently mostly just because he can, and people are — strangely! — worried about whether a thin-skinned ego monster of a billionaire who has problems relating to humans and appears to equate “free speech” with trolling is going to make a service already rife with trolls and and bots any […]

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Staying Or Going at Twitter: Ironically, a Twitter Thread by John Scalzi

Written this morning and now posted here for archival purposes. I’ll likely have more to say on the topic soon, but at the moment I’m in transit and heading home. Also note that if you’re reading this here, you probably don’t need the links to the site that I have provided. 1. As folks are […]

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But it matters that Elon Musk now owns it.

Both parties suffer partisan bloodshed. One glorifies it.

Can Judaism’s indigenous core help us rise above the damaging politics of our time?

Elon Musk’s First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter’s Strong Free Speech Stance by Mike Masnick

Last night, Elon Musk closed his on-again, off-again, on-again deal to buy Twitter, and his very first order of business was to fire a bunch of top executives. This was not necessarily unexpected. When new owners come in, they will often clean house, and the text messages revealed as part of the lawsuit while Musk […]

Ye's comments echo a very long history of antisemitic tropes.

Sentiments like theirs have led to Jewish deaths before. Is it any wonder we object to them?

Speaking in France on Monday, Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, warned of increasing antisemitism and dangers to Jews worldwide, as high-profile incidents of anti-Jewish bias grip the U.S. “Americans used to think, ‘Oh, this is something unique to France,’” Lipstadt said at an event hosted by the World… Read More

How governors reacted to the pandemic and closing schools made no difference in outcomes.

In a long-overdue move, I deleted Twitter from my phone. Here's why.