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Why Moderating Content Actually Does More To Support The Principles Of Free Speech

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Why Moderating Content Actually Does More To Support The Principles Of Free Speech

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Obviously over the past few years there’s been all of these debates about the content moderation practices of various websites. We’ve written about it a ton, including in our Content Mo…

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Gary Shteyngart

@Shteyngart

Celebrating the return of Three Lives at 10th and Waverly with some signed copies.

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Emma Carew Grovum

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Some **great** news about ⁦

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Gotta say this: Once Elon's bois get their marching orders, they do goosestep in perfect sync. Impressive.

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Yup, we're seeing a preview of Elon's Twitter. It's just what you think it would be. Testosterone, spittle, and bile dripping off the walls. Ah, the smell of sweat and humorless stupidity in the morning.

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Somebody release the squirrels to distract Elon's bois.

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Elon's bois and bots are out.

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Absolutely this:

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Jon Funabiki

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Journalism funders should require news organizations to report on their staff and leadership diversity as a condition of grants. Help dismantle systemic inequities in the news media #foundations #MIF #JournalismFunders #inequity twitter.com/meredithdclark…

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Elon's bois are out in force.

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Grant Addison

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Just log off, dude twitter.com/jeffjarvis/sta…

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In the rush to paywalls, there is too little talk about the cost and risk of subscriber acquisition and churn and the impact on scale.

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Jay Rosen

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Reminder: the digital subscription business is a very difficult business. Quartz (qz.com) is dropping its paywall – back to where it began. Pivoting to free for most of its product. poynter.org/business-work/

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The circle of life:

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Elie Mystal

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I'm not *really* worried about the racist white man buying this dumb platform because all the racist white man wants to do with it is make it easier for his friends to be racist. Which, like, they already are, all the time. And I make fun of them and they block me so whatever.

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Tanzina Vega

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Folks, CNN+ was Zucker's idea. Without him at the helm pushing for its success and the ensuing leadership changes, I cant see how it succeeds at its current size.

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Don't trust the self-interest of either. Then again, if either would like to buy Twitter....

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Cristiano Lima

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Apple's Tim Cook & Microsoft’s Brad Smith offered up competing visions for how to handle regulatory scrutiny in Washington this week. Today's Tech 202: washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/

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drew olanoff

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DMs are open if you have the bluejeans link for the twitter board meeting at 10

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Anybody remember where we stored our Google+ accounts?

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That is my current project. An RSS reader with Twitter's UI (only better). And I already have a number of blogging tools that all generate compatible RSS.

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-- what

is referring to (I assume) is Drummer, which is a product I developed last year and shipped in October that does blogging the way I initially imagined it would be done back in 1997. We took a wrong turn imho, and Drummer gets us back on track.

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DR. KRUPALI

@krupali

Because he’s a damn egomaniac

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD

@PeterHotez

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What puzzles me: with all those $billions to spend, why Twitter of all things? He loves space flight so why not instead build a great cosmology/physics institute with a Texas U, or new telescope, an institute for our @TXMedCenter or expand STEM education? houstonchronicle.com/news/article/T

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Ari Cohn

@AriCohn

I suppose the answer to this is self-evident, but still I feel compelled to ask: What in the flaming hot cheeto fuck is wrong with you,

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WTVC NewsChannel 9

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WATCH: Here's the quote from State Sen. Frank Nicely (R-Strawberry Plains):

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Karl Bode

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I wonder if it's all been a big, fat expensive distraction from this

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Benjamin Dreyer

@BCDreyer

The only thing worse than being a megalomaniacal billionaire is being a boring megalomaniacal billionaire.

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New York Times Pitchbot

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“My kids call me ‘Karen’.” Eight wine moms share their thoughts on living in America today.

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Benedict Evans

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Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again

Amazon now has 260k drivers.

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From the album: We'll Meet Again

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Today on Twitter feels like the last evening in a Berlin nightclub at the twilight of Weimar Germany.

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Benjamin Dreyer

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The super duper discount remains in effect (at multiple venues, of course, not just That One), and when I say that it's cheap, I mean that it's nearly free.

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Benjamin Dreyer

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Holy moley, if the ebook of DE were any cheaper right now, they'd be paying you. TAKE ADVANTAGE.

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Bring back blogging.

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Offer still stands to talk with

@JoeNBC

any time about what Section 230 actually does and doesn't do, and what Section 230 reform can and cannot accomplish.

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Re-upping this: youtube.com/watch?v=sxACC9

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Oh, no. @JoeNBC says the Musk offer is "the best reason to radically change Section 230... I hope he takes it over." I can't take this. I'm going to drown myself in the shower.

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This is what happens when you take a day off Twitter,

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That is why I have hopes for

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: speech is the commodity layer; anyone can speak. The value shifts to means to find authoritative, credible, relevant, useful, valued speech. But I dream.

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Oh, no.

says the Musk offer is "the best reason to radically change Section 230... I hope he takes it over." I can't take this. I'm going to drown myself in the shower.

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SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN

@sivavaid

The most significant part of Musk’s offer of $54.20 per share is the 4.20 part. If you didn’t get that you don’t get Musk. The trolling is the point.

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So long as attention continues on killing "bad speech," we'll be stuck in this loop. Shift the conversation to finding/supporting good speech (a la editors/publishers) then the focus changes.

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(((DeanObeidallah)))

@DeanObeidallah

BREAKING: Elon Musk Offers to Purchase Twitter in Cash per Report

BREAKING: "Elon Musk Offers to Purchase Twitter in Cash." if Musk buys Twitter this platform is over as we know it. It will not only allow Trump back on to spew hate but will become a white nationalist haven. mediaite.com/a/czyrf via

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mediaite.com

Elon Musk is making a play to purchase the social media platform outright, according to a Thursday morning report from Bloomberg News.

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Tim O'Brien

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Musk is offering $54.20 per share. Twitter’s shares hit $70 less than a year ago. So Twitter’s board may reject this - while Musk still gets to enjoy a public stunt.

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