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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN 🗽🤘🏽
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Please note: There was no move to “cancel” or “deplatform” Pence. None. Zero. Did that stop the
@washingtonpost
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It’s clear the cavalier Daily didn’t like the fact that Pence had been invited to speak on campus. But they don’t issue a call to boycott, and no one else was trying to “silence” Pence either: no one was taking any steps to actually prevent him from speaking. 9/
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Mike Masnick
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People regularly impute bad motives (usually political) to any content moderation decision they disagree with. This is almost always false. You can disagree with the reasons, but the motives are almost never what you claim.
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I'll post a link to video and possibly audio, Mondayish.
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Tim Walker: Three 💉and the Truth (he/him)
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Just enjoyed attending a great online discussion about the history of libraries featuring @APettegree (my former professor) and his coauthor @A_der_Weduwen, with @jeffjarvis moderating, as part of @univofstandrews alumni weekend.
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Jeff Jarvis
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Admit it: You read the phrase "the tweet that got away" and you're thinking this is going to be a bad internet story. It's not. It's a wonderful story. They exist every day on the net. We have only to see them.
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Richard R Clark 🇺🇦
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A wee thread about a young boy and the tweet that got away. Feel free to RT. Three weeks ago my youngest, Gabriel 12, came home upset. His love of woodwork was not deemed cool, nor was only having 6 followers on his instagram. 1/15
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This is a wise (very long🧵) speaking from experience:
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Yishan
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I've now been asked multiple times for my take on Elon's offer for Twitter. So fine, this is what I think about that. I will assume the takeover succeeds, and he takes Twitter private. (I have little knowledge/insight into how actual takeover battles work or play out) (long 🧵)
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Yishan
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Because the problems are NOT about politics, or topics of discussion. They are about all the ways that humans misbehave when there are no immediately visible consequences, when talking to (essentially) strangers, and the endless ingenuity they display trying to get around rules.
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Yishan
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And "pretty good" is about as good as any social network can possibly be, in my opinion. (
@Jack
, if you are reading this, my hat's off to you. Saying this as one of the few people who have ever run a social platform: you showed the world how it should've been done)
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Yishan
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Because it is not TOPICS that are censored. It is BEHAVIOR. (This is why people on the left and people on the right both think they are being targeted) The problem with social networks is the SOCIAL (people) part. Not the NETWORK (company).
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Yishan
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You really want to avoid censorship on social networks? Here is the solution: Stop arguing. Play nice. The catch: everyone has to do it at once. I guarantee you, if you do that, there will be NO CENSORSHIP OF ANY TOPIC on any social network.
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Ida Bae Wells
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The type of country that prevented a talented player from playing strictly because of his race is precisely the history you don’t want children learning.
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Tom Cotton
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75 years ago, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier as the first African American Major League Baseball Player. Today we honor him and his lasting legacy.
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There's a good story to be done here about illustration and the net. In newspapers, most stories were not illustrated. Online, everything has to be, for search snippets & social. Thus the illustrator, all but replaced with the advent of the portable camera & halftones, returns.
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The Twitter Saga — as told through art accompanying news stories — in Four Acts
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Mike Masnick
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I'd be more sympathetic to people insisting that content moderation is politically biased, if it didn't always come from people who have literally no experience, knowledge, or understanding of how it all works in reality.
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Nate Silver
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I'd be more sympathetic to calls for greater content moderation if people calling for it acknowledged that moderation decisions are likely to be implemented in a politically biased way. But I think most people asking for it see that as an advantage rather than a drawback.
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