Thread by @old_literature

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones Not sure how that was intended.

If it's a statement about how things are, one need only look around to see that it is certainly true.

If, however, you're saying that there's nothing wrong with that reality, then that might be popular, but it's philosophically indefensible.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones A position I keep hearing is that "one is entitled to have one's freedom of speech, as long as one accepts all of the consequences that come with exercising it."

How could one not have such a freedom? It's meaningless.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones That's like saying "you're free to walk down the street, as long as you don't mind the bully beating you up for doing so."

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones A freedom one can't exercise without meeting a punitive response isn't really a freedom.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones When people forget that, and start assigning the blame for aggressive acts to the victim instead of to the aggressor, civil society breaks down.

If it's allowed to keep on breaking down, the sequence of events put into motion can only have one end.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones They will end in bloodshed. I'm not advocating this, I'm simply stating it as a fact.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones Some people who've gotten their hands on a little bit of power must have been so blinded by their arrogance, that they can't see how close they are to setting off that backlash, or how badly it would end for them.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones The Far Left likes to hit people over the head with bike locks. The Far Right collects assault rifles.

I'm no soldier, but I think I can guess how a battle between two forces armed that way would play out in the field.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones But people will do what they will do, and the rest of us will get to dive for cover, I guess

So glad I live in the Midwest, where almost all of the SJW drama I run into is online. That, and that my apartment is more than 100 feet above street level. Makes cover easier to find 🙂

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones Having dealt with online censorship, myself, one thing I've learned is that the admins doing will try to lie about the content they censor. So, when I think that some woke person in Safety and Trust might abuse his power, first I'll unroll a thread.

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1170754…

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@morganauthor1 @craytusjones Then I'll archive it, ensuring that the truth will be there for all to see, even if a few fibs get told.

archive.is/xSlVH

web.archive.org/web/2019090818…

That way, if an admin decides to do something shady, he knows he's going to make his boss look shady.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones Bosses don't usually like that. Doing this hasn't made all of my admin related problems go away, but it has helped.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones I've deleted the unroll request, tidying up a little after getting done, but here's the procedure: Post a tweet the reads

"unroll @ threadreaderapp"

with the space between the "@" and "threadreaderapp" removed. I inserted that to avoid setting off the bot.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones If you want to add more to your comments, later on, and still be able to prove that you said what you said and not something that somebody else made up, just do another unroll request.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones Then re-archive by going to web.archive.org and archive.is

and submitting the url for the unroll

web.archive.org/web/2019090818…

archive.is/KkK7P

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@morganauthor1 @craytusjones The appended comments will now have been added to the unroll.

Try it. I think you'll find that this saves you a few problems.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones As for the "fun" happening on college campuses - iPhones do come with cameras, and Youtube has a lot of competitors.

People who abuse their power can be exposed.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones Afraid that your expose will be deleted? Give people permission to copy and re-upload your video in the description, and watch it go viral.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones Some admin might try to run software to look for copies of a video he removed, but video pirates have found ways to thwart such efforts. Those re-uploading censored videos with permission can borrow a few of their tricks.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones Which, of course, should be left un-mentioned here, because the last thing you want to do is given an admin a technicality he can act on.

Telling somebody how to bootleg copyrighted material would be one of those, which would be what we would be doing by mentioning those tricks.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones Here, I mean.

But as for a conversation that takes place offline, how would Twitter even know, and do they really want to try to say something about that?

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones Hope this helps.

@morganauthor1 @craytusjones unroll @threadreaderapp