People have asked me why I haven't written about Trump's executive order on social media and #CDA230. Here's why.
As everyone who understands the law knows, this will not survive contact with the judiciary. It's unconstitutional and incoherent and just stupid.
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As everyone who understands the law knows, this will not survive contact with the judiciary. It's unconstitutional and incoherent and just stupid.
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It's as if Trump declared up to be down, and then threatened FAA sanctions against anyone caught standing on the ground. This will doubtless inflict pain and chaos, but the first judge that hears the case will tell him to knock it off and stop being an idiot.
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The real purpose - tissue thin, totally obvious - is to get us to stop paying attention to white nationalism, pandemic genocide, 101,000 dead, and corruption and start talking about whether up is down.
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And life is short.
We've got things pretty good, all things considered. My family is solvent and healthy (for now) and I'm working and writing, but like everyone, I'm in a pretty brittle place - both very sad and very scared, and often very angry. It's not a good way to be.
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We've got things pretty good, all things considered. My family is solvent and healthy (for now) and I'm working and writing, but like everyone, I'm in a pretty brittle place - both very sad and very scared, and often very angry. It's not a good way to be.
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And writing explainers about why up isn't down, watching my mentions fill with cultists who are one purple shroud away from a pudding cup, insisting that down is actually up, all of that, it fills me with despair.
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It's not that I don't see the point of it. It's not to change minds in the death cult, it's to ensure that the vast majority of people who have sensibly never bothered to fill their brains with the minutiae of Clinton-era internet laws don't get misled.
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The point of setting out bait for the Zombies From the Planet of Motivated Reasoning isn't to talk to the zombies, it's to play to the gallery. It's to fill the data void.
datasociety.net/library/data-v…
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datasociety.net/library/data-v…
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The people who are filling that void are doing important work, but some days, I just can't.
If you want to know why up is not down, here's some reading:
@sarahjeong (always excellent, now more than ever):
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If you want to know why up is not down, here's some reading:
@sarahjeong (always excellent, now more than ever):
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And most comprehensively, my @EFF colleagues @aaron_d_mackey and @davidgreene:
eff.org/deeplinks/2020…
Thank you all, you brave void-fillers, for your service in the up-and-down wars. I'll see you on the other side.
-Cory
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eff.org/deeplinks/2020…
Thank you all, you brave void-fillers, for your service in the up-and-down wars. I'll see you on the other side.
-Cory
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