I'm noticing many of the same people who swore #netneutrality is essential to preserving the internet as we know it also demand Big Tech actively regulate speech on their platforms
I'm not an anti-vaxxer or a holocaust denier. I just want people to think *really* carefully before outsourcing speech regulation to Big Tech.
I recommend reading @Cloudflare's official statement when they terminated the Daily Stormer's account bec even as they justify their decision, they're 100% aware of the dangers to free speech. blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-termina…
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For those insisting on differentiating between Hamas and the Palestinian people as a whole, as recently as March 2023, 58% of those polled by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research supported armed confrontations. pcpsr.org/en/node/938
And from June 2022, "59% view armed attacks against Israelis inside Israel as serving the national interest in ending the occupation and 56% support these attacks" pcpsr.org/en/node/912
The pertinent question is not if Palestinians support the specific parties of Hamas or Fatah, but if they support murdering Jews.
1. I've made several comments about the debate over judicial reform in Israel. Due to Twitter being Twitter, criticizing one argument from one side is taken as an endorsement of the other.
For anyone who cares, here's my actual opinion 🧵
2. Checks and balances are not just a slogan, but in theory, ought to curb the potential excesses of any branch of government. The main problem is that any institution of power is susceptible to corruption.
This includes the checks and balances.
3. Rhetorical appeals to things like "will of the people", "democracy", "justice", and the like are typically empty references/appeals to vague concepts that just so coincidentally happen to correlate with one's preferences.
Today's topic: Blaming Tragedies and Suffering on Sin
2. When bad things happen in the world, e.g. natural disasters, it's not uncommon to find religious figures attributing these disasters and associated suffering to God rendering punishment for sin.
3. For one recent example, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi of Tzefat Israel, compared the devastating earthquakes in Turkey to God punishing the Egyptians in the Red Sea immediately after the exodus. timesofisrael.com/top-national-r…
1. There's a lot to unpack in this story and with strong opinions, you're also going to find some bad-faith arguments.
And as it happens so often with Israel, this is one more conflict of religious and political interests. 🧵 timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-calls…
2. Without getting into the details of Jewish law, the standards of converting to Judaism implemented by Reform Judaism generally do not meet the criteria defined by halakhah.
3. For the Jewish communities that define Jewishness based on halakhah, non-halakhic conversions are invalid and the individuals who went through this process would not be considered Jewish until they undergo a halakhic conversion.