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@PaulbernalUK
Sep 10, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Quick point about Vance and his ilk. Twitter and Parler perform different functions. Parler is for rallying the troops, discussing tactics, sharing information - and preaching to the choir. 1/n
Twitter is for the attacks. For the trolling and the intimidating - because Twitter has ‘the enemy’ on it, as well as the choir. You can always find places to preach to the choir.... 2/n
...but taking Twitter away takes away the opportunity to troll and to attack. That’s why being banned from Twitter matters - in a good and a bad way. 3/n
If the main way you use Twitter is to attack, you’re always at risk of being reported, suspended or banned. /ends

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Nov 8
What will happen when the MAGAs find out that deporting undocumented migrants doesn’t help jobs, wages, or the economy, doesn’t reduce crime and doesn’t improve their situation? 1/5
What will happen when they find out that tariffs make their shopping more expensive, not cheaper? What will happen when they find out that tax cuts don’t apply to them, just to the rich? 2/5
What will happen when the Incels find out that even with Trump in the White House women don’t want to sleep with them? What will happen when they learn that the techbro billionaires aren’t actually on their side? 3/5
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A short thread on bias at university. In my course on ‘The Protection and Management of Privacy and Reputation’ we use the Laurence Fox defamation case as a case study. It’s a technically interesting case: I teach it for that reason, not because of the political aspects. 1/6
I would give bad marks to anyone who said ‘Fox lost because the judge refused to define racism’ not because I’m politically biased, but because that would not be true. Fox lost because his legal team were unable to demonstrate that the relevant tweets caused serious harm… 2/6
…whilst his opponents legal team were able to demonstrate serious harm from his tweets. I would, however, give good marks for well-written arguments that the case shows that defamation law can have a chilling effect on social media, and that this may not be a good thing. 3/6
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Aug 13
Do you remember when we told you the laws against protest were authoritarian?

Do you remember when we told you the Online Safety Bill was a threat to free speech?

Do you remember caring?

No. Because you didn’t care.

Thread… 1/4
You didn’t care because you didn’t like the protestors & wanted them stopped.

You didn’t care about the Online Safety Act because you only thought evil trolls would be caught by it.

Newsflash: a tool to control can be used by people you don’t like, as well as those you do. 2/4
Newsflash 2: governments change.

Whenever you give a government *you like* powers, subsequent governments get those powers too.

Give Boris Johnson powers, you give them to his successors. You give them to Keir Starmer.

That works both ways. 3/4
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Aug 2
This past week has shown (once again) that the biggest harms of social media are not the ‘trolls and bots’ but the big accounts that magnify, corral and spread the harm. (Short thread) 1/4
These are not anonymous accounts, these are not ‘foreign’ accounts. These are our mainstream media people, our politicians, our ‘influencers’ and ‘commentators’. Amongst other things, this is yet another demonstration of how badly focussed the Online Safety Act is. 2/4
We spend our time looking at individual ‘harms’, at specifically harmful ‘content’ rather than at the structural issues (algorithms etc) and at the obvious ‘bad guys’ rather than at the overall effect. 3/4
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Jul 7
A few points about Starmer’s majority on a small vote share - and a comparison with Johnson’s situation in 2019. First thing to remember is that *as of this moment* it doesn’t matter how many votes they got, but how many seats. 1/7
That’s the problem with FPTP - a seat is a seat is a seat. In terms of governance, that means Starmer’s position is incredibly strong. He can basically do what he wants - just as Johnson could do whatever *he* wanted. 2/7
That i puts the emphasis on what Starmer actually does. There’s the rub. How did Johnson turn a massive majority into a crushing defeat? By governing abysmally. By being corrupt, incompetent and dishonest. He couldn’t fulfil his promises - because his promises were lies. 3/7
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I have a little theory about Sunak. There are many reasons he’s in the mess he is, but one of them is his decision to go ahead with the Rwanda Scheme. He had a chance to step back from it, to abandon it. Instead he chose to push it. 1/4
He knew it was batshit. He knew it was unworkable. He just thought it would resonate with the nutters and the racists, and give him credibility with the far right. With the GBeebies audience, with the Braverman fans. 2/4
The trouble is, its failure to function was then on his hands. The nutters and racists still don’t like him, and its failure gave Farage (and Braverman) room on the right. The Overton Window is shifted, and the last remnant of Tory ‘competence’ is extinguished. 3/4
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