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10 Jan

The Night of the Short Fingers saw many of the US's largest tech companies blocking Trump and trumpist platforms like Parler, provoking a storm of punditry about What It All Means for the tech companies to have taken this content moderation step.

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@jilliancyork

The best expert I know on the subject is @jilliancyork, my @EFF colleague. She's published "an ongoing list" of "everything pundits are getting wrong about this current moment in content moderation."

You should read it.

jilliancyork.com/2021/01/10/eve…

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Here's some highlights:

“Deplatforming Trump sets a precedent."

York: "The only 'precedent' set here is that this is indeed the first time a sitting US president has been deplatformed by a tech company."

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

@doctorow

10 Jan

Hero at Large (1980) atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/639897117…

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

@doctorow

9 Jan

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Mashapedia; The City We Became; Crowdsourcing a list of bad cops; Censorship, Parler and antitrust; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/09/the…

#Pluralistic

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1347609480758841352

Mashapedia: A third-party glossary of the technical concepts from Attack Surface.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1347609480758841352

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1347613537590337536

The City We Became: Jemisin relitigates Jacobs v Moses, with Lovecraft refereeing.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1347613537590337536

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

@doctorow

9 Jan

As Parler disappears from the Android and Ios app stores and faces being kicked off of Amazon's (and other) clouds, people who worry about monopolized corporate control over speech are divided over What It Means.

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There's an obvious, trivial point to be made here: Twitter, Apple and Google are private companies. When they remove speech on the basis of its content, it's censorship, but it's not GOVERNMENT censorship. It doesn't violate the First Amendment.

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And yes, of course it's censorship. They have made a decision about the type and quality of speech they'll permit, and they enforce that decision using the economic, legal and technical tools at their disposal.

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