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17 Jan

With the deplatforming of forums where trumpists and right-wing figures congregate, there's a lot of chatter about whether and when private entities have the right to remove speech, and what obligations come with scale.

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The most important - and overlooked - area of this discourse is the role that monopoly plays, and the role that anti-monopoly enforcement could play.

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In short, the fact that being removed from Twitter and the app stores and Facebook and Amazon is so devastating is best addressed by weakening those companies by spreading out our digital life onto lots of platforms.

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

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16 Jan

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Pelosi kicks Katie Porter off the Finance Committee; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/16/spe…

#Pluralistic

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1350500785684004864

Pelosi kicks Katie Porter off the Finance Committee: Paging Upton Sinclair, Mr Sinclair to the white courtesy phone.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1350500785684004864

#20yrsago Teresa Nielsen Hayden’s formal excommunication web.archive.org/web/2000022605…

#15yrsago New discussion draft of GNU General Public License is released gplv3.fsf.org

#15yrsago Firefly fans trying to raise enough $ to produce a new season web.archive.org/web/2006011803…

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Cory Doctorow #BLM

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16 Jan

The Democrats are at least two parties. The progressive wing of the party (which is by no means unified) and the finance wing of the party, which is also the party leadership.

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@SenSanders

During the leadership race, the progressive wing was represented by @SenSanders and @SenWarren; the former wants to minimize the role of markets in our lives, the latter wants to redeem markets by regulating them. It's a distinction with a difference, but I donated to both.

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@AOC

Both wings of the party have prominent representatives in Congress; Sandersism are most visibly associated with @AOC (whom I donated to) and Warrenism is embodied by @RepKatiePorter (likewise), who was also one of Warren's law school proteges.

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16 Jan

1949 - Paul Robeson was scheduled to sing in Peekskill, New York when a riot was staged by hundreds of members of the Ku Klux Klan, American Legion, and New York State Troopers.

It was later revealed that the local police helped coordinate the mass assault on African-American attendees. The violence, it was said, was “tolerated – if not organized – by local police and FBI.”

Some of the white mob chanted, “We’re Hitler’s boys. We’re going to get Robeson. Lynch Robeson!” Among them was the police chief’s son.

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16 Jan

METROPOLIS (1927)dir. Fritz Lang atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/640434391…

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15 Jan

Note to galaxy brains: if you think that the right response to being shaken down by the FBI at the behest of an internet troll is to keep silent lest you "give trolls ideas," then you are not being very thoughtful about this.

pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hoo…

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I'm an immigrant whose citizenship application and residency are at stake. I came forward about my experience despite that because people deserve to know that this is happening and that federal law enforcement is enabling it.

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The idea that the troll who sicced the FBI on me was some kind of Louis Pasteur of Internet Hate whose unique insight led them to invent this incredibly creative tactic is...foolish. Making false reports to cops to shut up your opponents is as old as Plato. At least.

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