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24 Jan
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Stop saying "it's not censorship if it's not the government"; Trump's swamp gators find corporate refuge; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/24/1a/

#Pluralistic

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Monday night, I'll be helping William Gibson launch the paperback edition of his novel AGENCY at a Strand Bookstore videoconference. Come say hi!

eventbrite.com/e/william-gibs…

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Stop saying "it's not censorship if it's not the government": I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.



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24 Jan
Have you seen the stories about how Trump administration officials and staffers for Ted Cruz are finding that no one in the private sector will hire them because they are forever tainted by their former bosses' disgraceful behavior?

They're bullshit.

nymag.com/intelligencer/…

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The Swamped site from @twittlesis is a crowdsourced list of Trump's ugliest swamp-gators and the employers who put them in positions of power and authority despite their complicity with a fascist would-be dictator.

littlesis.org/swamped

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On @TheProspect, @alex_sammon provides highlights of the swamp-to-industry pipeline.

Unsurprisingly, babykiller companies LOVE Trump's gators. Jim Mattis? Board member for General Dynamics. Andrea Thompson? Northrop Grumman. HR McMaster? Zoom.

prospect.org/politics/as-th…

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24 Jan
If you think "It's not censorship unless the government does it," I want to change your mind.

It's absolutely true that the First Amendment only prohibits government action to suppress speech based on its content, but the First Amendment is not the last word on censorship.

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Here are some kinds of private speech-suppression that I think most of us can agree are censorship: when the John Birch Society burned mountains of rock records and novels - or when Tipper Gore's PMRC pressured record stores to drop punk, metal and rap albums.

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Or the Comics Code Authority, which signed up all comics publishers and retailers to block comics if they contained anything unfit for small children, which stunted American comics for generations while their European counterparts created entire sophisticated genres.

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23 Jan
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/641071732…
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/641071732…
Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/641071732…
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22 Jan
Today's threads (a thread).

Inside: Launching a print edition of HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM; EFF's transition memo for the Biden admin; How one of America's most abusive employers gets away with it; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/01/22/pap…

#Pluralistic

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Today (or tomorrow, in Australia), I'm keynoting linux.conf.au:

linux.conf.au/schedule/

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Launching a print edition of HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: Join me and Damon Beres next Thursday.



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