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10 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Criticizing Public Figures, Including Influential Journalists, is Not Harassment or Abuse

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As social media empowers uncredentialed people to be heard, society's most powerful actors seek to cast themselves as victims and delegitimize all critiques.

It is a majestic reversal of power dynamics, in which the most influential unite to silence everyone else.
Knowing you will be vilified as some kind of brute abuser if you criticize a New York Times reporter is, for many people, too high of a price to pay.

So people instead refrain, stay quiet, and that is the obvious objective of this lowly strategy.

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Speak of the devil: #Harassment

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11 Mar
Just like "torture" became "enhanced interrogation techniques" and "kids in cages" are now to be referred to as "migrant children detained in immigration facilities," journalists are now starting to refer to their incessant censorship demands as "content moderation challenges."
Also, if journalists want to continue to claim that any criticisms of their journalism constitutes "harassment" and "incitement of abuse," they're going to need to come up with a list of which journalists can be harshly criticized and which are off-limits. It's seems arbitrary.
One last thing: if a journalist decides to write an article urging that you be banned from writing -- in the name of Safeguarding Real Journalism -- hope that the one who does it is someone who just got fired for serial plagiarism within the last year.

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11 Mar
Journalists Start Demanding Substack Censor its Writers: to Bar Critiques of Journalists

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This new political battle does not break down along left v. right lines. This is an information war waged by corporate media to silence any competition or dissent.

They try to minimize and dismiss what they are doing as a "culture war" to mask how repressive it really is.
The journalist who stepped up to demand I and others be censored by Substack -- because our critiques of corporate journalists constitute "harassment" -- is a disgraced Buzzfeed writer fired for plagiarism.

But it was applauded by other journalists, professors & a Google exec.
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9 Mar
Taylor Lorenz is a star reporter with the most influential newspaper in the US, arguably the west. Her work regularly appears on its front page.

Her attempt to claim this level of victimhood is revolting: she should try to find out what real persecution of journalists entails.
If you're going to insinuate yourself into polarizing political debates and report (or pretend to "report") on the powerful, you'll be "attacked" online. It can be extra toxic due to race, gender, sexual orientation, etc but it's still just online insults. That's not persecution.
With all the suffering and deprivation and real persecution in the world, it is utterly astonishing how often coddled, well-paid, highly privileged, coiffed, insulated, protected US elites posture as the world's most oppressed class. It's quite sickening and offensive.
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8 Mar
Brazilian Supreme Court just invalidated the criminal convictions of ex-President Lula da Silva, restoring his political rights and rendering him eligible to run against Bolsonaro in 2022. He was leading all polls when convicted in 2018.
The court ruled the corrupt judge and prosecutors who convicted Lula, @SF_Moro, had no right even to take the case. That was the subject of one of the first articles we published in our exposés:

theintercept.com/2019/06/09/bra…
Deltan e Moro sabiam desde o início que o caso de Lula não cabia em Lava Jato/Curitiba. Mas eles queriam nas mãos de Moro - eles sabiam que ele estava trapaceando e iriam condenar Lula - então eles se envolveram em truques para mantê-lo lá. Nosso primeiro dia de #VazaJato:
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8 Mar
VIDEO: With a Second War on Terror Looming, a New Film Explores the Grave Abuses of the First

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Imprisoned without charges for fourteen years in Guantánamo, @MohamedouOuld is a symbol of humans' impulse to abuse power and their capacity for redemption.

The interview I conducted with him on Saturday is one I sincerely hope you will watch. A preview:
Particularly now, with Dems and their neocon allies who spawned the first War on Terror plotting how to launch a second, this time with a domestic focus, it is vital understand how arbitrary power of this kind ends up at least as dangerous as the enemy invoked to justify it.
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5 Mar
As the Insurrection Narrative Crumbles, Democrats Cling to it More Desperately Than Ever

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If the threat of "armed insurrectionists" and "domestic terrorists" is as great as some claim, why do they have to keep lying and peddling crude media fictions about it?

From fire extinguishes to massive Inauguration Day violence to a new March 4 uprising: fake hysteria reigns.
"Threats and dangers are not binary: they either exist or are fully illusory. They reside on a spectrum. To insist that they be discussed rationally, soberly and truthfully is not to deny the existence of the threat itself."

In all cases, dangers are inflated for nefarious ends.
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