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11 Mar, 6 tweets, 1 min read
Republican legislatures are passing doomed and unconstitutional "anti-censorship" legislation aimed at banning social media companies from prohibiting Nazis or advocates for lowering the age of consent to 7 from posting on their sites. Idaho is the latest

legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/upl…
Republicans, to literal Nazis: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help"
Republicans: such assholes we're afraid nobody will listen to us unless the government forces them to
Republicans: Constitution shmonstitution. Fuck your freedoms.
Republicans: Statist tyranny? May or may not be good. Depends whether it helps us politically
You've got to ask yourself why Republican state legislators are so committed to making sure Nazis can recruit on social media

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28 Feb
I'm sorry but this makes no sense. If anyone can watch the clip elsewhere then you don't own anything about the clip. You just own the rights to "that clip when bordered with a Top Shot graphic"

What's the value proposition here?

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And yes, anything anyone is willing to pay for has the value people are willing to pay for it. Gold isn't expensive for any reason other than "lots of people want it"
But that's the thing. There's a limited supply of gold and lots of people want access to it. Here, why are people expecting that lots of people will continue to want access to the Top Shot version of this highlight, or any other?
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25 Feb
And on this note, just going to share an idea on the societal/institutional treatment of women that we can see from the megillah, if we pay attention to the text. Particularly, around Ahashverosh, Vashti, and Esther... and Mordechai.

Basically, don't be Ahashverosh (good advice)
So here's the question: What was it that Vashti did that triggered what looks like an inexplicable overreaction from Ahashverosh, and completely wild advice about societal breakdown from his advisor (Memuchan/Haman, same guy btw)?
I mean, sure, she said no to the King, and that's not really a thing you get to do in a monarchical state. But why in the world does Memuchan suggest that if the king lets this go, it'll have trickle-down effects on every subordinate government official? How does that make sense?
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24 Feb
Some of this stuff is really noxious. But not all of it. The idea that state officials can't enter into consent decrees that change state law without consent from the legislature is, frankly, a good one.
That's separate and apart from the fact that the consent decrees that had Trump up in arms were obviously reasonable and would have been approved. The legislature, not governors, attorneys general, or secretaries of state, is the state body that has authority to write law
In the normal course, the legislature is the only state body that can amend the laws they pass.

That the state is being sued over the law shouldn't change that by conferring authority on non-legislative officials to rewrite the law in the form of a settlement agreement
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23 Feb
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Without the Get, the parties are still religiously married, with all the consequences that entails.

This should not be an issue. In 99% of cases, it's not. Not giving a Get is abusive - it leaves the wife locked in, unable to move on - and most of us aren't abusers
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21 Feb
This Israel vaccine nonsense.

1) The Oslo Accords provide that the PA is responsible for medical care in Gaza/WB
2) The PA did not ask Israel to procure vaccine for it and insisted it would procure it independently
3) Israel has not hindered them from doing so
The same folks who insist that Palestine is a state that should be a member of the UN and the ICC has jurisdiction over also seem to think Israel should be ignoring the PA's treaty-given rights and responsibilities. Because why not
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18 Feb
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Remember this? The legislators in ND have updated it.

Now, they are authorizing Nazis to sue you if you report their content to Twitter.

No, I'm not joking. I wish I was, but I'm not.
Here's the new bill legis.nd.gov/assembly/67-20…
Aside from trying and again failing to legislate around 230 - which protects social media companies from any liability at all for "viewpoint discrimination," they've now added an "aiding and abetting" claim against users for reporting content to moderators
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