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19 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
A central reason why the current media landscape is so constricted and stifled: the logic underlying demands to combat "Russian disinformation" has now been fully inculcated into journalists' overall advocacy for the suppression and censorship of speech
mtracey.substack.com/p/how-the-cens…
Russiagate was a crucial forerunner to this ongoing outbreak of journalist-led censoriousness, but of course most journos eagerly helped amplify and propagate Russiagate so how would they even be aware of the damage they inflicted
Substack is only a "debacle" if you've been indoctrinated into believing you possess some eternal right to regulate the free-flow of information on the internet according to your political preferences. Russiagate kicked that indoctrination into overdrive
I'm literally shaking right now at how dangerous Substack is 😭😭😭

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15 Mar
Why Journalists Hate Substack mtracey.substack.com/p/why-journali…
The bottom line: pressure on Substack to censor/regulate is going to escalate at an accelerating pace from this point forward, because journalists fundamentally motivated by petty jealousies and resentments are going to campaign for its destruction under the pretext of "safety"
Yes, I admit I'm biased in favor of Substack not being destroyed by self-important domineering cry-bullies
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14 Mar
Catching up on Scottish politics, which are in turmoil as evidence mounts that the government engineered a scheme to "take down" a prominent political figure with false sexual misconduct charges, leading to a Party schism that may imperil the entire Independence project. Whoops
Speaking of Scotland's ruling party, they've also just ushered through a new "Hate Crime" bill which criminalizes "stirring up hatred" by "displaying, publishing or distributing" materials which members of various identity groups may "reasonably" deem "threatening or abusive"
Imagine the sheer breadth of scenarios whereby the law could apply to social media. (Also apparently applies to totally private communications.) SNP's justice minister has touted this "world-leading approach," and it wouldn't be surprising for certain US officials to follow suit
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10 Mar
ANNOUNCEMENT! I have officially joined the land of Substack. It was probably inevitable. But I'm very excited about the opportunities the platform affords. And most of all, looking forward to making insufferable people's heads explode mtracey.substack.com/p/officially-d…
I am following the laissez faire Substack model where for the first little while, everything published will be freely available to everybody. However, you can still sign up for the paid version right away. Eventually some kind of regulatory schema will kick in though so ACT FAST!
^Clarification, there's no paywall or anything for at least the first month or so. "Paid version" just means that you choose to pay for a subscription, which for now offers the exact same stuff as a free subscription
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9 Mar
1) Become professional adult journalist
2) Opine/report on controversial subjects
3) Receive criticism online
4) Claim your "life has been destroyed" by this criticism despite the institutional backing of your employer, the New York Times
Taylor Lorenz is circulating the manifesto of a new group called "Coalition Against Online Violence" which defines "violence" as harsh criticism online. This is becoming the new standard in the media industry, and its intended effect is to stifle criticism against public figures
If you are this traumatized and disconsolate from your adult professional choices, that's unfortunate and hopefully you have mental health resources available. But using it as a battering-ram to stigmatize as "violence" all criticism of you, a public figure, is totally absurd
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26 Feb
Recurring issue with Clubhouse chats is that they almost inevitably evolve into a discussion of "woke-ism" (understandably so given the ideology's cultural/political ascendance) but there's seldom anyone in the room who identifies enough with the ideology to give a defense of it
I actually started a new room trying to remedy this very issue, and sure enough it's expanded into a large multi-racial discussion of "Wokism." Pretty fascinating
It's international too which is doubly interesting: US, Egypt, UK, Jamaica, Sweden
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22 Feb
Marijuana is legal in New Jersey as of today. Massive blow to suburban police forces who I can personally attest often had nothing better to do than strenuously investigate petty marijuana offenses
NJ has an absurd glut of police jurisdictions, so in many areas police were notorious for filling their time with vigorous pursuit of marijuana-related "crime" -- legalization really does upend the entire enforcement and revenue-generation model for a large number of departments
It boggles the mind how heavily certain municipal police departments / courts relied on marijuana enforcement for generating revenue. Corrupt to the core. Not long ago they never could've imagined legalization was even possible. Keep them in your thoughts & prayers
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