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24 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I don't know the specifics of this new Yale case, but Alan Dershowitz spearheaded one of the worst censorious campaigns in recent times when he worked for years to destroy the academic career of Norman Finkelstein for the crime of criticizing Israel:

nytimes.com/2007/04/12/art…
Along with others, I also battled Dershowitz when he attacked Brooklyn College for hosting an event with Israel critics: many tried to defund them.

For people on the right and left: there's no such thing as a part-time, selective free speech advocate.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
In 2014, Univ. of Illinois rescinded a faculty offer to Steven Salaita, a Palestinian-American professor, after his tweets criticizing Israel on Gaza caused some Jewish students to claim they felt "unsafe" (the school eventually paid him $900k to settle).

nytimes.com/2014/09/13/wor…
These attacks on free discourse have been going on for years. They are not the province of any one faction, nor do they end up aimed only at one ideology.

The only effective way to battle it is to defend the principle in all cases, not just when your allies are attacked.

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Just as the current epidemic of online censorship began with the age-old tactic of targeting someone widely disliked (Milo, then Alex Jones), these censors are trying to create a censorship precedent for Substack by forcing them to boot one bad writer, then expand from there:
That's the tactic of state and non-state censors always:

Let's find the first target that everyone hates so nobody cares when they're silenced. Then we'll have instituted this power and then we can use it far more widely.

You have to fight it in all instances, from the start.
These people are so fucking broken. It's not enough for them to refuse to read a site or refuse to write there, which is totally within their rights.

They can't stand that there's any venue they can't control, where people are free to speak. They're little petty wannabe despots.
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25 Mar
For the third time in six months, Congress is summoning tech CEOs to testify in order to badger and coerce them to censor the internet more. Google's Pichai, Facebook's Zuckerberg & Twitter's Dorsey will all testify. I wrote about it here last month:

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Congress has a legitimate role to play in overseeing tech giants, especially given its (valid) assessment that they wield classic monopoly power.

But they're not doing anything about that: they're instead trying to co-opt that power to censor the internet for their own interests
It's extra creepy somehow watching members of Congress sitting in their homes as they warn tech CEOs that they need to stop censoring the internet more or else they will enact laws to regulate and force them to do it:

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1/ Estou vendo muita confusão sobre o que significa "ser judeu". Sem comentar sobre nenhum indivíduo (cuja história eu não conheço), é importante entender que - ao contrário da cristianismo - "judeu" tem um significado racial / étnico e também religioso. Estes são separados.
2/ Segundo a lei judaica, qualquer pessoa nascida de mãe judia é judia - não importa o que acredite sobre Deus. É por isso que pode ter um ateu judeu, ou um judeu budista, ou mesmo um judeu que orar pro Jesus. Este é o sentido em que "judeu" significa uma identidade étnica/racial
3/ Mas tb tem um componente religioso: qualquer ser humano, de qualquer pais, pode se tornar judeu se passar pelo processo de conversão (o que é bem difícil). Essa é a definição religiosa de judeu: alguém que acredita nos princípios do Talmud e que observa o judaísmo religioso.
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Thank you for this thread: it's always disorienting to watch some on Twitter -- who care more about posturing than affecting anything -- create an image of you that's only about venting their own displaced rage and that's totally unrecognizable from the reality of your life:
In terms of people who prioritize vapid, cheap social media posturing over real-life conduct, see also this thread (and note how a couple hundred angry loudmouths are outnumbered by thousands of quiet supporters there: how Twitter creates misperceptions):

The replies to this tweet illustrate the same dynamic: a certain kind of leftist whose "politics" is confined to pointless online larping at the expense of anything that might actually change society for the better:

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