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12 Apr, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Among the many interesting points about Substack in @benyt's article -- including why it's such a threat to corporate journalists -- is the fact that it's now offering prominent trans writers huge advances beyond what they earn, and they're taking them.

nytimes.com/2021/04/11/bus…
The person who originated the narrative that Substack and many of its writers are transphobic is now claiming both the NYT & @benyt are transphobic because of the article they wrote on the controversy, even though the article featured a trans couple getting $600k from Substack.
That the NYT & @benyt are transphobic in general, or that this article is in particular is, is facially laughable. It's good to remember how some people casually and recklessly hurl this accusation, or weaponize it to smear people or just for fun:

nytimes.com/2021/04/11/bus…
Hope it was nothing I said. Not sure why it took 6 months. I wasn't aware I was sharing a platform with this person until this. I think everyone who wants to be should be on Substack, enjoying editorial & journalistic independence. No viewpoint-based censorship or de-platforming.

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1/ This predictably viral tweet from a Georgetown #Resistance Professor is an obvious distortion. In fact, it attributes to me a view -- that nobody can form judgments absent formal charges -- that I *explicitly* rejected. What's needed aren't formal charges but *evidence*:
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This is the reason that leaders around the world -- Merkel, Macron, AMLO and numerous others -- objected so loudly when Silicon Valley removed Trump from the internet, even as US journalists swooned. They see that this kind of oligarchical censorship is anti-democratic tyranny:
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Listen to Mexican President López Obrador after tech monopolies banned Trump in January, 2021, warning of the serious dangers posed by online censorship to basic democracy and its ability to survive -- warnings repeated by Germany, France & EU officials:

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No basis to assume AOC is responsible for this without evidence, but regardless, this is a very serious incident if the Capitol Police are dispatching armed police officers to citizens' homes in response to non-violent criticisms of a politician's statements. It's repressive.
It's totally unacceptable for the Capitol Police to dispatch armed officers of the state to the home of a citizen to interrogate them over tweets criticizing a politician, and since it was done in @AOC's name, she should speak out about it, too:

There should be an immediate investigation into what led the Capitol Police to dispatch armed officers to the home of a citizen to interrogate him about tweets he posted critical of AOC. If they come to your house without a warrant, tell them to fuck off.

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theintercept.com/2016/01/21/how…
Dean has been so upset with Lee Fang's characteristically relentless reporting about all of his sleazy legalizing influence-peddling that Dean, in 2016, decided to muse that perhaps the Intercept is funded by Russia or Iran: that's how deranged he is.
(Sincerest apologies in advance to Gov. Dean if my pointing this out incites anyone to tweet anything critical or unpleasant about or to him).
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