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7 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Trump's class action lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are absurd. His attorneys will be laughed out of court at the first opportunity.
reason.com/2021/07/07/tru…
The First Amendment protects private companies from the government, not the other way around.
You can't just say *I don't like how Facebook treated me therefore it is unconstitutional.* I'd be lying if I said the lawsuits' arguments are more sophisticated than that.
Trump tries to argue that Section 230 is unconstitutional—something no court on earth agrees with—but even if he somehow got rid of 230, this would not magically force FB and Twitter to put him back on the platform. (Likely, it would make them take down more rightwing content.)

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8 Jul
The Capitol Police are opening up offices in the states, and will become an intelligence gathering agency like the FBI and NSA. This is a nightmare scenario, one that civil libertarians of all stripes should oppose.
reason.com/2021/07/08/the…
Sadly, several members of the squad—including AOC—dodged the opportunity to kill House funding for this, reports @ggreenwald greenwald.substack.com/p/the-capitol-…
What happened on January 6th was an odious spectacle. We should condemn the rioters and the ex-president who encouraged them. This does not mean the Capitol Police should be transformed into yet another domestic surveillance agency. reason.com/2021/07/08/the…
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15 Jun
Daniel Elder is an acclaimed choral composer. On June 1, 2020, he sent the tweet that ended his professional career: He criticized the "well-intentioned, blind" activists who had burned the Nashville courthouse following a BLM rally. (1) reason.com/2021/06/15/dan…
Elder was a center-left liberal, and supporter of BLM. He had no idea that objecting to arson would be controversial, but he was soon inundated with harassing comments and emails calling him a hateful racist. (2)
A sampling of the responses he received. To be clear, Elder did not malign BLM or say anything racist whatsoever; he objected to violence, rioting, and arson, and suggested these tactics would set back the movement—which is true and uncontroversial.
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4 May
Well, the CDC's guidance for summer camps is probably the most draconian and insane thing the agency has said during the pandemic: masks, distancing, even for kids, no sports, no contact, no nothing. reason.com/2021/05/04/cdc…
Experts described it as "cruel, irrational," and even "simply virtue signaling" in interview with The Atlantic nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Really, this guidance is stricter than the guidance for vaccinated adults who are outdoors.
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7 Apr
The 60 Minutes DeSantis/Publix story is the biggest journalism screwup in quite a while. But with one exception, no media watchdogs at mainstream outlets are covering it. Why? reason.com/2021/04/07/60-…
Neither The New York Times nor The Washington Post have covered this. Nothing from CJR or Poynter. The PolitiFact Truth-o-Meter dial hasn't budged!
Worst of all, Axios framed the story as DeSantis trying to "milk" his mistreatment, calling it "a juicy chance to ingratiate himself with the GOP base by bashing the media." Uh, the media bashing is well deserved here. DeSantis didn't start this, CBS did.
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5 Apr
The 60 Minutes piece on Ron DeSantis and Florida's vaccine rollout is wildly, embarrassingly flawed. Journalistic malpractice.
reason.com/2021/04/05/60-…
CBS claims Publix got the vaccine contract because of a "pay for play" scheme, i.e. donating to DeSantis's campaign. DeSantis calmly debunked this entire notion, but 60 Minutes cut the clip to make it look like he dodged.
DeSantis gave CBS this extremely plausible explanation—Publix was NOT first, they have 800 stores, etc.—and CBS just didn't use it. They clipped it so that DeSantis looks irate and combative. Image
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22 Jan
As I am primarily known for criticizing cancel culture, Will Wilkinson—who once suggested I branch out to "slightly more important stories"—may be the closest thing I have to an ideological foe. In that spirit, I oppose his firing.
reason.com/2021/01/22/nis…
Staggering number of hypocrisies here, frankly. Will's tweet was very bad, but more obviously a joke than what the president of the organization, Jerry Taylor, tweeted earlier this year.
Taylor's tweet "can be interpreted as condoning violence" to a much greater degree than Wilkinson's. And Taylor is the boss, so one could reasonably infer that sort of thing is okay if he does it.
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