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26 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
A "counterterrrorism" org formed by Big Tech is expanding a database of "extremist content" they share, "aiming to crack down on...white supremacists and far-right militias".

I suppose I'm an "extremist," or will be soon.

msn.com/en-us/news/wor… | via ...
My views haven't changed; but the Overton Window is sliding left all the time.

We need to know their real, operational definition of "extremist," etc. Is Covid skepticism extremism? Supporting Trump? Skepticism about the 2020 elections?
Via startthis.org/?p=1276
DROPBOX is one of the member companies, people. That means they're looking into your unencrypted files to see if you've got your own personal copies of the verboten samizdat.
Get your data out of Dropbox, people. Get a NAS. It's not that hard to set up; you, or your local "power user," can probably set it up.
larrysanger.org/2019/04/the-na…
Here’s my NAS. Not only does it contain my files, backed up securely offsite, I can run lots of other things. Even my website StartThis.org. You’re looking at where it lives!

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25 Jul
Much of the "woke" and "cancel" culture of the last seven years or so (it really started ramping up around 2014) is basically softening up the culture for an all-out attack on the #Bible and Christians. Just wait. It won't be pretty. | via startthis.org/?p=1265
I wish I was wrong, but I'm not.

Gay marriage? Totally unbiblical.

gotquestions.org/gay-marriage.h…
Women preachers? Well, let's just say that the people who endorse the practice are the same sort of people who are comfy with creative interpretations of large parts of the Bible.

biblestudytools.com/bible-study/to…
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19 Jul
Whatever you're tweeting about is not as important as the fact that the Biden administration announced last wk that it coordinates with Facebook to censor online content. Thread:

Biden update:
nypost.com/2021/07/16/psa…

Psaki/Murthy admissions:
nypost.com/2021/07/15/whi… | via ...
Why so important?

Because it's real, live government censorship. They can say, "Well, we're just having our experts flag misinformation," but, and this is the important point:

That is the government participating in censorship.

It's illegal. Seriously.
How did we get here? A combination of things.

(a) There has been a steady drumbeat from governments and NGOs (to say nothing of other influential institutions) globally about "misinformation" and "fake news." So it is an Establishment talking point.

msn.com/en-us/news/new…
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19 Jul
Sharing because I promised I would. What do you Westerners reckon? Or should we stay out of such things?
I'm muting all future notifications about this.

I retweeted the thread. I also explained why I refuse to do more. I cannot chase down every supposed miscarriage of justice Wikipedia is involved in.
I permanently cut ties with Wikipedia in early 2003. I can't control Wikipedia; they hate me there. It is unreasonable to expect me to use my voice in every case where Wikipedia does something seriously wrong.
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16 Jul
In today’s irony, the Daily Mail, which WIkipedia forbids as a source, publishes an article...on my birthday...about my blog post, in which I defend the Daily Mail as a source...and gets the first fact wrong (I’m 53 today). 🙄
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9… | via startthis.org/?p=1167
Don’t ever say I didn’t have an eye for self-deprecating ironies.
ALERT, @DailyMail! Fact corrected by the subject of the article! 😁
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11 Jul
Help me out with articles, videos, etc., providing evidence and illustrations of the push to normalize pedophilia. I've talked about this before, but I might want to do a thread. Reply below, please.

I'll start:
redstate.com/streiff/2016/0… | via startthis.org/?p=1123
A good example was Salon's short-lived push to normalize it by promoting one pedophile's claim that he is "not a monster":

breitbart.com/the-media/2016…

We wouldn't want stuff much older than ten years or so. The point is to show a growing trend.
The Coalition of African American Pastors sees a trend and has declared their undying opposition to it.

caapusa.org/2021/01/the-se…
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8 Jul
If you’re still using Gmail as your main email driver, you’re behind the times. For me, it’s becoming like AOL used to be—a Gmail address marks you as a trusting fool, easily led, maybe in need of extra hand-holding. OK for grandma... | via startthis.org/?p=1107
OK, since people keep asking: I recommend owning your own domain name and paying a bit annually for hosting.

Firstname@LastName.AltTLD can be nice. There are lots of alternative TLDs today. My address is first@last.io.

ProtonMail or Epik, I guess, for hosting. I use InMotion.
And why?

Because Google violates your privacy, even in some ways your autonomy, and your Gmail address means you accede to the centralizing dominance of one of the most evil corporations in history.
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