Thread by @AJKayWriter

Yesterday, @Medium informed me via email that they were deleting my account for “elevated risk of potential harm to persons or public health”

The only piece I pub'd there in the last 9mo. was a narrative essay expressing shock at how we’ve treated children - 6w ago...

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And for that thoughtcrime, they are burning my books in the town square.

All my books.

Even the ones on parenting and autism and writing and health.

Medium thinks I am a dangerous dissident in need of silencing...

Understand I wasn’t cited for dispensing medical advice or ‘misinfo’ (which we know means inconvenient truths) like I was when they censored The Curve is Already Flat in April 2002.

This time, it was my opinions and morals that were deemed a risk to people or public health...

I think this is a watershed. The piece was narrative non-fiction. A story. An interpretation. They’re not saying I got any info wrong.

What they take issue with is the way I see the world.

More specifically, the prospect that it might resonate with other people...

Within this new, virtuous framework, there's no marketplace of ideas. Ideas are curated & culled by unelected technocrats.

People don’t get to choose or think.

They're force-fed fear & selfishness-veiled-as-selflessness, until their sour stomachs vomit manufactured vitriol...

It should be deeply to everyone that our subjective and personal impressions, senses, thoughts, experiences, feelings, judgements, theories, and views can all be silenced by invoking the mere spectre of “danger”.

I do wonder which part of the essay they objected to.

Was it calling out the perverse inversion of the natural order of life? Maybe exploring how losing a baby was diff than losing my g'ma. Maybe exposing how disabled & poor kids have been egregiously & unforgivably harmed.

Here’s the bottom line: my story was dangerous to their narrative because it resonated with people.

It made them think. And *that* is what's dangerous.

My narrative was better than theirs and for one reason: because mine is true.

Damn right that’s a threat to them...

My job is to tell stories that help people understand both themselves and the world around them better so they can make better decisions and take better care of themselves and their neighbours...

And people who reach that a deeper understanding of what is happening in the world typically aren’t interested in mainlining pseudosafety & kowtowing to self-interested authority figures who offer fantastical entitlements like freedom from death & the right to control others...

So I am now signed up for Substack & the first piece I posted is the very one that got me exiled: Childhood, Interrupted.

Read it and judge for yourself to whom I pose a threat: the public or the narrative...

And if you have a moment, maybe let @Medium know what you think about their assault on reason and your ability to think independently.

This isn’t about eliminating ideas. It’s about control of the narrative.

Which is to say - control of you.

Thanks for reading and I'd love it if you joined me and the other courageous independent writers at Substack whom I'm honored to be joining.

We're going to have a lot to say and they don't get to keep you from hearing it.

ajkay.substack.com

Correction: The Curve was censored April 2020. 😂

Aaaand I’m trying to figure out how to make the whole subscription thing work (which I’m told it isn’t) on the side of the road between taking my kids to school.

If you want to subscribe, please hang tight. I should have that fixed within the hour.

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Fixed. Should be good to go now.

Thank you for being patient with me and in advance for your support.