Cloudflare also very keen to claim this had nothing to do with #DropKiwifarms before then essentially admitting it was caused by #DropKiwifarms.
Cloudflare deserve no applause here, they made their position very clear earlier in the week, and are doing this because they started to feel threatened themselves.
The congratulations have to go to @keffals, the whole #DropKiwifarms team, and to everyone who has spoken out.
Many lives have been ruined or ended by that site. Its users very much counted on their victims being too powerless and marginalised to fight back. But when you hurt so many people, eventually you'll get some fighting back and they won't be silenced. And all you have are enemies.
(for those thinking this indicates a policy shift on CF's part: it doesn't)
This is a frustrating thread: Twitter just outright ignoring warnings from marginalised people and adopting their own, deeply naïve, ideas about how to temper extremism that anyone with literally any expertise could immediately identify as utterly useless.
It's a pattern with those running Twitter and indeed other social media and the wider tech sphere. The people at the top who make decisions about their sites tend to be rich white techbros with no experience of marginalisation or mechanisms of abuse because they've never faced it
Those who do have those experiences of abuse - PoC, trans folk, women, etc. - tend to not be in positions where they are listened to or even consulted in the first place. So warnings go unheeded even when they are inevitably instantaneously proven true later on.
Joe treating the show with exactly the attitude it deserves, a show which promoted itself as being about politics but somehow without debate.
UK political coverage for some time has stripped the actual politics away and turned it into light entertainment
You can make odd sound bite of opposition but by and large these discussion shows are there to soften politics, to present absolutely crucial issues affecting us all as coffee break chats, and to create artificial ideas of consensus. It may as well be an early evening chat show.
When political commentators and journalists lament Joe not taking the show seriously, they mean he wasn't fulfilling his role as a fun and soft leftie for Laura to deflect and deflate, a mannequin to give the impression of "political balance" as we face economic oblivion.
Stop generalising the lifestyles, interests, and hobbies of your specific friendship groups as true for your entire demographic challenge 2022.
I get it, you want to celebrate things you have in common, and share a collective identity in a world that often seems like it's trying to deny that. I do. But you can say that without claiming it's true for everyone, because you can end up isolating other people the same in turn
I have many many trans women friends and literally the only thing they all have in common is that they're trans women.
It is tragically funny seeing so many on this site defending a white comedian making racial slurs and publicly exposing himself, because they've convinced themselves he was making jokes about trans women as well and that was *really* why he was told to find another venue.
Not only is a venue's right to decide who they book being once again being bad faith conflated with totalitarian censorship, but it seems no matter what reasons they have for doing so, it will made out to be about trans people thought police. Because the folk saying are obsessed.
It is literally all they ever tweet about, the conspiracy has become so wedged in their minds that it has become the foremost and often only concern they have, so they cannot fathom that "cancel culture" (or rather, a venue choosing who they get to book) *must* be about the trans
Everywhere I walk in Glasgow this week I hear the distant drone of bagpipes on the horizon.
There's a piping championship taking place at the moment, so lots of bands are here and practising. It's become very clear very quickly just how well the sound of bagpipes travels, which was the point I guess.