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Dec 3 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
Truly incredible -- former Twitter executive @yoyoel, who just got caught fabricating a fake justification for censoring a media outlet, says the decision to ban Trump after Jan 6 was impelled by the "trauma" he and other "content moderators" experienced online that fateful day
Yoel Roth confesses he was "deeply terrified" by Trump supporters who criticized him for applying "misinformation" labels to Trump's tweets. "I experienced those harms," he recounts
Roth defends the decision to ban @TheBabylonBee: "Not only is it not funny, it is dangerous"

Kara Swisher, no fan of the Babylon Bee, gently disagrees -- noting that the account was engaged in satire. "It's still misgendering," Roth insists

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Michael Tracey Profile picture
Dec 5
Chuck Todd just casually asserts today that like Trump, Putin is an anti-semite. Cites no evidence whatsoever for this -- Putin has long been reputed as the *opposite* of an anti-semite, having actually gone out of his way to *reject* strains of anti-semitism in Russian society
A 2018 paper in the University of Pennsylvania's Journal of Philosophy, Politics & Economics concluded that "the policies of the Russian government under Vladimir Putin have been markedly devoid of anti-Semitism" and in fact Putin has been "unusually friendly towards Jews" Image
Far from being an anti-semite, the paper says Putin has established a "norm" that "the 21st-century Kremlin" is actually "pro-Semitic." A theory given for this: Putin's personal affinity for Jews, as throughout his life he's had numerous "Jewish friends, mentors, and role models" Image
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
Dec 2
One of the "research groups" that furnished the NYT with this "Breaking News" is something called the "Center for Countering Digital Hate" -- an unapologetic pro-censorship left/liberal pressure group that explicitly campaigns for "de-platforming individuals" it deems "harmful"
The pressure group maintains what it calls a "blacklist" of "misinformation sites serving as super-spreaders for conspiracy theories and identity-based hate." One of the entries on the "blacklist" is Substack Image
The group has praised the Biden Administration for the "leadership" it has shown "in this space," and is seeking to "partner" with the White House to come up with a "regulatory approach" to tackle the historically grave problem of "online harm" Image
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
Dec 2
You know all these warnings about anti-semitism are totally sincere because the same warnings were issued when Azov Regiment fighters did a lobbying tour across the US two months ago, brandishing Literal Nazi insignia as they raised money and met with members of Congress. Oh wait ImageImage
Because after all, the United States is spending over 100 billion dollars to fund, arm, and operationally coordinate a military offensive waged by Kanye West
If the purported concerns about anti-semitism were genuine, there would be concern expressed about the US subsidizing foreign fighters whose tanks roll into "liberated" territories flying full-fledged Literal Nazi flags. No such concern is ever expressed
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Michael Tracey Profile picture
Nov 29
Federal public defender convincingly argues that the FBI used an unprecedented "modern-day general warrant" to seize personal data of anyone who "could have been" in the approximate vicinity of the Capitol on Jan 6. "Defending democracy" by obliterating bedrock civil liberties
The warrant was "fatally over-broad and devoid of particularity, and therefore impermissible under the Fourth Amendment." There was never any particularized probable cause cited by FBI -- making it certain that searches were conducted on people who committed no crime whatsoever
Rather than establishing any basis for probable cause that subjects of the search had committed a crime, the government relied on hypothesis and conjecture that merely "equated presence at the Capitol with criminal activity" -- bizarrely invoking "the pandemic" in its reasoning
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Nov 28
There is no dispute that China's COVID policies are unusually stringent, but I seem to recall Australia had pretty stringent COVID policies at one point, and anyone who protested was instantly labeled a "far right" menace -- rather than brave dissidents standing up for freedom
The stringency of China's COVID policies does not alone explain the sudden 180 degree shift to celebrating anti-lockdown protesters. These sorts of protesters were always presumptively demonized right off the bat: it didn't matter how stringent the policy they were protesting was
True, compulsory vaccination policies in the US/Canada never entailed welding people into their apartments, but you could still reasonably argue those policies were "stringent." I don't recall that preventing any protesters from being called dangerous conspiracy theorists
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Nov 28
I listen to plenty of audio material, but I don't buy that it can ever really be on par with how information is processed, synthesized, and stored from full-concentration reading
Can't prove it, but my strong intuition is that reading a text facilitates substantially deeper absorption of the material than if you were to listen to the same text in audio format
I think a lot of people who say they "prefer" audio, or just enjoy it more, say this because consuming audio is ultimately less demanding. To read, you have to actively concentrate the whole time; it can be frustrating. Audio is an external force beaming stimuli into your brain
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