Below are posts associated with the “free speech” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Substack’s Algorithm Accidentally Reveals What We Already Knew: It’s The Nazi Bar Now
Not impressed with Substack, and Masnick does a good job of explaining why.
🔗 linkblog: Trump’s Secret Police Are Now Disappearing Students For Their Op-Eds
Masnick’s writing has never struck me as inflammatory or rushed. If he’s using this language, we should all be worried.
🔗 linkblog: Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
C’est du n’importe quoi, ça. Quelle honte, ce pays.
🔗 linkblog: The Jawboning Double Standard: Brendan Carr’s Threats Are Way Worse Than What Biden Was Accused Of'
Yet more to demonstrate that “free speech” often means “right-wing speech.”
🔗 linkblog: Facebook Deletes Internal Employee Criticism of New Board Member Dana White'
Moderating employees but not users seems telling to me.
🔗 linkblog: ‘Free Speech Absolutist’ Elon Musk Suspends Critics On ExTwitter, Asks People To Be Nicer'
Bookmarking as yet another example of Elon Musk’s free speech reputation being undeserved.
13 family conversations from before, during, and after a graveside service
I. With Siblings in a Sibling-Only Chat Separate from the One with Parents and Partners We process the news together (I’m not the one to start the conversation but glad for the sibling who did). It’s not a deep processing, but I’m not sure we would have done this much even a few years ago. We plan to send flowers to the widow, decide who’s going to write the note, and settle up over Venmo.
🔗 linkblog: Zuckerberg’s Spineless Surrender: Rehashing Old News To Enable False GOP Narratives'
This is one of these stories where I’ve been waiting to get Masnick’s take on it, and he does not disappoint.
🔗 linkblog: Even The Most Well-Meaning Internet Regulations Can Cause Real Harm'
I’ve only skimmed this so far, but while I firmly believe that the fetishizing of freedom of expression is causing real issues in our world, I appreciate Masnick’s critique. I expect I’ll always be more keen on regulation than he is, but that doesn’t make him wrong in the points he’s making here.
🔗 linkblog: Don’t Fall for the Latest Changes to the Dangerous Kids Online Safety Act '
Look, it’s hard to oppose legislation that purports to be “for the kids,” but with the EFF, Mike Masnick, and other voices I respect still firmly against this, I’ll be calling my reps—and encouraging others to do the same.