Not impressed with Substack, and Masnick does a good job of explaining why.

Masnick’s writing has never struck me as inflammatory or rushed. If he’s using this language, we should all be worried.

C’est du n’importe quoi, ça. Quelle honte, ce pays.

Yet more to demonstrate that “free speech” often means “right-wing speech.”

Moderating employees but not users seems telling to me.

Bookmarking as yet another example of Elon Musk’s free speech reputation being undeserved.

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.

This is one of these stories where I’ve been waiting to get Masnick’s take on it, and he does not disappoint.

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.

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.