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That was a good article, but Jon Stokes hasn't written for Ars Technica for 5 years now. He published that on Medium. But the idea that supporting gun rights is
by ewzimm 10y ago
That was a good article, but Jon Stokes hasn't written for Ars Technica for 5 years now. He published that on Medium. But the idea that supporting gun rights is a universally conservative position just goes to show how tribal and polarized everything is. Gun control has almost nothing to do with other liberal positions and yet it's packaged together in such a way that nearly every liberal comes out for increased gun control and every conservative comes out against it. It's very hard to find a person with individual opinions on issues.
- michaelbuddy 10y agoYou're right, I forgot about that. It was my thinking that Stokes must have some say in the direction Ars goes. I mean he's going to look at the site and give feedback, maybe even have say over who is hired and for what. If stories coming out of some department start getting too biased one might think Stokes would want to take action. Strange how he didn't put that story on Ars. It would have worked. Perhaps he wanted to keep it personal and keep even his own bias off the site. Which is a big plus IMO.
- ewzimm 10y agoI think that you're right that he probably gives some feedback, but as far as I know he has no official involvement with it anymore. He sold it to Conde Nast and then later left the company, although being a founder must carry some weight with the staff still.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoGun control in the modern era got a hell of a start with Ronald Reagan (pbuh) keeping guns out of the hands of black people.