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Where's Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald? Is Bari Weiss directing CBS to do some investigative journalism on this? The absolute freedom of speech crowd should be
by bediger4000 9mo ago
Where's Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald? Is Bari Weiss directing CBS to do some investigative journalism on this? The absolute freedom of speech crowd should be all over this, but they're leaving it to The Guardian? Weak.
- n0iceWon 9mo agoI consider myself part of the "absolute free speech crowd". Here's the secret; they cannot monitor speech in the real world. So I largely gave up on the internet. I still use it for bill pay and maps. I spend time speaking with others as we please without phones around. Users are akin to Pokemon for big tech. They "gotta catch em all" those eyeballs so online speech will be Disneyfied to increase engagement, justify their resource use and political existence.
- bediger4000 9mo agoWell I'll tell you what, it looks like Taibbi, Greenwald, Weiss and the absolute freedom of speech brigade used the language of free speech advocacy to get an autocrat and an oppressive regime installed, and then cynically dropped freedom of speech as a worn out tool. It looks like famous free speech advocates are just fine with limiting speech to topics they like and by people they like. It makes them look like liars.
- amadeuspagel 9mo agoGlenn Greenwald is tweeting about TikTok alternatives[1]. The more important question is: Where are you? When someone defends freedom of speech that you hate, does it make you so angry that you just block them out, so that when they defend freedom of speech you like you don't even hear about it anymore? [1]: https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2016981673351553446 https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2016981673351553446