Editing Free Speech (section)

=== 2017 ===


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|content=While often tempted, I'm not a free speech absolutist. I'm an anti-utopian w a commitment to keep our world safe from well meaning utopians.

Most of my friends who are free speech absolutists have never run the simulator forward to see the dystopia total free speech would create.
|timestamp=10:16 AM · Jan 13, 2017
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|content=I like free speech but not absolute free speech. The US is the finer but not the latter.
|timestamp=4:53 PM · Jan 14, 2017
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|content=Conclusion: my engagement patterns changed. Some of it is likely algorithmic. We should have a free speech option: time ordered, no filters.
|timestamp=2:40 PM · Apr 09, 2017
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|content=We're standing up to mob rule to fight for universal civil rights, academic freedom, science & free speech. Safety NOT guaranteed.

Want in?

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|content=Many have urged me to follow @jordanbpeterson's lead these last 2 weeks--friends, students, strangers. I'm listening 

https://patreon.com/bretweinstein
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|timestamp=7:26 AM · Jun 10, 2017
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|content=VOICE OVER: We've secretly replaced Free-Speech America w new improved Sharia-compliant blasphemy-free America. Let's watch folks' reaction!
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|content=Berkeley used to be Free Speech Center!  Now KPFA Cancels Richard Dawkins talk because he criticizes Islam? Shame!

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2017/07/21/richard-dawkins-deplatformed-at-a-book-talk-berkeley-for-abusive-speech-about-islam-on-twitter/
|timestamp=3:50 PM · Jul 21, 2017
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|timestamp=12:15 AM · Jul 22, 2017
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|content=Clay, you weren't in a comedy club & your right to free speech wasn't infringed. You just put a colleague in a no win situation...& she won!
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|content=Here's @cnn video of me saying I love the first amendment and boobs that nearly shut down the network. So great:

https://outkickthecoverage.com/love-first-amendment-boobs/
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|timestamp=9:27 PM · Sep 15, 2017
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|content=End/ This isn't the crime of the century. But it's also not fair. There are implicit rules about jokes & flirting that aren't "free speech."
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|content=1/ You bet I do: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mn5crhTusSA

Let's analyze why a sports guy like Crash Davis got to be pro-pornography & talk about body parts. https://x.com/EuroPork/status/908809213165604871
|timestamp=Sep 15, 2017
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|content=2/ Sarandon's character was host to two men. But it was she who turned the conversation sexy. Costner was offended (not outraged) & strong.
|timestamp=Sep 15, 2017
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|content=3/ Sarandon wouldn't let him stay private crossing into his space. He responded to her as a sexual woman and an equal not a delicate flower.
|timestamp=Sep 15, 2017
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|content=4/ He also was leaving her space and not remaining on her couch. This gave her choice without having to have her shut him down. A key issue.
|timestamp=Sep 15, 2017
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|content=5/ My point's simple. These issues are tricky & we've all screwed them up. But we don't just get to say any old thing. There are rules here.
|timestamp=Sep 15, 2017
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|timestamp=3:13 PM · Sep 15, 2017
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|content=On the death of @hughhefner, I had to remind myself of how a lost thinking US-Left playfully championed free speech:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=iaHDBL7dVgs
|timestamp=12:26 AM · Sep 29, 2017
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|content=I should point out that unlike many friends, I’m *not* a free speech absolutist. Not a Trump voter. Not opposed to *some* discretion by the private sector as to whom it can deny service. But these are now utility like companies and something feels too...coordinated?...something.

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|content=I believe @facebook, @Twitter, @Google are now deploying effective new measures & standards for securing US democracy against a repeat of unwanted involvement by unacceptable outsiders. 

What I just can’t shake is fear that those outsiders are our own dissenting fellow citizens.
|timestamp=Dec 20, 2017
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|timestamp=6:01 PM · Dec 20, 2017
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