Editing Free Speech (section)

=== 2021 ===

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|content=Level 0: This is an attack on free speech in the public square.

Level 1 rejection: This is not the public square but a matter of for profit companies and the freedom to do what they please.

Level 2: Level 1 only works if there is a public sector of the internet for all to use.
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|content=The Lesson of The Obama Era “Operation Chokepoint”: 

There is something hidden in our collectivist do-gooding Impulse that too often starts with secretly wanting control over others and only then seeking altruisms to justify it.

The 1st amendment is an advanced check on this.
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|content=NEW: Amazon is booting Parler off AWS, its web hosting service, knocking the pro-Trump social network offline until it finds a new host.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-parler-aws
|timestamp=1:10 AM · Jan 10, 2021
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|timestamp=2:53 AM · Jan 10, 2021
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|content=Taken to its extreme conclusion, you will be free to bark ideas in a public park, only not to access banking, credit, electronic communication, education, the media. My old joke “Should Republicans be allowed to use the roads &amp; phone system?” doesn’t seem all that funny in 2021
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|content=The Portal invited Ashley Mathews in advance of the election to discuss this specifically outside of politics. This is not about politics, but about a class that wishes to use business to impose control over other lawful human beings. We cover it directly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHNBCVGH34c
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|content=Every business must now assess refusal-of-service as a fundamental risk. (There is zero reason to assume the targets of this trend will remain limited to "them.") On-premise will get renewed attention.
|timestamp=3:55 AM · Jan 12, 2021
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|timestamp=5:41 PM · Jan 12, 2021
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|content=Let me put this in the starkest terms. Our genius in the US is to NOT have our infrastructure nationalized. But laws like “Free Speech” don’t immediately carry over to the private sector. The idea of getting Tech-Finance-Universities-Media to shut down thought and speech is here.
|timestamp=5:41 PM · Jan 12, 2021
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|content=These new authoritarians are trying to make commerce &amp; the market do what the government legally cannot: make life impossible for dissenters. For the first time, to preserve freedom we will either need to regulate or nationalize. Both of which are terrible options. We’ve lost it.
|timestamp=5:41 PM · Jan 12, 2021
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|timestamp=5:48 PM · Jan 12, 2021
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|content=With smear&amp;ghost, they have simply disappeared an enormous wing of the party. Vanished without a trace. 

So if you are here and sick of our insane tech-media-academic-political “leadership” undoing our civil liberties, add your name?

With numbers, they can’t gaslight us all. 🙏
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|content=I actually thought about this more...here goes.

What is going on is this: mainstream media and tech are co-creating an illusion. The illusion is this: the entire Left has gone stupid, corrupt &amp; insane. And the way it is accomplished is by collective institutional make-believe.
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|content=WHERE ARE OUR INTELLECTS ON THE LEFT SCREAMING ABOUT THE SHUT DOWN OF FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA? Have we such a failure in education that we have forgotten the value of our freedoms? WHAT’S HAPPENING IS DIRE! WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!
|timestamp=5:27 AM · Jan 19, 2021
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|timestamp=5:27 AM · Jan 19, 2021
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|content=All the civil libertarians are still here. The “free speech for ideas we hate” crowd is still here. The “Woke doesn’t make any analytic sense” crowd is here.

Ironically the Left leaning institutions are “manufacturing our consent” w forced “diversity &amp; inclusion” loyalty oaths.
|timestamp=5:27 AM · Jan 19, 2021
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|content=Now, individually, we object. But I’m  told we’re “thirsty” by the internet if I say: “NPR, I used to have John Ydistie on speed dial” or “NYT I would talk to Robert Pear or Dennis Overbye or others with some frequency.” until something about 8-9years ago: Our lines went dead.
|timestamp=5:27 AM · Jan 19, 2021
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|content=This was about the time of the Obama Era “Dear Colleague” letter that converted the Universities to indoctrination factories. This is the era of the DOJ “Operation Chokepoint”. And many of us who objected were suddenly just frozen out. More or less completely with no explanation.
|timestamp=5:27 AM · Jan 19, 2021
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|content=Now, via you, I’m seeing this differently. I don’t need NPR/NYT or any of these outfits to talk to me. But they stopped taking to ALL of us. Effectively center Left media ghosted EVERYONE who didn’t sign on to the new extra crazy version of identity politics and safety culture.
|timestamp=5:27 AM · Jan 19, 2021
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|content=And this is leads to several illusions: 

A) The Left is insane &amp; wants the police abolished so some can riot, firebomb courthouses, suspend policing at will.

B) The Left hates borders.

C) The Left is all in on collective guilt for slavery.

D) The Left is done w due process.
|timestamp=5:27 AM · Jan 19, 2021
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|content=E) The Left has traded in Free Speech for Safety culture.

F) The Left wants equity as a cover for new discrimination and racism.

Etc.

But that is not what is happening AT ALL. The true Left HATES this institutional strategy. So institutions have settled on “Smear &amp; isolate”.
|timestamp=5:27 AM · Jan 19, 2021
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|content=We just don’t exist if media never talks to us. And if we manage to poke through using podcasting we are classified by the zealots running this strategy as Alt Right despite an enormous number of Jewish surnames and prominent black intellectuals in our ranks. As if we vanished.
|timestamp=5:27 AM · Jan 19, 2021
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|content=What I now see is that I allowed the internet hyenas to push me off. The point isn’t that I need to speak to the press, but that the press has to speak to the Left who HATE the direction of our modern Democratic Party away from equality &amp; fairness for all independent of identity.
|timestamp=5:27 AM · Jan 19, 2021
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|timestamp=5:27 AM · Jan 19, 2021
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|content=FOIA must abstract to cover the algorithms that distort our speech used to communicate to each other.
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|content=Free speech for ideas abstracts to Tech or it means nothing at all.
|timestamp=5:09 PM · Jan 21, 2021
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|timestamp=5:18 PM · Jan 21, 2021
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|content=P.S. if someone asks you why we aren’t releasing episodes or responding to some issues, send them here.  This is one of the main reasons post election. We would like to be back up at full throttle and hope to be so soon.

[Not sure how many will see this these days on Twitter.]
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|content=The Streisand Squeeze: naming a new exploit.

Many of you have heard of “The Streisand Effect” but may not know it has evolved into a tactic. Certainly I didn’t grasp this until recently, and I couldn’t find a description or name for it. Hence this thread.
https://t.co/kYhhEQZdTi
|timestamp=9:54 PM · Apr 28, 2021
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|content=Here is the basic idea. You have something like a podcast, community or product you want to promote. Only maybe it’s tough to find an audience. So the exploit is that you are going use people who have built audiences to drive their traffic to you relying on digital harassment.
|timestamp=9:54 PM · Apr 28, 2021
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|content=For example, let’s imagine Sally Gupta has built a brand and following and you want a chunk of it for your dental products website https://t.co/wUEN91Kct6

So you start harassing her (and other people w/ audiences) getting followers focused on her teeth. It’s free speech, right?
|timestamp=9:54 PM · Apr 28, 2021
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|content=Maybe Sally has a chipped tooth. Or maybe she has her own dental care line and you raise generic questions you know aren’t adding much of anything. 

“What unsafe ingredients might  Sally be hiding from customers of her toothpaste empire?”

If she doesn’t respond? Sally’s hiding!
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|content=The goal is to get Sally Gupta to react to drive traffic. So you try to needle Sally. But perhaps Sally has been coached not to react to avoid triggering the Streisand Effect. So what do you do?

Here is where the squeeze comes in. You feed others in Sally’s orbit or ecosystem.
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|content=Once you map out who Sally knows you target people who are unsuspecting. Maybe you pose as a friend of Sally. Or maybe you look for someone in a conflict with her. Or you feed something pre-chewed to a blog or news cite.

If you succeed, you have locked Sally in a drama with you.
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|content=But Sally may not even know who you are. She didn’t consent to be your friend. She didn’t do business w/ you. You forced her to contend w/ you despite no meaningful earlier connection. And now she has to swat you away by responding...which is your big win. She mentions the drama.
|timestamp=9:54 PM · Apr 28, 2021
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|content=Boom, now you are on her level. You have succeeded in getting into a dispute with someone with an audience even if Sally says “This NewToothpaste company is relentlessly harassing me!” Ha! She mentioned you!!

That’s the Streisand Squeeze. Dramas one can’t respond to *or* ignore.
|timestamp=9:54 PM · Apr 28, 2021
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|content=Many of you have wanted to know why I’ve yet to restart the podcast. Well, right now I am targeted in more than one Streisand Squeeze plays. And, to be honest, I don’t know what to do. I get the advice you can’t respond. And I get the advice you can’t ignore. But I can’t do both.
|timestamp=9:54 PM · Apr 28, 2021
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|content=So one thing I may try to explain in a bit is that when I don’t respond to something, you may not be seeing the same iceberg I am. You may be seeing the tip.

In particular, the main tactic is to create fear &amp; doubt: “This podcast/person is running dangerous irresponsible cult.”
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|content=Many of you are away that @uberfeminist, @piney_the, @Sciencing_Bi were all trying to protect you from abusive scientists. 

Only one problem: They were all fake harassing accounts pretending to promote health in the sciences or to tell you the truth. I was targeted w drama by 2.
|timestamp=9:54 PM · Apr 28, 2021
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|content=Well, now I am being targeted by different groups. In one case a modest collection of PhDs (I kid you not) who enjoy talking and laughing about doxing me, targeting my home, my family and about violently raping. I have been sent a large amount of evidence that is chilling.
|timestamp=9:54 PM · Apr 28, 2021
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|content=I’d like to avoid posting what I have. But groups attempt to force me to mention them &amp; respond to them by harassment to drive traffic to their sites. I don’t know a soul who knows how to handle an “Academe meets 4chan” community alternating between science &amp; Rape/Doxx threats.
|timestamp=9:54 PM · Apr 28, 2021
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|content=So, here’s where we are. I’d like to podcast more. Rest assured we have a considerable amount of material scraped from the harassers’ sites. We also now have real names in most, but not yet all, cases. But we would like to avoid getting into moronic drama.

Not sure what to do.
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|content=If you have been through this with your following, I would value talking through legal, security, and social media strategies. If this is happening to me with different groups, I am guessing others have it worse with their followings. But The Streisand Squeeze is no joke.
|timestamp=9:54 PM · Apr 28, 2021
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|content=I just hope you never encounter it. It sickens me and sours me because there isn’t a great solution to a double bind.

I want to get back to bringing you things I’m excited about that are hopeful, new and may be a portal out of our current world of social media!

Thx for reading.
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|content=Lastly if you see me not responding to something, consider the above. Use your noodle and it will make sense. 

I’ll say more when and if I have this figured out a bit better. But we are really counseled to say *nothing* by the top people in security. Sucks man! But so it is.

🙏
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|content=Either free speech applies to technology communication platforms *without* an unquestionable public-private national narrative partnership between media, politics and tech, or it means nothing at all. That's my take. The law has to catch up: Free speech goes beyond public parks.
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|content=We could wait for Jon and Stephen to do their overton window washing routine issue by issue. But...why? Why wait? 

Couldn't we just point out that these issues are already generally as well known as the "WOOO-hahn" Lab Leak that Jon shared which so shocked &amp; surprised Stephen:
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|content=Will Jon and Stephen get to the bizarre relationship of national Media to the treatment of outsiders in presidential primaries in time for 2024? 

If they are too busy, we could use this template to keep from needing another 'fortified' election:
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|content=The truth is known. Yet we're all just waiting for the Jon &amp; Stephen act to tell us it's safe to think for ourselves again.

Why is that? I am simply confused. The act counts on the idea that we all already know the truth. Otherwise it wouldn't have been funny. But it was.
|timestamp=7:50 PM · Jul 7, 2021
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|content=Just think of this photo as liscence from mainstream media. They KNOW you know. And they will sell you back your freedom to challenge institutions, ask questions of authority, and demand a free press which is protected to write the truth and to hold the truly powerful to account.
|timestamp=7:50 PM · Jul 7, 2021
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|content=The question is: are you willing to accept your freedom to observe the obvious as coming from @Twitter, @MSNBC, @TeamYouTube, @nytimes, @nprpolitics, @washingtonpost, etc. so as not to disturb their narratives..or are you going to take the right as coming from founding documents?
|timestamp=7:50 PM · Jul 7, 2021
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|content=P.S. Bonus points for the name of the UK operation attempting to thwart Blofeld's evil plan in the original book by Ian Flemming. 

A: Operation Corona. If memory serves. It has been a minute since I read it after all...
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|content=In "On her Majesty's Secret Service",  the "Institute for Physiological Research" is headed by a kindly humanitarian apparently directing allergy research, but who is actually using the cover to develop biowarfare agents like the novel virus "Virus Omega":
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|content=Spoiler Alert: the virus is designed to cause sterility.

POINT: we've been discussing these EXACT fears for a *very* long time. To limit/ban such discussion now would, among other things, require going &gt;50 years into our past to purge *art* seen by millions given the parallels.
|timestamp=7:01 AM · Oct 15, 2021
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|content=At what point do we realize that having our communications utilities police what can and cannot be said is impossible without destroying the meaning of free speech?

The only free speech that really matters any more is electronic speech. And none of that is government provided...
|timestamp=7:01 AM · Oct 15, 2021
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|content=You should unfollow because I will never back down from standing for compassion for all intersex babies unfairly subjected to white coated physicians playing god with random irreversible sex changing surgeries without a scientific basis.

You can quote me on that. Clear? Great.
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|content=If you’re angry that I have a right to observe a walkout at a company I don’t work for, protesting a man I admire and whose free speech I supported AT THE PROTEST.

If you’re upset that I’ve always opposed subjecting intersex babies to immediate irreversible surgery.

Seek help.
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|content=Went to the @netflix walkout protesting @DaveChappelle. I doubt I am in the same exact place as many of my fellow IDW folks. 

I’d encourage anyone to do likewise. Stories like @SevenGraham69’s will change you if you think this is just about people who can’t take a harmless joke.
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