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Stone incorporated violent extremist groups into the “Stop the Steal” effort, which was itself a product of his warped political mind writes columnist Jennifer Cohn in the first of a three-part series.
It would be incredible to reach 100,000 followers of the Memorial here at Mastodon this year.
Don't you think?
The same is true in our online "censorship" debate, which poses the issue of speech online as "which speech rules should the Big Tech companies that have transformed the internet into five giant websites filled with screenshots of the other four adopt?"
https://doctorow.medium.com/yes-its-censorship-2026c9edc0fd
Good communities need good rules, sure - but by focusing on *which* rules we have, rather than what keeps people stuck in social media silos that have manifestly *bad* rules, we miss the point.
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On Dec 2, 1859, Abolitionist John Brown was the first American ever executed for treason. The second ever executed for treason was Aaron Dwight Stevens (March 15, 1831 – March 16, 1860).
Their crimes? Attempting to free the enslaved. The first Americans executed for treason was for the crime of freeing the enslaved.
Legality is not always a measure of justice & morality, but a measure of power. This was only two life spans ago.
May we learn from these atrocities & uphold justice forever.