Matt Bindera perfect encapsulation of Twitter over the last 24 hours:
Steph
- 4 Followers
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- 20 Posts
Yoel RothGlobally restricting speech based on local legal demands (in this case, from India) is exactly as terrifying as @mmasnick makes it sound in this post. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/11/free-speech-twitter-is-now-globally-blocking-posts-critical-of-the-modi-government/
This was EXCEEDINGLY rare in the Twitter 1.0 days — I can think of a vanishingly small number of examples, all of which involved extensive litigation and pushback to avoid having to comply.
A dark day for free speech indeed.
MOVED hey cis people
shit's really ramping up with this whole trans genocide
you're gonna start seeing a lot of posts where trans people are trying to crowdfund an escape from one of the places where they're actively being genocided
if you're wondering what can you do to materially help trans people survive the arriving shitstorm... BOOST THESE POSTS
your boost could be the one that makes a difference and puts it in front of the right person to donate
watching twitter degrade significantly is sumthin else
Heidi Li FeldmanThe cold Civil War continues. Massachussetts and Washington state have bought one to three year supplies of #mifepristone to prevent their residents from being cut off by right-wing anti-abortion ruling by Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/massachusetts-stockpile-abortion-pill-legal-dispute-escalates/story?id=98472694
Mike Masnick ✅I wrote about why Mehdi Hasan's takedown of Matt Taibbi actually destroys the entire foundation of the story Taibbi is trying to tell about the Twitter files. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/
Mehdi Hasan Dismantles The Entire Foundation Of The Twitter Files As Matt Taibbi Stumbles To Defend It
So here’s the deal. If you think the Twitter Files are still something legit or telling or powerful, watch this 30 minute interview that Mehdi Hasan did with Matt Taibbi (at Taibbi’s own demand): H…
Qasim Rashid, Esq.Coffee drinkers! Listen! Starbucks workers nationwide are starting a 3-day strike today (Friday 12/16) as part of their effort to unionize.
How can you help? Don't cross the picket line. Get your coffee elsewhere. (Preferably at independent coffee shops. Long live small biz).
And spread the word! Make this message viral. Let's hold billionaire corps accountable because worker's rights are human rights. Let's go.
Dave LeeIf you're trying to find journalists on Mastodon, I've created a verified database of several hundred here: http://presscheck.org. Since the backlog has become enormous, the unverified waiting list is now public also: http://presscheck.org/pending
Ken WhiteRemember: Twitter is Elon's company, he has the free speech and free association right to run it pretty much however he wants and to ban people for petty narcissistic reasons.
And we have the right to laugh and point at his ridiculousness and at the free-speech pretenses of his gullible fans.