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a perfect encapsulation of Twitter over the last 24 hours:

Globally 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.

‘Free Speech’ Twitter Is Now Globally Blocking Posts Critical Of The Modi Government

A few weeks ago we wrote about how Elon Musk’s Twitter was now blocking tweets in India at the request of the government. As we noted, there’s a lot of important history here. India had demanded su…

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@stevesilberman @neurovagrant this makes me so happy to read 🥹

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watching twitter degrade significantly is sumthin else
The 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
More Democratic governors stockpile abortion drugs as legal dispute escalates

Massachusetts, California and Washington have bought abortion drugs in bulk.

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@gwensnyder i hope it gets there too. twitter’s decline has been sharp and mastodon’s trajectory is steadily inclining so *fingers crossed*
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…

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@alexbnewhouse this is dope! congrats :) i’m glad you are on mastodon. i was actually just searching through your old tweets for some jan 6 research im aggregating for work and realized all your tweets from 2021 are gone lol i’m actually having a hard time finding relevant threads i saved about jan 6 on twitter which is…interesting?

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