#Censorship

☀️👀

zei_squirrel

a naive liberal commitment to free speech absolutism in a capitalist society, wherein power and resources are concentrated at the top, inevitably means defending the status quo. they set the

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

I have enormous sympathy for artists suffering financial anxiety during the pandemic. I have 3 books out in 2020 and my family was really counting on them selling well to

Amara🦄🌈😷

scarletgumboots

cn: spoilers for #镇魂Guardian and #NirvanaInFireI am cross and scratchy at the bungling of the tragic ending in Guardian. In NiF, I ADORE the ending even though it reduces me

Tomas Pueyo

tomaspueyo

As always, @benthompson nails it with China."A leaked [Chinese] internal party directive from 2013 describes “the very real threat of Western anti-China forces and their attempt at carrying out westernization”

A New Radical Centrism

a_centrism

[THREAD]1/ These anti-IQ Twitter threads popping up over the past week might very well be the first in what will end up being a series of skirmishes on the outskirts

Jenn O'Donnell 📖

JENTranslations

As I didn't get much response from other people's favourite articles on translation, I thought I'd share some of my own!＼(^_^)／The following are in no particular order with a mixture

David Toube

ToubeDavid

A new report published by @SOAS and led by @AScottBaumann has been published.The authors claim that "Prevent reinforces negative views of Islam and Muslims" and should be scrapped. But the

Hanyu

hanyuwho

@michael_saylor bought the http://voice.com domain name when it was dirt cheap and sold it for $30 million in 2019 - the biggest domain sale to date.Registering a .eth today is

Dr Jessica Gagnon

Jess_Gagnon

Settle in and grab a cup because I'm about to serve some tea about "free speech" at UK universities #HigherEd #HigherEducation #HEchat #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #StudentsNotSuspects #EducatorsNotInformants /1https://tw

Andreas ☮ 🌈 ⚛ ⚖ 🌐 📡 📖 📹 🔑 🛩

aantonop

A lot of people who are into cryptocurrencies will see this FinCen leak as vindication and proof that banks are money launderers. But, this will be used against cryptocurrencies...1/ See

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Before the pandemic, the music industry was making more money than ever, exceeding even the incredible revenues of the CD era in which audiences bought all their favorite music in

Jen #thatwomaninMichigan Talley

jentalleydesign

I'm a librarian (no kidding, you say) & people always expect me to get precious about physical books. And indeed, I used to be like that. However, cataloging rare books

Revelation Kollektiv

revkollektiv

Just watched #socialdilemma on Netflix. To borrow an Americanism it got me pissed!!!! Thread coming on. 1/? Social media using the "attention extraction model" is actually older than they appreciate.

David Kaye

davidakaye

a simple, superficial and ultimately brief thread on this last day of my mandate as @UN special rapporteur on freedom of opinion & expression. pls read this first, the touchstone

Nick Grube

nickgrube

U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard finally released a copy of the demand letter her campaign sent to Hillary Clintonhttps://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1194386961848356866?s=20 Brian Dunne is the attorney who wrote it. He works for Pierce

Abigail Shrier

AbigailShrier

Think we don't have a serious problem w censorship in America?Here's what it's like to write a book that takes the entirely common sense view - supported by dozens of