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"Hush child! Free speech is the reason you grew up without a grandma or your mommy or daddy! They all went to the Utah camps for demonstrating against the Democrat Party!"
https://twitter.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1520790249957429248?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/apr/28/dhs-created-disinformation-governance-team-police-/
https://ijr.com/dhs-dismisses-concerns-disinformation-board-leader/
Geeez, people, too bad we didn't have a disinformation board in the McCarthy days, huh? All those commies and socialists could have been put into concentration camps. Those radical black activists could have joined them. All the gay activists, a bunch of feminists, the free sex cultist hippies, and all the druggies. Don't forget the illegal aliens!!
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 05 2022, @12:06AM (4 children)
He did too, I suppose. The cognitive dissonance is in arguing against regulation of these platforms when it was Trump being suppressed (the owners were merely exercising their rights) and arguing for regulation of the same when the new owner would likely reverse that decision.
In other words, actions that Zurawik agrees with are merely exercise of owners' rights - "Not on our platform!" Actions that Zurawik disagrees with are "You need controls on this."
It's a typical authoritarian pathology. The big missing key to understanding why it fails is that Zurawik won't be in charge. He won't be controlling the bad things he worries about.
What happens when another Trump gets elected and puts their mangy paws on the levers of control for the social media giants? It's not like we've forever lost our ability to elect creepy or criminal presidents, right? Then Zurawik is the voice in the wilderness complaining about free speech and owners' rights. Who knows we might even be able to read that stuff if we're sneaky about it and someone passes us a link.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2022, @02:11AM (3 children)
If only you spent more time reading his articles instead of mining them. Of all the greatness that could have been.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 05 2022, @04:35AM (2 children)
What would be the point? As I suspected would happen, I caught Zurawik in a state of pure hypocrisy, indicating that he has pathological understanding of this subject. I would no more read him for free speech issues than I would for general relativity. Plus half his stuff is paywalled.
Life is too short to read sources that have demonstrated fundamental ignorance and lack of credibility. Move on and find someone more useful.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2022, @08:29AM (1 child)
On that we agree. If only the irony weren't so rich.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 07 2022, @08:33AM
Irony for khallow is like metaphor for Drax the Destroyer, it flies right over his head. As khallow says:
Khallow don't know what khallow don't know, which means what he do know, exists in a tiny bubble of obvious rebuttal and mutually reinforcing ideological daisy chaining. Don't pull out, khallow!