"Don't resist or there'll be a civil war" is not a valid position to take. If things are that bad it's a mandate to resist.
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Replying to @RichFelker @zeynep
Resistance != getting social media companies to become political & "boot off users". At least not useful, productive, successful resistance
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Nothing is non-political. Hosting them is a political act. And a morally indefensible one.
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It cuts both ways though. Once you go down the road of defining 'illegitimate' political content there is no telling where it will end up.
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No, that's not how it works.
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Replying to @RichFelker @marshray and
Both are subject to backlash. Backlash against one is self-defeating. Backlash against the other is empowering.
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Naive "neutrality" principles do not defend freedom and human decency. It takes hard work & organizing.
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These arguments would apply equally well coming from Trump to justify restrictions on CNN.
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You don't think Trumpists believe they are organizing for empowerment in support of freedom and human decency?
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No, I don't. I think they believe those things are fantasies we imposed on them and the real world runs by millennia-old rules of brutality.
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Look at who their heroes are and what sort of symbolism they use. They want a world run by might and naively think they'll come out on top.
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