We were promised that the increased interconnectivity of the digital age would shepard in a new era openness and the free exchange of ideas. The same people are now policing the web for wrong-think in a manner the Stasi would envy.
When The Atlantic published a cover story on transgender youth, Andrea James (@jokestress) called it out for being biased. Then came The Transphobia Project, a map of the people and platforms creating biased content about gender expression and identity.https://medium.com/kickstarter/this-is-what-transphobia-in-the-media-looks-like-3b9da535322e …
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The Internet has not been good for professional journalists. It’s been lovely for outrage merchants.
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Yeah that is going to backfire.
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If it's creating a map of biased content, shouldn't it be called the Biasphobia Project?
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"Policing what journalists say through the use of lists and opaque evaluation methods is good, actually" - Kickstarter, apparently.
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Oh cool... the Spanish Inquisition 2.0!
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Kickstarter - encouraging press censorship with every $ donated
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Why does the Kickstarter stream look like something Antifa would put together? This attempt to bring ‘Chinese struggle sessions’ to the free world is unacceptable, and if not for the author’s politics, it would obviously be rejected for encouraging harassment, IndieGoGo beckons.
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It's in the form of diagrams, therefore it's unbiased.
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Is this what kickstarter is now? The inquisition,
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Looks like it is censorship to me. Shame on Kickstarter
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Off to the re-education camps for everyone straight.
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Ah - so its yet another Holy Guideline for the Imams of Cultural Purity Ruh roh - Andrea - another name for your neverending list of untouchables
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Deleting my Kickstarter account right now.
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Here's the thing, though —
@jokestress is both unqualified to "call it out" and unable to substations her claim of bias. So . . . not the /best/ look for Kickstarter rn.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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