And then, like I said, Prop. C was such a good campaign because they understood - in a way unlike previous prog campaigns and like what I've been saying all along - that the tech industry itself and the workers it brings are not a homogeneous entity.
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Replying to @markasaurus @IDoTheThinking and
they literally held tech workers-for-Prop C rallies and then other kinds of rallies with like... medical professionals for Prop C etc.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @markasaurus and
Yes. It wasn’t a populist attack against the villain tech or ron Conway. It was straight forward, connected to larger goals shared across the community.
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Replying to @ValisJason @markasaurus and
the thing about Ron is people who know him know that he actually does a lot of stuff/fundraising for national Dem/prog infrastructure. So the caricature of him seems bizarre and off-base to people who know him.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @ValisJason and
the folks who opposed Prop. C, well... I'm not really sure what Dorsey actually does for progressive politics nationally, so
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @ValisJason and
He seems fond of not blocking Nazis...
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Replying to @ArmandDoma @ValisJason and
the blocking Nazis question is really hard. See
@klonick's Harvard Review piece: https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/04/the-new-governors-the-people-rules-and-processes-governing-online-speech/ …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @kimmaicutler @ArmandDoma and
most American tech cos based their practices on American norms, laws around free speech, which don't have a really aggressive or forward looking legal consensus on hate speech. But journalists seem to want American tech cos to go way above what the current US body of law suggests
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @ValisJason and
I mean current US body of law didn’t really anticipate the whole “people will literally incite genocide to hundreds of thousands of followers via a platform intended for cat photos and Kardashian tweets” thing
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but you can understand the -- do we try to read and follow what the current body of US law seems to imply what we should do... versus... do we deliberately open ourselves up to something that will go to the US Supreme Court and take up a lot of our time/$$ for years... decision?
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