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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 7 Aug 2018
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      Michael Tracey Retweeted Glenn Greenwald

      I've been accused countless times over the past 24 hours of "defending Alex Jones" -- again, it's so much easier to scream about how horrible he is than to grapple with the grave implications of his sudden cross-platform banishmenthttps://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1026933709507837952 …

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      Glenn GreenwaldVerified account @ggreenwald
      Aside from the utterly obnoxious & disingenuous equating of censorship opposition with "defending Alex Jones," this faith that Mark Zuckerberg, Google execs & their friends will faithfully and benevolently decide what is "hate speech" is just laughable https://theintercept.com/2017/08/29/in-europe-hate-speech-laws-are-often-used-to-suppress-and-punish-left-wing-viewpoints/ … https://twitter.com/daviddoel/status/1026515428393279488 …
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    2. Glenn Greenwald‏Verified account @ggreenwald 7 Aug 2018
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      The world's dumbest and/or most deceitful people have always been those who equate "I defend X's right to speak" with "I defend X and their ideas." It's the scummiest tactic there is. They did it to Chomsky when he opposed prosecuting a Holocaust denierhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-oV42OMQoE&t= …

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    3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 7 Aug 2018
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      The refusal to even think about the broader significance, precedents, etc. has been really disturbing. You are just expected celebrate that bad guy Alex Jones got what he had coming, and give thanks to the tech giants for being such benevolent protectors of the public

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    4. Glenn Greenwald‏Verified account @ggreenwald 7 Aug 2018
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      That's been the tactic of censors for centuries: they start with someone who is so utterly hated and marginalized that everyone is blinded by their hatred for the first censorship target that they cheer, and forget that they're endorsing a principle & power that will then expand.

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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey 7 Aug 2018
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      The newly-entrenched "Alex Jones principle" will now be used against anyone who can be described as promoting "dehumanizing" or "hateful" speech. Jones is the perfect test case because no one wants to be caught dead "defending" him. It's all so predictable and depressing.

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        2. Mexican Stalin‏ @MexJG1 7 Aug 2018
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          This a lot of bull crap Alex Jones has always been powerful this isn't the case of where they come for them then they'll come for us because they already came for us and Alex Jones and people like him did not come in our defense

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        1. Bjorn Larsen‏ @bjorn 7 Aug 2018
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          Why do you put “dehumanizing” and “hateful” in air quotes like those aren’t bad things?

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        1. gross ghost boy‏ @CommuneArlo 7 Aug 2018
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          You’re defending him right now, so you’re obviously lying.

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        1. MiniNinjaLove‏ @minininjalove 7 Aug 2018
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          Yet we ARE. The Empire is in full throttle panic mode. Learn to duck and weave.

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        1. Bjorn Larsen‏ @bjorn 7 Aug 2018
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          Funny, I was just about to say that about smug white libertarians like you and Glenn Greenwald.

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        1. David Spencer‏ @Honxqp 7 Aug 2018
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          but.. these platforms 'adjust the visibility' of people, organisations, ideas all the time for a slew of reasons, there's been plenty of cause for concern previously - Jones doesn't merit fretting over as a special case. & we can hold those concerns while liking Jones' absence.

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        1.  ☮Jordan 🌹#AbolishCitizensUnited&ICE‏ @No_To_Duopoly 8 Aug 2018
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          Including dehumanizing corporations...cuz, you know, they're people too. 😑

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        1. David Farris‏ @BrooklynRedLeg 8 Aug 2018
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          At the same time they took down AJ, they also started taking down libertarian/anarchist posters as well as antiwar ones too. Jones is literally the canary in the coal mine because people are ignoring the other bans.

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        2. Oops! The Planet! ⓥ‏ @TippingElements 7 Aug 2018
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          The test case of ‘public square censorship’ is more aptly “Food Not Bombs Principle”

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        2. Bansi Sharma‏ @bansisharma 7 Aug 2018
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          And self-destructive. These corporations have no idea what they have unleashed upon themselves too.https://twitter.com/bansisharma/status/1026813324971978752 …

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          Bansi Sharma @bansisharma
          Wittingly or unwittingly @apple, @facebook, @YouTube, and @spotify have all taken the first step to invite government intrusion in such a grotesquely incompetent way that they will rue the day they tried to act out their pompous virtuosity by playing God with political speech.
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        3. Bansi Sharma‏ @bansisharma 7 Aug 2018
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          Rather than proudly defend the honor of these crown jewels of American entrepreneurship, henceforth half the people in America wouldn't bat an eyelid if/when these flagships of free market enterprise are torpedoed by onerous regulation, domestic or foreign. A crying shame!

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        1. Right Edge Magazine  🇺🇸‏ @RightEdgeMag 7 Aug 2018
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          Apparently not *anyone*https://westernfreepress.com/big-tech-banned-alex-jones-a-muslim-who-praises-hitler-nope/ …

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        1. DP909rev‏ @DP999REV 7 Aug 2018
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          I’ll defend him. Might cost me but I’ll do it.

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