Milo was in the business of turning liberal outrage into conservative $$$; see his sheepish statement this morning to the threat to model.
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You can often tell what's what by what people do when the threat is real. When real business in threatened. How they talk in depositions...
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If Milo was who he pretended to be, his response to latest would be a wild-eyed statement decrying censorship. Instead, sheepish apology.
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So the only thing Simon and Schuster "carefully considered" is sales, or lack thereof, from conservative no-platforming of Milo.
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To repeat: An urgent task is to give coherence to the public sphere via understanding how networked attention works.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/800000225310048256 …
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Because stuff Milo said had been known—it just caught conservative outrage recently. Liberal outrage=$$$. Conservative outrage=book pulled.
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Milo story reminds me of a potentially apocryphal but great story about hashish dens, allegedly, during the Ottoman times.
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But I promise it's not time for some game theory.
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So the hashish den residents would argue that this was their nature, and apparently were sometimes even subsidized. But occasionally banned.
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In one case, either someone upset or a ruler started a fire in the den.. To prove that it *wasn't* their nature to sit and smoke all day.
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All but one ran out in panic. One guy sat in the back, waiting for the flames to reach him. People shouted: "what are you doing? Get out!"
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"Waiting for the flames to get here to light my cigarette", he is said to have responded, and thus proving to onlookers it *was* who he was.
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A true Milo—as he projected—would leant into this. He is, after all, a victim of child abuse, as well, and I can see how it could go.
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