Maybe because I'm from the Middle East. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Maybe I have a different sensibility about "free speech under siege" looks like. "My opinions are not universally fawned over but I get to argue them to millions who buy my books & download my podcasts" is free speech THRIVING.
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FWIW, I did write my own "failings of free speech in the digital age article". There is a genuine issue that distribution of attention is becoming monopolized by a few ad-financed platforms. But Trump, not college students at Oberlin, are the president. https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-tech-turmoil-new-censorship/ …pic.twitter.com/gyGdejkWPy
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To me, if anything, what's striking is how these intellectuals have such an enormous, unfiltered reach that rivals mass media in the 20th century. (Back then, you had to please human gatekeepers and bend your message).
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Anyway, good to see a daring, secret enterprise distributing "forbidden truths" to *checks notes* many millions through wildly popular podcasts, best-seller books, arena-sized talks being written up in *checks notes* that impossible to find samizdat NYT!https://twitter.com/qhardy/status/994222488425988096 …
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Jordan Peterson, who pulls in about ONE MILLION USD annually from patreon ALONE (never mind the best-selling books + talks), kinda gives it away here? For this very profitable schtick to work, it needs the cloak of martyrdom! (My Middle East background coming in handy again!)
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The *actually* fired and *actually* silenced people deserve an article! Their own article! There have been many attempts to fire professors for their opinions lately, most for having left/progressive views and few from this faction. All deserve protection.https://twitter.com/Nocmclean/status/994227694740131840 …
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the "daring" label only really applies to
@BretWeinstein and@HeatherEHeying in my opinion. no one at their college stood up for them publicly out of fear of leftist reprisal
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Yeah since these people are obviously so suppressed.
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