Thank you for posting this, and I’m so sorry for what you’ve had to go through and are still going through.
And beyond the personal liberty and medical care and research aspects that make this very relevant for BestNetTech, the ascendance of these particular terrible people to power also means it is ever more likely that health care and treatment will become inaccessible due to hedge fund brunchlords seeking to extract profit in healthcare while not giving a damn about product. And the laws and regulations that have prevented at least some of that are now under existential threat.
Everything can be changed. And if keeping secrets or lying (including “white lies”) would be literally illegal and punishable by prison without parole, people would soon discover that being honest is not that hard, it’s freeing even. As they say, the truth will set you free.
Nothing says “freedom” like [checks notes] giving the government the authority to imprison people for life for nonviolent speech.
The thing that blows me away is that if they were right the reality would be so much worse.
Ah, but at least then there’d be a reason.
Without the conspiracy theory, we have to confront the reality that there’s no grand plan, no order, no anything to give all these horrible things meaning. There’s no rhyme or reason to any of it. It just happens.
That’s a lot to deal with.
if you went looking for simple answers at a time when there were no answers
Yep. Conspiracy theorists need a way to make the existence of bad things make sense, when sometimes shit just happens and we just need to deal with it.
To the extent that Alex Berenson “won” his case against Twitter, it had nothing to do with government censorship or threats thereof. It had to do with possible breach of implied contract, since some Twitter exec had made a stupid promise to Berenson.
Nothing whatsoever to do with the first amendment.
Musk stated publicly that he provided these files en masse to Weiss, Taibbi and Schellenberger with no strings attached and no offer of payment.
And as we all know, Melon Husk never lies.
(“No strings attached” strains credulity. II am however perfectly willing to believe he didn’t pay them and they did this to hype themselves. Plenty of outrage grift to go around.)
Mike is making sure that BestNetTech’s comment section is not an echo chamber, where we’re all on the same page, and getting older, fatter, and altogether too comfortable with ourselves
I am getting older and fatter all by myself, thank you very much. I don’t need Mike’s help for that.
In June 2020, Wiley requested our library aggregator partner ProQuest transition approximately 1,380 ebooks out of its Academic Complete online digital library as part of a regular review of collections.
Ah yes, the standard library policy of “These titles ware popular, therefore we removed them from circulation right at the moment of most urgent demand.”
Very normal and defensible stuff.
The point I’m trying to say is that for example, it’s a choice to dig up certain stuff, and it’s a choice to try to get the person fired for it, and it’s a choice to fire the person for it
By all means, let’s have a discussion about “at-will” employment. I’m concerned about that too.
But that’s different from firing someone for behavior that makes their colleagues or customers feel unwelcome. If your actions make the workplace not work well,, you might be at risk at losing your job. Though to be honest if you’re powerful or in a group with power, odds are you’ll still face no consequences as has been the usual outcome forever. (Certain people are freaking out about “cancel culture” now because they’re actually facing some social consequences for their speech for the first time ever, while everyone else has always had to deal with those consequences.)
You don't kick a person off a platform because you think they are wrong. You let them speak and then see how what they say and think holds up.
It's called freedom. Try it some time. One day, law suits for this kind of un-Americana garbage will win every single time. Sue them out of existence. They deserve it.
Ah, yes. Use the power of the government to force a private company to allow anyone to use their private space, in any way that person wants to.
I can smell the “freedom” from here.
If you want to see Berenson’s nonsense, he’s very active posting it on his Substack. He’s not been silenced.
I myself have been on a forced Twitter timeout (due to some admittedly uncharitable words about a certain Senator), and I’ve not been “silenced.” Look—Here I am!
But more to the point, if Twitter decides it wants to ban me from its platform for a week or forever, that’s its decision. And it doesn’t need to justify its decision to me or anyone else. No matter how much I might miss posting cat pictures (I do miss that), shitposting, or doing whatever, Twitter doesn’t have to let me use its resources to do it.
From there, things get pretty crazy, with a lot of it just being performative nonsense.
This seems to be the only reason for Biss and Nunes to do this. It’s performative outrage, and they plan to use the transcript to show how they stood up against the DEMOCRAT FAKE NEWS MEDIA who CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH to gain support (and by support I mean money) from the GOP base.
Or they’ve both lost their freaking minds. It could go either way, I suppose. What’s that line about smoking your own supply?
Thank you.
That is all. Just, thank you.
Decades later, the real surprise with Enron is that some of the corporate perpetrators actually went to jail.
Thank you for sharing this
Thank you for posting this, and I’m so sorry for what you’ve had to go through and are still going through. And beyond the personal liberty and medical care and research aspects that make this very relevant for BestNetTech, the ascendance of these particular terrible people to power also means it is ever more likely that health care and treatment will become inaccessible due to hedge fund brunchlords seeking to extract profit in healthcare while not giving a damn about product. And the laws and regulations that have prevented at least some of that are now under existential threat.
To the extent that Alex Berenson “won” his case against Twitter, it had nothing to do with government censorship or threats thereof. It had to do with possible breach of implied contract, since some Twitter exec had made a stupid promise to Berenson. Nothing whatsoever to do with the first amendment.
Koby wrote:
What is he smokingMissed opportunity
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Hyman Rosen asked:
How is "X" different from "literal opposite of X"? Yeah, that's a tough one. A real head-scratcher.What, pray tell, is a “lawful job”?
Speaking of Russian disinformation campaigns…
Re: Proper
I can smell the “freedom” from here.
Re: Would have liked to see the tweets
If you want to see Berenson’s nonsense, he’s very active posting it on his Substack. He’s not been silenced. I myself have been on a forced Twitter timeout (due to some admittedly uncharitable words about a certain Senator), and I’ve not been “silenced.” Look—Here I am! But more to the point, if Twitter decides it wants to ban me from its platform for a week or forever, that’s its decision. And it doesn’t need to justify its decision to me or anyone else. No matter how much I might miss posting cat pictures (I do miss that), shitposting, or doing whatever, Twitter doesn’t have to let me use its resources to do it.
Performative nonsense
This seems to be the only reason for Biss and Nunes to do this. It’s performative outrage, and they plan to use the transcript to show how they stood up against the DEMOCRAT FAKE NEWS MEDIA who CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH to gain support (and by support I mean money) from the GOP base.
Or they’ve both lost their freaking minds. It could go either way, I suppose. What’s that line about smoking your own supply?