Conor Friedersdorf

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@hiltzikm @katrosenfield As I said in my piece, it is possible for someone to have the right to do something and for that thing to be bad for freedom of inquiry. This is plainly an example. the artist is dead, and willing readers can no longer buy books some want. — PolitiTweet.org

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@hiltzikm @katrosenfield There's the *book withdrawn from public sphere because part of it aged poorly* as in the Dr. Suesse estate dustup — PolitiTweet.org

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@hiltzikm @katrosenfield There's the bizarre going on in YA literature, which Kat has written about so adeptly. Example: https://t.co/qiOIW0ohNe Background context https://t.co/5JsWe5w6mH — PolitiTweet.org

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@hiltzikm @katrosenfield There's the separate category of *book people definitely want to buy but that industry employees want to stop to morally censure the author*. Example: https://t.co/EJWxLm4AAQ — PolitiTweet.org

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@hiltzikm @katrosenfield Yes. Setting aside the "never published" category that is much harder to report on, here's a school right here in SoCal engaging in the sort of thing you more frequently see in Red America https://t.co/KPpLVPhKwH — PolitiTweet.org

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In today's newsletter I try to put @hiltzikm, who wrote a good column on the right's book censorship, with @katrosenfield, who opposes right illiberalism but IMHO has a better account of how left illiberalism can deprive us of good books too. https://t.co/VFOlIpfwcH — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @weekessyy: What a goal!! #ENGSWE https://t.co/0ckNkoJub1 — PolitiTweet.org

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If someone is unaware that a group considers a term derogatory, and uses the term, and is informed he unintentionally offended people, and apologizes, should that be national news? Or does it just result in more people being offended by the hurtful word? — PolitiTweet.org

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@lauber_andy Forget what we call it for now. On the whole do you think it's a good thing if artists and eager audiences of said artists can connect or that it's better if intermediaries who object to the art can stymie such connections? — PolitiTweet.org

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@jonathanchait @DouthatNYT Was that not happening in the era of the Patriot Act, secret mass warrantless surveillance, officially sanctioned torture, and indefinite detention without charges or trial? — PolitiTweet.org

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@natecarroll It is indeed incredible — PolitiTweet.org

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@lauber_andy In the case of this last minute cancellation Chappelle was able to find another venue but it could have easily been that no such venue could be found last minute and that those audience members would've missed out on seeing him live. Would that change your view of this example? — PolitiTweet.org

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@lauber_andy In these cases there is an eager artist, millions of people who want to listen, and middlemen who want to prevent artist and audience from the exchange tboth want. — PolitiTweet.org

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@suicide_doer I understand that there are milieus where people treat these very online catch phrases as if they aren't empty bullshit, but I don't understand why. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias Ad supported, but mattress ads only. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CTowersCBS @Zrbialk Why is it almost certainly not true? Facebook allows one to choose among more genders than that. This isn't ubiquitous in early childhood education curriculums but it isn't unthinkable either and I've seen equivalent stuff in actual kindergarten curriculums. — PolitiTweet.org

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@suicide_doer @NellieBowles @mattyglesias @thomaschattwill Of course Thomas can take it. He's thriving. Pointing out the nature of the behavior he is subject to doesn't imply otherwise. — PolitiTweet.org

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In fact all signatories identified as we/the people. — PolitiTweet.org

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@NellieBowles @mattyglesias @thomaschattwill The cruelty is the point. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's no fun to be targeted because others are hostile to your approach to antiracism, or to have lies about you published, but @thomaschattwill can enjoy the fact that no one who spreads lies about him is capable of writing anything as good as e.g. this https://t.co/QZrPDCd8qn — PolitiTweet.org

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It's no fun to be targeted because others are hostile to your approach to antiracism, or to publish lies about you, but @thomaschattwill can take solace in the fact that no one who spreads lies about him is capable of writing anything as good as e.g. this https://t.co/Ptfk3q7lYz — PolitiTweet.org

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@J4Years @bgbrainonbrad All the ticking nuclear bomb hypothetical does is establish whether there's ever a time when it's okay to torture. All we're talking about after that is where to draw it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey Every argument you've advanced that I responded to with a counterargument made me think. In general I think you have a lot of reasonable points about free expression. And I think you're right that this is a tougher judgment than cases implicating government censorship. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I have spent a lot of time trying to understand your perspective on this. After lengthy consideration, I disagree with it. That is not ignoring you in any sense. It is reaching a different conclusion. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I do sometimes think we should try the Paragraph format on some issue. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ijbailey I have engaged with you, at great length, repeatedly over a period of days on this. I have responded to your questions and counterarguments. On Twitter generally, I engage with your account more than any other. No reasonable definition of ignore is applicable. — PolitiTweet.org

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@J4Years I agree there is an element of judgment here. We are all expressing our different judgments about this case. Mine is that Dave Chappelle is like Lenny Bruce, not like Hitler. — PolitiTweet.org

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@J4Years however the case that, in our present context, the typical "deplatform Chappelle" advocate believes no place should platform him because his words are dangerous? — PolitiTweet.org

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@J4Years I can distinguish between those things too. And insofar as someone's position is *So long as people want to see Chappelle and Chappelle wants to perform I want him to have theater space, just not at this one specific space, for some coherent reason* I'm fine with that. Isn't it — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ACLU: The government collects blood from nearly every newborn for a critical public health program. But now, police are trying to acces… — PolitiTweet.org