Conor Friedersdorf

Conor Friedersdorf @conor64

@vituperativeerb Yes. Same question. — PolitiTweet.org

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What "accountability" do you imagine the richest man on earth would suffer but is escaping by way of invoking the word freedom? — PolitiTweet.org

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@ericowensdc If constrained to work speech, not private life speech, I think it would be Constitutional. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you want a telling disinformation debate introduce a bill that would render unlawful all disinformation originating from any government agency or employee and watch how few members of Congress vote in favor of it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@tglazi @bendreyfuss I wish we were going to get to AC Green — PolitiTweet.org

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@bendreyfuss @tglazi I bet Jerry Bus would have liked it — PolitiTweet.org

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"...while those political insiders campaigning to force her retirement may be correct about her diminished capacities, they fail to recognize just how much she resembles who we Californians are, and what we are becoming." Astonishing. https://t.co/5NZw1BSnw8 — PolitiTweet.org

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West Coast: Showtime. East Coast: villains brawling with one another. https://t.co/Lr3KAhMJK4 — PolitiTweet.org

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@barrydeutsch But the name could always just be reveal later if a credible such lawsuit was filed. — PolitiTweet.org

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And against those costs and outcomes, the benefits we derive *in this case* from knowing the person's name are... what again? — PolitiTweet.org

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3) As I detail here https://t.co/DpsnssUuzr the "always name them norm" and this particular application of it makes other people marginally less likely to publish pseudonymously, which I count as a cost since I value some pseudonymous authors. — PolitiTweet.org

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2) on the cost side, both the person behind the account and a totally different person who happens to have the same relatively uncommon name were viciously harassed. — PolitiTweet.org

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1) it looks like the controversy over the unmasking has netted the account roughly 300,000 more followers, so it is more influential now, which some of you will see as a cost, others as a benefit. (I don't think it should influence journalistic policy either way). — PolitiTweet.org

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The outcome of a single article doesn't necessarily tell us what policy news organizations should have for when / whether or not to reveal the real name of people engaging in pseudonymous speech, but now that the Libs of Tik Tok piece has run we can lay out what happened next: — PolitiTweet.org

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I will be curious to see if this includes ads that depart from the "scientific consensus" in the direction of overstatement or just in the direction minimization. — PolitiTweet.org

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Young people don't know this but much of the road rage in the high crime 1990s was turtle-shell or banana-peel related — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias Xennials had the benefit of this scholarship right as we hit college https://t.co/bwgjNmpjQr — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Michaelstm23: @conor64 I was in a process with a large fed gov agency 8 years ago, they were trying to rent out some tourist facilities… — PolitiTweet.org

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Get your booster people! — PolitiTweet.org

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Yep, you'd think fixing this would be a bipartisan priority. But no one ever fixes it. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattyglesias: It’s genuinely interesting that there’s been no realignment on campaign finance issues even as the donor landscape has to… — PolitiTweet.org

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For those seeking a nuanced exploration of this depressingly common phenomenon I highly recommend https://t.co/hjEHDH9PxQ — PolitiTweet.org

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And note how rarely, if ever, CRT enthusiasts grapple with this strongest critique of it, preferring to argue with Chris Rufo and Ben Shapiro. — PolitiTweet.org

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"...Was it worth it? Justice Black’s words may return, like the sound of an unheeded tocsin, to haunt us: 'Another such victory and I am undone.'" IMHO, recent Red State free speech transgressions decisively vindicate his essay. Whole thing here: https://t.co/Z3K4qAB6w8 — PolitiTweet.org

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"As the critical race theory manifesto acknowledges, 'This debate has deeply divided the liberal civil rights/civil liberties community.' And so it has. It has created hostility, between old allies and fractured longtime coalitions..." — PolitiTweet.org

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He observed, "The First Amendment may not secure us substantive liberties, but neither will its abrogation." And having warned against the substantive dangers of abandoning liberal speech protections and attitudes he gave a political warning: — PolitiTweet.org

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He warned of some CRT rhetoric that "Like much sweepingly utopian rhetoric... they invite a regime so heavily policed as to be incompatible with democracy." — PolitiTweet.org

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At one point he wrote,"What cannot be side-stepped, finally, is the larger question, the political question, of how we came to decide that our energies were best directed not at strengthening our position in the field of public discourse but at trying to move its boundary posts." — PolitiTweet.org

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Short thread: In 1993, Henry Louis Gates wrote of Critical Race Theorists and their project, "The contemporary aim is not to resist power, but to enlist power," and warned them against abandoning the standard of content-neutrality in speech policing. — PolitiTweet.org

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"...and because the size and nature of the problem is contested in the absence of sufficient data and research, state responses have often been problematic and heavy handed and had a detrimental impact on human rights.” https://t.co/3VC7EQyRFt — PolitiTweet.org