Conor Friedersdorf

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Stage designer: what if we make it so only a third of the stadium audience can see some of the performances? — PolitiTweet.org

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@Patterico Does that mean you'd take the bet? — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't get this. I would like to go back to pre-Covid murder rates, student learning, socializing, inflation rates, and supply-chain efficiency. Which of those suggests a desire to cover anything up? — PolitiTweet.org

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To make this a bit more pointed: how many of you who feel strongly that Rogan is causing great harm would in fact risk $50k of your own money on this bet? — PolitiTweet.org

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I think the appropriate position, given available evidence, is that we don't know for sure what effect, if any, Rogan has on Covid deaths. If we could run an alternative reality where JRE didn't exist and I could bet $50,000 on < or > Covid deaths I would not bet. Would you? — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarkFrassetto I'm not saying this is less than ideal policy I am saying it is bad policy because it takes everyone's money and redistributes it regressively so that on balance the wealthy benefit and the poor lose — PolitiTweet.org

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There's something strange about the tone of the Science Versus episode fact checking Joe Rogan. It's as if it was made with no regard for persuading anyone and entirely for people who already know Dr. Robert Malone was wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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I agree that government giveaways that disproportionately benefit the relatively well off are sometimes politically possible but that doesn't mean we should support them. — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexpbloom https://t.co/UBm19zNtqA — PolitiTweet.org

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@richards1052 What pandemic view has Nate changed to match prevailing fashions? — PolitiTweet.org

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Instead of a regressive policy of debt-relief for the rich you could forgive the debt of people *who've never attended college* and thereby help a lot more poor people with whatever amount you want to spend. — PolitiTweet.org

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@party_eremitic @stevesilberman Why shouldn't they be absolved of bad feelings? — PolitiTweet.org

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@stevesilberman Okay, then I don't understand what you found objectionable about Nate's tweet? — PolitiTweet.org

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@stevesilberman Why is it a problem that Nate feels life was better before the pandemic? — PolitiTweet.org

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Especially when the supposed money making mechanism doesn't even make sense. Nate's plan for riches was... that Tweet? — PolitiTweet.org

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I continue to be baffled by the practice of seizing on a pundit expressing a view that tens of millions of people hold and presuming they are doing so as a grift rather than because they too think that way. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Alex_Z_01 It will never die, alas. — PolitiTweet.org

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I'd be very curious to see a research paper that compared and contrasted the international spread of anti Iraq War protests and Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring and Black Lives Matter and the trucker protests. — PolitiTweet.org

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To all these ideas, I say that instead, we should stick to First Amendment protections and a culture of free speech informed by liberal norms, which are the best way forward, pandemic or not. — PolitiTweet.org

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A third correspondent wants something akin to an "FBI most wanted list" for misinformation, perhaps maintained by a task force of journalists https://t.co/RrGqouQG0d — PolitiTweet.org

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Another correspondent wants the government to impose steep fines on anyone who platforms (for example) Joe Rogan and thinks it will be straightforward to decide which speech is deserving of fines https://t.co/gcel9BVzWp — PolitiTweet.org

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One correspondent urged federal regulations enforced by a fact-checking committee that would decide if something is misinformation https://t.co/p3R4mIgbwb — PolitiTweet.org

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This week I asked readers what, if anything, should be done about medical misinformation https://t.co/wvCzBBuPpH And I found that lots of people support extremely censorious measures. Examples: — PolitiTweet.org

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It's Not What Happens with Joe Rogan, It's the Chilling Effect Around Him, by @freddiesubstack https://t.co/RzRBFD5nzP — PolitiTweet.org

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But if it's all about the distribution of resources wouldn't class-focused responses wind up disproportionately benefitting racial groups that are disproportionately in lower income bands? — PolitiTweet.org

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The FDA still hasn't learned https://t.co/dvd3RJxh5H — PolitiTweet.org

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This is especially so when the premise of the harm is *don't platform or broadcast that word because it does harm regardless of context.* But if that's true doesn't your supercut of someone else breaking that rule do harm? — PolitiTweet.org

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Offense archaeologists often live this contradiction: they treat forgotten old media as so harmful as to warrant dredging up and punishing it years later... but in doing so, they cause many more people to be exposed to the content they believe to harm those who see/hear it. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @thomaschattwill: This is a thought-provoking 🧵. There must be some better balance between order and compassion that still eludes us. Yo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jbarro: I'll say this politely: People who spend enough time on the "disinformation beat" start believing everything is downstream of t… — PolitiTweet.org