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Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@lakecountydem How do you feel about the Hollywood blacklist? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
You can "believe in science," or you can favor the suppression of dissent from expert consensus on scientific matters, but not both. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@TheLastNeocon Hard to say because it coincided with 1/6, which definitely made him less popular. I haven't looked at polling data on his approval since but imagine it would be very hard to disaggregate. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@TheLastNeocon The ability of the censored to speak out at mass scale via the Internet. — PolitiTweet.org
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@TheLastNeocon Yes, dramatically so, I think. — PolitiTweet.org
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@TheLastNeocon The information environment has rather changed since then! — PolitiTweet.org
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@TheLastNeocon You'd be okay with corporations censoring one view in the single payer healthcare debate? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@TheLastNeocon Does that hold if we're talking about doctors opposing single payer health care? Pharmaceutical companies advancing their interests? Are you sure you trust "the medical community" in general or do you too mistrust it in many instances? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
As a general matter, if I tell you, *under pressure, corporations have decided that in the debate between view x and view y, proponents of view y must be de-platformed* how does that affect your psychology? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
Another fissure in the Covid misinformation debate: some folks think deplatforming (say) anti-vaxxers would increase trust in establishment guidance; I and others think it would boost conspiracy theories and stoke anti-authoritarian backlash. — PolitiTweet.org
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@KariDotPeters They pay him because they know he has a huge audience and hopes that its members sign up for Spotify. — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
Anyone can put out a podcast for all to download without going through Spotify. Do you think the entities that they go through are also publishers, and that, by extension, there should be no unrestrained ability for anyone to put out a podcast? — PolitiTweet.org
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Later, same column: "Imagine if Spotify recognized that a platform is essentially a publisher, and that media organizations of all kinds constantly have to make decisions about what’s appropriate to put on the air, in their pages or on their websites." Another question: — PolitiTweet.org
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A question for @Sulliview, who writes of Joe Rogan, "Spotify — the platform that enables him by insisting it would be wrong to restrain what he does on his podcast — is even worse." Spotify streams myriad podcasts. In general, how should it restrain what they do? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
"Libertarians bolster their commitment to individual freedom and tolerance of difference just as authoritarians rise up in defense of obedience to group authorities and conformity to the collective normative order. & those of average predisposition... remain relatively impassive" — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
"...individual autonomy and diversity at precisely those moments when these favored social arrangements and outcomes might seem to be in jeopardy--deemed by those with less stomach for public discord and partisan strife to be too risky for the collective." — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
"Libertarians will have little concern for the uses of collective authority until other people's ambitions for its usage suggest that they ought to take an interest in its limits. The challenge presented by libertarians by these conditions, then, is to celebrate and defend..." — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
Here is a passage that holds a key to understanding some of the dynamics around the "cancel culture" debate: — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
"The predisposition is labeled 'authoritarianism' because suppression of difference and achievement of uniformity necessitate autocratic social arrangements in which individual autonomy yields to group authority." Q. When do you favor such social arrangements? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
"authoritarianism is an individual predisposition concerned with the appropriate balance between group and authority, on the one hand, and individual autonomy and diversity, on the other." Q: When do you side with group and authority against individual autonomy? — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
A few thoughts on authoritarianism drawn from Karen Stenner's excellent book *The Authoritarian Dynamic*: — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
Q: Should we stand for free speech even when the ideas being spread have demonstrably killed millions of people? A: Yes. We must defend free speech *even for Communists.* — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
...if Mitch Daniels were to start slapping a misinformation label on research at the discretion of his office, or if he started insisting on a fact check before any information flowed out of the university he presides over to the public — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
Perhaps this analogy will help some of you: the replication crisis was just one example of misinformation coming out of academia. We should want scholars to do better. On the other hand, I presume most liberals would object... — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
I want to acknowledge that Covid skeptics spread a lot of nonsense, reaffirm my strong pro-vaccine bonafides, and cheer those who correct misinformation, but also to reaffirm the need for a public discourse that includes dissenters *even when they are wrong* 2/x — PolitiTweet.org
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One fissure I'm noticing on Covid is one faction claiming to want to fight *dangerous Covid misinformation* and genuinely incredulous as to why anyone would be concerned about that. After all, who can defend factually inaccurate statements? 1/x — PolitiTweet.org
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@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @NGrossman81 Rush Limbaugh lied to his audience, by his own admission, to carry water for his political allies. That is different and worse. — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @JeffreyGoldberg: This is an astonishing piece by a very brave Uyghur writer: https://t.co/6N26QNPe8k — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @NGrossman81 Going to bed now — PolitiTweet.org
Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@ijbailey @JamesSurowiecki @CathyYoung63 @NGrossman81 Because newscasts promise *the news* to listeners whereas Rogan tells listeners *I'm not an expert on this stuff I just talk to people with different perspectives* and encourages skepticism of what you hear — PolitiTweet.org
