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why lots of Twitter users voted in favor of Musk's proposed amnesty. I wanted all the potential costs and benefits of significance set forth. — PolitiTweet.org

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"the sources quoted in the Post story are all on one side of the question, even though informed observers of Twitter are more divided." In that article and more generally, my objection was that possible upsides went unmentioned, so that readers were left with no idea — PolitiTweet.org

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Finally, you'd think, reading Hiltzik, that I objected to all criticism of Musk's proposed amnesty. But that isn't so. My objection was to a lack of balance in coverage, not to making or airing critiques of an amnesty. As I wrote, it may be a bad idea, however, — PolitiTweet.org

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Third, I don't think Taylor Lorenz or Jelani Cobb, whose articles I critiqued, are "left-wing." Though they are different in their politics from one another I would call both center-left. In my piece I more generally refer to "left-of-center journalists" not the "left-wing" — PolitiTweet.org

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Second, I write, "Perhaps an amnesty will increase trust in communities that perceived bias during the old regime," which is a bit different than saying an amnesty will make Twitter more trustworthy. — PolitiTweet.org

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First, Hiltzik should not have included "inciting violence" in that list. Inciting violence is illegal, and thus would not be covered in Musk's proposed amnesty. — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/slBEeSv82P — PolitiTweet.org

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I've got a small correction for @hiltzikm who mentions me today in his L.A. Times column. The subject is Elon Musk's proposal, "Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?” Hiltzik writes: — PolitiTweet.org

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@Kyle_McCormick If so why go to all the trouble of throwing a party for her and having her have sex with the mafia dude? — PolitiTweet.org

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@josephflaherty But then why bother with everything else? — PolitiTweet.org

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Aubrey Plaza's performance: underrated? Folks are saying the other wife "stole the season" and while I agree she stole the last episode I think AP excelled more across all episodes. — PolitiTweet.org

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Will Greg be in Season 3? — PolitiTweet.org

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Am I correct that there was no intention to kill Tanya, just to avoid the prenup with her infidelity? — PolitiTweet.org

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Thread with questions about White Lotus finale including spoilers: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @andersen: Americans invented: nuclear reactors solar cells microchips mRNA vaccines But, we… — PolitiTweet.org

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@TonyMaciulis @MollyJongFast There was a clause in the prenup that if she cheated he would get half her estate is I think what happened — PolitiTweet.org

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@sivavaid I think the civil rights era and the contemporaneous immigration reforms was a constitutional moment and the essay's failure to mention or grapple with them and their implications is its biggest weakness. — PolitiTweet.org

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@totally_t_bomb I took it to mean more than if it would have said "nothing illegal" — PolitiTweet.org

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@StearnsLab For the same reason scientists at a hotel conference might keep talking about science in order to advance science even though the owner of the hotel is telling jokes they find distasteful over in the bar? — PolitiTweet.org

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@HistoryBoomer @CathyYoung63 @Drunk_Wisconsin Agree. — PolitiTweet.org

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The temptation to respond to the deliberately inflammatory troll Tweet by asserting its polar opposite is better avoided but perhaps the architecture and incentives of this platform make it inevitable. — PolitiTweet.org

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@hiltzikm Do you believe there is a stick with two ends here? What are they? — PolitiTweet.org

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"The challenge for those of us observing Musk and his critics is to benefit from the best of their insights and reach judgments about content moderation based on the merits, rather than reacting against their least defensible or most annoying claims." https://t.co/Cbl7SxS0zK — PolitiTweet.org

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Another exame of the dynamic I described in my article on Musk and his critics https://t.co/Cbl7SxS0zK — PolitiTweet.org

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I agree. The ideology's death toll is unthinkable and the dictators, past and present, who championed it are enemies of democracy and liberty who regularly interfere in free and fair elections, but still, free speech rights are too important to deny them even to communists. — PolitiTweet.org

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@kathleenromig I am commenting on the teacher's video and making a serious point. How you take it is up to you. — PolitiTweet.org

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What triggered the SoCal birria trend? It's everywhere all of a sudden. — PolitiTweet.org

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There is a largely unarticulated divide between people who believe that most primary school teachers have an absolute advantage in relation to parents at educating and people who believe that many of them in fact only have a comparative advantage at educating. — PolitiTweet.org

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HB EF https://t.co/UFOdRGqCf6 — PolitiTweet.org

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@izzy_diab Same. — PolitiTweet.org