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@russellbrandom @chillmage You can almost hear Jack whispering that to Congress, is what I’m sayin — PolitiTweet.org

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@MattRosoff On the contrary, I think it would be easier - lawmakers would have to concoct an argument that overcomes a huge 1A barrier — PolitiTweet.org

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Big platforms get all caught up in pretending their rules need to exist for reasons other than enforcement scale and efficiency. They should just say the philosophical justification for everything is because... they want to. It’s what we all believe anyway! — PolitiTweet.org

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One thing I keep thinking about is that “because we want to” is a better policy argument for almost any platform moderation decision than what we usually hear. It is both valid (private companies!) and impossible to argue with — PolitiTweet.org

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There’s a lot to dislike about how long this all took, and the wild inconsistencies of policy creation and enforcement, but... on some level making the easy call has to just feel good for these teams — PolitiTweet.org

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I have to say I am enjoying this brief moment of the people running huge platforms deciding that their products should represent their own internal values — PolitiTweet.org

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Excited for the conservative Internet service common carrier discourse — PolitiTweet.org

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Chocolate, peanut butter https://t.co/tIjjdLskb3 — PolitiTweet.org

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Podcast producers across the country searching Google Drive for "impeachment series outline" — PolitiTweet.org

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This is like an early 2000s iMac-inspired redesign of the 1980s GM logo. We have arrived at retro-ception — PolitiTweet.org

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Good luck with that! https://t.co/bTyV9JVISa https://t.co/8gmxhvpXYd — PolitiTweet.org

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We’ve tried to do a version of this story a few times and have been similarly stonewalled. It’s ridiculous — PolitiTweet.org

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Dude sounds like Shake from Aqua Teen Hunger Force — PolitiTweet.org

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If all Pence got in exchange for not invoking the 25th Amendment was that video, he will be the only person to ever lose a negotiation with Donald Trump — PolitiTweet.org

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We debated whether to call this a "concession" but he doesn't ever concede, so — PolitiTweet.org

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@elementj He has refused every invitation from us for some time — PolitiTweet.org

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Fox News continues to censor me by not giving me an hour every night to explain Section 230 — PolitiTweet.org

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@amarvin Hm try clearing cache and redownloading the file - we had an early error but fixed it for that episode — PolitiTweet.org

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It is amazing how little I trust any software or cloud service lately. I just gave up on installing a Mac OS volume utility I need because it asked for permissions, and I just bought more meh WeMo smart plugs because I don't want to register for another company's cloud service. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @alexstamos: There have been good arguments for private companies to not silence elected officials, but all those arguments are predicat… — PolitiTweet.org

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Well Josh Hawley is getting the national profile he so desperately wanted — PolitiTweet.org

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Here is THE PEACE REPORTERS, our feature from the summer about the people who chose to record violent confrontations between the police and protestors. Nothing like that happened today. I cannot stop thinking about it. https://t.co/5FdbSPFgbF — PolitiTweet.org

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Josh Hawley has more forcefully condemned infinite scrolling in web apps — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s ⁦@CaseyNewton with a strong, clear argument for the obvious:⁩ It’s time to deplatform Trump https://t.co/hkz6atUWPa — PolitiTweet.org

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@jtdougl It is how Cotton responded to BLM protests this summer. There was significant fallout. https://t.co/nCFcdUkHEt — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BrandyZadrozny: They've been saying they would do this for years. YEARS. Threatening a second civil war and violence. And no one listen… — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a coup. — PolitiTweet.org

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McConnell saying "we cannot drift apart into two separate tribes with separate facts" in Congress while Trump supporters clash with police on the Capitol steps is a real you-get-what-you-pay-for moment — PolitiTweet.org

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This is my new entrance music — PolitiTweet.org

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Here’s ⁦@russellbrandom⁩ on what Democratic control of government means for the FCC and net neutrality https://t.co/Q2e6IigJHk — PolitiTweet.org