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Why there’s no guarantee that Musk’s Twitter will resemble Dorsey’s
Many folks are saying they’re not going to leave Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition because Musk and Jack Dorsey aren’t different. Continue reading
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Tagged Elon Musk, free speech, Jack Dorsey, Parag Agarwal, social media, Twitter
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Free-speech as an instrument of repression
One of the more eye-opening discussions on Elon Musk’s attempt to take control of Twitter, and the Twitter board’s attempts to defend the company from the bid, have been playing out on Hacker News (here and, after Twitter’s response, here) – the … Continue reading
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Tagged democracy, Elon Musk, free speech, Hacker News, Parag Agarwal, poison pill, social media, Twitter
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Free speech at the outer limits
On January 12, Peter W. Wood, president of an American organisation called the National Association of Scholars (NAS), wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal against attempts by one individual to prevent NAS from organising a conference on science’s … Continue reading
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Tagged boycott, Central Civil Services (Conduct) Rules 1964, Citizenship Amendment Act 2019, climate change, Constitution of India, free speech, freedom of speech, Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurie Penny, Leonid Teytelman, Netflix, protest, reproducibility crisis, Tripura high court, Wall Street Journal
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What’s common to #yesallwomen, scripta manent, good journalism and poka-yoke?
A professing of intelligence without continuous practice can, and will, occasionally legitimise immature thinking. Continue reading
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Tagged #notallmen, #yesallwomen, Annie Zaidi, climate change, false balance, Fatal Beatings, feminism, Franz Rosenzweig, free speech, Indian Constitution, intelligence, molestation, patriarchy, poka-yoke, Rowan Atkinson, slapstick, The Quint, written word
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