FWIW I wrote about [@issueonereform.bsky.social](
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Issue One (@issueonereform.bsky.social)
Cross-partisan political reform group in Washington, uniting Republicans, Democrats, and independents to fix our broken system. We focus on money i...
 )'s totally "facts optional" attacks on Section 230 last year. It really appears that they simply *do not care* what kind of harm they will do. They just decided this is an issue they want to fight over. It's embarrassing [www.techdirt.com/2024/09/25/e...](
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Ex-Congressmen Pen The Most Ignorant, Incorrect, Confused, And Dangerous Attack On Section 230 I’ve Ever Seen
In my time covering internet speech issues, I’ve seen some truly ridiculous arguments regarding Section 230. I even created my ever-handy “Hell...
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
Justin and Tech Policy Press are great, but this article is a load of nonsense. There are a ton of very real, very legit problems with KOSA (again,...
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Ex-Congressmen Pen The Most Ignorant, Incorrect, Confused, And Dangerous Attack On Section 230 I’ve Ever Seen
In my time covering internet speech issues, I’ve seen some truly ridiculous arguments regarding Section 230. I even created my ever-handy “Hell...
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Justin and Tech Policy Press are great, but this article is a load of nonsense. There are a ton of very real, very legit problems with KOSA (again, the Heritage Foundation out and out said they wanted it to silence LGTBQ voices). The spin in this article is just complete bullshit. RE:
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Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social)
We are engaged in a fight over who governs in a democracy: the people, or the Big Tech companies, argue Issue One’s Alix Fraser, Michael Beckel, ...
She concludes by saying schools need to make sure they're teaching students "what it means to promote freedom and liberty" and apparently their way of doing that is banning students and silencing protected speech. RE:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act...
I'd been asking which AI the DOGE team had been using (and if it was xAI's). Interesting that they went with Llama... RE:
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makena kelly (@makenakelly.bsky.social)
SCOOP: DOGE used Meta's Llama 2 model to review emails from federal workers responding to the original "Fork in the Road" email. https://www.wired...
Yesterday was the deadline in the FTC's ridiculous "big tech censorship" inquiry. It was a waste of my time, but I wrote a comment to explain how stupid and wrong the entire exercise was. RE:
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We Shouldn’t Have To Explain To The FTC Why Content Moderation Is So Crucial To Free Speech, But We Did FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson begged Donald...
So [@joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social](
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Correspondent on the Daily Show. Standup Comic & Emmy-nominated writer. Listen to the Josh Johnson Show podcast on Spotify + Apple https://linktr....
 ) on RFK Jr. is just as good as you would expect it to be... [www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B1u...]( ) [RFK Jr: Head of Health and Hum...]( )
Just blocked another crew of people who interpreted this as if I was saying "comply with fascists." Which, fucking obviously, I'm not saying. But let's spell it out: DON'T POST ABOUT YOUR SILLY MURDER FANTASIES IN MY MENTIONS. Didn't think that was such a wildly crazy thing to say. RE:
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Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social)
I remain amazed at the number of people who seem willing to publicly declare things that seem likely to get them a visit from law enforcement. Plea...
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Wrote about Kristi Noem's claims about habeas corpus, and how it's likely the result of a MAGA-pickled brain, who associates habeas corpus with the opposite of what it is, because of how much time the admin is spending trying to ignore habeas corpus. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
DHS Secretary Thinks Habeas Corpus Is The Power To Deport People With No Due Process Our Secretary of Homeland Security, tasked with overseeing t...
Well, this sucks. Last year, Wendt went on Ted Danson/Woody Harrelson's podcast and it's hilarious watching them reminisce about the experience of being on Cheers. [www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzfh...]( ) RE:
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Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall.bsky.social)
Well, hell. RIP to perhaps the greatest one-liner delivery machine in TV history. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/george-wendt-dead-ch...
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Elon Musk has apparently decided it must be wasteful to find out some details about internet usage and alcohol consumption of the American public. RE:
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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) (@hansilowang.bsky.social)
NEW: The DOGE team of President Trump's billionaire adviser Elon Musk says in an X post that a review of federal government surveys conducted by th...