Government officials in the "party of free speech" looking to use the power of the state to punish people for their free speech. Again. It's almost like they were never actually serious about free speech. https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreiediidkmdidymypl6rt5s7sqgiko55ol4nqlsno4xas46lxm5bvfy
Finally wrote something responding to that silly piece from a few weeks ago about why everyone should stay on X (they still wanted to call it Twitter, but Twitter is dead). You can stay in the system designed to hold you back, or you can be a part of building something better. It's time to build. RE:
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Techdirt (@techdirt.com)
Stop Begging. Start Building As a reminder, I’m on the board at Bluesky, which means you should consider me extremely biased, even as this arti...
Do we file this one under free markets or personal liberty? RE:
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Karen Attiah (@karenattiah.bsky.social)
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. https://substac...
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So the site that was building a database of 60k+ people it "blamed" for the murder of Kirk (including many who simply quoted Kirk's own words) has "rebranded" and claims its new mission is "we track statistics on the prevalence of political extremism."
Lol. A year ago these same people insisted that any effort to label foreign propaganda was an attack on free speech, and forced the dismantling of multiple orgs studying foreign disinformation RE:
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AccidentalInsightRepeater (@ratelimitexceeder.bsky.social)
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Wife: Hey look, there's a "pi" in the sky! https://oyster.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:cak4klqoj3bqgk5rj6b4f5do&cid=bafkreihgnc6pnei72hba5g4ttrbhtn3fdwrpitwer7sbjx3rkowlbjke3i
I think it's even more chilling to watch the actual video than just to read what he wrote. He's so dismissive. "Just kill them" with a wave of the hand. No concern for how that sounds or what it means. As if this is just the most natural thing in the world to say. RE:
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Fucking Bitch Hat (@kenwhite.bsky.social)
Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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She's not here on Bluesky that often by [@aagh.bsky.social](
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Trust & Safety loudmouth. (Head of T&S at Musbi; writes T&S Insider; host of Trust in Tech podcast) More here: https://alicelinks.com/about-alice
 ), a true expert on trust & safety (and a great explainer of trust & safety) had a good post on LinkedIn about the challenges of trust & safety during high profile events. [www.linkedin.com/posts/aliceh...](
Platforms scramble to reduce violence, misinformation, and hate speech | Alice Goguen Hunsberger posted on the topic | LinkedIn
T&S and policy teams at platforms are likely scrambling right now. Days like yesterday and today are really hard, and in my experience it never get...
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I mentioned that exact same retweet in my post about Clay Higgins. Shellenberger spent years claiming that literally the most benign attempt by a gov't official to merely *talk* to a platform about content moderation was the world's worst attack on the 1st Amendment [www.techdirt.com/2025/09/12/f...](
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Fake “Free Speech” Champion Clay Higgins Now Wants To Use Gov’t Power To Silence Anyone Who “Belittles” Kirk’s Death
Rep. Clay Higgins wants to use his government power to ban Americans from the internet for life if they say unkind things about Charlie Kirk’...
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Walker Bragman (@walkerbragman.bsky.social)
Free speech warrior Michael Shellenberger, of Bari Weiss’s fake “university,” retweets GOP Sen. Dave McCormick calling for the University of ...
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Fake “Free Speech” Champion Clay Higgins Now Wants To Use Gov’t Power To Silence Anyone Who “Belittles” Kirk’s Death
Rep. Clay Higgins wants to use his government power to ban Americans from the internet for life if they say unkind things about Charlie Kirk’...
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Do the weird naive "centrist" contrarian pundits have a weekly lottery over who gets to write the article whining about how people on Bluesky are mean to them and the site doesn't matter even though they have to keep writing about it? This is like the 6th or 7th week in a row where that's happened.