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Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: bit.ly/protocolnotpla...
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Yo, @rokhanna.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy, while you're looking into the DOJ not complying with the law, might want to ask them about some of their redaction choices that they screwed up.
Anyway, curious what possible rationale the DOJ could have for redacting those sections saying that Epstein paid off witnesses to their "criminal sex trafficking and abuse conduct," threatened harm, to "release damaging stories about them," and telling them to "destroy evidence."
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Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
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Some people have called into question whether or not there was actually a redaction fail on the Epstein docs, and it's true the original poster didn't present any evidence. I need to head out for a bit and in an abundance of caution deleted the original post until I've learned more...
Gee. Why would Judge Cannon want to block Jack Smith's report about Trump's classified documents retention? It's a real head scratcher...
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And even if you want to argue there was something legitimate to be said, there were much, much better ways to say it, as I also wrote about:
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Hilarious. Michael Shellenberger, who has spent years spewing made up nonsense about a "censorship industrial complex" involving close ties between gov't & industry to "censor" speech is out there running cover for Bari Weiss censoring speech on behalf of the gov't.
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