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Timothy Burke's avatar

It's a small part of this posting, but yes on "free speech". I think it's possible to have a taste for "free speech" that includes speech you disdain, but that's what that is--a taste, a cultivated aesthetic preference. Or a compulsion. All the mainstream centrist thinkers who crowd into the respectable platforms of public culture who flatter themselves by saying that they defend "free speech" or are defenders of "heterodoxy", the kind of people who sign scolding letters in Harper's or join Heterodox Academy, seem to have no awareness of how narrow their discursive universe actually is. They don't have to cancel a whole range of people out of their platforms or discussions because they never allowed them in at the outset and don't even acknowledge the existence of a whole range of sentiments, positions and ideas that are out there somewhere in the world.

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Trich Wages's avatar

The Intercept piece has gotten some major pushback from the tech world.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/bullshit-reporting-the-intercepts-story-about-government-policing-disinfo-is-absolute-garbage/

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