atlantas

> The Biden administration’s decisions not to declare a no-fly zone or help transfer Polish MiGs were both good ones; they've kept their heads during a very emotional time.

Thankful for this, cooler heads prevailed. Despite relentless pressure coming from the news media and twitter demanding that we escalate.

You are pushing the moral panic in question, and it will age even more poorly than the previous panic since it's targeting and smearing a woman instead of a story.

What is it about Harry Potter and moral panics?

Then "We need to talk about Harry Potter. The story is evil and will corrupt your kids!"

Today "We need to talk about Harry Potter. The author is evil and will corrupt your kids!"

"master branch" and "grandfathered code" and "sanity check" are just a few of the terms suddenly deemed unacceptable.

Joe Rogan says dangerous things and must be silenced. Who is a Bernie supporter smeared as alt-right for saying unapproved things.

All kinds of campus panics about "unsafe" words and ideas. One example is a professor that said a word that sounds like another word during a lecture. It made some students uncomfortable and the professor was put on immediate leave.

People being cancelled for jokes they made a decade ago.

It just goes on and on.

Same, center left here too. It feels like a cult trying to purify itself. We're impure and must be cast out. I believe, however, that it's a very loud minority that is scaring the rest of us into silence. So it appears larger than it is.

Free speech. Strangely that has somehow inverted in recent years. It wasn't long ago that censorship was the domain of the right who were in a panic about what's acceptable speech and actively trying to police it.

Yikes. Imagine thinking Breaking Points is right-wing.

Thanks for doing this!

What would be your advice to new platforms that want to take a free speech approach, while attracting users across the entire political spectrum? (to avoid the fate of Parlor and Rumble)

If it involves money and it's something you don't like, you call it a pyramid scheme. Twitter discourse 101!

That's when the rubber meets the road. It's easy for Apple to virtue signal in this case, but I have a feeling they'll think different with China.