[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 221, Issue 8

[Sarah T. Roberts]

My word, Andrew — it sounds like you want to interfere when enterprises’ right to operate their businesses ad they see fit, a free speech issue if ever there was one!

Or, back down here in reality, we can actually identify that platforms operate within a series of internal policies and legal/regulatory regimes, and people have a right to opine as to how they would like those things to operate. 

Or perhaps the entire business model of commercializing human self-expression to the cynical nadir where it has landed is rotten to the core. 

But it takes some pretzel logic to come to the determination that “liberals” and , even worse yet, “academia,”are responsible, via asking for various kinds of concessions and regulations to protect users of all kinds, for right-wing autocracy. Shrug. 
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S a r a h  T.  R o b e r t s,  P h. D.

behalf of andrew.lowenthal--- via Air-L <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>

> Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 12:23 PM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Elon Musk & free speech
> It is truly breathtaking that the default position now in 'academia' is
> one of free speech suppression...
> 
> "Do we tolerate too much?" is asked... perhaps ask someone in Indonesia
> who as of today can face jail criticising the president... anti-free
> speech 'liberals' embolden authoritarians around the world.
> 
> The fact that people are going in to bat for Big Tech for suppressing a
> story about the Biden family dealings in Ukraine and China (to say
> nothing of Hunter's predilections for cocaine and sex workers) is
> astounding... how much lower can 'academia' sink?
> 
> Interest in the actual truth is long gone, and liberals are just as
> partisan as conservatives. Intellectuals who care nothing for party
> tribalism are all but extinct (or at least very quiet).
> 
> If you are interested in a different take you might like to try this...
> 
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/punching-down-how-the-anti-disinformation__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!pLw_tKTFjSSAtxATGWxuanoQRIYKVvbyLD3P8_3RIcPjNZ0n-w4tEZXzSg5l0_6urdJCF3ZqcEi1AcJ6Fg$<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/punching-down-how-the-anti-disinformation__;!!LIr3w8kk_Xxm!pLw_tKTFjSSAtxATGWxuanoQRIYKVvbyLD3P8_3RIcPjNZ0n-w4tEZXzSg5l0_6urdJCF3ZqcEi1AcJ6Fg$>
> 
> Best,
> Andrew