To appease the endless campaigns of journalists to pressure Facebook to censor more, Facebook is now removing journalists from the "public figure" category, meaning the freedom to criticize journalists and engage in activism against their work will be sharply curtailed. https://t.co/ltghh81WbP
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 13, 2021
Facebook agrees to protect fragile journ*lists from bullying online.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1448367841477111808
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Greenwald always summarizes my seriouspost takes quite succinctly in his tweets.
If you guys have never heard of Oliver Sipple, he pretty much saved Gerald Ford from being assassinated. The media spotlight on him led to the fact that he’s gay becoming public in a time when that was not acceptable and ruining every aspect of his life. In lawsuits, newspapers and magazines defended themselves outing him by saying he had become a public figure. Now they want to b-word about the fact that they have purposely thrust their lives in the spotlight by trying to wave their arms on twitter for attention and that those actions have consequences.
Here’s a radiolab episode that sums it up pretty well.
This morning, Cum went to the park. I went with Coom. And Cum brought Coomer frisbee. At least I think it was Coomers. By the end of the day, Cum started throwing the frisbee to Cumself.
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A someone who’s been mostly closeted (just private about it really) forever, I really feel for the guy. Journ*lists should not have the power to play with people’s lives like that. If I was outed before I had things going for me, my life would probably be a lot worse, and his certainly did.
We treat other behaviours that ruin peoples lives harshly: r*pe, assault, theft, etc.. But as soon as it’s the press making someone’s private life a “”national conversation”” and ruin someone’s life forever, it’s just the cost of doing business.
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Yup, cost of doing business sounds about right. They actively profit from ruining lives while simultaneously lobby platforms to not allow individuals to have the same power that the press does. Calling it doxxing or some shit.
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