https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1448367841477111808
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
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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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