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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Ben on January 28, 2022, 09:44:04 AM
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I'm very impressed with this response by a Substack Vice President regarding calls for Substack to start censoring and banning their users. I haven't checked Substack out, but will definitely do so now. It looks like it might be a good place to learn different viewpoints on touchy subjects.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/substack-free-expression-vaccine-skeptics
https://twitter.com/lulumeservey/status/1486460150441562128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1486460150441562128%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fmedia%2Fsubstack-free-expression-vaccine-skeptics
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I haven't checked Substack out, but will definitely do so now.
Same here.
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This guy has been good, one of the first on substack I followed.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/why-bother-with-restrictions-if-everyones
Dr. Malone
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/
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This guy has been good, one of the first on substack I followed.
https://www.eugyppius.com/p/why-bother-with-restrictions-if-everyones
Dr. Malone
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/
Thanks. Did you create an account? I'm just starting to poke around without an account first, but it seems a little clunky to find stuff. I'm wondering if an account gives you a different interface?
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I gave them an email address, now I have folks I follow all on my "home" page.
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https://stevekirsch.substack.com/
https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/ - Geert Vanden Bossche from Belgium
https://wmbriggs.substack.com/
... and just for fun and balance I read Scott Alexander. I rarely agree with him lately but still pop in and see what he has to say.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/
https://www.eugyppius.com/ - posted earlier in thread, he is in Germany.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/ - also posted earlier, the current bugaboo of the left.
https://treeofwoe.substack.com/ - this guy has some interesting things to say
https://reader.substack.com/discover - here is where you search for people and topics
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Interesting read of a woke waking up...
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/last-year-i-was-a-bryn-mawr-girl
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This is legitimately an area where more government might be the answer. If major net service providers were bound by the first amendment there’d be a lot more platforms like this that don’t censor in the interests of whatever the corporate flavour of the day is.
In the same way the right is coming to realise all that “national security” stuff in the early 2000’s could be used against them, leftists will soon realise that their calls to censor “misinformation” will end very badly.
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In the same way the right is coming to realise all that “national security” stuff in the early 2000’s could be used against them, leftists will soon realise that their calls to censor “misinformation” will end very badly.
The right has been warning [other righties] about the national security stuff since day one.
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The right has been warning [other righties] about the national security stuff since day one.
By the right do you mean the true Scotsmen?
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By the right do you mean the true Scotsmen?
He actually referred to both of them as "the right", so why would you think he is excluding some from actually being of the right? I see no place where he employed a fallacy.
I think I know what you are alluding to, folks that draw lines in the sand and claim "X" isn't a true person of the right. The American right is composed of a very diverse spectrum of people. It is not a progressive revolutionary movement united behind changing or destroying our institutions and culture like the left. The left is an accurate descriptor, when in power they move policies to the left. The "right" very rarely when in power moves things to the right in any lasting fashion. Right in name only :laugh:
The right is an incoherent group that is reactionary to change for the sake of change. There is no overriding tie that binds the right together other than an ill defined commitment to the constitution. Being on the right practically means nothing more than "not a Democrat".
In fact, there are many leftists active in the American right political sphere. That is why I consider the American right to be incoherent. If a person identifies as part of and is active within the political right sphere, yet holds presuppositions, political philosophies and even policy positions that align better with the leftists, are they still of the right? Is it a fallacy to question whether the Neocon never Trumpers are actually men and women of the right? Or is "the right" a content less phrase that means whatever the current zeitgeist calls the right?
I'll still use the word "right" as a placeholder much as perd did, but I do it with the realization that it is a broad, ill defined word that at best can be defined as what it isn't relatively, ie a Democrat.
The subversion of language continues unabated.
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I've read two posts from this author and he is right on the mark IMHO.
He doesn't have much free content though.
https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-upheaval
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By the right do you mean the true Scotsmen?
As a right-winger who's never actually taken a position on the Patriot Act one way or the other - no. I just don't like the myth being spread that the Right has just suddenly seen the dangers of the Patriot Act. And I'm not Scottish, but I'm part Irish, if that means anything. ;)
Here's the New York Times, ret-conning the conservative viewpoint to make us look better - like they always do.
From the beginning, Democratic and Republican critics of the Patriot Act warned that its extraordinary surveillance powers would be used to investigate political dissent or low-level offenses rather than terrorism.
https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/09/07/do-we-still-need-the-patriot-act/the-patriot-act-gives-too-much-power-to-law-enforcement
Here's the Village Voice doing the same thing:
Such entities as the Eagle Forum and American Conservative Union are speaking out strongly against the act as a violation of civil liberties
https://www.villagevoice.com/2003/05/20/unexpected-steps-against-the-patriot-act/
I don't know where the Chicago Reader stands, but here:
Indeed, resistance to the act and its related executive orders has seen the leaders of the American Conservative Union, Americans for Tax Reform, and the Rutherford Institute, as well as bona fide conservatives like Newt Gingrich, Bob Barr, Dick Armey, Pat Buchanan, and Phyllis Schlafly, join forces with the American Civil Liberties Union, the Religious Action Center, and other “traditional” civil libertarians.
Indeed, the national grassroots campaign to pass local resolutions condemning various aspects of the USA Patriot Act is one of the most energized and admirable displays of American democracy in years, uniting citizens across the political spectrum.
https://chicagoreader.com/news-politics/phyllis-schlafly-and-the-aclu-united/
And some more stuff:
https://www.aclu.org/other/conservative-voices-against-usa-patriot-act