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[Election Wizard @ElectionWiz]

This is Trump's greatest achievement.

[Edward Snowden @Snowden]

Reports that Trump has let himself be bullied out of pardoning Assange, mistakenly believing Senate Republicans won't vote to impeach him if he caves.

Once he's out of power, they're going to vote to impeach him anyway. Which, well——that's one way to be remembered. #Politics

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

Despite or because? Hard to tell.

[cody @codydiffee]

🎯 https://t.co/MAbl4e7hiK

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

The value of reporting the news is dwarfed by the value of controlling it’s distortion.

[cody @codydiffee]

Lol https://t.co/W3jMPvRiI8

[Archive: Governor Andrew Cuomo @NYGovCuomo]

We simply cannot stay closed until the vaccine hits critical mass. The cost is too high. We will have nothing left to open. We must reopen the economy, but we must do it smartly and safely.

#SOTS2021

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

If you're a liberal, there's no need to reply by saying how happy you are that this is happening, or how justified you think it is.

I'm already well-aware that huge numbers of liberals favor censorship of their adversaries and venerate the power of tech monopolies.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

I'm not sure if this is due to mass-nuking of conservative accounts by Twitter, conservatives leaving the platform voluntarily in protest of the Trump ban, or some combination of both, but accounts with large conservative followers are seeing a massive plunge in follower counts:

[Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain]

Apple is demanding that Parler be held responsible for the content posted by its users OR it will take it off iOS

So basically Apple is demanding that Parler waive its section 230 protections while lobbying to maintain its own 230 privileges

[cody @codydiffee]

💯

[Erik Voorhees @ErikVoorhees]

The Leftist applauds Twitter because they hate Trump.

The Rightist condemns Twitter because they love Trump.

The Libertarian humbly applies principle, regardless of who is involved.

[Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne]

“... presented as they state them, and accompanied by what they offer as refutations. He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them...he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.”

[Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne]

“But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion... Nor is it enough that he should hear the opinions of adversaries from his own teachers...

[Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne]

Let’s see if quoting a 19th century philosopher (John Stuart Mill, “On Libert”) is now verboten: “He
who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them...

[cody @codydiffee]

@_McClintock_ it’s so sad what we’ve done to ourselves. I’m afraid it’s just going to get worse.

[Jameel Jaffer @JameelJaffer]

It would be a mistake of historic proportions to go down this road (again) without thinking very carefully about whether new authority is needed and how that authority is likely to be used and abused. Let's not make the same mistakes we did after 9/11. https://t.co/ZTAdXQplfL

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This is particularly menacing because they're not just like any other companies with competitors. A Democratic-controlled House sub-committee three months ago definitively concluded that 4 of them -- FB, Amazon, Google and Apple -- are classic monopolies.

https://t.co/28O8cutqKs

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

A handful of Silicon Valley oligarchs decide who can and cannot be heard, including the President of the United States. They exert this power unilaterally, with no standards, accountability or appeal.

Politics now is begging them to silence adversaries or permit allies to speak:

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

Thank goodness the Georgia Senate election restored the public’s confidence in our election systems. 👍🏻

[Eric Matheny 🎙️ @ericmmatheny]

We need a moratorium on ALL foreign aid until the country is fully reopened and unemployment is back to 3.5%. Not one cent to a foreign country until Americans are made whole.

[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -Ben Franklin

@RepThomasMassie & I intro'd 'Protect Our Civil Liberties Act' (HR8970) to repeal the so-called Patriot Act & end illegal government surveillance

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

Very different framing, @USATODAY