Jürgen Schweizer

Living proof that it's possible to be pragmatic and idealistic at the same time.

[Jürgen Schweizer @juergencc]

the bird is dead

[Jürgen Schweizer @juergencc]

Let’s always remember this:

For Musk speech is only free when it supports him (and MAGA I suppose). Otherwise it is called „activism“ and can be suppressed.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.

Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.

[Jürgen Schweizer @juergencc]

A single person (supporting a party that is trying to destroy democracy no less), is now controlling the „public square“. Nothing has changed? For Twitter, everything has changed.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.

Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.

[Jürgen Schweizer @juergencc]

When you are rich it is in your best self-interest to fight against anybody who could limit the reach of your speech, because you still have plenty of (costly) methods available to you to bury any story you don‘t like.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Elon Musk is again claiming that he’s all about free speech. So let’s look at the record. Here’s thread with just a few of the countless examples showing he couldn't care about it less (🧵)

[Gints Knoks @Knoks]

1/13 Here's a Russian propaganda story for @christogrozev un @bellingcat right out of the movies. We're in Venice, unintentionally eavesdropping on a conversation between 2 Russian guys (a bartender and his friend) and one of the regulars... So 🧵

[Jürgen Schweizer @juergencc]

So the solution is to allow hate speech, appeal to compassion, and then offer thoughts and prayers when verbal violence turned into actual violence?

[Lex Fridman @lexfridman]

Anger, pain, resentment, and even hate are best healed through compassionate conversation, not through censorship and derision.

[Jürgen Schweizer @juergencc]

Failed state: when being conscripted is considered an attractive job opportunity

[Maria Domanska @MDomanskaOSW]

One of the best RU experts explains why women in the provinces don't resist against mobil. "My unemployed husband will not find any job here; he is heavily drinking and will die sooner or later; if he goes to the war he will at least earn some money and we'll get social benefits

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

The Iranian regime that kills women for their manner of wearing head scarves supplies weapons so that Russia can kill people for being Ukrainians.

[Jürgen Schweizer @juergencc]

Democracy is vital to unleash the talent of young people – Ben Hodges
https://t.co/4Bpaa4Rp9u

[Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani]

Summary: if you think that a strong, powerful, violent autocrat must be well-informed, you are probably wrong. Nobody would ever tell him anything unpleasant. The same goes on *every* level of hierarchy. Autocracy is brittle, because it is blind

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

All of you who are saying that we have to give in to nuclear blackmail are making nuclear war more likely. Please stop. When you give in to it, you empower dictators to do it again, encourage worldwide nuclear proliferation, and make nuclear war much, much more likely.

[Jürgen Schweizer @juergencc]

Longpath. Become a great ancestor. https://t.co/Tf88yVdNWS

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

To consider regarding nuclear blackmail: when you give in to it, you empower dictators to do it again, encourage worldwide nuclear proliferation, and make nuclear war much, much more likely.

[Bartosz Milewski @BartoszMilewski]

Well, Russian media have an new favorite village idiot.

"Medvedev called Musk worthy of an "extraordinary title" for a post about Ukraine."

@elonmusk: Before talking about Crimea, take a minute to read an article in Wikipedia. https://t.co/EaZFKidlVn

[Oliver Carroll @olliecarroll]

“How are you doing?” I ask a journalist friend in Kyiv. “Getting ready for nuclear war.” The most important thing is a mask, she says. And produces one from her handbag.

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

To sum up, Italy will no longer be a force for good within the EU but a free-riding member state taking - as opposed to giving - as much as it can, and ceasing to contribute to major decision-making.
It will be transactional only, with no room left for solidarity. #italyelection

[Mikhail Khodorkovsky @khodorkovsky_en]

Russia🇷🇺 is most likely the first and only country in the world where people flee not because someone invaded their country, but because they invaded another country.

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

The Russian economists Maxim Mironov (@mironov_fm) and Oleg @itskhoki (of IE University and UCLA respectively) have published an important thread estimating the likely demographic impacts of mobilisation on Russia. A translation follows. ⬇️ /1