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   Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:01:03 JST Mike Masnick ✅

   Okay, so people are encouraging me to post more here, but maybe to ignore the replies... So I'll post my latest on Elon/Bill Ackman and their rather confused take on free speech that seems focused on punishing journalists for reporting on things these billionaires don't like. https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/10/free-speech-absolutist-elon-musk-temporarily-bans-journalists-as-free-speech-absolutist-bill-ackman-threatens-slapp-suit-against-journalists/

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     Todd Alström (toddalstrom@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:02:03 JST Todd Alström

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     @mmasnick Yes, please post more here and less on Bluesky.

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     June Casagrande (junecasagrande@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:08:11 JST June Casagrande

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     @mmasnick If you're interested, New Yorker 2017 piece "What Does Tulsi Gabbard Believe" was a fascinating read that includes this about a religious leader she followed, Chris Butler: "Defectors tell stories of children discouraged by Butler from attending secular schools; ... of devotees lying prostrate whenever he entered the room, or adding bits of his nail clippings to their food, or eating spoonfuls of sand that he had walked upon."
     https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/11/06/what-does-tulsi-gabbard-believe

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     chris actual (lackattack@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:46:02 JST chris actual

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     @mmasnick YAY! More Masnick! Post here more and ignore the toolbag commenters and pay attention to quality comments like this one.

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     Stephen R Smith (themapsmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:56:02 JST Stephen R Smith

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     @mmasnick as a long time reader, I'd love to see more of you here!

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     Dan York (danyork@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 05:27:49 JST Dan York

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     @mmasnick Please do post more here! I very much enjoy and appreciate your take on things.

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     floydgump (gumpfloyd@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 05:39:43 JST floydgump

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     @mmasnick Free speech suppressor more like it.These tyrannical hypocrites only care about their own free speech.

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     Matunos (matunos@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 05:43:24 JST Matunos

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     @mmasnick why ignore the replies here?

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     Viss (viss@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 06:32:29 JST Viss

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     @mmasnick i can say that i appreciate you here way more than on bsky, in that like 90% of my feed content there is politics and the drama surrounding that, and it gets tiresome pretty quickly - there are way broader topics here - if theres something i can do to make you feel welcomed here more than there i'm happy to do it!

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 06:43:27 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @mmasnick glad to see you here!

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     Chyld (chyld@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 06:54:39 JST Chyld

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     @mmasnick I for one would be very happy to see you post more here. I’m sorry your experience has been so negative; I’ve heard it from other high-profile tech folks, and it’s a shame for folks to be driven away from what has the potential to function as a real commons.

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     Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 07:48:06 JST Mike Masnick ✅

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     • Matunos

     @matunos they seem to get fairly scoldy.

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     Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 07:49:27 JST Mike Masnick ✅

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     • Peter Butler

     @peterbutler in my experience there was a lot more scolding here, and less useful conversation. it's not a condemnation of all, obviously, but just makes it more of a mental burden to post actively here.

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     Peter Butler (peterbutler@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 07:49:28 JST Peter Butler

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     @mmasnick Thanks for posting here. I always enjoy your opinions and commentary and usually don’t see them if they’re not posted here

     (Not sure if I understand the dig at Mastodon replies. I haven’t seen many problems aside from the usual that you’d get anywhere)

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     Matunos (matunos@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 08:24:41 JST Matunos

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     @mmasnick ah, yeah that sucks. as a small timer here I haven't faced much of that (don't fade many replies at all), but yeah my inclination would be to mute early and often

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     donJon (donjon@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 09:51:30 JST donJon

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     @mmasnick seems fun. followed

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     Etorobitcoin (etorobitcoin@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 10:16:52 JST Etorobitcoin

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     Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 06:33:01 JST Mike Masnick ✅

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     • Adnan 🦙

     @adnan it's on the roadmap, but we're so ridiculously busy. we'll get to it!

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     Adnan 🦙 (adnan@1210.nl)'s status on Saturday, 13-Jan-2024 06:33:06 JST Adnan 🦙

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     @mmasnick I suppose folks would be also asking for techdirt to use an activitypub plugin. That would satisfy me.