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And now there is semi-outrage from the free-speech
crowd (to which I belong) of the firing from the (“left libertarian”) Niskanen Center
over a joke from executive Will Wilkinson. Alex Shepard critques in The New Republic.
Robby Soave comes at it from another
angle in Reason. He had tweeted a
hyperbole about “lynching” Mike Pence, which should have been understood as satire
by anyone familiar with what happened Jan. 6.
Yet, almost any speech could be interpreted as “incitement” if there is
a political motive to do so. (Sorry, not enough people are familiar with the late
Gode Davis’s unfished film “American Lynching”?
PBS may still have an interest in it, I hope.)
I became familiar
with Niskanen in 2016 when I was looking at the asylum seeker issue (before
Trump won). They were a bit critical of
one of my emails or blog posts, but I can’t remember exactly what the issue was
now. Niskansen seems to be left of Catom
Will is a blogger with an issue focus a little like
mine, as for example.
So now is career illustrates the problem when you work
for someone else because you need an income, or you need notability and
validation.
On Jan 5, I had tweeted “Game time 1 PM” as a way of
telling journalists I would be following the certification hearing in Congress
from home. But even that might be taken
as incitement for some kind of hunt, like in a dystopian movie (especially from
Lionsgate). Around midnight of the eve
of July 20, 2012, when a Batman film was to premier, I had tweeted a joke about
Thursday night screenings of hit movies, and that might have turned out wrong.
Tim Pool has pointed out that corporate Democrat Big
tech is now going after Leftist extremism now that Trump has won.
You really have to be careful now.
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