YabosMcGee @YabosMcGee@social.cleverlibre.org

There are a lot of people on Twitter who fashion themselves as champions of free expression but they seem pretty uninterested in my report about a systematic attack on academic freedom in Florida

https://popular.info/p/how-to-ban-3600-books-from-school

The toughest thing about proving white collar crime, as I've learned from @Popehat is proving intent. I'd imagine that suspects having a groupchat called "Wirefraud" must make prosecutors positively *giddy*. (ht: @annmlipton ) https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/ftx-s-inner-circle-had-a-secret-chat-group-called-wirefraud-20221213-p5c5sx

I've gotten a lot of responses to that Substack piece about leaving Twitter. Many are positive but some are negative. A few are saying "oh so you think free speech is nasty?"

What kind of stupid question is that? Of course I do. The Nazis marching at Skokie were nasty. All sorts of speech is nasty. Supporting free speech doesn't mean reserving judgment about it, you imbecile. It means not using the state to suppress it.

SBF no longer in self custody

#crypto #ftx

Me: Lord I wish we had something new and exciting for the Serious Trouble show tomorrow

SBF: [gets arrested]

Me: Okay now You're just showing off

My non-legal advice: if your actions facially meet the elements of the crime in the group chat name, change the group chat name. https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/ftx-s-inner-circle-had-a-secret-chat-group-called-wirefraud-20221213-p5c5sx (h/t @mmasnick )

One thing I appreciate about @popehat 's writeup on exiting Twitter is that it captures something most articles in this genre only indirectly allude to:

It's not just that these platforms (and other things in our lives) are transitory, or that they can change. It's that we change, too. And maybe we don't always realize how much of a mismatch there is between who we are 𝘯𝘰𝘸 and what we once enjoyed, until the latter suddenly becomes something fundamentally different.

https://popehat.substack.com/p/goodbye-twitter