Andrew McDiarmid
@andwewmcd.bsky.social
Corn-fed T&S leader. I used to work at a place that made a place like this place. You have rights; fight fascism; use semicolons; vote.
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A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty:
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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Worth bringing back this briefer on how encryption protects and promotes human rights www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Worth bringing back this briefer on how encryption protects and promotes human rights www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
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when your censor is in the house - or is head of it - govt no longer needs to make a direct order. this is proceeding precisely as planned.
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:45 AM
when your censor is in the house - or is head of it - govt no longer needs to make a direct order. this is proceeding precisely as planned.
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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what the actual fuck are these dumb motherfuckers doing
Sen. WHITEHOUSE: We finally are moving to file a bipartisan Section 230 repeal bill. Waiting any longer serves no useful purpose.
December 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
what the actual fuck are these dumb motherfuckers doing
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"Elon’s entire incoherent free speech framework collapses into a single coherent principle: speech I like is protected, speech I don’t like should be punished.
This is what happens when someone who never understood the actual principles of free speech tries to cosplay as a free speech absolutist."
This is what happens when someone who never understood the actual principles of free speech tries to cosplay as a free speech absolutist."
Three Tweets That Capture The Entire Elon Musk Free Speech Con
We’ve spent years calling out what a hypocrite Elon Musk is on free speech. But sometimes the universe Elon hands you a gift: three tweets in the span of a little over a week that demonstrate…
www.techdirt.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Elon’s entire incoherent free speech framework collapses into a single coherent principle: speech I like is protected, speech I don’t like should be punished.
This is what happens when someone who never understood the actual principles of free speech tries to cosplay as a free speech absolutist."
This is what happens when someone who never understood the actual principles of free speech tries to cosplay as a free speech absolutist."
I've been thinking about this bit and steeling myself for the start of this discourse all day.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I've been thinking about this bit and steeling myself for the start of this discourse all day.
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These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
October 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.
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since that clearly woke a lot of you up too, please tell the USGS about it here earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
September 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
since that clearly woke a lot of you up too, please tell the USGS about it here earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
I overcame a year's inertia and finally cancelled last week. Harder and harder to be shocked these days, but this one is mask-off nuts.
You guys have to read the termination letter that @washingtonpost.com sent @karenattiah.bsky.social because they essentially accused her of anti-white racism because she mentioned that Charlie Kirk was a white man 😵💫
Then they called her a “risk.”
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karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...
Then they called her a “risk.”
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karenattiah.substack.com/p/why-washin...
Why Washington Post fired me
Read the official termination letter for yourself.
karenattiah.substack.com
September 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I overcame a year's inertia and finally cancelled last week. Harder and harder to be shocked these days, but this one is mask-off nuts.
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As a favor to me, if you write about this Administration’s free speech positions, avoid giving them too much credit by calling the “hypocrites.” They were NEVER SINCERE about freedom of speech as a value. It was only occasionally a useful cudgel for them to preserve societal and official power.
September 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Oof. I miss the Durbin who pushed legislation to promote openness and *prevent* platforms from capitulating to repressive governments
Durbin is right. Companies like Meta won't do the right thing unless they are forced to do so
But repealing Section 230 will literally just solidify the monopoly power of Meta by killing off smaller alternatives like Bluesky and Mastodon, while opening the floodgates for censorship. So... wtf man
But repealing Section 230 will literally just solidify the monopoly power of Meta by killing off smaller alternatives like Bluesky and Mastodon, while opening the floodgates for censorship. So... wtf man
Sen. DURBIN on Section 230 sunset bill: Companies like Meta won’t do the right thing unless they are compelled to do so.
April 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Oof. I miss the Durbin who pushed legislation to promote openness and *prevent* platforms from capitulating to repressive governments
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I was told these people were “free speech absolutists”
Seriously? Because we were told they were going to deport violent criminals.
April 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
I was told these people were “free speech absolutists”
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can’t believe I voted for the leopards sparkling my compliance in advance if it champagne from I am not going to survive another month of these posts
March 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
can’t believe I voted for the leopards sparkling my compliance in advance if it champagne from I am not going to survive another month of these posts
Great follow-up for anyone who listened to that "wha' happened?" NYT interview with Andreesen
For @us.theguardian.com, I wrote about how Silicon Valley’s right-wing politics go back to the dotcom mania of the 1990s — and how they’re far more central to the tech industry than we’ve previously thought
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Great follow-up for anyone who listened to that "wha' happened?" NYT interview with Andreesen
Good on Commissioner Bedoya
Good to see Alvaro Bedoya being clear in his dissent of Trump's new FTC boss' "anti-DEI" nonsense www.ftc.gov/system/files...
www.ftc.gov
January 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Good on Commissioner Bedoya