{"id":81773,"date":"2022-04-27T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81773"},"modified":"2022-04-27T06:22:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T11:22:04","slug":"the-empire-strikes-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=81773","title":{"rendered":"The Empire Strikes Back"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tens of thousands of blue-checks who were supposed to have moved to Canada in 2017, and who threatened to leave Twitter if Elon Musk managed to buy the platform, are apperently still there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Looks like I\u2019m about to say goodbye to Twitter as well. I\u2019ve been pulling back a bit from social media anyway. This will be just the push I need to go all the way on this app. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QkwIsYy6zS\">https:\/\/t.co\/QkwIsYy6zS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CharlesMBlow\/status\/1518520079972982784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As of last night, Mr. Blow has not, er, blown this pop stand.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As noted in countless other venues, the cognitive dissonance among the blue-checks nearly violates the laws of physics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Musk and his apologists say if consumers don\u2019t like what he does with Twitter, they can go elsewhere. But where else would consumers go to post short messages that can reach millions of people other than Twitter?<br><br>The \u201cfree market\u201d increasingly reflects the demands of big money.<\/p>&mdash; Robert Reich (@RBReich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RBReich\/status\/1518655243541618689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption>Berg&#8217;s Seventh Law is omniscient.   Upside:  Reich doesn&#8217;t have enough matter above the neckline to give him any chance of whiplash. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Infinitely more dangerous than peeish blue checks?  A bureaucracy run amok. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/22f66209-f5b2-4476-8cdb-de4befffebe5?fbclid=IwAR0DmT01O3xvb1cbuuL3RHzGjBKHO6fPsu5929kSTc8k36TpwI05oLHwjzc\">EU wants Big Tech to do its censoring<\/a> for it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Out:  Russian Bots<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In:  EUBots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tens of thousands of blue-checks who were supposed to have moved to Canada in 2017, and who threatened to leave Twitter if Elon Musk managed to buy the platform, are apperently still there. As of last night, Mr. Blow has not, er, blown this pop stand. Weird. As noted in countless other venues, the cognitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81791,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81773\/revisions\/81791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}