@CoughsOnWombats: I also think it's worth underscoring that there was never an accounting for this. We badly, badly need a mechanism for …
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The tweet calls for coordinated mechanisms in internet censorship, criticizing current systems for lacking accountability and being rightly distrusted.
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I also think it’s worth underscoring that there was never an accounting for this.
We badly, badly need a mechanism for coordinating when that’s in our mutual interests. Our current such is badly damaged, not because people distrust it, but because they are correct to do so.
Patrick McKenzie (@patio11): (I do not think it is an unfair criticism of the governmental/NGO Internet censorship apparatus to say that it was substantially motivated by losing an election and wanted to avoid that result specifically in the future. This was frequently text, not subtext.)
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