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← Anyone who tells you a contested legal question has one obvious answer is lying to you rather than analysing it.
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Read this korrent: Anyone who tells you a contested legal question has one obvious answer is lying to you rather than analysing it.
Anyone who tells you a contested legal question has one obvious answer is lying to you rather than analysing it.
Last stated 3 years ago
2 Aug 2023
KW
Ken White — holds since 2023-08-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The way to tell legal analysis from partisan lying is to distrust absolute certainty and to trust conceded ambiguity. — tap to centre the map on it
The way to tell legal analysis from partisan lying is to distrust absolute certainty and to trust conceded ambiguity.
Last stated 3 years ago
2 Aug 2023
KW
Ken White — holds since 2023-08-02 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Propaganda is rarely an outright lie — usually it is one real fact taken out of context and blown out of proportion, and answering it on its own terms is already losing to it. — tap to centre the map on it
Propaganda is rarely an outright lie — usually it is one real fact taken out of context and blown out of proportion, and answering it on its own terms is already losing to it.
Last stated 3 years ago
4 Mar 2024
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Serhii Plokhy — holds since 2024-03-04 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Advocates who argue for restricting AI on misuse grounds while privately fearing takeover end up less credible than if they said what they meant. — tap to centre the map on it
Advocates who argue for restricting AI on misuse grounds while privately fearing takeover end up less credible than if they said what they meant.
Last stated a year ago
5 Apr 2025
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Helen Toner — holds since 2025-04-05 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Whether the prosecution of Pavel Durov is an attack on free speech cannot be judged until the actual charges are known. — tap to centre the map on it
Whether the prosecution of Pavel Durov is an attack on free speech cannot be judged until the actual charges are known.
Last stated 2 years ago
26 Aug 2024
MM
Mike Masnick — holds since 2024-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Facts deployed as weapons in an argument can win the exchange without settling the disagreement. — tap to centre the map on it
Facts deployed as weapons in an argument can win the exchange without settling the disagreement.
Last stated 8 months ago
20 Jan 2026
DS
Derek Sivers — holds since 2026-01-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Most of what Durov is charged with is conduct almost any large platform could be accused of. — tap to centre the map on it
Most of what Durov is charged with is conduct almost any large platform could be accused of.
Last stated 2 years ago
26 Aug 2024
MM
Mike Masnick — holds since 2024-08-26 — tap for who they are
Same subject: That a ban creates a black market is not by itself an argument against the ban. — tap to centre the map on it
That a ban creates a black market is not by itself an argument against the ban.
Last stated 2 months ago
13 Jul 2026
CL
Charles Fain Lehman — holds since 2026-07-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: A strategy no reasonable person could disagree with is not a strategy; it means you are competing on raw execution. — tap to centre the map on it
A strategy no reasonable person could disagree with is not a strategy; it means you are competing on raw execution.
Last stated 2 months ago
9 Jul 2026
AM
Adam Mosseri — holds since 2026-07-09 — tap for who they are
Same subject: An independently owned platform is a necessary counterweight to the government and the mainstream media. — tap to centre the map on it
An independently owned platform is a necessary counterweight to the government and the mainstream media.
Last stated 3 years ago
20 Feb 2024
BA
Bill Ackman — holds since 2024-02-20 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Any digital identification system built for AI must preserve anonymous human speech, without which there is no genuine freedom of expression. — tap to centre the map on it
Any digital identification system built for AI must preserve anonymous human speech, without which there is no genuine freedom of expression.
Last stated 6 days ago
1 Sept 2026
DB
Dean W. Ball — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Arresting Pavel Durov was a historic wrong and a gigantic PR mistake that will keep founders from building in France. — tap to centre the map on it
Arresting Pavel Durov was a historic wrong and a gigantic PR mistake that will keep founders from building in France.
Last stated 11 months ago
30 Sept 2025
LF
Lex Fridman — holds since 2025-09-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Almost every one-to-one Telegram chat, and every group chat, is readable on Telegram’s own servers. — tap to centre the map on it
Almost every one-to-one Telegram chat, and every group chat, is readable on Telegram’s own servers.
Last stated 2 years ago
25 Aug 2024
MG
Matthew Green — holds since 2024-08-25 — tap for who they are
Same subject: He would rather lose everything than yield to government pressure to block channels, because submitting to something fundamentally wrong breaks a person inside. — tap to centre the map on it
He would rather lose everything than yield to government pressure to block channels, because submitting to something fundamentally wrong breaks a person inside.
Last stated 11 months ago
30 Sept 2025
PD
Pavel Durov — holds since 2025-09-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: Telegram has never shared a single private message with anyone, governments and intelligence services included. — tap to centre the map on it
Telegram has never shared a single private message with anyone, governments and intelligence services included.
Last stated 11 months ago
30 Sept 2025
PD
Pavel Durov — holds since 2025-09-30 — tap for who they are
Same subject: With no truly free places left in the world, freedom now depends on new technology creating new space, not on political change. — tap to centre the map on it
With no truly free places left in the world, freedom now depends on new technology creating new space, not on political change.
Last stated 17 years ago
13 Apr 2009
PT
Peter Thiel — holds since 2009-04-13 — tap for who they are
Same subject: The great task for libertarians is to escape politics in all its forms, rather than to win within it. — tap to centre the map on it
The great task for libertarians is to escape politics in all its forms, rather than to win within it.
Last stated 17 years ago
13 Apr 2009
PT
Peter Thiel — holds since 2009-04-13 — tap for who they are
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