
July 31, 2024
This is not — nor will it ever be — a political blog, but it should come as no surprise to my regular readers that I occasionally dabble in political things away from the blogosphere. And yesterday I joined an estimated 190,000 self-proclaimed “White Dudes for Harris” in a Zoom conference, which featured rousing speeches from the original “Dude” himself (Jeff Bridges), an assortment of other celebrities, and some high-falutin’ politicos such as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and the governors of Minnesota, North Carolina, Illinois. In about two hours the event raised over $4 million for the Harris campaign.
It also found itself suspended from the platform formerly known as Twitter.
While Elon Musk understandably received a great deal of criticism for suspending the account, nothing he did violated the First Amendment. It’s his bulletin board; he can decide who can access it and what they can say on it.
That said, there is no end of irony in seeing a so-called “free speech absolutist” put the kibosh on speech of which he disapproves