Earlier this year, the Indian government asked Twitter and YouTube to take down a documentary critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Both complied. Two weeks ago, Twitter also complied with a request from the Indian government to block 122 accounts supposedly critical of India's actions in Punjab.
Having followed Taibbi, I know his stance on things like India and other issues when it comes to his reporting is "my stance doesn't matter, the facts of my reporting do". I wish he would have focused on this principle more, but he is also a terrible debater and i think caught off guard by the aggressiveness of Hasan when willing to be open for critique.
Taibbi did address the India bit somewhat in his podcast (https://www.racket.news/p/episode-33-america-this-week-with#details). If you're interested I could transcribe the relevant sections, though it sounded like it mostly came down to "I don't want to talk about Elon and the India issue is a distraction from the topic at hand". Involvement with American authorities and the fact that the network used to have him as a regular guest and now treat him in a more hostile manner appear to be the key motivations here.
I am kind of not surprised that Taibbi has nothing to say about India. Not to sound too reductive, but Matt Taibbi is the absolute inverse of the patriotic American. He is narrowly focused on the bad things his country does. He’s of the Chomsky-style left; he doesn’t have anything to say about the bad things other countries do. America is the source of everything bad in the world and is the centre of all evil.
Why would I have anything to say about India when America is the font of all I’ll?
I read that the Twitter blocking Substack thing was because of Substack’s move to explore creating a Twitter competitor for chat, Notes.
This is the danger with companies spreading horizontally: they inevitably can create problems for existing businesses. I’m not sure there’s a good out here for Taibbi, since his Twitter work has helped his Substack work. It also seems less and less likely to me in recent months that anyone on Substack is actually a hero of free speech and the free press, including the press formerly known as Common Sense.
I don't run an international social media company, and I am not a journalist, either. My impression of Musk is that he is trying hard not to break /every/thing while he & his people try to find a model that's less socially damaging and could even possibly someday make money. They're picking their battles along the way, with (I assume) a lot of competing priorities that are difficult to reconcile in every moment. My impression of Taibbi's journalism is that he writes his conclusions colorfully but grounds them in obsessively factual research. Of course I have no idea of the reason he decided to go on that show, but not knowing enough to have an opinion is okay by me. He is writing about lots of other stuff lately; he is not obliged to focus forever on the ins and outs of the blue bird sideshow.
Having followed Taibbi, I know his stance on things like India and other issues when it comes to his reporting is "my stance doesn't matter, the facts of my reporting do". I wish he would have focused on this principle more, but he is also a terrible debater and i think caught off guard by the aggressiveness of Hasan when willing to be open for critique.
An unfortunate outcome for sure:(.
Taibbi did address the India bit somewhat in his podcast (https://www.racket.news/p/episode-33-america-this-week-with#details). If you're interested I could transcribe the relevant sections, though it sounded like it mostly came down to "I don't want to talk about Elon and the India issue is a distraction from the topic at hand". Involvement with American authorities and the fact that the network used to have him as a regular guest and now treat him in a more hostile manner appear to be the key motivations here.
As a note, before pulling out of China, Google owned a significant amount of Baidu stock, which drastically increased in value after their exit. http://www.china.org.cn/english/BAT/98325.htm#:~:text=According%20to%20US%20reports%2C%20Google,the%20biggest%20shareholders%20in%20Baidu.
I am kind of not surprised that Taibbi has nothing to say about India. Not to sound too reductive, but Matt Taibbi is the absolute inverse of the patriotic American. He is narrowly focused on the bad things his country does. He’s of the Chomsky-style left; he doesn’t have anything to say about the bad things other countries do. America is the source of everything bad in the world and is the centre of all evil.
Why would I have anything to say about India when America is the font of all I’ll?
I read that the Twitter blocking Substack thing was because of Substack’s move to explore creating a Twitter competitor for chat, Notes.
This is the danger with companies spreading horizontally: they inevitably can create problems for existing businesses. I’m not sure there’s a good out here for Taibbi, since his Twitter work has helped his Substack work. It also seems less and less likely to me in recent months that anyone on Substack is actually a hero of free speech and the free press, including the press formerly known as Common Sense.
I don't run an international social media company, and I am not a journalist, either. My impression of Musk is that he is trying hard not to break /every/thing while he & his people try to find a model that's less socially damaging and could even possibly someday make money. They're picking their battles along the way, with (I assume) a lot of competing priorities that are difficult to reconcile in every moment. My impression of Taibbi's journalism is that he writes his conclusions colorfully but grounds them in obsessively factual research. Of course I have no idea of the reason he decided to go on that show, but not knowing enough to have an opinion is okay by me. He is writing about lots of other stuff lately; he is not obliged to focus forever on the ins and outs of the blue bird sideshow.