Tuesday, August 07, 2018

Drop the Twitter Suspension of Peter Van Buren

Okay, I'm really getting ticked off.  Peter Van Buren?

He could cause me to bang my head against the wall or reveal something I'd missed.  But rather I was enraged or informed by him at the moment, he always provided value.  And he certainly made me think -- that's whether I was agreeing with him or disagreeing with him. 

His account's been suspended by Twitter. 

This is nonsense.

Peter Van Buren participates in the public square, he starts dialogues.  He is a part of the fabric of democracy and when you rip him out, you are attacking free speech.






Peter Van Buren

@WeMeantWell

Author of HOOPER'S WAR: A Novel of WWII Japan, GHOSTS OF TOM JOAD, and WE MEANT WELL: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts + Minds of the Iraqi People
New York
Joined April 2011
 

Tweets

  1.  Pinned Tweet
    Hooper's War: A Novel of WWII Japan is available on Amazon! A Catch-22-like tale of moral injury.
  2. Keep in mind a key Democratic strategy is to find a way to get more convicted felons to vote. They know their base I guess.
  3. Doesn't this just always happen at the worst times? Best response though is to send out a tweet.
  4. "We want censorship of hate speech and... OMG Trump is attacking the free press!!!!"
  5.   Retweeted
    Black people are only fit to live underground like groveling goblins. They have stopped breeding and will all go extinct soon. I enjoy being cruel to old black women. The above statements are from editor . I simply swapped out the word “white” for “black”.
  6.   Retweeted
    Mueller must be hauled in front of Congress to answer for what the did about a Chinese Spy 20 yrs what did he tell China?? Mueller was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2001 to 2013 he has the answers
  7.   Retweeted
    No mention of Sarah Jeong’s demented tweets on her Wikipedia page. Why? A little group of activist editors won’t allow it. Amazing. See them in action here:
  8. Never mind the idea that journalists write whole articles based on, I guess stupid people who didn't delete, others' old tweets.
  9. This used to be called being responsible for what you write: "Scrubbing old tweets is already a common practice among journalists... we understand our appeal as candidates for targeted harassment"
  10. Dear Abraham Lincoln and the ghosts of the millions who fought for the Union: You wasted your lives. They still blame your relatives in 2018 for all that shit. Sorry.
    This Tweet is unavailable.
  11. 78 yrs ago our grandparents fought and died to defeat fascism and preserve our freedoms, including the precious freedom of speech. Except hate speech as defined by 23 yr old undergraduates. They didn't fight for that I'm told.
  12. America now has a generation demanding an end to free speech.
  13. The classic ignorant understanding of the difference between the unfettered right to free speech and the unfettered application of free speech. Defend the right, not the content, dumbass guy on Twitter.
  14. This certainly shows a keen understanding of history and government.
  15. So those are apparently the choices: pig, asshole, or broken. Dude, man up!
  16. Now of course she's saying all this at Harvard and still doesn't see the irony.
  17. Finally something she and I agree on!
  18. And first snowflake who wants to explain all this away by citing 400 years of oppression, come at me.
  19. Called 911 in NYC on two young black guys who threatened to kill an 80yr old white man because he said music was too loud. They of course ran away before the cops arrived. But NYT, you just keep explaining why hiring someone who writes Kill All White People is good for us.
  20.   Retweeted
    What did Obama tell Sasha and Malia about the kids he killed in drone strikes?



Peter Van Buren

@WeMeantWell

Author of HOOPER'S WAR: A Novel of WWII Japan, GHOSTS OF TOM JOAD, and WE MEANT WELL: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts + Minds of the Iraqi People
New York
Joined April 2011
 

Tweets

  1.  Pinned Tweet
    Hooper's War: A Novel of WWII Japan is available on Amazon! A Catch-22-like tale of moral injury.
  2. Keep in mind a key Democratic strategy is to find a way to get more convicted felons to vote. They know their base I guess.
  3. Doesn't this just always happen at the worst times? Best response though is to send out a tweet.
  4. "We want censorship of hate speech and... OMG Trump is attacking the free press!!!!"
  5.   Retweeted
    Black people are only fit to live underground like groveling goblins. They have stopped breeding and will all go extinct soon. I enjoy being cruel to old black women. The above statements are from editor . I simply swapped out the word “white” for “black”.
  6.   Retweeted
    Mueller must be hauled in front of Congress to answer for what the did about a Chinese Spy 20 yrs what did he tell China?? Mueller was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2001 to 2013 he has the answers
  7.   Retweeted
    No mention of Sarah Jeong’s demented tweets on her Wikipedia page. Why? A little group of activist editors won’t allow it. Amazing. See them in action here:
  8. Never mind the idea that journalists write whole articles based on, I guess stupid people who didn't delete, others' old tweets.
  9. This used to be called being responsible for what you write: "Scrubbing old tweets is already a common practice among journalists... we understand our appeal as candidates for targeted harassment"
  10. Dear Abraham Lincoln and the ghosts of the millions who fought for the Union: You wasted your lives. They still blame your relatives in 2018 for all that shit. Sorry.
    This Tweet is unavailable.
  11. 78 yrs ago our grandparents fought and died to defeat fascism and preserve our freedoms, including the precious freedom of speech. Except hate speech as defined by 23 yr old undergraduates. They didn't fight for that I'm told.
  12. America now has a generation demanding an end to free speech.
  13. The classic ignorant understanding of the difference between the unfettered right to free speech and the unfettered application of free speech. Defend the right, not the content, dumbass guy on Twitter.
  14. This certainly shows a keen understanding of history and government.
  15. So those are apparently the choices: pig, asshole, or broken. Dude, man up!
  16. Now of course she's saying all this at Harvard and still doesn't see the irony.
  17. Finally something she and I agree on!
  18. And first snowflake who wants to explain all this away by citing 400 years of oppression, come at me.
  19. Called 911 in NYC on two young black guys who threatened to kill an 80yr old white man because he said music was too loud. They of course ran away before the cops arrived. But NYT, you just keep explaining why hiring someone who writes Kill All White People is good for us.
  20.   Retweeted
    What did Obama tell Sasha and Malia about the kids he killed in drone strikes?