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Journalists (And Others) Should Leave Twitter. Here’s How They Can Get Started

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By Dan Gillmor
| Techdirt Verified
from the time-to-go dept Summary: Elon Musk has demonstrated contempt for free speech in general, and journalism in particular, with his behavior at Twitter. He is also demonstrating why it is foolhardy for anyone to rely on centralized platforms to create and distribute vital information. Journalists — among many information providers and users — should move to decentralized systems where they have control of what they say and how they distribute it.
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Nonfiction: America's real school-safety problem

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By Justin Sullivan, Heather Havrilesky, Marcelle Soviero, Dan Gillmor
| archive.org
Detail from the cover of Homeroom Security Last fall, a Delaware student was suspended from school after bringing a knife into his classroom. Because of his school's zero-tolerance weapons policy, he was suspended for 45 days and forced to attend an alternative school. Swift justice? Perhaps -- except that the student, Zachary Christie, was a first grader at the time and the "weapon" was his Cub Scout-issued fork-spoon-knife tool.
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E-Voting's Continuing Scandals

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By Dan Gillmor
| Boing Boing Verified
Dan Gillmor is a BoingBoing guest-blogger. Brad Friedman at the Brad Blog has been keeping up on the latest too-real news about the nation's voting machines and the people who sell, buy and operate them. Two recent postings send the outrage meter way into the red. First is California's continuing effort to clean up the mess it's made over the last few years. It's going to be harder than anyone imagined.
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