{"id":4113,"date":"2023-01-19T19:37:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T00:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2023-01-19T19:37:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T00:37:53","slug":"do-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2023\/01\/19\/do-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Do It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I really haven’t written much here lately. Variety of reasons for that, but there’ll probably be more to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Robby Soave’s findings<\/a> about what Meta (read: FB, IG) did in the early months of the Biden Administration is very, very, very disturbing. (Story<\/a> in case the Tweet thread disappears…) The Livestream is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After listening to the livestream, I’m a bit more sanguine. My initial reaction after seeing things unfolding earlier today was to return to my frequent instinct, and just leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sanguinity comes in after watching Jeremy Borin’s response to Crowder<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve paid for BlazeTV for a very long time. Somewhere my MIL has a photo of Glenn hugging a very fat me at a promotion where I’d gotten his phone working after I’d left the radio stations. My replacement at the stations and I got the job done….then he and Stu caught us smoking on the loading dock on the way out of the show. To be young and healthy…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back on topic, after the “just leave” instinct kicked in big time when I noticed the order-taking from the government (the CDC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Big tech shouldn’t be seeking direction. Even more, however, government shouldn’t be offering it. Even more importantly, government shouldn’t be giving it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaks a bit to the difference between Rawlsian positive rights, and Lockian negative rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But a restriction on government kind of falls into the latter category. With the conclusion that government doesn’t work<\/a>, you stop looking for it to succeed or fail at anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s there. It’s always going to be there. And, aside from breaking things, and killing people, it’s not going to ever do anything well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a consumer, you minimize your exposure to companies who seek government-like power. As a citizen, you try to restrain government whenever, wherever you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And you minimize where you can’t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sadly, I need to use some of the commercial tools. I’ll miss IG, but it’s going in the box again. So be it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tomorrow, Satureday, and Sunday, I’ll be trying to catch some talks from Shmoocon. I was really physically-exhausted after last year’s foray. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m also not spreading around as much cash between inflation, job uncertainty, and probably losing a not-insignificant amount of money dealing with a crypto company who’s likely reeling from FTX, etc..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I can sit, watch, and write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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