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“When you cancel the goose, you cancel the golden eggs, too. Who knew?”

Brendan Eich invented Javascript. So what? So he’s the guy who made the web work. When the internet stopped looking like circus posters with business cards and started acting like software – when the web started working madly as a point-of-sale terminal – that was Brendan Eich.

In consequence, he stands an excellent chance of turning out, in due course, to have been the most wealth-productive person ever to have walked the Earth.

He also donated money to a group opposing gay marriage. For this awful crime, he was doxxed and instantly cancelled. By Mozilla/Firefox. Which he co-founded.

By cancelling Parler last night, Amazon Web Services demonstrates that we are all peons now. Even so, Mozilla/Firefox will not rest in its mission to cannibalize the future…

PJ Media: Mozilla CEO Says Deplatforming President Trump Isn’t Enough.

Rob Hahn: The Big Test for REALTOR Associations and New Speech Code: The Jenna Ryan Situation. Long read. Doesn’t really matter: Everyone targeted by speech codes knows who they’re aimed at – and now everyone else knows, too. “This is not intended to” refers to the abuses to be effected in two years. “We would never, ever, ever” means five years. What would the Venezuelan Association of Realtors do?

Axios: All the platforms that have banned or restricted Trump so far.

Joy Pullman: Big Corporate Uses Capitol Riots To Push Communist-Style Social Credit System On Americans.

Jordan Davidson: Russian Dissident Alexey Navalny Decries Twitter Censorship Of Trump, Compares To Kremlin.

Andrea Widburg: Democrats close in for the kill – not just Trump, but all Republicans.

The Federalist: The Global Consequences Of The Tech-Lash Will Be Severe.

Clarice Feldman:
The Night of the Tech Long Knives.

Roger Kimball: The ‘Virtue’ of the New Totalitarians.

Mark Steyn: Kathy’s World. Kathy Shaidle was an amazing writer and one of the best friends this blog ever had. Light a candle, but don’t waste it. We didn’t listen to her, so you’ll be needing it later…