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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by mrkurt on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:52PM (#23782180)
I'm not sure how directly the cancelling is affiliated with SSC, but the #ghostnyt hashtag is a pretty good cancellation motion. The only thing that's really reached my bubble has been outrage and cancellation, though.

https://twitter.com/hashtag/ghostnyt

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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by whatshisface on Thursday July 09, 2020 @12:54PM (#23782206)
"They tweeted something bad" -> "get them fired," is substantially different from, "the reporters working for this organization are dangerous," -> "don't talk to them." One is going on the offense, the other is defensive.
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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by charia on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:07PM (#23782378)
I'm fairly sure that #ghostnyt was a reaction to the NYTimes airing of the Tom Cotton op-ed. I don't doubt that some SSC fans latched onto it, but I'd be surprised if even a third of those using #ghostnyt were from SSC aligned people.
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Re:Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media by lkbm on Thursday July 09, 2020 @01:28PM (#23782655)
EDIT: Would work better if I spelled "NYT" correctly. Oops. Still looks like all SA tweets, though[1].

EDIT 2: Whoops, this was meant as a reply to charia's point.

This reply about Scott Alexander appears to be the first usage[0]: https://twitter.com/ChrisSt41125908/status/12755577894154649...

[0] https://twitter.com/search?q=until%3A2020-06-24%20since%3A20...

[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=until%3A2020-06-24%20since%3A20...

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