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I happen to think Glenn is right about a lot of things, so if your claim that he has lost his mind is true, what falsifiable prediction would you propose as a way to determine if it is the case?

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Glenn has been making reasoned arguments about the threat posed by centralized control of information, which isn't controversial. He uses examples to support his statements of principles he's defending, and makes predictions about what will happen next. That the takeaway from his opponents is that he's crazy, is very 1984-like, and a testament to how ad hominem argumentation dominates the discourse.

Used to be, people we disagreed with were bots. Now we just pathologize them.

I don't think they meant literally lost his mind.

I'd be happy to see more reporting on other topics mixed in with the media contrarianism. It's an important point and I agree with it but he becomes the thing he criticizes at a certain point.

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