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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/15\/22979026\/david-mamet-amicus-brief-texas-hb20-social-media-regulation-texas<\/a>
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David Mamet is known for plays like Glengarry Glen Ross <\/em>and Speed-the-Plow<\/em>, films like The Spanish Prisoner<\/em> and Heist<\/em>, books like On Directing Film<\/em> and The Wicked Son<\/em>, and as of last week, a short story about a lost airplane pilot filed as a legal brief supporting social media regulation in Texas.<\/p>\n

Mamet\u2019s amicus brief is titled \u201cLessons from Aerial Navigation,\u201d and as it\u2019s two pages long<\/a>, you should really just go read it. Here\u2019s a sample of the prose:<\/p>\n

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The Map is not the territory. The territory is the territory. The pilot\u2019s answer to the question \u201cwhere am I?\u201d lies not on the map, but out the windscreen. That\u2019s where he is. It doesn\u2019t matter where he calculated he should be, the territory below him is where he is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In case you\u2019re wondering, the map is a metaphor for the internet. The implied legal argument is that social media platforms have distorted \u201cthe Map\u201d by moderating content in a way Mamet \u2014 a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump<\/a>, who\u2019s been banned from major platforms \u2014 objects to. In response Mamet is supporting HB 20, a currently blocked Texas law<\/a> that\u2019s meant to discourage web services from moderating<\/a> conservative posts and users. This gets a little more explicit later on:<\/p>\n

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Navigating requires using tools correctly. The confused citizen has a map. But, if he worked from his observations back to it, he might discover that he can\u2019t find his position pictured there.<\/p>\n

Looking out he might, for example, see a free, prosperous, and good country, in which there was little actual poverty, scant racism, and no \u201csystemic\u201d racism, where minorities and women, rather than being discriminated against were treated preferentially. (This belief might be correct or incorrect, but unless we prefer a Ministry of Truth, the belief is his own and surely he\u2019s entitled to it.)<\/p>\n

Referring back, then, to his \u201cinformation,\u201d the citizen might not be able to correlate it with his observations. He knew where he was, as he\u2019d just looked around. But he found no corresponding position on his map.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But along the way you can also find diversions like an etymology lesson referencing Greek mythology:<\/p>\n

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I report as an outdoorsman, that Panic is real. It is the loss of the mind and will to Pan, God of the Woods. The affected loses his reason, and runs about unable to recognize those actual signs (a road, his own footprints), which might bring him back to safety.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Mike Masnick of Techdirt<\/em> has dissected<\/a> Mamet\u2019s argument (which includes a nonfictional preface) as well as his decision to copyright the legal filing \u2014 something that\u2019s theoretically possible but pretty rare. To sum up, Mamet\u2019s logic hinges on casting a partial government ban on moderation by private companies as protection from government censorship, by somewhat dubiously calling web platforms \u201cfirms that control information conduits, and are privileged and subsidized by the government.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the risk of stating the obvious: a judge probably will not be swayed by a legal brief that includes no actual legal references or arguments. On the other hand, if state legislatures are going to make me keep covering ill-conceived and possibly unconstitutional social media laws, I\u2019m not going to personally <\/em>complain about writers throwing some florid allegorical prose into the mix.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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