Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
1 min readApr 20, 2024

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This year, Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, falls on May 5th and 6th (sundown to sundown). Around Yom HaShoah 2022, I published this post about how Medium's tepid definition of hate speech allows antisemitic content on Medium. https://medium.com/illumination-curated/yesterday-jews-around-the-world-observed-yom-hashoah-77eecff25155 Late last year, Dr. Michael Burg, who usually writes in the humor/satire sector, wrote an essay calling out Medium for its support of Twitter/X despite the uptick in antisemitism spread their, including my Elon Schmuck himself. https://medium.com/illumination-curated/combating-antisemitism-mediums-opportunity-to-do-the-right-thing-e7526360919a Medium CEO Tony was kind (read sarcasm from me that you may not sense) enough to reply that they had considered taking out the share direct to Twitter function but decided they didn't want to make a decision for the community. I replied to his comment, with nicer words than I will use here, that that is BS. Removing the one-step share option does not make a decision for the community about Twitter as any writer or reader can copy-paste the URL to their Twitter account.

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Marcus aka Gregory Maidman
Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Written by Marcus aka Gregory Maidman

Living 17,043rd human life. I am Marcus (universal name) or you may call me Greg; a deep thinker; an explorer of ideas and the mind.

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