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Hi. Cities and counties nationwide are banning masks, ostensibly to prevent crime, but in reality are stifling the free speech of protesters and making life even harder for the immunocompromised.

P.S. This is our final Some More News episode of 2024! We're taking a few weeks off and will be back with new episodes the week of Jan. 6.

P.P.S. Even More News will still be released this Friday as usual. We'll also be releasing a Way Less News to the podcast feed on Friday, Jan. 3, and we hope to have a video version for patrons available before then. Stay tuned!

P.P.P.S. WLYVM...... M.

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The Dark Motivation Behind The New Wave of Mask Bans - EARLY ACCESS, AD-FREE, AND UNCENSORED

Hi. Cities and counties nationwide are banning masks, ostensibly to prevent crime, but in reality are stifling the free speech of protesters and making life even harder for the immunocompromised. Hosted by Cody Johnston Executive Producer - Katy Stoll Directed by Katy Stoll Written by Helen Floersh Edited by Michael Swaim Produced by Jonathan Harris Associate Producer - Quincy Tucker Post-Production Supervisor - John Conway Researcher - Marco Siler-Gonzales Graphics by Clint DeNisco Head Writer - David Christopher Bell MERCH: https://shop.somemorenews.com Chapters: 00:00 - Intro 03:56 - Where are they banning masks? 09:31 - The history of mask bans 17:15 - Criminalizing masks 22:02 - Do mask bans reduce crime? 28:30 - Mask bans violate the ADA 32:47 - Mask bans violate free speech

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Mrs. Brown

We love you very much too. ♥️

Jess Hrudey

Muuuuuuch! 💗 Have a lovely break. Y’all deserve it!

Cletus Yesk

Oh hey! You did the Ps, PPs, PPPs thing I just did in the email I sent to you. You did this immediately after sending me a form letter in response to that email about how you don't want to risk any kind of copyright issue. WEIRD!

JoshFromGR

Just got recommended "Some More News: The Movie" on YouTube. You guys should do "Some More News 2: Even Movier"

Dept of Monster Affairs

A good friend of mine wrote her Master's thesis about masking laws being put in place to quell protests. I have her give a guest lecture to my political sociology class each time I teach it. This is a great break down!

Cory Hammerschlag

3 minutes in and I can already tell it's a DCB episode from "irony perverts" 😋 love it! Let's ban medical supplies fuck yeahhh

Steve Snyder

I absolutely love the argument “You know. Freedom and crap. Sorkin etc.” I really think I probably wanted to use something similar writing a paper in my law school days.

Michael C

Masks are being banned in the Australian state of Victoria for protests too. Too bad if you're immunocompromised trying to protect yourself from Covid.

Vanessa Walsh

The whole exceptions for hoods but not medical masks is WILD. Very fucked, indeed. The rocky-horror-esk ".... performer" pause bit got a giggle outta me, dunno if that was how it was supposedto be interpretedbut thats how it vibed to me. Definitelygiggled out loud. Love you all very much! Hope the holidays treat you well, babes!

Tarren Renn

As someone who is disabled, I can definitely agree with how much discrimination there still is and how scary these mask bans are. I am in a relatively progressive state, but there are so many people who are not who don't have the option of moving. I also have members of my family and close friends who are immucomprimised and the idea of banning masks for them is crazy. The fact that these laws also will allow hoods just completely infuriates me. I have no words for this. Anyways, enjoy your break and happy holdays, if you celebrate them.

Steven Smith

I guess kkk rallies will be outlawed if they wear masks. I'm surrrrre they would apply the law equally

Eric Williams

The Juggalo nation is going to be pissed

kilmarnock

It reminds me of the protests in Hong Kong in 2019. Masks were a major feature of the protests, and the HK government banned them, which I assume was taken as another sign of their tyranny by Western onlookers.