It's the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech
At a time when anyone can broadcast live or post their thoughts to a social network, we should be living in a utopia of public discourse. We're not. http://bit.ly/2ELdIPY
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6 Tales of Censorship in the Golden Age of Free Speech
Blocked by Trump, fired by Google, suspended by Facebook. The social internet gives everyone a voice, it also has countless ways of punishing us for speaking. http://bit.ly/2EM6ZW6
Free Speech, Tech Turmoil, and the New Censorship
Special Issue: How technology is upending everything we thought we knew about public discourse. http://bit.ly/2EMXaqZ
Change My View: Why Our Best Hope for Civil Discourse Is on Reddit
What’s astounding about Kal Turnbull's brainchild is that no single radioactive topic—not Trump, Brexit, sex, guns—has overrun the subreddit. http://bit.ly/2EJGuQY
Why Cloudflare Let an Extremist Stronghold Burn
The story of how an internet infrastructure company get locked into a free-speech dispute starts in the cubicles of SoMa and the brothels of Istanbul. http://bit.ly/2EJC6l9
Yondr Wants to Neutralize Your Phone—and Un-change the World
The San Francisco startup helps restricts smartphone use in places where the people in charge don’t want it. But in allowing this, we may be compromising something about ourselves. http://bit.ly/2EMxHht
Meet Antifa's Secret Weapon Against Far-Right Extremists
Megan Squire doesn’t consider herself to be antifa and pushes digital activism instead, passing along information to those who might put it to real-world use—who might weaponize it. http://bit.ly/2ELdIzs