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Content moderation and its dis-content-moderators (with Ada Palmer)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
The History of Censorship
I've taught a lot of classes about censorship and the history of censorship. It's interesting to observe how very much our ideas about censorship tend to be dominated by two things. One is Orwell's 1984 and the other is the stories we hear about the Inquisition. And this is sort of crystallized by how often when I would present a different historic case, people would find they felt very differently when the person doing the censoring was perceived by them as having good motives.
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