We Don't Want the Usps Opening Up All the Letters

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In the two thousand primary republion primary, it was john m cane s george w. Bush. There was a mailing of unknown province sent to southern carolina voters that Johnmy cane has a daughter of african american descent that is adopted. It should have been a big negative for the bush campaign, not any sort of positive. But again, this is one example of many, this whole direct mal thing. It's like politics, and it's most nasty.

Ben and James discuss the origins of the First Amendment, what a culture of free expression means, and Facebook’s ad policy.

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Ben Thompson: Tech and Liberty — Stratechery
Randall Munroe: Free Speech — xkcd
Pat Kerr: Why I think xkcd is wrong about Free Speech — Medium
Ben Thompson: The China Cultural Clash — Stratechery
The Federalist Papers : No. 84 — Yale Law
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez questions Mark Zuckerberg on when Facebook will fact check — YouTube
Jon Gertner: The Very, Very Personal Is the Political — The New York Times Magazine
United States v. Alvarez — Casetext
Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr.: Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race — ProPublica