Is This the End of Social Media? With Ian Bogost
Offline with Jon Favreau
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I Should Be Able to Say Whatever I Want as Many People as Possible
The idea of free speech as a value is so embedded in the American experience and in liberal democracy that I wonder how difficult it is to tell everyone, hey, maybe you shouldn't be able to talk to everyone or build the biggest audience possible. We've confused that idea with I should be able to say whatever I want to whomever I want as often as possible. But that's a rhetorical move. It's not really about giving people a voice. It's about allowing the loudest voices to become even louder.
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