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Content moderation and its dis-content-moderators (with Ada Palmer)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Trade-Off Between Censorship and Freedom

The more you try to silence the dangerous idea, the more it'll find ways to circulate clandestinely. When you create silence, then you hurt good ideas as well as hurting bad ones. Do you want to have censorship in place so that things that are directly advocating hate speech and especially misinformation are dealt with? You absolutely do. But if we're in the midst of a problem where we're having a giant crisis of misinformation and hate speech, a huge portion of that is because we have Facebook algorithms that are showing people nothing but that.

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