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16: Tyler Cowen - The Revolution Will Not Be Marginalized

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I Like the Experiment of Not Reporting the Names of Mass Shooters

I favored the experiment of not reporting the names of mass shooters, i'm not sure we're really withholding facts. My worry with the policy of strategic silence is that yers will innovate in ways to recapture the attention. So you might be inducing innovation over the medium term. And i don't think we know yet. As an experiment, it does seem to me worth trying, but i wouldn't be all too optimistic about it. Because, as i say on my blog, like solv for the equilibrium. And what's the equilibrium here? We don't quite know.

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