The Golden Heart of Free Speech

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When we first articulated free speech, it was during a time when it was cheap to listen but expensive to speak. And now we live in a time when listening is expensive, but speaking is cheap. Tristan: We want to make sure that we're as a society hearing the synthesis of all the best arguments for and against something very efficiently. If YouTube and Twitter were ranking by synthesis, I just think of, let me take an example.

You’re likely familiar with the modern zombie trope: a zombie bites someone you care about and they’re transformed into a creature who wants your brain. Zombies are the perfect metaphor to explain something Tristan and Aza have been thinking about lately that they call zombie values.

In this Spotlight episode of Your Undivided Attention, we talk through some examples of how zombie values limit our thinking around tech harms. Our hope is that by the end of this episode, you'll be able to recognize the zombie values that walk amongst us, and think through how to upgrade these values to meet the realities of our modern world.

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