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Byrne Hobart: Over- and Under-Correction in Tech

From the New World

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The Unfairness of Libertarianism

I don't think many people who work in partisan media think that at all. Well, the so libertarians do seem to think that, but they always lose. Like it's it is like libertarianism is just an unpopular opinion. And when outrage can spread online is you get a lot more people booted by their payment provider because there was a, you know, people got mad on Twitter or something. It's not like someone lobbied for that. It's just that's that's what happens when more more payments happen digitally. That does mean that there can be these soft limits on on speech and behavior enacted through some layer of the payment system.

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