A culture of freedom with restrictions is better for producing innovation than a culture of permission, says Lyk. Technology can be used to redistribute resources and make things more productively available in the U.S., he argues. "The wonderful thing about technology is it's the one thing where we can sort of have our cake needed too"
Ben and James discuss the origins of the First Amendment, what a culture of free expression means, and Facebook’s ad policy.
Links
- Ben Thompson: Tech and Liberty — Stratechery
- Randall Munroe: Free Speech — xkcd
- Pat Kerr: Why I think xkcd is wrong about Free Speech — Medium
- Ben Thompson: The China Cultural Clash — Stratechery
- The Federalist Papers : No. 84 — Yale Law
- Rep. Ocasio-Cortez questions Mark Zuckerberg on when Facebook will fact check — YouTube
- Jon Gertner: The Very, Very Personal Is the Political — The New York Times Magazine
- United States v. Alvarez — Casetext
- Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr.: Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race — ProPublica
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