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

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

Censorship and the Periodic Table

When there is an apparatus of censorship, the vast majority of what it hits will be beyond what it was intended to hit. We need to not let that power exist in the first place. Censorship is as old as literature; we have discussions of book burnings in the Old Testament. The impulse to want to silence some things in some ways in some places is in all cultures.

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