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

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Importance of Self-Censorship

Since the development of the printing press, it's been effectively impossible to destroy all copies of a piece of information that's already been printed. Nobody who holds a book burning imagines that they're burning every copy of something that's been published and been in bookstores. They don't have the ability to destroy it all, but they sure can nip in the bud the thing that you would have written if you hadn't been scared.

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