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James Lindsay: The monkey is out of the box and it HATES liberalism

Decoding the Gurus

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Social Media and the Ideology of CANNOT CREATIVITY

Social justice tends to place a higher priority on protecting people from harm than on free speech ideologically anyway. Online platforms themselves increasingly ban and block users who produce content that can be deemed offensive as peter pointed out even by proxy youtube regularly demonetizes videos it seems to have transgressed some standard these are sometimes seeming like arbitrary facebook has become so vigorous in its censorship that years old posts that are being read out of context occasionally result in account suspensions and bans. twitter has updated its rules to ban all kinds of speech in particular that which they call dehumanizing language for religious groups as well as gender critical feminism. This reads as a fairly familiar set of complaints right that are particularly prevalent amongst fox news

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