Investing in Technology Is Fun, Isn't It?

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The world of technology thrives best when individuals are left alone to be different, creative and disobedient. The reason why masioshi's son is the c o of south bank is because he also invested ali baba. If it was trivial to build a successful company, then wats pee would have done it,. an they'd be competed into zero. And why does it not happen? It's actually really, really hard.

Ben and James discuss the origins of the First Amendment, what a culture of free expression means, and Facebook’s ad policy.

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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