There was a line in your artic this week where you quote justice kennedy, or a couple of lines, and i just love them. Society needs government protection or intervention before pursues its resolve to preserve the truth. And that's exactly what you're talking about. You don't want the government going in there and opening the letters like "oh my god, can you believe this happened?" But at the same time it gets at this point of principles, and it looks like foreign interference is a principle that we place above freedom of speech.
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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