Lakshman: You don't want a company deciding what's ok and what's not. But actually blunting some of the targeting ability that's been so finely hawned feels like it might be pretty good in terms of navigating thingyet, i think there is an important point to make here. The difference with advertisements is you are forced to see something that you naturally may not want to see, or that you decide to see. And no one who wants to regulate whate your friends share or don't share it with an i certainly hope not. L Lakshman: It's great we have transparency in all these ads, but where is the transparency sort of most important
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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