The Freedom of Speech Is a Good Thing Worth Protecting

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"It's very easy for me to say, sit down, ad, find you principal stack," he says. "But insomuch as you can define what's important beforehand, like it becomes much harder to do it when you're actually in the trenches." 'Nothing like money actually being on the line to reveal what it actually means,' adds Mr Oterly. "'We just had a great, productive conversation about what should be done', i think arrived at,. hopfl, something that was useful for you, for me, for people listening' He concludes by saying: 'I hope everyone listening has been to very good.'

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