The First Amendment, Freedom of Speech, Is Only Applying to the Government

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i was born and raised in America, so i'm going to have an american point of view. The fact is, i am from the west. I do think that these sort of values are important. But actually, maybe clochets are alittle bit more important, particularly at this moment and time, than i might have thought previously. That's con lik wanted sort of at the beginning here, because you don't uto speak of being abroad. And it's funny, like, one of the critiqus i got this article were kind of like, backing into this, starting with the critiques and working towards the actual article.

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