The Market Place of Ideas Is a Good Idea

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The first amendment was put in place as a shield against tyranny. The idea of the market place of ideas, i think, was really a creation of john stuart mill who wrote in the 18 hundreds. It didn't enter the us Consiuta lexicon until the early 19 hundreds. And there is that quote from thnoomas jeerson apalosic, bread is better than none: "It's like we've reduced everything to nothing"

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