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Ben: I read this article that i thought was very compelling, and i winked to it in my piece. It's sort of inevitable if you write a post entitled tech and liberty, i read its almost like painfully clachet. We'll put thein show notestha i named pat kurr, wrote a great piece on medium that originallysort of took this tack. Ben: The point of the first amendment is that the government can't arrest you. And then we'v kind of move on to discussing the questions that may or may not apply.

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