Is Free Trade a Good Thing?

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Pug casts have been a debate about principles and how they stand up to the light of the real world. Sometimes, when they get exposed to the situations of thereal world, there might actually be cause for reordering the principles. And i think that's been a bit of a surprise for me over the past little while. I completely agree in this at why the whole soro gacia approach is so toxic, so wrong. But maybe the conflict between these two, where it was liberalism and free trade, which is more important, maybe i hadn't been forced to choose until this point.

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: 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