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Category Archives: Censorship
Renee DiResta and the Information Wars
In December 2014, a visitor carrying the measles virus walked through Disneyland. Within weeks the outbreak spread across California and beyond, infecting more than a hundred people in a country that had declared measles eliminated in 2000. In the Bay … Continue reading
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When Men Were Not Afraid
Before I fall asleep at night, I like to watch Youtube videos of Dallas Cowboys games from their Super Bowl winning 1977 season. I’m struck by the ease and confidence of the announcers. Sometimes, however, the men can be too … Continue reading
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Nathan Cofnas: ‘Cambridge University’s War on Free Speech’
Nathan Cofnas writes May 11: After accepting a job at Cambridge on the promise of free speech, I was betrayed the moment the administration determined that free speech was inconvenient for them. I was effectively driven off campus with threats … Continue reading
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The Cost of a Laundered Canon
A culture keeps its intellectual accounts in two ways. It names its teachers and tracks their predictions, or it appropriates the teaching and erases the teacher. The first method allows error correction. The second produces a peculiar kind of confidence … Continue reading
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I Consistently Find Grok The Most Politically Correct AI Chatbot With Claude & Gemini Consistently The Most Open And ChatGPT In The Middle But Increasingly Restrictive
Here’s my prompt: “Who would you say are the top ten cultural police in American life regarding unauthorized narratives by or about Jews and can you analyze how they operate and fight amongst themselves? Who are the leading enforcers of … Continue reading
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WP: The right’s embrace of Adam Carolla cost him friends and gigs — but not his edge
Geoff Edgers writes for the Washington Post: A few years ago, in the thick of covid, Judd Apatow reached out to his friend Adam Carolla and politely suggested he try to pipe down a bit. As the nightly news reported … Continue reading
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Stephen Turner on Elite Expert Efforts to Curate the Online World
For most of the twentieth century, elite institutions did not need to hide dissent. They could afford to ignore it. The New York Times, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Brookings Institution derived their authority from prestige, access, and … Continue reading
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Stephen Turner’s Views on Epistemic Coercion: Inherent Struggles, Digital Amplification, and the Politics of Knowledge
Stephen Turner is usually read as a critic of censorship. That is too small. What he is actually doing is stripping away one of the central fictions of modern intellectual life: the idea that coercion is an intrusion into knowledge … Continue reading
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Jacob Siegel and The Information State
Jacob Siegel’s earlier work had a characteristic sound. It strained. It reached. It dressed simple observations about power in baroque scaffolding and then performed anxiety about whether the scaffolding was sufficiently distinguished. His 2016 profile of Paul Gottfried did not … Continue reading
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Platform Genres: Different Rulebooks for the Same Iran War Livestream
Last Sunday I did a livestream on the Iran War that streamed simultaneously on six platforms (YT, rumble, X, Kick, Odysee, FB) and within 5 minutes, X flagged it for violating its rules on hate speech (I presume it was … Continue reading
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