Episode 177 — Principle Stacks

Ben and James discuss the origins of the First Amendment, what a culture of free expression means, and Facebook’s ad policy.

Links

• 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

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson, Stratechery
• James Allworth, @jamesallworth, Harvard Business Review

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