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All I had done was express anger at the abuse of black women, all I had done was ask people to care about us as they did about others. All I had done was ask for the fight for black lives to include black women, too, and for that, I had to block tens of thousands of black people—my people—who wanted me to pay for my audacity.

Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race

With a few exceptions, by far the most important component of successful speech communities is that its moderators have faces . A core feature of bulletin boards, comment threads on blogs, and publications is that the boundaries of acceptable speech are enforced not by tech executives, the farcical Facebook Supreme Court,[xii] or distant buildings ... See more

Jon Askonas • Why Speech Platforms Can Never Escape Politics | National Affairs

BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on why he bought HuffPost and why the New York Times can’t be "the paper of record"

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Why Major Newspapers Won’t Endorse Kamala Harris

Robert Greene theatlantic.com

The hijackers, Democrats and Republicans alike, have acted as if the idea that self-government depends on people being able to count on independent providers of information is a quaint relic and that the new media channels present new opportunities that creative political operatives must seize.

Steven Brill • The Death of Truth

know they’re all right. Find ways to counter the attitudes toward homosexuality that your profession has inculcated in both heterosexuals and homosexuals.”37 He was given a standing ovation.

Lillian Faderman • The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle

By definition, mass media abhor diversity. Mass media as an institution imposes one image of the public on itself, which is fashioned, God-like, in the image of those who control media. The institution rejects that which does not conform as deviant: noise.