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An Interview with Bassem Youssef

I just got around to watching this in the course of a book chapter I’m writing on participatory media in the Middle East, but it’s absolutely still worth a watch. Choice quote: “We did all of this for the sake of a different media, a media that respected people’s minds and intelligence and at the […]

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Why Ronan Farrow is completely and utterly wrong about corporate regulation of speech

Normally, I’d have pitched an op-ed rebuttal or something, but this is just too stupid not to tear apart quick-and-dirty blog style. The TL;DR for context is that Ronan Farrow, privileged celeb commentator, wrote a ridiculous Washington Post piece about how social media companies should censor terrorists. Nevermind that this debate is two years old, […]