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 (stratechery.com/2019/tech-and-liberty)

• Randall Munroe: Free Speech — xkcd.com/1357

• Pat Kerr: Why I think xkcd is wrong about Free Speech — Medium (medium.com/@patkerr/why-i-think-xkcd-is-wrong-…)

• Ben Thompson: The China Cultural Clash — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2019/the-china-cultural-clash)

• The Federalist Papers : No. 84 — Yale Law (avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed84.asp)

• Rep. Ocasio-Cortez questions Mark Zuckerberg on when Facebook will fact check — YouTube (youtube.com/watch?v=xT9BRUoXhh8)

• Jon Gertner: The Very, Very Personal Is the Political — The New York Times Magazine (nytimes.com/2004/02/15/magazine/the-very-very-…)

• United States v. Alvarez — Casetext (casetext.com/case/united-states-v-alvarez)

• Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr.: Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race — ProPublica (propublica.org/article/facebook-lets-advertise…)

Hosts

• Ben Thompson, @benthompson (twitter.com/benthompson), Stratechery (stratechery.com)

• James Allworth, @jamesallworth (twitter.com/jamesallworth), Harvard Business Review (hbr.org/search?term=James+Allworth&sort=po…)

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