Calling all transmission of data “speech” is a gross distortion of reality, and a generation of teenagers raised on social media has borne the cost of it.
~ Tim Wu via The New York Times

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It is a cliché that we live in an information age. And it is true that much of what we interact with today comes in the form of information. But an unfortunate side effect of the information idiom is the idea that everything is a form of speech and therefore exempt from regulation.
~ Tim Wu via The New York Times

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For two decades now, social media companies have been virtually untouchable, profitably floating above accusations that they normalize propaganda, addict children and degrade our character.
~ Tim Wu via The New York Times

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