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Whatever happened to the free speech party?
The communication revolution birthed by Big Tech began with the best of intentions – to provide anyone, even the most powerless, with the ability to have their voice heard.
Sadly, the revolution now seems to have ushered in a dictatorship where brutal censorship is rife.
It wasn’t always that way.
In 2010, the then Twitter CEO Dick Costolo boasted, “We’re the free speech wing of the free speech party.”
That thought was echoed by Twitter founder Jack Dorsey in 2015 when he told us (via a tweet) that “Twitter stands for freedom of expression.”
In 2010, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was asked by a reporter what Facebook was actually doing. The reply: “Well, what I think it’s doing is giving everyone a…
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