Tim Wu: How Twitter Killed the First Amendment

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: October 27, 2017 at 10:36:54 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] Tim Wu: How Twitter Killed the First Amendment
>
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> Tim Wu: How Twitter Killed the First Amendment
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/opinion/twitter-first-amendment.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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>    You need not be a media historian to notice that we live in a
>    golden age of press harassment, domestic propaganda and
>    coercive efforts to control political debate. The Trump White
>    House repeatedly seeks to discredit the press, threatens to
>    strip broadcasters of their licenses and calls for the firing
>    of journalists and football players for speaking their minds.
>    A foreign government tries to hack our elections, and
>    journalists and public speakers are regularly attacked by
>    vicious, online troll armies whose aim is to silence opponents ...



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