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Title: Censorship Then and Now

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 As a former English major, I’ve always believed that we should read as much as we can and that content should be freely available to everyone. As a libertarian, I’ve always valued my privacy. If it’s true that you are what you read, then the NSA and U.S. Government know us intimately. Given the invasiveness of mass data collection and the uncertainty of its limits, why would contemporary authors risk making content public when they can limit their exposure by privatizing and self-censoring?
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Okay, everything you've always thought is right. That makes it convenient to move on to something new. The factual discussion of the metadata colllection program and the FISA court doesn't really make good copy here, because it's too compressed to be accurate and too small a part of the overall picture to be worth the space you're giving it. But if you've always thought all this, and we don't have to be weighed down with small details or phony versions of THE history of censorship, what is the central idea? Let's try a draft that leaves all that decoration on the cutting room floor, and goes straight to the new idea. No general rhetoric, only the most immediately material facts, and a single central idea, of yours not someone else's, whose development we can watch and whose consequences we can ponder.

 



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