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When Ideas Become Too Dangerous to Platform

When Ideas Become Too Dangerous to Platform

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TED became a gatekeeper of permissible opinion, enforcing orthodoxy behind the smokescreen of “community guidelines.” For a platform that once prided itself on promoting bold thinking, TED’s censorship of Foster’s talk is a moment of institutional retreat—and intellectual cowardice.

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To Outrun the Complacent Class

To Outrun the Complacent Class

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Exponentially-growing communications bandwidth and data transparency empowered regular people and helped expose dysfunction among many existing “experts.” A tsunami of social media also generated confusion, not least among the experts themselves, leading to, in Gurri’s words, a “crisis of authority.”

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