Censorship

Articles featuring analysis of the global censorship industrial complex, impacts on public health, free trade, liberty, and policy.

All Brownstone Institute articles on censorship are translated into multiple languages.

The Instinct to Hurt Those with Whom One Disagrees

The Instinct to Hurt Those with Whom One Disagrees

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In other times and places, political assassinations have occurred as cultural anomalies, not reflective of the zeitgeist or historical moment, and certainly not approved of by some significant minority of the population. But Charlie’s murder does not feel like that.

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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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