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What Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg owe to the mainstream media

11 January 2025

5:30 PM

11 January 2025

5:30 PM

Censorship and the silencing of dissenting voices has been a defining feature of the 21st century. It’s curious, because it wasn’t meant to be like this. This epoch, as the tech libertarian utopians of the 1990s so eagerly pronounced, was going to be one of unprecedented and untrammelled freedom. The internet, which burst into public consciousness back then, promised as much.

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