Censorship

The danger of censoring objectionable ideas. Will Tomer, Toledo Blade. Feb. 16, 2018.

In recent years, certain strains of social orthodoxy have taken hold of the United States. As a result, vital conversations surrounding contentious questions — race, politics, gender, and more — have been narrowed, trampled, and sharply limited in deeply troubling ways.
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When political correctness interrupts social and political discourse, leads to the censorship of ideas, or limits the scope of discussions, we lose opportunities to learn, grow, and increase our understanding. Political correctness limits our collective ability to communicate about issues large and small.
At a time when it is obvious that fostering more understanding about issues like race, ethnicity, and gender is critically important, political correctness makes it harder yet to achieve the sort of communication and understanding we need. Instead, what we get is indoctrination and groupthink.

Originally Posted August 2017:

YouTube Begins Purging Alternative Media As The Deep State Marches Toward WW3. Matt Agorist, Activist Post. Aug. 12, 2017

You are the product. John Lanchester. LRB. Aug. 17, 2017.

I invested early in Google and Facebook. Now they terrify me. Roger McNamee, USA Today. Aug. 8, 2017.

‘Brain hacking’ Internet monopolies menace public health, democracy.

Twenty Years of Media Consolidation Has Not Been Good For Our Democracy. Michael Corcoran, via Bill Moyers.com. March 30, 2016.

The media has become controlled by a handful of corporations thanks to the Telecommunications Act of 1996.