“The purpose of actual moral discourse is to present people with a set of alternative behaviors they can perform to avoid doing harm. The purpose of bogus moral grandstanding is to align yourself with people in your broad social circle, to advance your personal brand and demonstrate to others that yo…”— Freddie DeBoer, medium.com
“Academic freedom and free expression on campus are a good example of this condition. I am a staunch defender of these things — not in spite of the fact that I am a leftist, but because I am a leftist, as support for civil liberties is a time-honored and existential facet of American socialism. But m…”— Freddie DeBoer, medium.com
“There's a kind of desire that, whenever it arises, is censored scientifically, morally, politically. The ruling reality tries to stamp it out. This desire is the dream of a second reality.”— P.M., amazon.com
“Facebook denies censoring Twitter in Trending topic headlines, or what we call 'descriptions', and the guidelines appear to support this. However, I was specifically trained to avoid using Twitter. Several times curators were penalized for using Twitter in descriptions.”— Anonymous, theguardian.com
“It is easy to criticize a sensationalist talk show for, say, giving a neo-Nazi a platform to voice hateful rhetoric. But by exposing these sorts of people rather than censoring them, these shows reveal the underlying inconsistencies in their doctrines. Instead of appearing frightening, these people’…”— Douglas Rushkoff, amazon.com