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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Jan 2018

      My new essay for @Wired on how "It's the Golden Age of Free Speech"—except our ideals and battles about "free speech" are now about *attention*, not speech. Besides, can you even believe your lying eyes? It may all be fake. https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-tech-turmoil-new-censorship/ …pic.twitter.com/IvJKpNJrhJ

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Jan 2018

      I'm finding much of the recent discussion of free speech to be missing that key point, and not focusing on the true bottleneck, the crucial resource that Facebook and Google control: Attention. Our concepts and worries are outdated.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Jan 2018

          Another major but terribly mundane piece of the puzzle that's mostly absent from much of the discussion about free speech etc. is that the big attention-brokers, especially the Facebook/Google duopoly, are ad-brokers. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Most everything else flows from that.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Jan 2018

          And that is my "pre-take" on all the Facebook changes—I wrote the essay last Fall. Consequences of last change are too complex to predict, and I don't think they know either. The crucial point is that they can just go *ta-da* and restructure attention for ~two billion people.

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Jan 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Suresh Venkatasubramanian

          Thanks! Telling Facebook and Google to just “fix it” is unworkable. First, they’re holding The Ring—and it’s consuming them. They can’t just let go. Second, the trade-off are complex and deeply political. They alone cannot, should not, shape them.https://twitter.com/geomblog/status/953294348606570497 …

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          Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog
          From @zeynep : this is an important point. pic.twitter.com/9XiGLh131s
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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Jan 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          Might seem a tad ambitious (!) to take on Brandeis and Mills—but they wrote for and about their age, and we should too. We can continue to consider their normative goals, but let go of the prescriptive parts—which no longer operate the way they envisioned. https://twitter.com/shashj/status/953293535440142337 …

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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Jan 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Brendan Nyhan

          Centered analytically around attention, censorship looks different.https://twitter.com/brendannyhan/status/953260361649704960 …

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          Brendan NyhanVerified account @BrendanNyhan
          Key from @zeynep: 1. “The most effective forms of censorship today involve meddling with trust and attention, not muzzling speech itself.” 2. Platform business model “is far too compatible w/authoritarianism, propaganda, misinfo & polarization.” https://t.co/J7ImfzsFBK?amp=1
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        7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Jan 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted nxthompson

          Thank you for publishing it and also much much thanks to my wonderful editor, @johngravois for working with me on it!https://twitter.com/nxthompson/status/953328012963000324 …

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          nxthompsonVerified account @nxthompson
          This is the smartest thing I've read on what exactly free speech means in an age where everyone can say what they want but the platforms determine who hears it. https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-tech-turmoil-new-censorship/ …
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        8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Jan 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jason Stern

          Good point!https://twitter.com/IbnLarry/status/953374617032429570 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Jason Stern @TheJasonStern
          Interesting comparison by @zeynep. Though one difference being having no seat belts in cars didn't make it fundamentally more difficult to have a public conversation on car safety https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-tech-turmoil-new-censorship/ … pic.twitter.com/JJDgLnAXbX
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        9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Jan 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Gilad Lotan

          That was part of my motivation for writing it: not to disregard free speech, but to ask: what is it good for? And what does that mean in the 21st century? Focusing on it via old concepts thwarts the goals.https://twitter.com/gilgul/status/953268349282213888 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Gilad LotanVerified account @gilgul
          What we are seeing now is that when free speech is treated as an end and not a means, it is all too possible to thwart and distort everything it is supposed to deliver - @zeynep https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-tech-turmoil-new-censorship/ …
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        10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Jan 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Colin Meyn

          There is no need to be hopeless. We've just begun grappling with a complex transition.https://twitter.com/colin_meyn/status/953449821381292032 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Colin Meyn @colin_meyn
          Wonderful essay. Changed the way I think about media/speech/humanity. And it has an optimistic ending! https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/953252676145500161 …
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        11. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 Jan 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Marc Thaler

          We’ve never had this kind of mass yet non-public communication. Old remedies don’t apply.https://twitter.com/marc_thaler/status/953620960225226752 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Marc Thaler @marc_thaler
          “The famous American saying that ‘the best cure for bad speech is more speech’ ... loses all its meaning when speech is at once mass but also nonpublic.” @zeynep’s exceptional essay for @WIRED on the reality of #freespeech in the #digital age: https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-tech-turmoil-new-censorship/ … #technology
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        12. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Jan 2018

          Holding the issue in my hand... My first thought is how good @WIRED is with design. While writing the piece, I was like “can we squeeze the font and pics and space and put more words in?” But this is so pretty. (I think so even on a 6a flight!😬)pic.twitter.com/4zE3ZsNunD

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