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A quotation from Orwell

If liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.


George Orwell (1903–1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
Essay (1945), Preface, Animal Farm (unpublished)

Orwell quote


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Open-sourcing #AI raises concerns about misuse and adherent risks. In this opinion, Zuzanna Warso argues that calls for regulation must be more proportionate and weigh the impact on freedom of expression. #opensource #opensourceai #freedomofspeech https://openfuture.eu/blog/code-is-speech-and-speech-is-free/


The online debate over #FreeSpeech *suuuuucks*, and, amazingly, it's *getting worse*. This week, it's the false dichotomy between #FreedomOfSpeech and #FreedomOfReach, that is, the debate over whether a platform should override your explicit choices about what you want to see:

https://seekingalpha.com/news/3849331-musk-meets-twitter-staff-freedom-of-reach-new-ideas-on-human-verification

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A handwritten letter from a WWI soldier that has been redacted by military censors; the malevolent red eye of HAL9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey has burned through the yellowing paper.

Image:
Cryteria (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg

CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

William Shaw Antliff (modified)
https://www.macleans.ca/history/this-canadian-private-wrote-and-saved-hundreds-of-letters-during-the-first-world-war/

Public domain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_law_of_Canada#Posthumous_works

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