GameStop was a warning: Elites are weaponizing censorship to keep the outsiders out
There has been an effort to lockdown political conversation online. Now comes the lockdown on retail investing.
(From Persuasion)
If there is a Big Lie in American politics right now, it is the idea that censorship of social media is necessary to save democracy. In his book The Square and the Tower, the historian Niall Ferguson describes the age-old tension between hierarchies and networks—between the rulers in the Tower and the people in the Square. The last thing that the rulers want to see when they look down is a teeming throng in the Square.
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