When AI manipulates free speech, censorship is not the solution. Better code is.

Every issue is easy — if you just ignore the facts. And Glenn Greenwald has now given us a beautiful example of this eternal, and increasingly vital, truth.

In his Substack, Glenn attacks the Facebook whistleblower (he doesn’t call her that; he calls her a quote-whistleblower-unquote), Frances Haugen, for being an unwitting dupe of the Vast Leftwing Conspiracy that is now focused so intently on censoring free speech. To criticize what Facebook has done, in Glenn’s simple world, is to endorse the repeal of the First Amendment. To regulate Facebook is to start us down the road, if not to serfdom, then certainly to a Substack-less world.

But all this looks so simple to Glenn, because he’s so good at ignoring how technology matters — to everything, and especially to modern media. Glenn doesn’t do technology.  Read More