CSE40175: Online Censorship

Over winter break, I spent two weeks in China to attend my cousin’s wedding. The night before my flight to Beijing, I made sure to pack one thing… a VPN for my phone. While most corporations use VPNs to give their employees access to the company network outside the office, I…

Medium is a corporation. Maybe they thought direct quotes that call someone out on their shit is slander, even if you’re right and that someone is a piece of shit.

There is a way to keep that post intact, though. You can post it on pastebin.com and put the link up here on Medium.

If you’re trying to change the world, stop shitting on free expression.

It doesn’t work that way.

Many people believe that free speech and free expression only mean that a government cannot criminalize what you say. That is indeed the…

Most of us are subject to self-censorship! We know what we write about and we know what people with opposing or differing opinions might launch/yell at us online. And we know that many are rather willing to listen to those who pose as being offended or in possession of the “real truth” if their narrative is not further away from what they know as is…