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Our High-Tech Overlords

Our High-Tech Overlords
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Last week, Twitter blocked an account that threatened to tear our social fabric asunder. And who wouldn’t? I mean, Twitter understands that free speech is all well and good, but when it comes to spewing pure evil, well, the people in charge have to put their foot down.

Joseph Bottum
Joseph Bottum
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Joseph Bottum, Ph.D., is director of the Classics Institute at Dakota State University. His most recent book is “The Decline of the Novel.”
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