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The Warnings Unheeded Now Threaten Our Fundamental Freedoms

The Warnings Unheeded Now Threaten Our Fundamental Freedoms
A sign at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco on Dec. 8, 2022. Jeff Chiu/AP Photo
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The First Amendment is at a critical juncture. Recent congressional hearings on the Twitter Files brought the matter into full public view. Freedom of speech and of the press are hanging by a precarious thread. Do we want a future in which information flows freely or one in which an information elite controls those flows “for our own good?”

Bruce Abramson
Bruce Abramson
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Bruce Abramson, Ph.D., J.D., is president of the strategic consultancy Informationism, Inc. and a director of the American Center for Education and Knowledge. He pioneered the use of large-scale simulations and statistical analysis in AI systems. He is the author of five books, most recently “The New Civil War: Exposing Elites, Fighting Utopian Leftism, and Restoring America” (RealClear Publishing, 2021).
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