IN-DEPTH: Online Censorship Corrupts the American Spirit of Individual, Free Thought: Journalist Matt Taibbi

IN-DEPTH: Online Censorship Corrupts the American Spirit of Individual, Free Thought: Journalist Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi attends the Huffington Post 2010 "Game Changers" event at Skylight Studio in New York on Oct. 28, 2010. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images
Matt McGregor
Jan Jekielek
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The “consensus enforcement mechanism” of censorship on social media has not only been an attack on civil liberty but also sapped the public square of a desire to reach the truth, according to journalist Matt Taibbi.

Where there was once a hunger for freedom, there’s now a collective apathy over fighting to keep it preserved, Mr. Taibbi said.

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