Sorry, I disagree with the posted screenshot.
It's simply wrong to say it is novel to be "...regulating the medium through which regulation itself is debated...."
This is true with TV, radio, newspapers, books. The issue is as old as the printing press.
Yes, it is a tricky issue rife with surveillance trade-offs. But public safety always had multiple levels of checks (ie surveillance). The issue today is the concentration of that control - and in whose hands
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