Aaron, this is an important framing of the next free speech problem.
The most unsettling feature of AI-mediated censorship is that accountability becomes diffuse. Suppression no longer needs to appear as an identifiable official decision. It can emerge through ranking, throttling, deboosting, moderation policy, platform incentives, and automated risk management.
That creates the illusion of free speech while quietly altering the conditions of public visibility.
I think this points to a deeper jurisprudential problem as well: if our legal and institutional order no longer has a thick account of what speech is for — truth-seeking, rational deliberation, and the common good — then algorithmic systems will tend to inherit that thinness and operationalise it at scale.
The future free speech question may therefore be not only “who censored this?” but “what kind of institutional reasoning system made this speech visible, invisible, credible, suspect, amplified, or buried?”
News Blackout | Organizers Lobby to Codify Jewish Definitions of Antisemitic Hate Speech
Important Historic Warnings from E. Michael Jones, Carrie Prejean Boller. Thirty-six States Codify Jewish Definition of Antisemitism. Plus, Catholic testifies against Ohio's SB-87.
---Purpose is to reframe “antisemitism” as hate speech.
Hi Dr. K, Catholic here. We're in trouble. It's not just free speech. It's worse than we ever thought possible. I report on hard-hitting subjects. I pray you visit.
From The Forward a Jewish online journal.
"Outrageous! Jewish Journalist asks: Can We Cure Antisemitism with Psychedelics?" i.e., Palestinians. Plus Jewish Psychedelic Summit, the Psychedelic Revolution in Mental Health, a Proposed 10,000 Psychedelic Clinics.
Great essay. I think free speech plays another very important role in maintaining a vibrant, sustainable and just society.
Free speech keeps our governments sane. Cults form when a group of people are only allowed to hear one narrative from the top alpha ape(s) in charge.
90 years ago in Germany , people were only allowed to hear one narrative. The end result was a society that descended into a death cult. This same uber-group think has happened many times. It is happening in Israel now.
The problem started with inventing “Human Flourishing” as so called new, but old, innovative, but the jump back to vitalistic thinking and the new/old eugenic thinking in science based on biosociological thinking.
Aaron, this is an important framing of the next free speech problem.
The most unsettling feature of AI-mediated censorship is that accountability becomes diffuse. Suppression no longer needs to appear as an identifiable official decision. It can emerge through ranking, throttling, deboosting, moderation policy, platform incentives, and automated risk management.
That creates the illusion of free speech while quietly altering the conditions of public visibility.
I think this points to a deeper jurisprudential problem as well: if our legal and institutional order no longer has a thick account of what speech is for — truth-seeking, rational deliberation, and the common good — then algorithmic systems will tend to inherit that thinness and operationalise it at scale.
The future free speech question may therefore be not only “who censored this?” but “what kind of institutional reasoning system made this speech visible, invisible, credible, suspect, amplified, or buried?”
Excellent and timely piece.
I agree, completely, Adrian. Excellent points.
News Blackout | Organizers Lobby to Codify Jewish Definitions of Antisemitic Hate Speech
Important Historic Warnings from E. Michael Jones, Carrie Prejean Boller. Thirty-six States Codify Jewish Definition of Antisemitism. Plus, Catholic testifies against Ohio's SB-87.
---Purpose is to reframe “antisemitism” as hate speech.
https://ahiddenhistory.substack.com/p/new-blackout-organizers-lobby-to
Hi Dr. K, Catholic here. We're in trouble. It's not just free speech. It's worse than we ever thought possible. I report on hard-hitting subjects. I pray you visit.
From The Forward a Jewish online journal.
"Outrageous! Jewish Journalist asks: Can We Cure Antisemitism with Psychedelics?" i.e., Palestinians. Plus Jewish Psychedelic Summit, the Psychedelic Revolution in Mental Health, a Proposed 10,000 Psychedelic Clinics.
https://ahiddenhistory.substack.com/p/outrageous-jewish-journalist-asks
This is A NEW FRONT in the BATTLEFIELD FOR THE BRAIN!
Great essay. I think free speech plays another very important role in maintaining a vibrant, sustainable and just society.
Free speech keeps our governments sane. Cults form when a group of people are only allowed to hear one narrative from the top alpha ape(s) in charge.
90 years ago in Germany , people were only allowed to hear one narrative. The end result was a society that descended into a death cult. This same uber-group think has happened many times. It is happening in Israel now.
This may be new in its technology, but it is not new in human nature. We can always fall back on the samizdat.
Makes sense.
https://hxlibraries.substack.com/p/from-gramsci-to-marcuse
Who was driving this Enlightment 2.0 from 2010 - 2024 and was never interested in conclusions after 1945/1949 in Europe?
The problem started with inventing “Human Flourishing” as so called new, but old, innovative, but the jump back to vitalistic thinking and the new/old eugenic thinking in science based on biosociological thinking.