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End of internet anarchy Fallout from the Capitol invasion shows that pacification of social media is well underway, says Paul Demarty By happy coincidence, I chose the beginning of last week to start using Twitter again. Previously in these pages I have described the modern internet as a buyer’s market for fellow feeling and, as the events of last Wednesday, January 6, unfolded, I found myself absorbed into a stream of posters who, like me, had to admit that we found the whole thing very, ver...

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One nice thing about democracy is that—at least in theory—we don’t need permission to speak freely and privately. We don’t have to prove that our speech meets the government’s criteria, online or offline. We don’t have to “earn” our rights to free speech or privacy. Times have changed. Today, some U.S. senators have come to the view that speech in the online world is an exceptional case, in which website owners need to “earn it”—whether they intend to carefully moderate us...