Anya’s Reviews > Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI > Status Update

“A democracy is not a system in which a majority of any size can decide to exterminate unpopular minorities”

“…releasing barriers to the flow of information doesn’t necessarily lead to the discovery and spread of truth. It can just as easily lead to the spread of lies and the fantasies and to the creation of toxic information spheres… a completely free market of ideas may incentivize the dissemination of outrage and sensationalism at the expense of truth.”