No, You Don't Get a Comment Section
Writing Life, Freedom & Fire, Rants & Raves Kate Sjostrand Writing Life, Freedom & Fire, Rants & Raves Kate Sjostrand

No, You Don't Get a Comment Section

You are completely free to disagree with me. You're free to complain about me, tell your friends I'm an asshole, or buy a domain and write an entire fucking dissertation explaining why I'm wrong. I'll defend your freedom to do it. What you're not entitled to is space on my website to do it. I paid for my little corner of the internet. I built it. I fill it with my words. And I'll decide what fucking goes there.

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Guardrails, Guns, and the Slow Death of Plain Speech

Guardrails, Guns, and the Slow Death of Plain Speech

At some point we stopped arguing about policy and started padding reality. When algorithms decide which ideas are too dangerous to even discuss and legislators criminalize lawful behavior in the name of “safety”, the problem isn’t guns or technology. It’s that we’ve forgotten the difference between being civilized and being spineless.

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