"I’m a political scientist, and I found that Americans were far less likely to publicly voice their opinions than even during the height of the McCarthy-era Red Scare." One of the challenges that the internet has brought with it is that we can be exposed to the political opinions of our friends and neighbors more than ever before, often with a knee-jerk "they think what?!" And if we can't, where does that lead us, and can we really consider ourselves to have anything close to either democracy or the right to free expression?
Author: Ben Werdmuller
Published at: 2025-06-29 21:42:33
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