Thread by @doctorow

This week on my podcast: part 28 of my serialized reading of "Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town," my 2006 novel that Gene Wolfe called "a glorious book unlike any book you’ve ever read."

craphound.com/news/2021/01/1…

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You can catch up on the other installments here:

craphound.com/podcast/?s=%22…

and subscribe to my podcast feed here:

feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podca…

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Here's a direct link to the MP3 (hosting courtesy of the @internetarchive; they'll host your stuff for free, forever, too!):

archive.org/download/Cory_…

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A note about today's instalment: it features an argument about the relative free speech afforded by internet-based communications versus earlier technologies like phones. The argument isn't just very relevant to today's deplatforming debate, it also has long roots.

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That argument is basically a rehash of some intense discussions I had with Manuel Castells when we were both fellows at USC's Annenberg Center, leavened with citations from @hrheingold's classic SMART MOBS.

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