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A Public World Online

We are bounded by belonging

Stowe Boyd
Jan 06, 2021
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2021–01–06 Beacon NY | A mention on Twitter led me back to a thread from early in the century, as the term ‘publicy’ seems to be resurfacing.

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The mass effect of a public world online is not freedom and self-expression, but a subtle, atmospheric repression and self-censorship, when we each internalize the limit…

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