It doesn’t take a lot of distance from the moment to recognize this is the era of grappling with the meaning of the Internet. Eugene Wei had an interesting fram

It doesn’t take a lot of distance from the moment to recognize this is the era of grappling with the meaning of the Internet. Eugene Wei had an interesting framing of this: he asked whether China’s great firewall was an indicator that they believed in the power of the Internet more than the West did. (His implication wasn’t that the firewall was good.) I’m torn about Weinstein’s current situation. I’m opposed to censorship, but I’m unsure we treat mass public broadcast with the responsibility it requires. What particularly bothers me about the lab leak discussion is that we don’t yet have firm evidence one way or another, so any debate is public speculation. Is it harmless to do that? To be clear: My question isn’t whether YouTube should censor the discussion. My question is whether Brett should be letting himself speculate about it. Is there any harm in doing that? Why or why not?