Whoever wants to censor -- code, speech or money -- is the bad guy.

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  AI agents will need persistent unique identifiers that trace their actions back to a responsible actor, and so will the humans directing them.

  Ravikant says whoever wants to censor code, speech or money is the bad guy. Ball says AI agents will need persistent identifiers tracing their actions back to a responsible actor, and so will the humans directing them. Attribution is not censorship, and every censorship regime that has worked was built on top of one.

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• America's power is recovering from an authoritarian grip on free speech DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson7 Jan 2025censorship
• An independently owned platform is a necessary counterweight to the government and the mainstream media. BABill Ackman20 Feb 2024censorship
• Before the internet, most Americans had no practical freedom of speech unless they owned or worked for a media corporation. BSBalaji Srinivasan12 Jul 2026censorship
• Censoring a fact out of a language model is practically impossible, because you would first have to remove that fact from the internet. NLNathan Lambert3 Feb 2025censorship
• Chinese pop culture will not experience an absolute flowering like 90s Japan because CCP censorship makes it boring NSNoah Smith5 Oct 2026censorship

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