What Anil Dash thinks about censorship
Technologist and writer, a blogger since 1999, formerly chief executive of Glitch and a board member of the Data & Society Research Institute. His 2012 essay "The Web We Lost" is one of the founding texts of the argument that the open web has been enclosed.
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1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Anil Dash has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingAuthoritarian governments seek to destroy or falsify public records, including digital ones.
Their wordsThe traditional authoritarian impulse to destroy or falsify the public record has not spared the digital realm under the current administration.
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