Private Censorship - Messina, J.P. (Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Assist
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Private Censorship is about free speech and how corporations and social groups can interfere with it. J.P. Messina asks and variously answers questions like: what should we think when employees get fired for things they say? When is it appropriate for social media firms to deplatform users, and what does it mean for our democracy that those in charge of such decisions are often wealthy Silicon Valley executives? Do search engines act as massive gatekeepers to information in troubling ways, and how might they be constrained if so? Messina argues that while there is much to worry about when it…mehr

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Private Censorship is about free speech and how corporations and social groups can interfere with it. J.P. Messina asks and variously answers questions like: what should we think when employees get fired for things they say? When is it appropriate for social media firms to deplatform users, and what does it mean for our democracy that those in charge of such decisions are often wealthy Silicon Valley executives? Do search engines act as massive gatekeepers to information in troubling ways, and how might they be constrained if so? Messina argues that while there is much to worry about when it comes to these exercises of private power, it would be a mistake to simply do away with them, as some have suggested.
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J.P. Messina is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at Purdue University where he teaches classes in political philosophy, data ethics, and the history of moral and political thought. Before joining the faculty at Purdue, he held research positions at the University of New Orleans and Wellesley College and received his Ph.D. from UC San Diego in 2018. Messina's work asks questions about human freedom across philosophical contexts and has appeared in a number of scholarly venues, including: Philosophers' Imprint, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, the Journal of Applied Ethics, Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, Kantian Review, and The British Journal for the History of Philosophy.