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The censorship wars are just beginning.

For Polygon’s tenth anniversary issue, I wrote about the looming future of book bans, algospeak, and other threats to speech and artistic expression:

“People have grown up in an internet where if you see a pair of breasts, you’re like, Whoa, I’ve ended up in the wrong place.”

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