free speech

For a long time, the idea of censorship came with a familiar image—governments banning speech, platforms removing content, voices being publicly silenced. It was visible. You could point to it.Rainey Reitman, in Transaction Denied, argues that power hasn’t disappeared—it’s just moved somewhere less obvious. Today, some of the most effective forms of control don’t come from … [Read more...] about When Banks Become the New Gatekeepers of Speech