The Social Media War on the Psyche : Reactance
Social media has become a den of censorship, with free expression resulting in everything from soft "shadowbans" to outright bans and silencing. In this video I cover the topic of psychological reactance and how it related to social media, censorship, including self-censorship, and the future of free speech on the Internet.
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