Why a longtime Google exec thinks we need to slow the internet down a bit - Vox
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A top tech exec thinks we need to slow down the internet a bit. He’s right.
Technology The case for slowing everything down a bit A top tech exec thinks we need to slow down the internet a bit. He’s right. by Ezra Klein Nov 19, 2018, 3:30 PM UTC Shutterstock Justin Kosslyn leads product management at Jigsaw, the Google (erm, Alphabet ) subsidiary working on technological solutions to problems like online censorship and radicalization. Before that, he worked at Google News, Google+, and Google AdSense. The experience must have radicalized him a bit, because in an essay published at Motherboard, he takes direct aim at not just one of Silicon Valley's founding assumption
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