The Dystopia Where Nothing Gets Cancelled

We’re creating a marketplace of disinformation

Joshua Adams
OneZero
Published in
5 min readAug 27, 2020

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Over-the-shoulder shot of a person with short hair viewing Donald Trump’s Twitter feed.
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The 1993 film Demolition Man imagines a future given over to surveillance, cultural conformity, and social control. There is even a literal “speech police” — an A.I. that automatically gives people tickets for using foul language. Some who don’t want to be subject to such restrictive controls live underground in…

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Joshua Adams
OneZero

Joshua Adams is a writer from Chicago. UVA & USC. Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago. Twitter: @ProfJoshuaA