As someone who happened to be finishing a book about content at the time of DeSantis’s press conference, I was also left with a few additional questions. How could DeSantis claim that we’ve never before had a period of modern history with so little content when the concept of content is itself relatively recent? What turn of events had led an elected government official to view content production as essential—something essential enough to be prioritized alongside access to food or health services? And how could something so ambiguously defined and misunderstood be positioned as vital to our
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