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Quote by Suzanne Nossel

“The whole world has become a crowded theater. You could say something here in New York and have it be heard in Afghanistan and potentially trigger riots and it may be something that to you was innocent or was in jest or was satirical and it's taken out of context. I mean, a joke, a tweet or a blog post can make it halfway around the world before the context gets its boots on.”

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Suzanne Nossel

Suzanne Nossel (born 1969) is a prominent human rights activist and organizational leader who has served as Chief Operating Officer of Human Rights Watch and held senior positions at Amnesty International USA. She has dedicated her career to advancing global human rights, particularly in areas such as women's rights, LGBT rights, and freedom of speech. Nossel is recognized for her exceptional organizational management skills and strategic vision in promoting international human rights standards. more

“I think it just has to do with getting older and getting better at what it was I was doing, and that I could take something small and kind of take my time with it. I think actually what that has to do with is I quit drinking. Before that I told myself I could only drink if I was - if I was writing, I had to be drinking. So I was on a timer, because eventually you get too drunk to write.”

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Author:David Sedaris

“Now I don't drink, and I get up in the morning and I write in my diary, and I can write in my diary for hours if I feel like it. And I'm still sober so I can write the stories that I'm working on, and I can sit at the desk as long as I need to. So that changed a lot, I think.”

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Author:David Sedaris

“You can get an audience, you can get followers all over the world and there's great power and excitement in those connections but there also is grave danger of misinterpretation, sometimes something can be incendiary and we also see what I think of as an arms race between these new technologies that allow for expression and communication and then new methods of surveillance and suppression.”

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Author:Suzanne Nossel

“We're still really in catch-up mode in terms of alerting people to the risks of social media, to the kind of consciousness that you need to have when you do publish something. It used to be such a deliberate and elaborate process to get to publication with many steps and phases and editors and you know, now it's instantaneous and it's wonderful, you know, the immediacy and the power of that but it also can be dangerous.”

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Author:Suzanne Nossel