I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.

The Internet has become a bunch of interlinked but linguistically distinct and culturally specific spaces. There's some interface between them, but there's a lot less than there was years back when we were sort of pretending that this was one great global space.

I can imagine Iceland becoming a good place to run a controversial Web site. But... Iceland may find itself forced to defend controversial speech.

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

I don't read all the newspapers.