O Talks: Ideas Not Worth Spreading

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O Talks: Ideas Not Worth Spreading

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The Sapling Foundation’s TED Conferences have taken a beating in the press this year. In May, Alex Pareene of Salon called the forums, which bring together people from the technology, entertainment and design fields, “a money-soaked orgy of self-congratulatory futurism” after the group refused to publish a talk on income inequality. Now the satirical website The Onion is taking a whack.

—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly.

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