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NYTimes columnist Peggy Orenstein writes of her experience in trying to gain freedom from the web. She used a mac-based program called “Freedom,” which when activated blocks your internet access for up to 8 hours at a time…

It could be that sometimes our greatest freedom may be to choose freedom from freedom. I am still surprised by the relief that floods me whenever I bind myself from going online, when I have no option but to ignore the incessant tweets and e-mail messages and videos and news links and even the legitimate research.

Posted at 4:15pm.

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