344 w/Jacob Mchangama "Speech, Sheep, and a Crying Room"
The Fifth Column
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Free Speech, but Not for the Unwashed Mob
Even free speech champions, people who were conscious of it um had a tendency to look at the newest new media entrance and say, yes, free speech is great, but man, the radio s that is falked up. I basicly argue that there's an c utilitarian versus and elite's conception of free that goes back to an ancient time. So i have this from erasmus, this great humanist scholar who wrote tons of stuff himself. But then, you know, he says, printers are the worst, because they fill the world with books that are impious, madan crazy.
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