The Twitter Files and the Nature of Free Speech with Matt Taibbi (WiM345)
The "What is Money?" Show
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The Predilection to Attack When the Thing Is Hot
There are weird humans have this predilection to want to attack when the thing is hot, but then if it drops later, they don't really pay attention. I mean, the Assange case is a classic example of how they deal with, you know, information that's negative,. So Assange was releasing one huge story after another and there was the video of war crimes in Iraq. He released the logs of how they were treating prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. There were all kinds of crazy things that he was releasing. The government was obviously very angry.
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