I think we should acknowledge that the internet and the ability to communicate in that scale poses new challenges. There is no question about that because I think the example you gave me was actually a really good one David Iker the big pandemic. But it's just, it seems to me that a lot of people don't realize that there are trade-offs here that have to be really carefully watched.
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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.
00:00 Intro
02:13 The Secret Government Units Spying on Us
04:22 What’s Wrong with the Government Monitoring Certain Platforms?
06:02 How Long has the Prevention of Disinformation Been Going on?
12:22 The Call to Fight Against the Attack on Free Speech
20:56 Are Social Media Companies between a Rock & a Hard Place?
22:44 Are Private Interactions Being Monitored?
33:18 How to Wake People Up
38:23 Sponsor Message: Easy DNS
39:27 How to Defend Against Restrictions on Truth
41:26 The Right to Protest
46:35 Consequences of Dysfunctional Police
48:53 What’s the One Thing We’re Not Talking About?