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The Disinformation Fraud: How America's Most Powerful Institutions Joined Forces to Crush Speech & Silence Dissent, with Jacob Siegel

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

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The Extreme of Free Speech and Censorship

Robert Reich says that Elon Musk's call to turn Twitter into a real free speech platform fulfills the dream of Paul Pot and Stalin. The American version of free speech is obsolete and has become dangerous, writes Emily Basilan in New York Times magazine. I'm wondering where do you drive that line when you're defending free speech if you're kind of ringing in the warning about the dangers of censorship? Where do you draw those lines for cases like say Kanye West or Nick Fuentes being banned or Alex Jones being banned there's a lot of examples of say Palestinian activists being banned critics of Israel being banned.

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