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The executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation on government surveillance, Elon Musk, and free speech

Decoder with Nilay Patel

CHAPTER

Do You Care About Civil Liberties?

I think from our perspective, it's a civil liberties problem when free speech and privacy are beholden to just a few gigantic companies that have a business model. So if we want to undo that monopoly, we're going to have to look at some of the laws that they use to protect themselves. And i would be very happy to get to this more competitive future in the current context,. But i think a lot of laws and a lot of structures of the way things going are keeping us feeling stuck in this time.

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