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#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights

Lex Fridman Podcast

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What Is the State Doing?

I think censorship and de-platforming are two different things, private companies get to make up their own rules about what's allowed on their platforms. I'm uncomfortable with the universality of the application of this censorship by these platforms. Alex Jones would be in prison or dead if he were in North Korea or in Cuba or in Russia or China. Here, he can do what he wants. He's encountering some resistance in the marketplace of ideas,. large organizations, corporations don't like him. They're doing their best to drown out his voice.

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