The New Censorship: Government's Control of Digital Speech

The podcast episode discusses the increasing efforts by the government to control digital speech and highlights the collaboration between federal entities and digital platforms to police online speech. The podcast mentions the testimony of journalists Matt Taiby and Michael Schalemberger, who revealed internal documents known as the Twitter files. The documents uncovered an elaborate multi-agency system of censorship, orchestrated by the White House, that involved bullying social media platforms into canceling posts and silencing American citizens without prior debate or legislation. This censorship apparatus reached its peak during Joe Biden's presidency, with many individuals from intelligence and law enforcement agencies transitioning to work for social media platforms.