Taylor Lorenz’s Power User The Most Depraved Commentary I've Ever Heard
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Nov 21, 2025 Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz sparks controversy with her remarks on Gaza and Holocaust imagery, highlighting the elite's chilling desire to control online narratives. The podcast dives into the origins of social media as a platform for liberation against the establishment. It discusses the shift towards censorship post-2016 and the alarming bipartisan push for speech restrictions following recent events. There's a passionate plea to protect Section 230 and advocate for meaningful tech regulation to safeguard online freedoms.
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Social Media Reshapes Historical Lessons
- Taylor Lorenz argues social media exposes youth to global, graphic content that reshapes their perceptions of conflicts.
- She suggests this shift undermines traditional Holocaust education's intended lessons about anti-Semitism.
From Liberatory Internet To Censorship Push
- Lorenz traces the shift from internet liberatory promise to calls for censorship after Trump's rise.
- She connects mainstream panic about misinformation to political efforts to control online narratives.
Early Bloggers Challenged Mainstream Media
- Lorenz recounts how bloggers and early social media exposed flaws in mainstream coverage like the Iraq WMD narrative.
- She uses that history to show how online voices once disrupted establishment information control.
