Dwarkesh Patel
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You can partially police them.
But keeping pamphlets from moving around, they're anonymous, they're quick, they're produced overnight, they move quickly.
You just can't keep up with them.
So you skip town.
The printer?
Yeah, the printer skips town.
The printer moves to the next town.
And there is a cost to that, right?
There's not no human cost to evading that.
You've had to leave your home and friends behind and move to a new place, but they don't get you.
And it's very easy to deny that the pamphlet came from you at all.
So the print industry proves very difficult to censor.
And we're experiencing the same thing with social media, right?
And everyone is like, censor the pornography on X social media channel.
They're like, we just can't.
It's too fast.
There's too much.
Or censor the hate speech.
We just can't.
There's too fast.