Joe Rogan

say the most inflammatory, ridiculous things to get interaction and engagement and also to erode people's faith in other people and to make us argue with each other.

It's really problematic.

My hope is that eventually there'll be some way to accurately discern and it'll stop that stuff from happening.

that you'll be able to tell very clearly whether or not it's an actual person.

The problem is that if that does happen, it's a gateway to digital ID because you would have to lose your anonymity.

Anonymity is very important for whistleblowers.

Say if you work for a corporation, you find out that corporation is dumping stuff into a river,

And it's all secret and it's illegal and you know that if you tell, they're going to kill you.

And you're an executive of that corporation.

Your conscience is troubled.

You can make a fake account.

You could sign up through a VPN.

You can make a fake account and you could post all this information that you know and you could break a story.

And you don't face any consequences.

You don't get killed.

If you have digital ID, if we know who everybody is that's posting something and you make that same post, who knows what they do to you?

Who knows what happens?

How did Gary Webb die?

Yeah, but even if that's not true, there's a bunch of stories about whistleblowers who go missing.

Yeah, there's so many examples.