Michael Shellenberger
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first heard Oct 2024
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And this is a group that labeled, along with the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which is equally sinister organization, very connected to the Labour Party of Britain, they label criticism of George Soros
as anti-semitic and and tucker i'm not saying criticism of george soros and even noticing that he's jewish it wasn't even that it wasn't like they said the jewish philanthropist george soros they'd be like just criticizing george soros was anti-semitic that's how crazy it
is and got that and you know you look at the number of institutions that have been putting this it's the european union it's nato it's the united nations it's germany france britain the united states is really powerful and i think that the president did a good job pushing back against those types of people around the world but it is important to remember that the european economy is bigger than the united states economy and certainly when you go and kind of look at a world
with this incredible economic power of China and the gravity it exercises in all these other countries in the world, including Europe, including Brazil.
I mean, it was notable that when Trump punished Brazil with tariffs for its censorship and banning their opposition party leader and the leading presidential candidate, Bolsonaro, that China made up the difference in the loss of trade.
So you sort of start to see
the world you know and particularly get this kind of organic you know decline of real belief and support in free speech with a kind of global move towards this censorship industrial complex system of censorship by proxy it is disturbing because they can exercise economic power over our platforms and you know i mean i i think elon has shown good reason that we can you know basically trust what he's done i think he's made great decisions
um for the most part since he's taken over the platform but you know if anything were to happen to elon i mean these companies mark zuckerberg google sundar pishai they've shown themselves to be quite cowardly facebook was worried about the lack of help from the biden administration it was enough to get facebook to censor because they were worried about not having enough help from the biden administration to retrieve their very valuable user data from europe which their laws require
and that's why they agreed to do censorship that even their own social scientists within facebook said would backfire because they were like look if you go censor mothers sharing information about the vet about the coveted vaccine side effects it will make mothers more nervous that's what the internal people at facebook said and the facebook execs were like we better just give the bite administration what they want otherwise they're not going to help us with our data in europe so it doesn't
I mean, it's not hard to imagine the power that these states can exercise on these platforms.
And I don't think that that threat has gone away.
yeah i mean i the things i really worry about are those numbers you know i mean you've had you know um you know just those numbers of young people that i mean the number of young people the number of college students the share of college students that said that violence may sometimes be necessary to stop a campus speaker
was under 20 in the year 2020 it's 34 right now that means one-third of college students think that violence might be necessary to stop a campus speaker that is i mean that's pathological i don't know there's another word that's bonkers
crazy scary behavior and so you know remember george orwell he was uh you know a leftist um wrote 1984 because he had read james burnham who's this very famous you know former trotskyite who becomes a conservative and writes
uh you know this book about the managerial state which is basically about how this totalitarianism would kind of emerge out of the society and out of the state in these in these very specific safetyist you know harm reduction demands that that you would sort of get a whole kind of state of busy body
you know nanny state people that wanted to police the speech i mean that was his prediction in 19 whatever that was 1947 i think or you know when 1984 came out that is was so brilliant i mean it's terrifying brilliantly prescient because that's what i worry about and i think you know i saw the obviously very moved by all the charlie kirk
what's the response to the charlie kirk assassin and the desire to go into universities i think we need to figure out how to move that number down so that people really do be the young people become and everybody becomes more comfortable with yeah i mean look i mean charlie really was um inspiring in the way that he would go into places and of course the science said prove me wrong he was saying look i'm open to debate is exactly
I mean, it's so, I don't know, ironic is not the right word.
It's so powerful that the person that was assassinated was the person doing what we need the most of.
The person that was killed was the person who was doing
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