Michael Shellenberger
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4 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 18 Feb
Michael Shellenberger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That was the language that people had used.
Well, of course they did.
They called it something different.
It was called like, you know, do not amplify lists, for example, is like a kind of blacklist that they ran or a trends blacklist.
Don't let them show up on the trends thing.
So there's just all a million dials, of course, as you know, Tucker, to like kind of turn these things up and down.
Yeah.
The AI can help, but sometimes, you know, like they wanted to go after a QAnon conspiracy at one point.
I reported this in my Twitter files on the decision to de-platform Trump.
And there was something around like the Kraken, which I guess is like a giant like squid in the ocean.
I think it's, you know, they were like the Kraken was somehow tied into QAnon conspiracy theories.
they wanted to censor that which is also insane like they wanted to literally stop people from talking about kraken like on twitter and then somebody figured out that the seattle i think hockey team is the kraken and
these tweets around hockey were getting like swept up in it
So it's like, you know, it's like I worry about it, but ultimately it's not a bunch of sensors in like the Philippines or even I think Palo Alto.
These like the worst forms of censorship are being decided at the executive level.
But as I said, my view is that if you have Section 230, which is what gives you the power to be a monopoly, it's like literally like the like the permit to operate as a functional, natural monopoly.
I think that that you should have to give the user
the adult user complete control over all legal content.
And you can censor the illegal content.
And I do think there's a whole separate thing on kids, which I think is complicated because they're using
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