Michael Shellenberger
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard 18 Feb
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kids right now in Australia.
They're literally using the kids in Australia to create digital identifications as a way to censorship, which I think we should be alarmed about.
But nonetheless, as a father who's seen the impact of social media on adolescents, I do worry about it.
But I do think if you're going to have Section 230, that should be the agreement.
Well, look, at the top of my list is that we are in something called the NATO Organization, and it has a treaty that requires that we only have as members free democracies.
We only are going to defend countries that allow free speech and that allow people to choose the candidates of their choice.
currently that is absolutely under attack in europe romania
already prevented as you interviewed the romania
prevented their presidential front runner now france is about to ban their presidential front runner marine le pen in a completely trumped up charge that the prime minister the last prime minister was already guilty of and still uh came into office
germany there's i just interviewed a mayoral candidate who was banned for for like made up reasons because he liked lord of the rings i'm not even kidding and he went to a book fair where there's some people that the intelligence services uh didn't like people and that was like the basis of the election council planning from running and then they have these elaborate censorship industrial complexes we're part of nato everybody knows that we're the main event we subsidize it to the tune of
you know hundreds of billions of dollars a year like you tucker i'm willing to die for free speech and democracy like i with seneca uh like the spartan slave boy in the great seneca passage i would rather die you know a free man than live as a slave and so we what we are willing to die for
for freedom, and I think we all care a lot about Western civilization in Europe, but not if they're gonna, I don't wanna defend, I'm not gonna, I don't wanna put my life on the line to defend authoritarian sensorial autocracies like France, Germany, and Romania, and potentially Britain.
So I think the president has,
you know been pretty strong on it you know they're still negotiating this right now but i just think that the public certainly maga but whatever leftists are still in favor of free speech out there including as you mentioned i think a lot of the pro-palestinian folks that felt person you know felt censored on tick tock and elsewhere and have been censored in other ways
That we should all make very clear that we don't want to be a part of a military treaty that has us risking our lives for illiberal autocracies.
That's got to be at the top of the list.
Same thing with Brazil.
It's like...
you know okay i think people americans need to know we should pay more for orange juice if it means protecting our freedom of speech that like our freedom of speech it's not like a small thing it's like the main event it's like the reason why america is the greatest country that's ever existed and certainly the greatest country in the world still despite all of our problems and the country that everybody wants to live in is because of the first amendment of free speech so it just
has to be an absolute non-negotiable so I said this is the number one issue if you don't have free speech you don't have anything you don't have democracy you don't have your dignity you don't have you don't have cat you don't have prosperity you don't have you have infrastructure can't work it's just everything depends on free speech and so it's just got to be an absolute issue for the administration um in these in these negotiations and yeah I mean I think
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