Nathan Latka
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301,249 appearances
1,864 recordings
4 series
first heard Oct 2015
last heard 8 Sep
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Well, sure, but who is everybody on the Internet?
Half of its money being spent by China, half of its money being spent by Russia, the Iranians and the North Koreans spend a ton of money influencing Americans.
Well, listen, the second half of the 20th century, the amount of things that Americans think today that were planted in our national conversation by the KGB is enormous.
The KGB laundered all kinds of their ideas into America because they understood that within the free speech system that exists in this country is an immune system weakness.
Free speech brings a lot of robustness to a society.
Free speech is great, but there is a weakness, and the weakness is that there's very little natural immunity against bad ideas.
The Soviets understood this well because in the First World War, the Germans smuggled Lenin on a train into Russia because they understood this guy's got an idea, and that idea can burn across Russia and Russia.
weaken them fundamentally in a way that gives us advantages in the war.
It was information warfare to unleash Lenin on Russia, and it worked.
So that's part of the founding mythology of the Soviet Union.
They understood you've got this open society where college professors can just say whatever they want to kids and they can't even be fired, where Hollywood can say things in movies and essentially no one cares as long as the movie's entertaining.
We have Ronald Reagan, essentially because of the SAG wars against literal Soviet, an attempted Soviet takeover, essentially, of Hollywood during the SAG wars.
And Ronald Reagan opposed it and became the president of SAG and then became the governor of California and then became the president.
So the idea of foreign governments exploiting free speech in America is nothing new.
What's new is the ubiquity of social media, the addictivity of social media, and the anonymity of social media.
And now 50% of the internet is bots.
So it's never been easier.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Because he can tell what's real and what's not.
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