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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

The real competitors are coming from all these alternative news sources now all over the network, and they're – hurting public trust in us, and they're hurting our economic model. And they have to be choked off and crushed. And the way that we're going to do that is to

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

The real competitors are coming from all these alternative news sources now all over the network, and they're – hurting public trust in us, and they're hurting our economic model. And they have to be choked off and crushed. And the way that we're going to do that is to

5587.903 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

make an agreement with the social media sites that if we label their information misinformation, the social media sites will deplatform it, or they will throttle it, or they will shadow ban it, which destroys the economic model of those alternative competitive sources of information. So that's true. But the point you make is an important point,

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

make an agreement with the social media sites that if we label their information misinformation, the social media sites will deplatform it, or they will throttle it, or they will shadow ban it, which destroys the economic model of those alternative competitive sources of information. So that's true. But the point you make is an important point,

5605.103 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

make an agreement with the social media sites that if we label their information misinformation, the social media sites will deplatform it, or they will throttle it, or they will shadow ban it, which destroys the economic model of those alternative competitive sources of information. So that's true. But the point you make is an important point,

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

that the journalists themselves, who probably didn't know about the TNI agreement, certainly I'm sure they didn't, they believe that they're doing the right thing by suppressing information that may challenge government proclamations on COVID. But, I mean, there's a danger to that, and the danger is that once you appoint yourself an arbiter of what's true and what's not true,

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

that the journalists themselves, who probably didn't know about the TNI agreement, certainly I'm sure they didn't, they believe that they're doing the right thing by suppressing information that may challenge government proclamations on COVID. But, I mean, there's a danger to that, and the danger is that once you appoint yourself an arbiter of what's true and what's not true,

5630.153 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

that the journalists themselves, who probably didn't know about the TNI agreement, certainly I'm sure they didn't, they believe that they're doing the right thing by suppressing information that may challenge government proclamations on COVID. But, I mean, there's a danger to that, and the danger is that once you appoint yourself an arbiter of what's true and what's not true,

5630.153 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

you have now assumed for yourself because now your job is no longer to inform the public. Your job now is to manipulate the public. And if you end up manipulating the public in collusion with powerful entities, then you become the instrument of authoritarian rule rather than the, you know, journalism in a democracy.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

you have now assumed for yourself because now your job is no longer to inform the public. Your job now is to manipulate the public. And if you end up manipulating the public in collusion with powerful entities, then you become the instrument of authoritarian rule rather than the, you know, journalism in a democracy.

5661.627 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

you have now assumed for yourself because now your job is no longer to inform the public. Your job now is to manipulate the public. And if you end up manipulating the public in collusion with powerful entities, then you become the instrument of authoritarian rule rather than the, you know, journalism in a democracy.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

I would say protection of the environment and the commons, the air, the water, wildlife, fisheries, public lands. Those assets, they cannot be reduced to private property ownership. The landscapes, our Purple Mountain Majesty.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

I would say protection of the environment and the commons, the air, the water, wildlife, fisheries, public lands. Those assets, they cannot be reduced to private property ownership. The landscapes, our Purple Mountain Majesty.

5705.786 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

I would say protection of the environment and the commons, the air, the water, wildlife, fisheries, public lands. Those assets, they cannot be reduced to private property ownership. The landscapes, our Purple Mountain Majesty.

5705.786 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

the protection of the most vulnerable people in our society, people who, which would include children and minorities, the restoration of the middle class, you know, and protection of labor, dignity, and, you know, decent pay for labor, bodily autonomy, a woman's right to choose or an individual's right to endure unwanted medical procedures. Peace.

5722.328 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

the protection of the most vulnerable people in our society, people who, which would include children and minorities, the restoration of the middle class, you know, and protection of labor, dignity, and, you know, decent pay for labor, bodily autonomy, a woman's right to choose or an individual's right to endure unwanted medical procedures. Peace.

5722.328 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

the protection of the most vulnerable people in our society, people who, which would include children and minorities, the restoration of the middle class, you know, and protection of labor, dignity, and, you know, decent pay for labor, bodily autonomy, a woman's right to choose or an individual's right to endure unwanted medical procedures. Peace.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

You know, the Democrats have always been anti-war. The refusal to use fear as a governing tool. FDR said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself because he recognized that tyrants and dictators could use fear to disable critical thinking and overwhelm the desire for personal liberty. The freedom of government from untoward influence by corrupt corporate power.

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

You know, the Democrats have always been anti-war. The refusal to use fear as a governing tool. FDR said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself because he recognized that tyrants and dictators could use fear to disable critical thinking and overwhelm the desire for personal liberty. The freedom of government from untoward influence by corrupt corporate power.

5760.407 View full episode β†’
Lex Fridman Podcast
#388 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr: CIA, Power, Corruption, War, Freedom, and Meaning

You know, the Democrats have always been anti-war. The refusal to use fear as a governing tool. FDR said the only thing we have to fear is fear itself because he recognized that tyrants and dictators could use fear to disable critical thinking and overwhelm the desire for personal liberty. The freedom of government from untoward influence by corrupt corporate power.

5760.407 View full episode β†’