The Pod Sage

Dave Jones, collected

Wisdom

Censorship tools you build will be used by the other side

if that if the State Department under George Bush had access to some sort of system, that would, they could instantly send out a bat signal to flag all the podcasts that were created?

Episode 121: Lawful but Awful 00:48:25

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Summary

Responding to a Brookings proposal to flag podcast 'misinformation,' Dave asks whether George W. Bush's State Department would have hesitated to flag podcasts doubting WMDs in Iraq, a claim that proved bogus. Each side builds silencing systems while it's in charge, then the power flips.

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    And so it's like well, my guys are in charge right now. So I'm gonna get try to silence all the other guys. And you end up building a system to where when the power flip you get

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