Neil Young v. Joe Rogan
Why is censorship the accepted answer to misinformation?
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Thought the episode was a good discussion, but I implore you to reconsider amplifying Vinay Prasad in the show notes.
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, there are some statements of yours that beg for a follow-up: do you claim that without online free speech, the side effects of vaccines would remain hidden from the medical profession?
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I think has it right. No one expects Spotify to cancel Rogan over this. Likewise, I refuse to subscribe to Spotify for the same reason. I don’t want any of my money funding a podcast that I feel is doing more harm than good for society.
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Oof pretty bad from here. 1: Where was the msg from anyone serious on vaccines “guaranteed no covid! no chance of side effects!” Who said that? Bad faith actors *assigned* this straw man to pro-vaxxers so they could knock it down. 1/
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essentially made the same argument for free speech that JS Mill made in the 19th century: without freespeech, living truth becomes dead dogma. but things are more complicated today:
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platforms are not by default neutrual: they are financially incentivized to propagate the most popular shows and therefore their view. The need to regulate platforms is precisely because freedom of speech requires counter measurements to the platforms’s bias towards popular shows
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