Episode 19: Censorship and The First Amendment
American State of Mind
English - January 19, 2021 11:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 38 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness News Politics america politics government mental health health american news Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Next Episode: Episode 20: The Biden Administration
The day after the attack on the Capitol big tech companies took steps to limit speech they felt were inciting violence. This came in the form of Amazon removing social media app Parler from its servers, Twitter banning the Presidents personal account, and Facebook blocking posts with "stop the steal" wording. But in a nation of Free Speech, how is this possible? What does the Frist Amendment have to say when censorship comes not from the government but from corporations?
This week we examine the First Amendment and its relationship to the current debate around censorship. We discuss what the future of the nation looks like in the age of the internet.