E17: Big Tech bans Trump, ramifications for the First Amendment & the open Internet
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English - January 26, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 89.5 MB - ★★★★ - 72 ratingsBusiness Health & Fitness podcast notes podcastnotes playlist Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Podcast Notes Key Takeaways People forget there are legitimate views on both sides of a polarizing topic; a nuanced opinion can trigger either side against you. Thus, patience and tolerance are importantFreedom of speech is vital for democracy and freedom, it’s now under the threat of censorship. The biggest power grab in history has happened“Our free speech rights got privatized, the town square got digitized and centralized” – David SacksThus, it’s vital to create an online bill of rights, defendable in court“Censorship always starts as something you like and it ends as something you don’t like when it finally gets turned against you” – David SacksDecentralized apps and protocols are the free-market answer to censorshipA possible second-order consequence of ban-policy: governments consider social media reach as a lever of national power and may demand nationalizing the rails of social media to allow their operation
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Referenced in the show:
“I Have Blood on My Hands”: A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation
Show Notes:
0:00 David Sacks intros the besties
2:08 Jason & Sacks hash it out & the besties break down reconciliation in American democracy
21:09 Big Tech bans, did they give Trump an easy out? Ramifications for First Amendment
43:01 What laws can be written to prevent Big Tech oligarchy in the future?
59:32 Why Big Tech acted in unison against Trump: internal & external pressure, pending Democratic administration
1:09:42 Current Pence/Trump relationship, McCarthyism 2.0, should Big Tech be broken up?
1:32:46 History of the presidential pardon, Chamath on SoFi's Anthony Noto