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Hard for me to take this seriously when it opens with Tucker Carlson talking to me after he just finished doing a promotional campaign for Vladimir Putin, and y

Hard for me to take this seriously when it opens with Tucker Carlson talking to me after he just finished doing a promotional campaign for Vladimir Putin, and your language in this comment + lack of details isn't helping. What do I need to know about censorship that he's going to tell me? What is this "pandemic of censorship"? Who is Mike Benz? Wish it was text so I could scan through it to see if it has any merit.

entrepy123 3y ago
> Wish it was text so I could scan through it to see if it has any merit. There's a text transcript at [0] for you to read/skim. > Who is Mike Benz? Benz is a "former State Department official with responsibilities in formulating and negotiating US foreign policy on international communications and information technology matters" per his foundation's About page [1]. > What do I need to know about censorship that he's going to tell me? He describes in detail that tech companies are not simply deciding what to censor themselves by, you know, thinking about it and exercising judgement. No. Instead, tech companies are told what to censor by, you know, the U.S.G. This has implications for the argument that "the gov doesn't censor, private companies are allowed to". Benz is apparently essentially an activist/whistleblower letting people know that this is happening at scale, because apparently a lot of people do not know about it. He describes the evolution of this infrastructure over time, as of the last 10 years or so (apparently based on his professional, bureaucratic, direct experience). Does that help? BTW, I empathize with your difficulty getting into it. Tucker and Benz frankly both seem like gatekeepers. But the gate they keep is still is well beyond what many wish to acknowledge or deal with, maybe? [0] https://dpaste.org/TgSkM https://dpaste.org/TgSkM [1] https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/about https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/about
devaiops9001 3y ago
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entrepy123 3y ago

> Wish it was text so I could scan through it to see if it has any merit. There's a text transcript at [0] for you to read/skim. > Who is Mike Benz? Benz is a "former State Department official with responsibilities in formulating and negotiating US foreign policy on international communications and information technology matters" per his foundation's About page [1]. > What do I need to know about censorship that he's going to tell me? He describes in detail that tech companies are not simply deciding what to censor themselves by, you know, thinking about it and exercising judgement. No. Instead, tech companies are told what to censor by, you know, the U.S.G. This has implications for the argument that "the gov doesn't censor, private companies are allowed to". Benz is apparently essentially an activist/whistleblower letting people know that this is happening at scale, because apparently a lot of people do not know about it. He describes the evolution of this infrastructure over time, as of the last 10 years or so (apparently based on his professional, bureaucratic, direct experience). Does that help? BTW, I empathize with your difficulty getting into it. Tucker and Benz frankly both seem like gatekeepers. But the gate they keep is still is well beyond what many wish to acknowledge or deal with, maybe? [0] https://dpaste.org/TgSkM https://dpaste.org/TgSkM [1] https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/about https://foundationforfreedomonline.com/about

devaiops9001 3y ago

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