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War Propaganda and the Information State | Guest: Brandan P. Buck | Ep 241
The release of the Twitter Files revealed that defense agencies are censoring social media platforms to promote a certain agenda, making the war on so-called COVID misinformation look more like a national security issue than a public health one.
Presidential politics is a stale affair—particularly this sultry season.
While humming “Pomp and Circumstance” coming out of the shower the other morning, as one does in late May, I had one of those Proustian moments of long-forgotten remembrance: the final episode of Nickelodeon’s “Doug.”
Stop Using Children to Justify Censorship | Guest: Shoshana Weissmann | Ep 231
Won’t someone please think of the children? From time immemorial, this has been the battle cry of the moral guardians who want to control what you’re allowed to see, hear, or think.
Have you heard? Art is arid, the culture is crumbs, and everything is bromidic bilge
The internet’s fast-moving, even-faster-profit-ringing nature guarantees more Buzzfeeds and Vices will sprout up, vying for our attention, baiting our worst instincts.
Musk didn’t really muck it up until he started tweaking the power symbol that was Twitter’s driving force: the infamous bluetick.
TikTok Ban Empowers Government Speech Police | Guest: Robby Soave | Ep 221
The war against Big Tech is in full swing. Republicans in Congress are attempting to pass the Restrict Act, a dangerous piece of legislation that would not only allow them to ban TikTok, the China-controlled social media app, but would also give them broad powers to regulate Americans’...
To #staywoke is to stay indescribable because wokeness is, at its core, subjective.