LTB #436 'We Need 30 Different Words for Different Kinds of Censorship'

<p>The rallying cry of the totalitarian is "He farted first", but if both systems have produced similar outcomes, is there much of a difference? Inspired by a recent article in&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/what-covid-revealed-about-internet/610549/" target="_blank">the Atlantic</a>, in today's wide-ranging discussion the hosts of Let's Talk Bitcoin! dig deeply into the questions of censorship, propaganda and how things are both better and worse than in years past.</p> <p><em>The episode is sponsored by&nbsp;</em><a href="http://etoro.ltbshow.com/" target="_blank"><em>eToro.com</em></a><em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;</em><a href="https://theinternetofmoney.info/" target="_blank"><em>The Internet of Money Vol. 3</em></a></p> <p>Shownotes:</p> <ul> <li>Who are they censoring from and how do we unpack this manipulation?</li> <li>The rallying cry of the totalitarian is always “He farted first”</li> <li>Who gets to decide what is censored?</li> <li>The squeaky wheel of child pornography gets the attention, the much more insidious problem of silencing certain voices, or giving preference to other voices.</li> <li>Propaganda goes hand-in-hand with censorship</li> <li>Propaganda is harder to detect ‘reverse censorship’</li> <li>Private platform curation have the right to moderate which can be interpreted as censorship.</li> <li>You have to choose if you’re a publisher or a platform</li> <li>What if AT&amp;T listened to your phone calls, sold ads against them and disconnected you whenever you say something that would trouble sponsors?</li> <li>Common carriers vs. publishers</li> <li>FOSTA, SESTA and turning platforms into publishers</li> <li>Crony capitalism will always co-opt government</li> <li>The only way to win is not to play</li> <li>The only way to not be coopted as a protocol is to have it not be owned by anyone.</li> <li>It may be impossible to be a platform if you’re not a protocol</li> <li>Information overload and compartmentalization</li> <li>Are the soluti