Free Speech in the Digital Age with Rabble (WiM552)

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Robert Breedlove

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4.8 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Evan “Rabble” Henshaw-Plath joins me to explore the founding of Twitter, how Nostr fights censorship and preserves freedom of speech, the overlap between Bitcoin and Nostr, the tradeoffs of using and building on Nostr, freedom of speech vs freedom of reach, and the future of Nostr and decentralized technology. Evan “Rabble” Henshaw-Plath is a coder, activist, anarchist, and hacker who was one of the original developers of Twitter.

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0:00.0	There's a subreddit for meth-infetamine users.
0:03.1	The mods of it decided you can't say anything sexist or racist or anything offensive.
0:08.0	Nothing homophobic.
0:09.0	So a group had to create a separate subreddit called Meth Without Communisms.
0:14.2	Reddit banned them all.
0:15.6	I don't advocate using meth.
0:17.0	Or communism.
0:18.8	But you were one of the first three people that formed twitter yeah Elon changed
0:24.1	the name to x i still call it twitter i'm gonna dead name it creating your own algorithm right now
0:31.0	everyone's just subjected to whatever the algorithm is and that's well probably the most effective
0:35.3	high leverage tool for psychological operations
0:37.9	Instagram is an art gallery. TikTok is like an amusement park. Facebook has become the municipal
0:45.0	community center where someone has a family reunion, but a really sad one. It's cool to be alive
0:51.8	right now. I mean it's very exciting. We are in the change of an age, right?
0:54.8	From the industrial age to this digital age.
0:56.8	How weird is the world going to get in the next 100 years?
0:59.3	It's going to get very weird.
1:06.1	You go by rabble.
1:07.5	Yeah.
1:07.9	Okay.
1:08.4	What is that a nickname?
1:09.7	It's a nickname.
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