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Government and corporate control of online speech creates dangerous, authoritarian, or dystopian systems that undermine free expression.
8 people · 8 episodes
The United States government and foreign policy establishment maintain an organized censorship apparatus to suppress right-wing populism and protect the international order.
“and so all of these International entanglements these International Financial relationships these the this International influence over National events would all fall away and it was only happening because of free speech on the internet so they so they brought to bear this very powerful censorship a”
Shawn Ryan Show · Sep 2024 · 3 episodes · 665K views on this topicThe MPA's proposed legislation for blocking piracy websites would require creating an authoritarian internet censorship system.
“what is this exactly going to do how how are you going to enforce this unless you basically do you know back to our sort of our our title for this unless you actually do create like an authoritarian internet censorship system”
Linus Tech Tips · Apr 2024 · 2 episodes · 1.3M views on this topicThe proposed UK regulation is a form of authoritarianism that threatens to suppress independent creators by manipulating algorithms to prioritize state-favored media.
“This is pure authoritarianism. they're trying to like rig algorithms now. you would basically just be asked to mouth or mouth to ass on the UK government, aka Prada freaking Panda. And it's absolute ballocks.”
Philip DeFranco · Jul 2026 · 2 episodes · 1.2M views on this topicThe speaker believes that the combined monitoring of spending by large tech companies and credit card companies to police speech is a dangerous and dystopian trend.
“I can't imagine it's difficult to imagine a more dystopian scenario than to have the large tech companies in combination with the credit card companies monitor your spending to decide when what you're doing is sufficiently ethical”
Jordan B Peterson · Jan 2019 · 1 episode · 593K views on this topicMatt McCusker believes that major tech companies are actively working to track and manipulate citizens under the guise of responding to public health crises.
“Facebook's already starting they're like tracers and stuff Facebook Facebook and Google are already like oh we're already working on this thing to track B it's like okay yeah it all guys think tinkering on that and that's all you guys do”
Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast · Apr 2020 · 1 episode · 458K views on this topicModeration and gatekeeping of online content is necessary or beneficial to maintain order, public safety, or health.
3 people · 3 episodes
Content creators should set and enforce boundaries in their chat to maintain an orderly environment for their audience.
“if you're constantly breaking those boundaries yeah you're [ __ ] ruining the content for 40 000 other people and I I'm not gonna do that”
Flagrant · Sep 2022 · 1 episode · 2.0M views on this topicWhile acknowledging the need for discourse, some moderation is necessary to prevent the amplification of dangerous misinformation.
“But you also can't have a situation where you can't where you have a potential for a serious a serious insurgence where a lot of people are going to lose their lives, their freedom, and so forth.”
djvlad · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 15K views on this topicThe implementation of broad age-gated social media bans, such as the one in Australia, is a worthwhile social experiment to observe for potential results.
“If if Australia wants to give us some real data about whether or not this will work, you know, run the program for a couple of years. I I'm actually interested. I think they're doing a great service for the planet.”
This Week in Tech · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 7K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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