Honestly with Bari Weiss - Matt Taibbi on the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex

In the past few weeks, there’s been an increasing number of threats to freedom of speech around the world.


In France, authorities arrested Telegram CEO Pavel Durov for failing to adequately moderate content and prevent criminal activity on his platform. 


In the UK, since the outbreak of anti-immigration riots, police have arrested individuals merely for posting comments online. The Labour-led government has suggested expanding measures to remove “legal but harmful” content. 


In Brazil, President Lula’s administration has proposed new regulations requiring social media companies to monitor and remove “harmful content,” and a Brazilian Supreme Court justice just banned X altogether in the country. The ruling came after the platform missed a deadline to name a new legal representative there.


From Hungary to Pakistan, the right to speak your mind, particularly on the internet, is more precarious than ever. 


Even in the United States, with our free speech rights enshrined in the Constitution, polls suggest an entire generation has grown up thinking it should be illegal to say something inaccurate or hateful. Democratic VP nominee Tim Walz said as much: “There’s no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech, and especially around our democracy.”


So how did we get here? And, where is this all going? 


Today, Michael sits down with the intrepid journalist Matt Taibbi, who knows this issue inside out. When The Free Press launched, he reported the Twitter Files with Bari Weiss, and together they exposed how government agencies had pressured Twitter to censor undesirable information, including skepticism of Covid lockdowns and opposition to Covid-related public school closures. 


In this conversation, Matt and Michael talk about what’s happening in Europe, Brazil, and here in the U.S. They discuss the factors that precipitated the so-called “misinformation wars,” from 9/11 to Brexit and Trump’s election, that convinced elites of the need to enforce restrictions on speech. And they talk about why these efforts are doomed to backfire. 


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NBN Book of the Day - Jonathan Gienapp, “Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique” (Yale UP, 2024)

The legal theory of constitutional originalism has attracted increasing attention in recent years as the US Supreme Court has tilted with the weight of justices who self-describe as originalists. 

In Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique (Yale UP, 2024), Jonathan Gienapp examines the theory and describes how it falls short of achieving the interpretive authority that it claims. 

Gienapp asserts that we need to reconstruct 18th century legal arguments as they were originally understood before judging them, while originalists reject historical understanding in favor of a more pliable textualist approach that allows them to impose their modern legal perspectives onto the past. 

This "have your cake and eat it too" methodology allows originalists to claim the authority of the Founders while simultaneously discounting anything that those same Founders may have said, done, or understood that doesn't appear among the approximately 7500 words of the Constitution itself.  

This book speaks directly to originalists with a challenge to make a fundamental choice between recognizing how our modern constitutional practices distort the original constitution and embrace them for the modern fiction that they are, or recover the original Constitution that the Founders actually knew. 

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New Books Network interview with Jonathan Gienapp, when Derek Litvak spoke with him in 2019 about The Second Creation: Fixing the American Constitution in the Founding Era (Harvard UP 2018).

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The Most Important Supermarket Visit in History (Encore)

The cold war was the defining event of the second half of the 20th century. 

When exactly it ended has been subject to debate. Was it the fall of the Berlin Wall? Was the day the Soviet Union was dissolved?

There is an argument to be made that end might have actually occurred before any of those things, although no one knew it at the time. 

The event in question didn’t take place in Moscow or Washington but in a supermarket in the suburbs of Houston. 

Learn more about the most important supermarket visit in history on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.


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What A Day - Wars In Gaza, Ukraine Grind On With New Obstacles For Ceasefire

Israel spent the last few days engulfed in mass protests and paralyzed by a national strike after the bodies of six hostages, including an American Israeli, were recovered from a tunnel in southern Gaza this weekend. But despite national outcry for a ceasefire, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to double down on his terms for a deal with Hamas during a press conference Monday night. While the war in Gaza captured most of the headlines this weekend, Russia's war in Ukraine is showing no signs of letting up either. On Monday, Russia fired a barrage of missiles and drone attacks on the capital city of Kyiv, while President Volodymyr Zelensky conceded that Ukrainian forces holding territory in Russia had not yet managed to divert troops away from the frontlines of the war in the country's east. Kateryna Hodunova, a journalist at the Kyiv Independent, explains where things stand in Ukraine after two and a half years of war.

And in headlines: Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden held their first joint campaign event in Philadelphia to promote their support for unions, Brazil's Supreme Court upheld a decision to ban X in the country, and Italian Paralympic runner Valentina Petrillo became the first openly transgender woman to run in the games.
 


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Pod Save America - Pollercoaster: State of the Race with Dan Pfeiffer (Subscription Preview)

Lean into the long Labor Day weekend with a special 'Best Of' preview episode of Crooked’s subscriber-exclusive series, Pollercoaster. In this episode, enjoy highlights featuring Dan Pfeiffer and expert guests as they share their insights on latest polls and the state of the Presidential elections. 

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More on Pollercoaster: Does every new poll make you want to crawl under your desk and get into the fetal position? Do you hate the polls but can’t quit them? Well, we have a podcast that’s just for you (and us!). Pollercoaster is Crooked’s new home for exclusive in-depth analysis across the biggest national polls, latest voter trends, and closest races up and down the ballot. Join former White House Communications Director and Pod Save America host Dan Pfeiffer and a series of expert guests to break down the polls, unpack what they actually mean, and whether or not it’s time to hit the panic button. New episodes of Pollercoaster drop twice monthly for Friends of the Pod subscribers.

The NewsWorthy - Largest Israel Protest, Hotel Workers on Strike & DirectTV-Disney Dispute – Tuesday, September 3, 2024

The news to know for Tuesday, September 3, 2024!

We'll explain a spike in voter registration numbers. What seemed to prompt the surge two months before Election Day? 

Also, we're talking about what may be the largest protest in Israel since the start of the war in Gaza.

Plus, why did thousands of American hotel workers walk off the job, what kept thousands of people from watching sports over the weekend, and which competitor set another record to add to the dozens he already holds in his sport?

Those stories and even more news to know in just over 10 minutes! 

 

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The Goods from the Woods - Episode #443 – “Whale Juice” with John Hastings

In this episode, Rivers and Sam are hangin' out at Disgraceland Studios with Canada's finest export, comedian John Hastings! We kick this one off by talking about a couple Election 2024-related stories involving Donald Trump selling pieces of his clothing and RFK Jr. sawing the head off of a beached whale. Just normal American stuff!  Then we chug 7-Eleven's new energy drink and pay tribute to the late great professional wrestler Sid Eudy aka "Sid Vicious" aka "Sid Justice" aka "Sycho Sid".  Rush's "Tom Sawyer" is our JAM OF THE WEEK!  This is a fun one. Y'all check it out.  Follow John Hastings on all forms of social media @TheJohnHastings and watch his special "The Times They Are-A John Hastings" on YouTube RIGHT NOW! Follow our show @TheGoodsPod on absolutely everything! Rivers is @RiversLangley  Sam is @SlamHarter  Carter is @Carter_Glascock  Subscribe on Patreon for an UNCUT video version of the show as well as HOURS of bonus content! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod  

The Best One Yet - 🧃 “The 1st Fruit Juice” — Capri Sun’s pouches. Intel’s design strategy. Boar’s Head’s Boeing Moment.

Capri Sun is adding bottles to compliment their legendary pouches… but this German company’s origin story is wild.

Intel stock fell to its lowest level in 11 years, so it’s thinking of breaking itself up… and it’s inspired by Nike.

Boar’s Head deli meats caused the biggest listeria outbreak in decades… It’s their “Boeing Moment.”

Plus, on your 1st day back to the office, there’s 1 big question… Can you wear shorts?


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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Why Shein and Temu Are At War

Can fast-fashion giant Shein go public while fending off accusations of bad labor practices, the US government, and a back-and-forth war with newcomer Temu?


Guest: Mia Sato, platforms and communities reporter at the Verge. 


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Short Wave - Are You Overestimating The Algorithm?

Humans hallucinate. Algorithms lie.

At least, that's one difference that Joy Buolamwini and Kyle Chayka want to make clear. When ChatGPT tells you that a book exists when it doesn't – or professes its undying love – that's often called a "hallucination." Buolamwini, a computer scientist, prefers to call it "spicy autocomplete." But not all algorithmic errors are as innocuous. So today's show, we get into: How do algorithms work? What are their impacts? And how can we speak up about changing them?

This is a shortened version of Joy and Kyle's live interview, moderated by Regina G. Barber, at this year's Library of Congress National Book Festival.

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