Online Censorship, Alex Jones, and David Hogg

• 11:00Tim argues that certain powerful entities you don't fight back against because they have operations designed to squash you.
• 11:30Ray and Tim discuss online censorship by Facebook, Google, and YouTube as a major issue affecting demonetization and content removal.
• 12:44Tim defends a Scottish comedian prosecuted for making his dog do a Nazi salute, saying he's not representing a hate group.
• 13:43Ray argues that tech platforms dominating political discourse should be held to journalistic standards rather than just profit motives.
• 15:04Tim points out these companies deliberately killed competitors to become the only player, so they can't claim they passively ended up in this position.
• 15:38Tim asks Shannon to look up David Hogg's age before continuing a point about whether Alex Jones should be allowed to spread conspiracy theories about Parkland shooting survivors.
• 16:41Tim describes a Facebook friend who unfriended all the Jews and regularly messages him to discuss conspiracy theories and who he thinks are federal informants.
• 17:46The Facebook friend claims Adam Waffen is a white supremacist group infiltrated by Satanists, supposedly a German term for nuclear weapons.
• 18:37Tim says his default position is yes, Alex Jones should be allowed to float conspiracy theories, but acknowledges there's something attractive about angry men wanting to be heard.
• 19:28Tim argues that just because someone enters the public sphere doesn't automatically make them a public figure deserving of unlimited targeting, and suggests looking at slander law.

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