rant · moment 17 of 21
Founding Fathers as Sex Traffickers and the Coming Corporate Internet
from Tim's Big Audition with Chris Distefano | The Tim Dillon Show #308 · #308
5 min
Tim jokes about the Founding Fathers possibly being sex traffickers, then pivots to predicting the internet will become fully corporatized like old television, name-checking Andrew Schulz's clubhouse prediction and Whitney Wolfe Herd's talk of 'guardrails.'
- Sex trafficking has exploded and is now prevalent enough that hotels post warning signs about it.
- Tim argues that a group of people have controlled the planet for centuries and don't know what to do with the internet.
- Tim suggests the Founding Fathers could have been sex traffickers and notes that slavery makes the comparison plausible.
- The internet was the wild west initially, but now people are trying to introduce guardrails and clamp down.
- A Bumble billionaire suggested introducing guardrails online, raising the question of who decides what those guardrails are.
- Tim predicts the internet will become almost entirely corporate within ten years, resembling television's model of corporate sponsorship.
- Tim has been off Twitter for two months, with his girlfriend tweeting clips for him, and says getting off the app feels emotionally better.
- Stepping back from social media allows him to focus on writing a book and doing meaningful work instead of spending endless hours on apps.
TwitterJeffrey EpsteinAndrew SchulzClubhouseGeorge WashingtonThomas JeffersonJohn AdamsBumbleWhitney Wolfe Herd