Ep. 161 What did ‘On the Media’ get wrong about free speech … again?

Twitter is going to become 8chan. At least, that’s what a recent
episode of the popular radio program “On the Media” suggests will
happen if Elon Musk successfully buys Twitter.


Musk promised to bring greater free speech protections to the
social media platform. But where Musk sees an opportunity for
more freedom, some see the potential for too much freedom. On
today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, Matt
Taibbi, Nadine Strossen, and Amna Khalid discuss what “On the
Media” got wrong and what they got really wrong in their episode
“Ghost in the Machine.” (No, “On the Media,” Twitter will not
become a platform for child pornography.)


This is the second time we have addressed bad free speech
arguments from “On the Media.” The first time was last September,
when this same group responded to the episode, “Constitutionally
Speaking.”


Matt Taibbi is the author of four New York Times bestselling
books. He writes a popular Substack newsletter, TK News.


Nadine Strossen is a professor of law, emerita at New York Law
School and served for 17 years as the president of the ACLU.


Amna Khalid is an associate professor of history at Carleton
College and the host of a new podcast called “Banished.”


Transcript


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