Section 230 is not a special privilege for big tech, it enables third party participation in communication that even big tech, with its deep pockets, wouldn't risk liability to host, let alone smaller platforms, which couldn't afford one lawsuit.

Section 230 also doesn't encourage platforms to have no community guidelines, with a wild west of social media, but the opposite. It helped correct the liability of a platform, so that it could moderate content, such as hate speech, without being considered a publisher. Therefore, it doesn't require the platform, big or small, to have a totally hands-off approach in order to be defensible against liability.

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https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/13/bipartisan-bill-to-repeal-section-230-defended-in-facts-optional-op-ed/

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/05/wanna-make-big-tech-monopolies-even-worse-kill-section-230

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The question I had going into this episode was about the asymmetrical reactions between the pro-Palestinian protesters and the pro-Israel and Zionist protesters. (Those seem to be subtly distinct groups so I’m trying to think of them as separate but related.)

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I don't have any solid answers but there seems to be something there. 

I know the Zionists keep saying that all the Palestine supporters are dumb, brainwashed, communists. And the criticism of the pro-Israel counter-protesters is that they're all bloodthirsty, colonizing, child-murderers.

That's what's been on my mind while organizing this episode.

Last episode, we talked about some extremely creepy people who think White people should be having as many kids as possible. This time around, we’re gonna start off by talking about some people who’re coming up with ways to justify killing them.

We’re not talking about people doing it themselves. These guys don’t need to get their hands dirty with actual murder. They want to let the law do it.

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Some reading:

Graeme Wood

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/self-immolation-aaron-bushnell-israel-palestine/677584/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/05/gaza-death-count/678400/

Jeremy England

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/live-law-die-cross-israel

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/effective-accelerationism-and-the-pursuit-of-cosmic-utopia/

https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-thermodynamics-theory-of-the-origin-of-life-20140122/

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2017-05-08/ty-article/a-cornerstone-of-apartheid/0000017f-f797-ddde-abff-fff7d7b60000

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We’re talking about the kids. A lot of people have ideas about the kids.

And some people think that we should be having a whole lot of them.

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Some reading:

https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/07/07/elons-heirs-who-musks-10-children-mothers/

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/pronatalists-save-mankind-by-having-babies-silicon-valley/

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/25/american-pronatalists-malcolm-and-simone-collins?ref=disconnect.blog

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/reddit-proposal_b_3713560

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We're teaming up with Bradley Plaisier and Robert Skvarla to talk about the show that 30 years ago introduced the normies to alien abductions, secret government programs, and global conspiracies.

Somehow, the X-Files was exactly the right show for its time. It harnessed the untapped cynicism and suspicion of the 1990s and assured us that there really might be answers out there if you know where to look and who not to trust.

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https://bwp.threadless.com

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The Endangered Alphabets Project

https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/

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Someone is radicalizing our kids.

Who is behind this? What are their motives? There appears to be an unidentified individual or an entire group of them who are actively working to radicalize our precious, vulnerable students. This is a serious issue that requires immediate investigation and action to protect our youth and ensure their safety.

Or it could be that they just managed to get an education and are acting accordingly.

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We know you like reading:

https://hellgatenyc.com/mayor-adams-crushed-columbias-protests-after-meeting-billionaires

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/history-agitators-label-campus-protests-110130305

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We're talking far-right extremism with Teddy Wilson. Teddy is an investigative journalist based in Texas. He covers extremism in the US and abroad.

Teddy gives us an overview of extremism in the US, how J6 rioters are being portrayed as political prisoners, and a preview of his upcoming projects.

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We’re talking about Max Azzarello, who on April 19th set himself on fire outside the Manhattan Criminal Court where jury selection was concluding for Trump’s Stormy Daniels/hush money trial.

In the final post on his Substack titled "I have set myself on fire outside the Trump Trial," Max Azzarello explained that “[t]his extreme act of protest is to draw attention to an urgent and important discovery. We are victims of a totalitarian con, and our own government (along with many of their allies) is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup.”

We get into Max's conspiracy laden writing. Sean floats the idea of spontaneously developing, ad hoc conspiracies, and we both agree that, all things being equal, a cop is gonna cop.

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Some reading:

https://theponzipapers.substack.com/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/whos-behind-the-anti-israel-protests-hamas-gaza-hezbollah-talking-points-d2f538ca

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Sean here with historian Thomas Lecaque to talk about everything wrong with Alex Garland's incoherent movie Civil War. Jesse Plemons is NOT one of those things.

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Sean's review of Civil War on Letterboxd:

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Maybe a crack in the up until now unquestioned US support of Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza. All it took was the deaths of 7 people connected to a celebrity chef. Israel murdering 30,000 civilians didn't do it.

Israel has somehow managed to be the top recipient of US foreign aid for the last few decades. It was only bumped from the number one spot a few times while the US was pouring money into Iraq and Afghanistan after it blew them both up.

We don't have answers about why Israel keeps getting blank checks from the US Treasury, but we have a lot of questions.

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Some reading:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pelosi-joins-call-for-biden-to-stop-transfer-of-us-weapons-to-israel/ar-BB1lb1vp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/02/us-military-aid-israel-gaza-biden/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/10/congress-member-pro-israel-donations-military-support

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cycle=All&ind=Q05&recipdetail=S

https://web.archive.org/web/20091001141038/http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20160307213842/

https://www.thenation.com/article/aipacs-complaint/

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4578465-pelosi-democratic-lawmakers-urge-biden-conditions-israel-military-aid

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/18/us-supply-weapons-israel-alleged-abuses-human-rights

https://www.fastcompany.com/91058467/who-is-jeff-yass-billionaire-donating-to-republicans-who-flipped-on-bytedance-tiktok-ban

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Maybe a crack in the up until now unquestioned US support of Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza. All it took was the deaths of 7 people connected to a celebrity chef. Israel murdering 30,000 civilians didn't do it.

Israel has somehow managed to be the top recipient of US foreign aid for the last few decades. It was only bumped from the number one spot a few times while the US was pouring money into Iraq and Afghanistan after it blew them both up.

We don't have answers about why Israel keeps getting blank checks from the US Treasury, but we have a lot of questions.

Some reading:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/pelosi-joins-call-for-biden-to-stop-transfer-of-us-weapons-to-israel/ar-BB1lb1vp

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/02/us-military-aid-israel-gaza-biden/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/10/congress-member-pro-israel-donations-military-support

https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cycle=All&ind=Q05&recipdetail=S

https://web.archive.org/web/20091001141038/http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20160307213842/

https://www.thenation.com/article/aipacs-complaint/

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4578465-pelosi-democratic-lawmakers-urge-biden-conditions-israel-military-aid

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/18/us-supply-weapons-israel-alleged-abuses-human-rights

https://www.fastcompany.com/91058467/who-is-jeff-yass-billionaire-donating-to-republicans-who-flipped-on-bytedance-tiktok-ban

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