The transcript from one of my segments on this 2nd Annual free speech spaces
The transcript from one of my segments on this 2nd Annual free speech spaces
The transcript from one of my segments on this 2nd Annual free speech spaces:
Starts at: 2:43:38…
“The irony of this — if I could pop in — the irony of this is that folks on the free expression side, we believe in objective truth, but we also believe that there should be no censorship of misinformation because free expression IS the mechanism, it’s the only mechanism that leads to the discovery — eventually — of that objective truth.
Whereas the other side, who’s interested in censoring misinformation because they know the truth are the exact same people who tell us that there is no one truth, everyone has their own truth. Their own position doesn’t even make any sense.
I just wanted to quickly mention — I heard when I first popped in people talking about, “We have to change government. We have to stop some of these [censorship] laws coming in,” and my own feeling on this is of course we have do that, but before the Biden administration in 2021 began doing what they were doing, working with social media, the culture has already changed within the general population. For years it’s been changing, but COVID and the new criteria of zero COVID led much of the Left and Right to believe that it was OK to censor misinformation because it was just so darn important, and so scary, and everyone’s position on it was “Why is YouTube allowing these people like us to have our videos up?” Every time I would turn on anywhere talking about anything in the mainstream media or NPR News everybody was calling in, “I saw on YouTube someone was questioning masks; how are they even allowed on there?!”
The pressure, bottom up, is everywhere, and it even happens on the Right. As soon as someone is saying something sufficiently abhorrent, much of the folks on the Right — like when the Georgia Guidestones were knocked down, suddenly everybody on the Right was, “God Dang, Yes! We’re so glad the Georgia Guidestones [were destroyed] because it was a bunch of hippy bullshit depopulation kind of stuff from the 70s or 60s, who knows?, no one had ever heard about it. But suddenly free expression was out the window even though they were supposedly standing for it.
The population doesn’t understand free expression. They say that they do, but most people don’t. They don’t understand why it works. They don’t understand its importance. And they don’t understand that it’s one of these inviolable things.
And free expression IS in fact like a transaction, an economic transaction. When you make an economic transaction, it is not always good. You can lose. Sometimes an economic transaction is an investment, and you make a bad investment, and you lose it all.
That’s what free expression also is. It’s not a privilege. It’s a liability. Every time you speak, you are pushing in social capital chips onto the table. And if it turns out you were wrong, or you were sufficiently uncouth in the way that you handled it in your discussions and you were wrong, you lose lots of social capital. It is a liability.
[That helps somewhat illustrate how] economics and expression being two sides of the same coin.”
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