Solana: Shared Ideology Created a Decentralized Censorship Regime in 2020-2021
Mike Solana · Ep 77: Mike Solana on Exposing Corruption, Saving San Francisco, and Building a New Media Empire · Joe Lonsdale · Feb 8, 2024 · at 22:26
Mike Solana (Founders Fund CMO / Pirate Wires) and Joe Lonsdale discuss tech company control over free speech and the mechanisms behind speech suppression.
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“I think the bigger problem is the culture was completely captured by one ideology. So everybody who runs, who ran the social media platforms, who worked in academia, who worked in government, not just elected officials, but the people who run Washington DC, everyone who works in corporate America, they're all the same politically. You can just look at the donations that they give them all today. It's the Democrats get the money because that class of person just happens to agree. And so what you had in 20, 20, 21, was a kind of de facto censorship, a decentralized censorship apparatus that worked just as effectively to a certain extent as top down.”
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