Gill: Podcasting and newsletters are the last channels for free speech
Jonathan Gill · Monetizing Podcasts and Newsletters - Chris Best of Substack and Jonathan Gill of Backtracks · Y Combinator · May 15, 2019 · at 17:27
Jonathan Gill, CEO of podcast analytics platform Backtracks, discusses platform centralization and creator censorship with host Craig Cannon.
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“Podcasting, and even, I probably say newsletters, it's one of the last ways to get direct free speech from someone's mind out into the world, and people will say things in a podcast that they couldn't Print or they can do something in a newsletter they couldn't do in a certain publication”
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