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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

2/29/24 Mike Benz on the American Censorship Regime

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8989 Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Scott is joined by Mike Benz of the Foundation for Freedom Online. They discuss Benz’s background and how he came to become an expert in the federal government’s efforts to censor and control the internet. They then go through some of the more pressing censorship threats from the establishment playing out right now. Discussed on the show: Foundation for Freedom Online Tucker Carlson Interviews Mike Benz Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet by Yasha Levine A Good American (IMDb) Mike Benz is the founder of the Foundation for Freedom Online. He formerly worked for the State Department. Follow him on Twitter @MikeBenzCyber This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Moon Does Artisan Coffee; Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.

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I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.

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I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,

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editorial director of anti-war.com.

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Author of the book, Pools Arren,

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time to end the war in Afghanistan,

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and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on

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terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on

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foreign policy and all available for you at

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Scott Horton.org you can sign up the podcast feed there and the full

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interview archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . the Foundation for Freedom Online and that is Foundation for Freedom

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online.com and he is an anti-censorship crusader, but used to be an employee of the State Department, which is how he knows so much about censorship interestingly and you might have seen his

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incredible interview with Tucker Carlson last week.

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Welcome to the show Mike how are you doing?

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Doing great Scott thanks for having you.

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Really appreciate you joining us on the show here today.

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So I've seen bits and pieces of the stuff that you're doing on Twitter over the time and I meant to have you on but then

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you just laid it all out for Tucker Carlson last week in a way that is just

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really crystallized so much of you know what I already knew what we've learned

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from the Twitter files and all of that kind of thing but just you put it together in one solid narrative for us.

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I thought it was really interesting the way that you started off by saying

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that in order to talk about censorship online, we first got to talk about free speech online. That was always a CIA plot too or a

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