Can Clubhouse Survive? | The Roundtable Ep. 58

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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While free speech finds a new venue in the popular app Clubhouse, Democrats in Congress are openly asking TV carriers why Republican and conservative-leaning channels like OANN and Fox News are allowed on the air. It’s a new front in the war between digital renegades and regime flunkies: a profusion of energy on one side, a chilling desire to squash dissidents on the other. Can Clubhouse and other apps like it survive a coming onslaught by petty tyrants?

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0:00.0	coming up on this episode of The Round Table.
0:02.9	The governing logic here is don't worry
0:07.4	because the people that we are punishing
0:12.0	are the bad guys, right?
0:13.5	You can speak just as long as it's not bad.
0:17.0	And the language that gets used here
0:19.7	is just sort of painfully authoritarian
0:22.5	to the point that one wonders whether they hear themselves,
0:25.4	that these people are dangerous to society, right?
0:30.0	Music
0:52.0	Welcome everyone, once again, once again to The Round Table,
0:56.6	the American Minds weekly podcast here
0:59.6	at The Clermont Institute, I'm your host.
1:01.6	Ryan Williams, president of The Clermont Institute,
1:03.5	publisher of The Clermont View Books and The American Mind.
1:05.6	Join by Spencer Clayvin, associate editor
1:07.6	of The Clermont View Books and The American Mind,
1:09.3	Matthew Peterson, vice president of education.
1:11.8	Founding editor of The American Mind,
1:13.8	Seth Barron, managing editor of The American Mind,
1:16.2	and last but not least, James Pullis,
1:18.4	executive editor of The American Mind.
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