This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, October 22nd, 2018.

I'm Caleb Brown.

At a time when sizable elements of right and left both want restrictions on who gets to speak, defending the rights of those who gets to speak.

Defending the rights of those who want to speak requires strategy.

At a live Cato Daily podcast recorded at Cato Club 200 last month,

I spoke with Cato's Emily Eekkins and John Samples about how people

think about freedom of speech and what must be done to effectively protect it.

You know, it's a troubling time if you're the CEO of a social media company.

A friend of mine in 2012, it's worth noting that this was in 2012,

he was having a conversation with some friends on Twitter, and they were talking about great

movie trilogies, and my friend said simply in response, die hard.

And if you can read this below,

it says essentially this was,

his account was locked in 2018 for those two words right there.

And I think it gives us a sense of the sensitivity that a lot of social media companies have about

what kinds of speech to allow or disallow on their platforms, Twitter, bunch of other Twitter Facebook YouTube all have removed the conspiracy monger

Alex Jones from their platforms along with a bunch of other people

and along with a bunch of other people. And it's weird to think of that being a business responsibility.

These companies have shareholders,

but also a responsibility to people who want to

consume these kinds of products and make them useful and not offensive.

So to you, John Samples, I'll begin with you,

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