E232. Leighton Woodhouse Explains The Censorship Industrial Complex

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🗓️ 11 May 2023

⏱️ 107 minutes

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Independent journalist, Leighton Woodhouse, sits down with Bridget for an in-depth conversation about the Censorship Industrial Complex, which is an effort to create new gatekeepers so that the elite can regain control of the media narrative by controlling visibility into the distribution of information and throttling the ability to see politically inconvenient information. They discuss the difference between disinformation, misinformation, and malinformation, why there’s no reason to believe that these tools would not be used by the national security state since that is where they came from, why the effort to reinstill gatekeeping will probably succeed, the terrifying openness of young people to authoritarianism, our path towards a kind of Chinese-style social credit system, how humanity is not capable of controlling the pace of technology, and that the true danger of all the AI spectacles and deep fakes is not that people are gonna believe the fake stuff - it’s that they won’t believe the real stuff. They also cover flash trading bots, DAs who prosecute drug dealers vs the ones who don’t, gifted programs, reporting about the death of civilization from the ground, and both being Gen X Californians, which makes them bitter. Check out Leighton's Substack with Michael Shellenberger: Public Sponsor Links: Headspace - https://bit.ly/WiWHeadspace I've Had It Podcast - https://bit.ly/WiW-IveHadIt The Jordan Harbinger Show - https://spoti.fi/3LhJBTP Progressive - https://pgrs.in/3Dp5ZIW

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0:00.0	This week we welcome independent journalists and documentary filmmaker Layton Woodhouse.
0:05.9	They developed technology to be able to crawl through the internet and find posts related to
0:12.3	what they call narrative themes. At first it was disinformation which means lies and then it was
0:18.8	misinformation which means like things that are wrong that people they believe the lies
0:24.9	and then there was malinformation which is true information which can be quote-unquote misleading
0:30.4	which basically means politically inconvenient information. So the narrative themes include
0:35.0	malinformation which means true content and they would flag this stuff and when they're flagging
0:41.9	an entire theme you're talking about millions of posts at a time that are being flagged through
0:46.4	artificial intelligence. It's like AI sorting through social media finding entire themes based
0:52.0	on stuff that can be true information as well as lies and then flagging it all for mass
0:57.3	throttling. This is Watkins welcome with Bridget Pettasy and Bridget Pettasy and you are welcome.
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1:41.0	scrappy little internet heroes at Fettasy.com. All right I'm with Layton Woodhouse everyone
1:48.4	welcome to Watkins welcome. So good to have you. Hey hey good to be here. It's going to be a
1:54.9	spicy conversation I can already tell. Layton and I have thoughts. We have thoughts on everything.
2:05.1	We just did 20 minutes and we weren't recording just catching up and now I'm thinking maybe we
2:11.6	should not be recording it all. It's because we're both Gen X Californians which makes us bitter.
2:18.4	Just bitter, disillusioned, angry people. I don't want to be bitter. That's the thing.
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