Ep. 1219 Jeff Deist on Social Media De-Platforming and the Truth about P.C.
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Jeff Deist, former chief of staff to Ron Paul and current president of the Mises Institute, joins me to discuss how we should think about social media de-platforming and what it means (surely libertarians have something more to say than "they're private companies," as if we're never allowed to criticize private companies). We also discuss political correctness: maybe it wasn't just about politeness after all, and maybe it wasn't just a figment of the right-wing's imagination.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1219. |
| 0:03.3 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.9 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:14.1 | Folks, in school, we got a sanitized upside-down version of the history of the U.S. presidents. |
| 0:19.9 | Well, I'm going to bring you the real |
| 0:21.7 | history. Check it out at freehistorycourse.com. Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. Jeff Diced is with us. |
| 0:28.4 | That's always a pleasure. Jeff is former chief of staff to Ron Paul, and president of the |
| 0:34.0 | Mezes Institute, always has valuable and interesting things to say. |
| 0:38.3 | I wanted to continue the conversation not only about Alex Jones, but just about social media and big tech companies in general, and what we and other folks are likely to face in the coming years and what the potential solutions are, maybe say a little |
| 0:55.0 | something about political correctness and its true nature. There were people not too long ago |
| 1:00.4 | lecturing us that this was just a made-up right-wing concern, and it really is just about being |
| 1:05.8 | polite to people. Well, maybe it's not. Maybe it really is just what we said it was all along. |
| 1:12.3 | Jeff, welcome to the show. |
| 1:13.9 | Tom Woods, great to talk to you. |
| 1:15.8 | All right, we got a lot to talk about here. |
| 1:17.4 | I did talk a bit about Alex Jones on my own in an episode and then with Michael Malice. |
| 1:22.7 | But there's more to say here. |
| 1:24.3 | And the story keeps developing. |
| 1:26.1 | His website has been under attack. |
| 1:28.3 | He was just suspended from Twitter, which was the one major holdout. He hasn't been banned |
| 1:33.8 | from Twitter, but he got a seven-day suspension from Twitter. And I want to talk about |
| 1:38.3 | the implications of all this. But before we do that, can I just, I just want to say something |
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