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🗓️ 14 December 2018
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Patreon is a platform that a lot of content creators use to raise money from appreciative fans who want to support them. But Patreon has joined the purge bandwagon, too. What alternative do people have? It turns out that cryptocurrency, and a brand new platform, are major pieces of that puzzle. Naomi Brockwell joins me to discuss.
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0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 1305. |
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0:45.8 | Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here. |
0:47.3 | Naomi Brockwell is with us today. |
0:48.9 | We're going to be talking about how cryptocurrency and a brand new platform can help circumvent social media censorship, |
0:58.8 | if you want to use that word. We've been seeing people getting purged from various platforms, |
1:04.2 | and the reasoning behind these purges seems to be increasingly arbitrary. So what can be done? Well, one possibility is to use |
1:15.0 | cryptocurrency as a way of getting around the gatekeepers. And how exactly that would work is |
1:20.6 | going to be the subject of our conversation. We're going to be focusing in particular on Patreon, |
1:24.3 | which is a platform that content creators very often use to attract contributions |
1:30.4 | from people in exchange for various levels of benefits they receive. And Patreon in recent |
1:36.8 | weeks and months has been engaged in purging people from its platform. And in some cases, |
1:43.5 | because they're afraid of the credit card |
1:45.2 | companies getting upset at them. So what if we just cut all this out? So anyway, we're going to be |
1:49.9 | talking about bitbacker, bitbacker.io today with Naomi, who is a producer of Stossel on Reason, |
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