Ep. 1377 Dissident Voices Suppressed Online? Technology to the Rescue

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2019

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The news continues to be grim about purges on major social media platforms, but Andrew Torba, creator of Gab, has just released Dissenter, a browser extension that adds an independent comments section to any website. We discuss this, and the future of social media, including alternatives like Gab.

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0:00.0	The Tom Woods Show, episode 1377.
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0:36.6	Woods here. We've got Andrew Torba back on the show. He's the creator of Gab,
0:41.4	the alternative social media site, dedicated to free speech. And he's got quite an innovation
0:47.3	on his hands here with a browser extension called Dissenter that a lot of people have been
0:52.5	talking about. And rather than steal his thunder,
0:55.6	I'm going to let him tell you what it does. But I think you'll want to check it out.
0:59.6	All the information related to what we're talking about today, you can find linked on the
1:04.0	show notes page, which is tomwoods.com slash 1377. Andrew, welcome back.
1:09.3	Thanks for having me. All right. I've had a number of people who want to have me talk to you about dissenter, which is a novelty coming out of your quarter of the world. And I wanted to just get an update from you about Gab and how it's going and what your ambitions are and what your obstacles have been and all that. But let's start by giving the people what they want. Tell me about DeCenter, what it is, and how it's been received.
1:35.4	So DeCenter is the comment section of the internet. The concept is you install a browser extension on any of the major browsers, Google Chrome, Safari, Microsoft, Edge, Brave.
1:47.3	And once you install this, you click the extension and it will create a comment section on
1:54.0	every URL on the internet. So Wikipedia pages, which do not have comment sections,
1:59.6	YouTube videos that maybe have comment sections disabled
2:02.6	or have comment sections that are heavily policed, CNN articles, which do not have
2:07.6	common sections or are heavily policed. Any URL that you can think of, you can now comment on.
2:13.4	Amazon pages, it's limitless, right? And we're seeing people use this in ways that we couldn't
2:19.2	have even imagined. What's unique about the concept is that it's creating a public square on every
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