The Tom Woods Show, episode 1497.

Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion.

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Folks, if you're like me, one of the most demoralizing things is when someone utters the truth and then lamely apologizes. Well, not these folks. I've got a free

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Peterson, Michael Recktonwald, and others. Check it out at against the mob.com. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here.

So glad to be joined once again by Michael Rectonwald, retired from NYU.

He's the author of nine books, including most recently, on the verge of publication, and perhaps indeed published by the time you hear this.

Google Archipelago, the digital gulag and the simulation of freedom. Some of my listeners' favorite episodes have been the ones with Professor Reckton Wald, who will tell you he was a lifelong Marxist, and it's very, very rare for somebody to make an ideological transformation later in his career. But that's exactly what he's done. And our people have welcomed him with

open arms, but he needs to be on the level of a Jordan Peterson, if you ask me. And I'm sure you'll

agree after this conversation. Michael, first of all, welcome back. Glad to be talking to you again.

Thank you for having me. I'm glad to be here. My pleasure. Can we at least first get out of the way the title of the book?

You say at the beginning that you did wrestle a bit with this because of the obvious reference to Solzhenitsyn.

So what were you driving at with Google Archipelago?

Yeah, I mean, the title is about the, it's a comparison, of course.

It's a sort of analogous to the Gulagag archipelago of Solzhenits.

And that is to say, it's a, you know, that was a vast prison system,

but obviously it was a penal colony, a series of them.

Whereas this is, what I'm talking about with Google is a digital gulogging if you will

I'm basically talking about the transformation of the means of punishment and incarceration

as the digital realm has developed so the book is a lot more than about bias and although I do deal with that bias and all the slanted algorithms and unfair treatment of anybody to the right of Stalin and so on and so forth.

But those are all, everything like that is definitely discussed in detail.

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