Welcome back to the reeducation. Today's show is a monologue only episode, and it looks at content moderation on the internet, something we've spoken about before, and how the policing of opinions and speech on major social media platforms in recent years really betrays the founding ethos of the internet.

Some of this is based on my February essay for commentary magazine, American

nomenclatured, but I can assure you that a lot of this is my original material with a lot of

archived audio.

One thing that I think is great about Twitter, and I'm not, I haven't twittered yet, but now that we've all learned to Twitter, I'm twittering away after the show.

But I think there's one thing I read about it.

If there's someone that's escaped from prison or there's a rapist in your neighborhood, That kind of twittering thing I think is fantastic for a community.

That you can say, watch out, there's a predator that's been seen or there's an accident.

Give a picture.

You can even give a picture.

Which I think is fantastic.

It's also great that the messages have to be short too.

You can only type 140 characters, which I also think is genius.

You don't get these long messages from you. Oh, but you can only type 140 characters, which I also think is genius. Yes.

We don't get these long messages from it.

Have you heard, that's a really good point though.

Has law enforcement in areas, like, started using this?

Actually, yes.

And napping and missing people.

Yes, law enforcement, fire departments, actually in the wildfires in Southern California.

Not the Los Angeles Times, Red Cross, and the fire department

were all using Twitter to disseminate information.

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