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🗓️ 8 August 2016
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Liberty Memes is a wildly successful Facebook page that encapsulates libertarian ideas in provocative graphics. They recently ran afoul of the Facebook police for a meme about Hillary that's so far within the normal boundaries of American political commentary you'll hardly believe it. We discuss that, the page, and what it all means.
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0:51.9 | Unusual episode today because the name of the guest is not being revealed. |
0:57.5 | We're going to refer to him simply as admin 2. We're talking about the popular Facebook page, Liberty Memes, which recently got into trouble for what I can see, it seems to me to be, a very mild, you know, it's a critical meme about Hillary Clinton, but I've seen vastly worse on the Internet, and they were punished for this. We'll talk about the details in a minute. And, of course, it all ties into the whole Zuckerberg question and political bias and all |
1:28.8 | these accusations we've heard against Facebook. But it's a great page with all kinds of great and |
1:33.4 | fun stuff coming out of it. And it's been very successful. So I thought I would invite admin |
1:38.6 | two on the show to talk to us about it. So mysterious admin two, welcome to the show. |
1:45.7 | Thank you. Thank you for having me. Always been a fan, Dr. Woods. All right, it. So, mysterious admin, too. Welcome to the show. Thank you. Thank you for having me. |
1:50.8 | Always been a fan, Dr. Woods. All right, listen. Now, we get some stuff to talk about, of course, |
1:57.4 | the really interesting thing is that is that image that got you guys into some trouble. But let's save that juicy part for a little bit later. And once you start by telling me |
2:02.4 | about your page and how long you've been doing it, and maybe how long do you, how often do you |
2:09.0 | produce new material? Well, about the page and about my page, I can't really say that it's mine |
2:16.3 | because I'm admin two instead of admin |
2:18.4 | one. That would be my older brother. So I'll get in trouble if I claim that it's mine. |
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