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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 810 VidAngel Filters Movies for Families -- So They're Being Sued

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2016

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Neal Harmon is CEO of VidAngel.com, which offers streaming movies filtered according to the viewer's preference. Should VidAngel be allowed to do this?

Show notes for Ep. 810

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0:00.0

The Tom Woods Show, episode 810.

0:03.0

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

0:07.8

Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show.

0:14.0

Hello, everybody, Tom Woods here.

0:15.8

I'm talking today to Neil Harmon, who is the CEO of a very interesting company called VidAngel.

0:23.3

You can visit them at vidangel.com.

0:25.9

They do streaming movies like Netflix, but unlike Netflix, they allow the viewer to filter the movie according to his own preferences.

0:35.4

So if you don't want bad language, not only can you get rid of

0:38.1

bad language, you can even pinpoint precise kinds of language you don't want to hear, or whatever

0:44.1

else, what other kind of feature the movie that you don't want to see? You don't have to see.

0:48.5

Now, naturally, they're being sued for this. How dare you do that? But they have an argument in their defense, and seems to me they're

0:56.1

not doing anything wrong. It's a very, very interesting story. And I'm pleased to be joined by Neil Harmon's

1:01.6

CEO and indeed father of seven, by the way, which is probably not irrelevant to the question.

1:07.5

Neil, welcome to the show. Thank you, Tom. I'm a big fan of your work, and I'm

1:11.1

really pleased to be on. Well, I'm a big fan of your work, man. This is really great what you're

1:15.9

doing, and there's a lot to talk about here. I'm, I just joined, I just signed up for Vid Angel

1:22.4

the other night. We've already watched two movies. It's very interesting what you're doing. I used to subscribe to a

1:29.9

service called Clean Films, where they would actually send you the DVDs in the mail.

1:34.7

Right. And they had already done their own editing of it, and it was a one-size-fits-all kind of

1:40.6

edit, and you would get it and send it back. First of, I don't want to get into the legal issues until later.

1:46.3

Talk about exactly what your product does.

1:49.2

Sure.

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