Episode 36: Glenn Greenwald Leaves The Intercept And The Section 230 Saber-Rattling Continues

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Katie Herzog and Jesse Singal

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🗓️ 31 October 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

After Jesse tells Katie a harrowing story about his recent journey into the heart of 'Manhattan,' the hosts discuss Glenn Greenwald's departure from The Intercept, an outlet he helped found back in 2014. Was this a case of censorship, as Greenwald argues, or did he overreact to standard editorial input? Then they turn their attention to Section 230, a law that made the internet what it is today (for better and for worse), and which seems to be attracting bipartisan ire of late, especially among people who don't really understand technology.

Greenwald's posts on this controversy:

My Resignation From The Intercept - https://greenwald.substack.com/p/my-resignation-from-the-intercept

Article on Joe and Hunter Biden Censored By The Intercept - https://greenwald.substack.com/p/article-on-joe-and-hunter-biden-censored

Emails With Intercept Editors Showing Censorship of My Joe Biden Article - https://greenwald.substack.com/p/emails-with-intercept-editors-showing

The Intercept: Glenn Greenwald Resigns From The Intercept (pushing back on some of GG's claims) - https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/glenn-greenwald-resigns-the-intercept/

Reason's coverage of Section 230: https://reason.com/tag/section-230/

Slate: Revising the Law That Lets Platforms Moderate Content Will Silence Marginalized Voices - https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/section-230-marignalized-groups-speech.html

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0:00.0	Jesse, how's it going?
0:02.5	I'm okay, I sort of screwed something up last week.
0:05.0	You? You've made, wait, you?
0:07.0	Me? Him?
0:08.5	Yeah, I, um, so I live in Brooklyn.
0:12.1	If you live in Brooklyn, there's no reason to go into Manhattan.
0:15.5	It's just this decaying island of deserted skyscrapers.
0:20.0	This was true even before the pandemic, but I, I needed to get some professional headshots
0:24.9	taken for the first time in my life.
0:26.5	For your new model career?
0:28.5	Yeah, these are, uh, these are waist down nude shots.
0:33.2	I said, look, no head stuff, no head stuff.
0:36.9	Bottom shots.
0:37.7	Bottom, bottom shots for the, uh, for the book jacket.
0:40.4	No, I have never had professional headshots taken.
0:44.1	My book is coming out in April.
0:45.4	It seemed like it was time my most recent headshots were from 2013.
0:49.0	I don't think I could get away with that.
0:50.2	So I, uh, I had a little adventure into the city and some stuff happened.
0:54.6	Tell me about it.
0:55.5	So first I'm, I'm on the train already late and sweaty and taking a train to New York
1:01.4	is never pleasant, but during the pandemic, he's just a nightmare because like you're trying
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