How free can a free speech platform be?

Americano

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4.0 • 762 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Conservatives often feel in the minority on social media. New social media platforms are beginning to emerge, however, that say they can better protect free speech online. Freddy Gray speaks to Jason Miller, CEO of the new social media platform Gettr, about what needs to be done differently, whether it's possible to get a diversity of voices on a platform started on the right, and whether he would work for Donald Trump again.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast. This is a special sponsored edition of the podcast, brought to you by the new social media platform getter.
0:32.6	I'm joined today by Jason Miller, who is CEO of Getter and a former senior advisor to Donald Trump's presidential campaign.
0:38.4	Now, Jason, we want to talk about Getter, but first of all, you've just had a rather peculiar experience, I understand.
0:42.5	You've just come back from Brazil where you were detained, is that right?
0:48.1	Yeah, and Freddie, great to be with you and honored to be with The Spectator and love what you guys have been doing.
0:53.5	So as the CEO of Getter, new social media company launched July 4th, new social media platform,
0:55.0	our principles are free speech and opposing cancel culture. About 2 million users globally, a million of the U.S., a million of the
0:59.9	world, about 15% are in Brazil. So CPAC, the conservative organization in the U.S., had their second
1:07.8	ever CPAC Brazil conference in Brasilia over the weekend. And I was invited
1:12.6	as a speaker. I was also one of the sponsors for the event and excellent event. They did such
1:18.0	good job of bringing conservatives together, people advocating for free speech, talking about the
1:22.3	concerns of big tech and censorship. And Freddie, over the couple days, the first couple days I was there,
1:28.5	folks kept bringing up the Supreme Court. I was like, you know, I know the Supreme Court's a big
1:32.3	issue in the U.S., but I didn't quite understand that in Brazil, a single Supreme Court justice
1:38.8	effectively has full investigative law enforcement power. So a Supreme Court justice can actually go and say,
1:46.4	I want to file charges on this person or that person or conduct secret investigations. They don't
1:51.7	just rule on cases that are brought to them. They actually proactively go and pursue them.
1:57.4	And people really, you could tell, you could see the concern in their eyes, the fear in
2:02.4	their eyes that this Supreme Court was literally disrupting life in Brazil as we know it. They've been a
2:08.6	massive thorn on the side to President Bolsonaro. So fast forward to then on yesterday, on Tuesday,
2:14.0	is the 199th anniversary of their Declaration of Independence when they split off from
2:19.3	Portugal. And so that Bolsonaro had a million people in Brasilia, three or four million in
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