Implausible Deniability: Bret Speaks with Ramsey Ramerman
DarkHorse Podcast
Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying
4.6 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2022
⏱️ 94 minutes
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Summary
Bret Speaks with Ramsey Ramerman about section 230 in the context of the social media and governmental landscapes in 2022. They address the problem solved by section 230, how it has been interpreted by courts, and the power it has allowed to be abused; furthermore, they discuss what routes are accessible to address this issue, and what paths are being and have been explored already.
Find Ramsey on Twitter: @RamseyRamerman (https://twitter.com/RamseyRamerman)
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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(04:42) Sponsors
(07:48) Publishers or distributors
(13:30) Right of association
(19:00) Section 230
(26:50) Quasi public space
(35:45) Government meetings about censoring certain voices
(41:54) Defined process and rules
(45:50) Current cases against censorship
(50:03) Classifying speech as terrorism
(01:01:01) Fascism
(01:12:50) DarkHorse shadowbanned
(01:16:08) States addressing issues
(01:20:20) Shadowbanning and Trump
(01:26:45) COVID censorship
(01:30:27) Wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | One of the things that I thought was always weird is the, you know, a lot of conspiracy theories |
| 0:05.3 | get demonized and suppressed. |
| 0:08.0 | But then the whole flat earth conspiracy theory was seemingly promoted. |
| 0:15.7 | And so it's just made me think it's, you know, less valuable because no one's trying to |
| 0:19.4 | suppress it. |
| 0:20.4 | It was so ridiculous that nobody wanted bothered to suppress it. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah, it's an odd one because you can demonstrate to yourself that the earth can't be flat. |
| 0:31.1 | So I do wonder why it suddenly showed up. |
| 0:33.9 | But nonetheless, you know, here we are on a very round earth. |
| 0:42.3 | Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast. |
| 0:48.4 | I have the distinct pleasure of sitting today with Ramsey Rammerman, who is an attorney |
| 0:54.3 | with 20 years experience on First Amendment and Open Government issues. |
| 0:58.7 | Ramsey, welcome to Dark Horse. |
| 1:00.7 | Thank you. |
| 1:02.6 | So you and I have been in conversation for, I don't know how long about issues surrounding |
| 1:11.4 | section 230 of the Communication is Decenty Act. |
| 1:16.9 | Is that correct? |
| 1:17.9 | Is that what it is? |
| 1:19.6 | This is an arcane piece of legislation that turns out to be at the core of what I swear |
| 1:27.3 | is the dysfunction of civilization. |
| 1:31.1 | Now we have our work cut out for us here in the sense that one of the ways that Skull |
| 1:38.3 | Duggery protects itself is to be so deathly boring that nobody can pay attention long enough |
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