Don't overly answer for Morphires Dorsey.

I would not assume any depth.

I would look at his actions

and I would look at what he does with things

and assume that he wants those things.

I'm going to... Hello and welcome to Tech Won't Save Us, made in partnership with The Nation magazine.

I'm your host, Paris Marks, and this week my guest is David Gerard.

David is the author of two books, Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain, and Libra Shrugged.

And he's also started a new website with Amy Kastor called Pivot to AI, where they go through some of the ridiculous stories in this AI bubble.

Now, if you're not familiar with David, he has been one of the key critical voices writing

about blockchain and crypto for many years, long before the bubble of 2020 and 2021.

And after I met him in London in 2022, I wanted to have him on the show, but it was as that

bubble was fading and, you know, we just weren't doing as many crypto episodes. But he recently

wrote a piece about Jack Dorsey. And Jack Dorsey's kind of adherence to this view among a lot of tech billionaires

that free speech is allowing racist and right-wingeres to say whatever kind of horrible things

and hate speech they want to say and having the rest of us be kind of forced to hear it.

This interpretation of free speech that's all about further empowering the powerful and not

accepting that free speech also requires some about further empowering the powerful and not accepting that free speech

also requires some degree of restriction on hate speech as well. So Jack Dorsey is both a Bitcoin

enthusiast and someone who is engaging in these discussions as he has increasingly retreated

from Blue Sky, this project that he helped to fund and hope to set up as this kind of alternative

new,

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