Kevin Killed Sydney + Reddit’s C.E.O. Defends Section 230
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The New York Times
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🗓️ 24 February 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Casey, you're sick. |
| 0:01.8 | Yeah, I realize my voice does sound a little off this week, but it's because I've been |
| 0:07.0 | going from town to town, warning people about the dangers of generative A.I. |
| 0:10.6 | So I'm a little horse, and I'm just asking for our listeners, uh, forbearance this |
| 0:16.0 | week. |
| 0:17.0 | That's a better explanation than the one I had, which was that Sydney got to you. |
| 0:22.7 | I'm Kevin Rousse. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm a tech columnist from the New York Times. |
| 0:27.4 | And I'm Casey Duton from Plot Borber. |
| 0:29.5 | This week an update on my strange and creepy encounter with Sydney. |
| 0:34.1 | Reddit CEO Steve Huffman talks about a new Supreme Court challenge to section 230 and what |
| 0:39.0 | it could mean for the future of the internet. |
| 0:41.2 | And why meta is charging $12 a month for verification. |
| 0:45.0 | Is it capitalism, Kevin? |
| 0:46.7 | It just seems like a case. |
| 1:01.6 | Well Kevin, I imagine you had a pretty wildly. |
| 1:06.2 | It's been a week, I will say, um, totally bold over by the reaction to last week's show |
| 1:14.3 | and the story I wrote about my encounter with being slash Sydney, I think safe to say, |
| 1:21.5 | it went viral and it's just been a total whirlwind. |
| 1:25.4 | You know, as a fellow reporter and sometimes rival, it's always very distressing for me when |
| 1:29.8 | people are texting me about your story, uh, rather than my own, but that did happen this |
| 1:35.2 | week. |
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