#META: Mark Zuckerberg carefully confesses. , Richard Epstein, Hoover
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 7 September 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is a CBSI on the world. I'm John Bachelor visiting with my colleague Richard Epstein. |
| 0:07.0 | Professor Richard Epstein, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago. |
| 0:12.0 | And during the recent pandemic, teaches law at NYU and the University of Chicago. |
| 0:13.0 | And during the recent pandemic, |
| 0:15.7 | Richard had much to say about dissent |
| 0:17.8 | of some of the opinions voiced |
| 0:20.8 | from the Trump administration and the Biden administration. |
| 0:24.0 | And some of those opinions turned on controversial matters at the time, |
| 0:29.0 | but we learned from Mark Zuckerberg writing a letter at the end of August that the suspicion that there was |
| 0:38.8 | censorship, active censorship underway, is now apparently vindicated by Mr Zuckerberg's confession. |
| 0:47.0 | I read from the letter he wrote addressing Jim Jordan chairman of the committee on the |
| 0:52.4 | judiciary in other words the committee on the judiciary, in other words, the GOP in the House. |
| 0:57.3 | In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, writes Mr Zuckerberg, including the White House, repeatedly |
| 1:05.8 | pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of |
| 1:17.3 | frustration with our teams when we didn't agree. Ultimately it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including |
| 1:27.6 | COVID-19 related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure. |
| 1:33.0 | Richard, that is a long-winded way of saying, |
| 1:36.0 | the White House ordered us to censor and we obey. |
| 1:39.0 | Now, what have we learned from this episode |
| 1:41.0 | because Megh is going to remain a powerful global |
| 1:45.2 | phenomenon and the White House is moving on the administration has months left. |
| 1:50.1 | Lessons learned here Richard help me. |
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