Note from Asha 9/04: Not Everything is About Free Speech

The Counsel

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Politics, News

4.6 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Asha Rangappa is a Senior Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Before that, she served as a Special Agent in the New York Division of the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations. She is also a legal and national security analyst at CNN and an editor of Just Security. For a transcript of Asha’s note and the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.6	Hey folks, Asha here. Here's a recording of my latest Cafe note, Not Everything is about free speech.
0:40.1	As always, please write to us with your thoughts and questions at letters atcafe.com.
0:49.7	Dear listener, it's tempting to think of all social media platforms as the same.
0:55.7	And they do have a lot of commonalities.
0:57.9	They are pretty much all run by emotionally stunted billionaire tech bros.
1:02.1	They are hotbeds of disinformation that impact almost every aspect of our lives.
1:07.2	And they are so addictive, we can't seem to quit them no matter how bad they get.
1:11.7	It's easy, then, to assume that the arrest of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Douroff last week in Paris
1:18.6	might be the start of a slippery slope against free speech on social media platforms more generally.
1:24.6	But a closer look at both the unique features of Telegram, combined with the
1:28.7	particular kinds of speech at issue in Pavel's arrest, suggests that it's unlikely that other
1:34.1	platforms will be targeted in the same way, and perhaps that it wouldn't necessarily be a bad
1:38.9	thing if they were. It's likely that you're not super familiar with Telegram, since it is much
1:44.1	more popular outside of the United States than it is here.
1:47.7	First, its origins.
1:49.6	Telegram was founded in Russia by Duraov and his brother Nikolai in 2013.
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