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Radiolab

Post No Evil

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

History, Science, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Society & Culture

4.644.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Back in 2008 Facebook began writing a document. It was a constitution of sorts, laying out what could and what couldn’t be posted on the site. Back then, the rules were simple, outlawing nudity and gore. Today, they’re anything but.  How do you define hate speech? Where’s the line between a joke and an attack? How much butt is too much butt? Facebook has answered these questions. And from these answers they’ve written a rulebook that all 2.2 billion of us are expected to follow. Today, we explore that rulebook. We dive into its details and untangle its logic. All the while wondering what does this mean for the future of free speech? This episode was reported by Simon Adler with help from Tracie Hunte and was produced by Simon Adler with help from Bethel Habte. Special thanks to Sarah Roberts, Jeffrey Rosen, Carolyn Glanville, Ruchika Budhraja, Brian Dogan, Ellen Silver, James Mitchell, Guy Rosen, and our voice actor Michael Chernus. Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate.

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0:00.0

Okay, so should I just improvise something?

0:04.1

Sure.

0:05.2

Hey, this is Chad.

0:06.0

Before we launch into this week's podcast, I want to make you aware of, well, our friends

0:13.3

down the hall, Brooke, my friend, our friends on the media, Brooke Glassstone is here with

0:18.8

me, have a new show coming out that I think I might be in.

0:23.3

I'm excited to be in, but I'm certainly excited about.

0:25.9

So what is it?

0:26.8

You are going to be in it.

0:28.0

It's an episode, although you don't want to say show because on Radio Lab,

0:31.3

that generally means you're launching a whole new thing.

0:33.7

Well, new enterprise.

0:35.0

Yeah, this is an episode on Twitch.

0:43.4

Which some people know as if it were part of their family.

0:51.7

And other people are like, what?

0:52.8

Yeah, is that something you need medication for?

0:55.3

So it depends where you're situated.

0:57.4

But what we are going to do is examine how it came to be

1:02.2

and how it points to the future of where our culture is going.

1:07.3

And for the people who don't know, what is Twitch?

1:09.7

Most people, if they've ever heard of it,

1:11.7

they know it's about watching and commenting in real time on people playing video games.

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