When the founding members of the United States Congress wrote into law the protection of citizens

right to free speech, it would be seen as a great step forward for the fledgling democracy.

They could not possibly have foreseen that their ideals would be put to the test not only in the printed word, but within the realm of cyberspace as well.

The shifting of political discourse and the dissemination of information from the traditional media outlets into the mostly wide open forums of social media has taxed the definitions of protected speech greatly.

With AI algorithms scraping up your data points, slamming the doors on perceived misinformation and bot activity and large platforms stumbling attempts to rein in extremist and hate speech, the internet seems to be taking a strange turn from the largely unfettered freedom of its early days.

This case filed, join the theorist as they discuss the battle of the social media giants, big data, and the ultimate UFO disclosure.

But the co-founder and CEO of the fast growing alternative social media site, mines.com, Bill Ottman.

Welcome to Alien theorist theorizing. I'm Braden. I'm Zell. I'm Dan and I'm Andrew.

Oh, and today we're going to welcome to the show co-founder and CEO of mines.com Bill Ottman. Thanks for coming on the show.

What's up, guys? Great to be here. Thanks for staying up. Maybe your latest night of the wild seems like so we appreciate it.

I'm psyched. All right, man. We followed you around. We heard you on Rogan and when I guess it was your PR guy reached out, we couldn't say no.

We're right in the fight for, you know, virtual digital censorship and freedom of speech trying to find a balance between the two and I know you're big into that.

So for people who don't really know you besides the CEO of mines, let's maybe tell us a little bit about yourself.

Yeah, I mean, otherwise I see got a bass there. I played bass too. Right on. We'll have to get more into that later.

I studied bass and music and college and wrote a lot of stuff. I was, I actually used to be very like anti tech. I was kind of up in the mountains in Vermont, went to VM.

And I was, this was back in, I graduated in 2008 and I was just like disgusted by everybody like checking their phones constantly and I was just not into it at all.

I actually, I mean, and this is very like kind of, I'm not proud of this story, but in one time I had my phone ring in the middle of a class and I just broke my phone.

I just broke my phone in the middle of class and, you know, I don't, I'm not proud of that because it's like there's so many people around the world that would just love to have a phone.

I'm just like this asshole. There's no way it was one of those Nokia brick phones. Those are indestructible.

It was a Samsung, it was a Samsung flip. It was one of those gray, it was, yeah, it was kind of the smooth gray flip phones.

And I just, I went over the edge and but then, you know, I basically realized that there's this whole sort of split on the web.

You've got big tech, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, but then there's this whole like cypher punk, sort of open source, free speech, oriented world with like Linux and Firefox back in the day.

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