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The Good Fight

The Revolt Against Iran's Theocratic Regime

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Roya Hakakian is an Iranian American dissident, poet, and writer. Her latest book is A Beginner's Guide to America: For the Immigrant and the Curious. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Roya Hakakian discuss what makes this year's revolt different from previous protest movements; the meaning of the popular protest slogan “Woman, Life, Liberty;” and what ordinary people and their governments can do to support the people of Iran. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John Taylor Williams, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm a senior editor at The Dispatch and a contributing writer for The Atlantic.

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And I'm here to talk to you about a piece I wrote for

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A few years ago I was invited to an off-the-record meeting with senior executives at a major social media company.

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The topic was free speech.

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I just written a piece for the New York Times called A Better Way to Ban Alex Jones.

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My position was simple. If social media companies want to create a true marketplace of ideas,

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they should look to the First Amendment to guide their policies. This position wasn't adopted on a whim,

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but because I'd spent decades watching powerful private

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institutions struggle and fail to create free speech regulations that purported to permit open debate

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at the same time that they suppressed allegedly hateful or harmful speech.

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As I told the tech executives, you're trying to recreate the college speech code except online

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and it's not going to work.

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