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Welcome back to The Breakdown.

It is Wednesday, June 17th, and today's featured conversation is with the Crypto Dog.

That's coming up in a minute, but first, the brief.

First up on the brief, the big tech debacle. Right now, there are really only two things that the

left and the right can agree on in America. The first is being against China, and the second is

being against big tech. Two leading stories on the Wall Street Journal today are about assaults on

tech from the right and the left, respectively. The first, and focused on from the right, is that

the Department of Justice is proposing to limit internet firm's protections. This goes back to the

battle that Trump and Twitter are having and this important Section 230 of this 1996 law that limits the liability

of platforms for what their users do and say on them, this is something that is now part of

the political discourse. This is a political football. And frankly, this law or this push has

support from some on the left as well, who have wanted to be able to go after platforms

for particularly egregious uses like child porn.

Also coming from the left, though, is a notice that civil rights groups, including the

Anti-Defamation League and the NWACP, are encouraging advertisers to pull sponsorships from

Facebook over the fact that the company hasn't done

enough to make Facebook a less hostile place. Why does this matter? I think that in some ways,

we don't really appreciate the degree to which these platforms and, frankly, our rights to access

these platforms, have become a part of the essential fabric of society. There's a really

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