In times when things are really important, rules like freedom of speech, the rules of the road of a free society matter more.

They don't matter less. And believe me, like all of these troubles that I'm concerned and I hope I'm wrong.

I think we're going to be seeing over the next couple of years

They are going to be situations where the individuals, you know, citizens write a freedom of it's going to become much more important

not less. Welcome to Banklets, where we explore the frontier of internet money and internet finance.

And today we're exploring the frontier of freedom of speech, from law to society to technology.

Some topics on the show today, the idea of freedom of speech, what

is it and why is it important, and what is what our guest Greg Lucianov calls free

speech culture and why it's critical for a free and open society

What happens when new technologies like the printing press or the internet are introduced?

How do they impact free speech? how Greg rates the healthiness of today's society

in terms of our freedom of speech, and what does all of this have to do with blockchains

and crypto?

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