Episode Transcript: #1242 - Tim Pool

Oh, yeah. I definitely drank too much coffee before we get here. So if I appear up here,

like cracked out, I swear to God, I'm not in pills. But glad to hear it. But so we had a nice

conversation on the phone about deplatforming and social media. And what was very obvious to me

in talking to you was that you're way more schooled on this than I am. So that's why I wanted

to have this conversation with you. Right on. Yeah. Part of what was like, I've re-listened to my

podcast with Jack. And you had a good criticism of it. I agree with a lot of what you said. First

of all, I agree that it was kind of boring. Yeah. And it was, I think in many, for many reasons,

it was my fault. I don't think I prepared enough for it. And I also don't think I understood the

magnitude of how other people felt about deplatforming on Twitter and in all social media, YouTube,

and all these different things. And what the ramifications are and how much this means to

people to have very clear and obvious, obvious free speech outside of very egregious examples of

like threats and doxing and things like that, which I think we can all agree, right? I think this

problem might be one of the worst problems we're facing right now politically. Yes. You know,

the Twitter is where public discourse is happening. It's where journalists are. And this is a problem

sourcing a lot of their stories. Yes. So if you have somebody who's completely removed from public

discourse, that's exile. I can imagine why some people kind of lose their minds when that happens.

And I think going into that conversation with him, well, that's what I wanted it to be. That's why

I don't really interview people. I kind of have conversations with them. Occasionally, we have

disagreements and we talk about things. But it's not, I don't have like a mandate. The only thing