E31: E31: Nick Gillespie on what Nicki Minaj's politics and Allen Ginsberg tell us about Cancel Culture

Right Now with Stephen Kent

Why are some people targeted by Cancel Culture and others are ignored? Will free speech and opinion ever be able to exist peacefully on the internet?
On the latest episode of "Right Now with Stephen Kent," Stephen sits down with Gothix and Nick Gillespie of Reason magazine to discuss why some people become prime targets for Cancel Culture; the ongoing battle for free speech on social media and across the internet; what the public reception of Allen Ginsberg's famed "Howl" reveals about censorship today; and if and how we can actually triumph over Cancel Culture and attacks on free thought.
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---- Content of This Episode ----
00:00 Episode Start
00:15 Nick Gillespie’s cancel story (it’s a short one)
03:20 Three levels of cancellation
07:00 Parallels with China’s struggle sessions
08:45 About that Nicki Minaj tweet
10:15 A perpetual state of exception
16:15 Gothix on changes to internet behavior
18:20 Exit, voice or loyalty
21:37 Companies applying the wrong fix
30:00 Free speech ground rules amid platform proliferation
36:45 Partisan divide over restricting misinformation
39:24 We have some solutions
47:51 Good news on coffee, pharmaceuticals and school
---- Reading List ----
"Self-Cancellation, Deplatforming, and Censorship" (Nick Gillespie for Reason) https://reason.com/2021/09/07/self-cancellation-deplatforming-and-censorship/
"Partisan divisions have widened over role of government, tech firms in restricting misinformation" (Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/08/18/more-americans-now-say-government-should-take-steps-to-restrict-false-information-online-than-in-2018/ft_21-08-16_techgovtmisinfo_2/
"Priyanka Chopra Jonas on 'The Activist': 'The show got it wrong'" (CNN) https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/17/entertainment/priyanka-chopra-the-activist/index.htm
l "Why The Left Is Developing Into A Bunch Of Prudish Tramps" (The Federalist) https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/21/left-developing-bunch-prudish-tramps/
---- Plugs for our guests ----
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