Twitter & Facebook botch censorship (again), the publisher vs. distributor debate
2020-10-16 spoken.md · speaker-labeled ▶ watch ← E9 all episodes E11 →
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Tier crossings
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Who moved the board
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What got argued (1 idea)
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I do think it is noteworthy that Trump was cured so quickly with the use of these clonal antibodies... at this point, we have very effective treatments for Covid. They may not be completely distributed yet... But it feels to me like we are really winding down on the whole Covid thing.
Episode digest
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Hunter Biden laptop / NY Post suppression episode: all four agree Twitter/Facebook botched it (Streisand effect; 'hacked materials' policy applied inconsistently vs Trump tax returns). Section 230 corner — Chamath predicts the shield's 'days are numbered' and platforms 'are going to have to look more like newspapers,' plus his monetization point that a reverse-chron (non-algorithmic) feed cuts monetization ~90%; real prediction but no clean instrument (regulatory, multi-name) — digest. Sacks' publisher-vs-distributor framing: algorithmic curation + censorship decisions make them publishers; proposes 230 protection conditioned on First Amendment-standard moderation. Trump COVID recovery victory lap → captured Sacks attach: effective treatments (Regeneron+Remdesivir) mean 'we are really winding down on the whole Covid thing' — supports his summer-2021 normalcy call. Friedberg true-IFR math: ~30M Americans already infected → IFR ~0.1-0.7% adjusted, far below early CFR panic (no instrument). Prop 15 fight: Sacks against lifting commercial Prop 13 caps ('shield of the middle class'; wants it traded only in a grand bargain for structural reform — public-employee-union / pension caps), torches Zuck's $11M funding; Friedberg's libertarian mortgage-velocity counterpoint; SF stats (19K admin employees, $14B budget, $170K avg city salary) — state politics, digest. ACB hearings: Friedberg defends her climate epistemic humility; Sacks endorses 18-year staggered SCOTUS terms (two picks per president), Chamath 'great idea' ×3 — digest. Election handicapping: Jason predicts Trump LANDSLIDE loss on women/POC alienation, Chamath 'enormous victory' for Biden, Sacks polls-say-landslide but 'not sure Americans are ready for this reality show to end' (18 outs framing), Friedberg: Trump lost the change narrative; pardon odds riff (Sacks 20% lame-duck, Jason 50-50 family pardon) — politics, no instrument. Labels clean.