Nadine Strossen: Free Speech, Incitement, and Pornography
KEY MOMENTS
0:00 – Intro: Nadine Strossen and her book HATE
4:14 – Losing in public opinion, winning in court
7:06 – Would censorship have stopped the Nazis?
10:08 – Hate speech laws and rising antisemitism in Germany
12:53 – Gina Carano and the Mandalorian firing
15:48 – Hyperbole, Nazi comparisons, and hate speech laws
19:34 – Incitement and Trump on January 6
22:26 – Twitter kicking Trump off
25:16 – Government pressure as censorship by proxy
28:35 – Richard Epstein and platforms as common carriers
31:21 – Ryan Long, Parler, and coordinated deplatforming
34:44 – Zoom's censorship of university events
38:22 – Debating Buckley and agreeing on drug policy
41:06 – Twitter culture wars over porn
43:40 – Obscenity, Dworkin, MacKinnon, and Canada's porn law
46:41 – Lou's job writing erotic fiction
49:27 – Shouting fire in a crowded theater
53:00 – Debating Trump's deplatforming at IQ2
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Nadine Strossen, former President of the ACLU and author of HATE, joins Lou to talk about free speech, hate speech laws, incitement and Trump on January 6, and pornography.
We also get into losing in public opinion but winning in court, whether censorship would have stopped the Nazis, rising antisemitism in Germany, Gina Carano's Mandalorian firing, Twitter kicking Trump off, government pressure as censorship by proxy, platforms as common carriers, Parler and coordinated deplatforming, Zoom censoring university events, debating Buckley, Dworkin, MacKinnon, and Canada's porn law, Lou's job writing erotic fiction, and shouting fire in a crowded theater.