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 Gave a shoutout to Nostr near the end of this conversation with Glenn Greenwald about Brazil's ban of X, the Telegram arrest, and the looming global crackdown on online speech, encryption and privacy. 

https://youtu.be/dSjXRZ9g40Y
 
 If you prefer audio versions or want to check out links to sources referenced in the episode, that's all here: https://reason.com/podcast/2024/09/12/glenn-greenwald-why-did-brazil-ban-x/ 
 Podcast Episode on Fountain 

https://fountain.fm/episode/1sN7ANqr2JwTVitjiLNT 
 Glenn is a civil libertarian as well as a welfare statist (if not outright communist)

These positions are contradictory, hence his confusion as one group of fellow travelers suddenly abandons him

It's understandable, though, because the welfare statists (and communists) in the US have long loudly insisted that they are the true liberals 
 "The internet is the only platform we have left [other than centralized broadcast media]"

Well, there's also point-to-point radio 
 @Weissmueller and Liz Wolfe, fantastic interview with the legend, Glenn Greenwald!  (nice Nostr plug, too!) #freespeech

https://video.nostr.build/f91a725093bb50f013e5e5e3dbffeeb45dd2ece02254887a4873c932e1f33c13.mp4 
nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqygajmhx6dy83k26l0l9pv0cp6qj2mtkvfmt3gsymc6xrpf9vfpwqqs9resjaafan8e4w4pva0fgv2q4u9zj78gnq386y4hd4m466xfydvc4akwht 
 Where is the mention of nostr in the video? 
 I think it's at about 58:50... but here's a clip:

nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpdue4cn7qdct9ptfj0ndfrc469jnn49228al867m627ypas2f5j7qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejz7qpqwwvhjc0c3uhrveunvmdd9x2twtuwp4l2a2v8nqf8mspyvvzppajq4gk0dl 
 That’s how vitality works! Nicely done 
 Nice work. I have been hoping to see more of Glenn in the bitcoin/nostr world for a while.  
 Great interview