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/


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Podcast Episode on Fountain

https://fountain.fm/episode/1sN7ANqr2JwTVitjiLNT


Onward 🫡

Onward 🫡


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


nostr:npub1zywedmndxjrcm9d0hljsk8uqaqf9d4mxya4c5gzdudrps5jkyshqe2s58k and Liz Wolfe, fantastic interview with the legend, Glenn Greenwald!  (nice Nostr plug, too!) #freespeech

https://video.nostr.build/f91a725093bb50f013e5e5e3dbffeeb45dd2ece02254887a4873c932e1f33c13.mp4
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This was a really interesting discussion.

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Where is the mention of nostr in the video?


That’s how vitality works! Nicely done


I think it's at about 58:50... but here's a clip:

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Nice work. I have been hoping to see more of Glenn in the bitcoin/nostr world for a while.


Great interview