Podcasts are the Next Censorship Target
I knew this day was coming, just not so soon
The Cancel Culture Agenda Moves to Target Podcasts
It’s easy to defend your friends and loved one’s speech, but what about the speech of those you don’t agree with, or even hate?
Time after time we have seen the media, academia, government, and Big Tech clamp down on the sliding scale of socially acceptable opinion. Now, what started from the far fringes has now crept (and in some cases sprinted) closer to politically moderate or apathetic Americans who question popular narratives, ask inconvenient questions, or simply want to be left alone to live their lives peacefully.
In 2018, I sounded the alarm amongst the libertarian community to let them know that Cancel Culture wasn’t just aiming at conservatives and Trump supporters in general, that one day, they would come after those that refused to toe the line of allowable opinion. They almost entirely got rid of Alex Jones, a man I often disagree with, and then they entirely de-platformed the previous sitting POTUS, Donald J. Trump.
Now, they are aiming their attention to podcasting apps and directories, one of the few areas of the internet where competing ideas and alternative media sources outside the mainstream can speak freely. According to an op-ed at CNYCentral:
Podcasts suffer from the same misinformation problem as other platforms, said Shane Creevey, head of editorial for Kinzen, a startup created by former Facebook and Twitter executives that offers a disinformation tracker to companies, including some that host or curate podcasts.
Creevey points out that it's harder to analyze misinformation from video and audio than from text. Podcasts can also run for hours, making them difficult to monitor. And podcasting has additional challenges in that there are no reliable statistics on their audience, unlike a YouTube stream, which shows views, or a tweet or Facebook post, which shows likes and shares, Creevey said.
But some argue that tech-company moderation is opaque and inconsistent, creating a new set of problems. Censorship "goes with the tide against what's popular in any given moment," said Jillian York, an expert at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital-rights group. Right now, she said, "that tide is against the speech of right-wing extremists ... but tomorrow the tide might be against opposition activists."
The sliding scale of allowable opinion becomes narrower by the day, and what started small has only snowballed into something larger, and more horrifying as a result.
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This is a fantastic article! And, you were right about knowing this was coming. 👍🏼🤠