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From the Radiolab podcast: Should you be able to say and do whatever you want online? And if not, who should police it?
Back in 2017, our colleagues at More Perfect gathered a room full of people together to debate a straightforward question: Can free speech go too far? Today, eight years have passed and plenty has changed, but this question feels alive as ever.
And so we’re re-airing More Perfect’s "The Hate Debate." Taped live at WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, Elie Mystal, Ken White and Corynne McSherry duke it out over whether the First Amendment needs an update in our digital world.
Special thanks to Elaine Chen, Jennifer Keeney Sendrow, and the entire Greene Space team. Additional engineering for this episode by Chase Culpon, Louis Mitchell and Alex Overington.
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If watching is more your speed, you can see the event in its entirety here:
youtube.com/live/azcIcVDyVTM?si=ZqpQHQfvTKr2jS0z
There’s other Radiolabs for that -
Further recommended listening What Up Holmes and Post No Evil.
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From the Radiolab podcast: Should you be able to say and do whatever you want online? And if not, who should police it?
Back in 2017, our colleagues at More Perfect gathered a room full of people together to debate a straightforward question: Can free speech go too far? Today, eight years have passed and plenty has changed, but this question feels alive as ever.
And so we’re re-airing More Perfect’s "The Hate Debate." Taped live at WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, Elie Mystal, Ken White and Corynne McSherry duke it out over whether the First Amendment needs an update in our digital world.
Special thanks to Elaine Chen, Jennifer Keeney Sendrow, and the entire Greene Space team. Additional engineering for this episode by Chase Culpon, Louis Mitchell and Alex Overington.
EPISODE CITATIONS:
Videos -
If watching is more your speed, you can see the event in its entirety here:
youtube.com/live/azcIcVDyVTM?si=ZqpQHQfvTKr2jS0z
There’s other Radiolabs for that -
Further recommended listening What Up Holmes and Post No Evil.
Sign up for our newsletter!! It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (radiolab.org/newsletter)!
Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (members.radiolab.org/) today.
Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org.
Leadership support for Radiolab’s science programming is provided by the Simons Foundation and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
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Photo illustration by Mikey Burton
Video by W. Harry Fortuna
