Adam Curry: Break Up With Big Tech and Take Control of Your Content

0:01 Tick Tock the people who have the power to ban at the national level that's the government that's these these people are not they they have demonstrated that they do not have a a broad interest of every citizen in mind and so the more we give them tools to smash things that we don't like they are the tools with which they will smash us can I just interrupt you for a second sure we Congress gave them a very important tool which I have

0:28 pivoted on even this conversation section 230 and section 230 is the reason these companies were able to flourish section 230 says that the company that is publishing or making this information available isn't liable isn't liable for what their users say I mean and which is how they were actually blackmailed into you know into censorship CU hey I'm going to take your section 230 away that's always the thing there's no coercion it's like okay so

0:59 let me get this straight P like DeBry waser and Schultz like berading people like a lunatic in front of the public she's great this is kind of amazing it's like good for her CLI machine man the clip of Debbie she's great no no better but there is like a you don't tell me that okay you've got the administrative State telling Twitter and the likes we think you should look into this do this and then right over here is the FTC

1:27 saying explicitly we're going to break you up mhm and yet I'm supposed to say that's not coercion that's complete coercion but but I mean it's like it's like this is straight out of the mafia hey I'd be a shame if something happened to this company my cousin Vinnie back here has got a pay no attention to his uh he's got that crowbar because you know we just came from the auto shop so if we but you know this of course is now

1:51 the industry of America you know when we took away the oil we haven't really but taking away our energy and putting it into Silicon Valley and everyone has stock and everyone you know lots of riches but really if we made everybody just accountable you know for for what you're doing what you're publishing and you know now it's easy enough for everybody to set up their own podcast their own website you don't need to be on social media you can set up your own

2:17 social media you know McDon five bucks a month uh and and if if that means that you have to be accountable for what every everybody says for liable well then either you take that risk and you police it that way or you don't or you just do it by yourself have you thought have you thought through this cuz are you saying you want to take away the section 230 I just I literally at this moment it it comes to me as an idea that

2:41 is interesting to explore because you were talking about coercion so literally we've enabled this including the coercion because we'll take it away by section 230 and what have we really gotten has it really been that great well yeah you know is it is it working for us I think that the the challenge there is there's the government and then there's the government that nobody talks about until until it re meet meets them meets them at their doorstep the

3:10 administrative stage no not that all the lawyers yeah so you've got your website you've got your podcast section 230 says that you know somebody leaves a comment on your website or one of your sites or one and and it's got hateful language whatever that's supposed to mean I don't even know what that means anymore well let's we we have to be if we're going to take away 230 we have to enhance uh uh you know the First Amendment we have to

3:39 say hey hate speech is speech and it can be anything Lial there's one you know Lial is one specific part of the law that you know can be litigated so but the question is if everybody kind of learned how that works and what you can and can't say but do you want an the the mass of ambulance Chasers knocking down your door because a troll on your Mastadon Federated server says something that happens to be lious or do you want

4:06 the person that said the liable to be responsible for themselves and you are a platform I think it's a question that hear no I hear you I hear you so let's let's let's um let's change gears okay for my son's generation for young people what is your advice to especially the creative class of kids because there's a lot of kids now who are getting into logic getting into YouTube and they see themselves as wanting to be a Creator

4:29 what's your message for them well first of all stay away from the from the Silicon Valley companies because their model is give me all your creativity you get nothing that's that you may think you're getting something but it's a trap the alos make you you know make you slave to upload more and more content look for other places to publish or um distribute your creativity understand Bitcoin and save a little bit I don't care if it's $5 a

4:56 month save a little bit in Bitcoin understand how it works uh own your own wallet it's the future you will not regret it it's saving it's called s if you if you buy a little you can you can literally buy you know 50 cents a day at some places like Swan Bitcoin even probably uh I mean there's all kinds of places you can you can set up automatic buys learn that it will you will not I I

5:19 promise you it will be beneficial to you go to where people are in person don't sit on the systems and don't if whether it's school if you can go into school whether it's work go in be with people it's it's a great it's a good time to meet people who are like-minded go to meetups anything that is a community go to it in person this is very important this is where you're going to make connections real connections at last

5:45 make human connections where you can really feel somebody and and their vibrations and the the subtle cues it's just important you know it we're we're too removed uh stay away from porn it's there there's some bad I mean it's not the porn that I used to have we had a little magazine in the woods and like oh man look at this descrambling the Playboy Channel it's not B it's messing with your mind it's it it's messing with

6:09 a whole bunch of things and above all if you're young try and do as much as you can go crazy I mean try as many things as you can now is the time now that you're young now that you can rebound maybe you can still rely on your parents uh if it all goes horribly wrong don't be afraid be brave be Brazen go out there find stuff but do it in person and and try to do it outside of the systems

6:33 that you know whenever someone's promising you like come on come on come on you're going to monetize over here it's gonna be come on baby look at I got some monetization in my coat right here no they have they do not have any good will towards you that that that is not the model look at it historically look at the people who whose money has been yanked and once you you get used to it you got a car payment you got a house

6:55 payment and all of a sudden YouTube says no you're not the flavor of the money month and they determine what's going on then no and also I would say you don't have to be afraid of AI the AI is never it I know computers I know how they work there's a great I mean Photoshop is AI if you want to look at it I mean tools are everywhere to be used there's all kinds of of tools but it's not going to

7:19 eat your lunch it can as far as I know it can never take the creative Humanity that comes out of you and comes from our creator go look at the award shows even though no one watches him all the hip-hop guys first I want to thank God CU he gave it to me so that's you know be open to that be open to the creative that flows through you and don't give it to the enemy if you like this clip we've got

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