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The Michael Shermer Show · 2026-05-11 · 82 min · 13,915 words

The New War on Free Speech: Why Power Turns Everyone Into a Censor

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T's and C's apply. And someone like Thurgood Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice, voted in the Brandenburg case, voted with the rest of the Supreme Court justices to say that the conviction of a member of the KKK who in regalia and arm before cameras sort of set that if the government didn't do something about the blacks and the Jews, they might do it themselves. He said that that should be constitutionally protected speech, intrusive AI. That is that we once thought that new technology would would supercharge freedom and free speech, but it's also very clear that governments around the world have learned to reverse engineer the promise of these technologies and that AI can create and has created in some countries levels of censorship and surveillance that would have been the envy of

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