Robby Soave on Trump’s press ban, Macklemore, and free speech culture wars

The free speech culture wars look different than they
did a decade ago.

Reason senior editor and Rising host Robby Soave joins
us to discuss the White House’s restrictions on media access,
Macklemore getting dropped from Ed Sheeran’s tour, and why efforts
to suppress controversial speech so often backfire.

We also look back at how the free speech debate has
changed since Robby and Nico began covering it — from campus
censorship and cancel culture to social media moderation and the
changing politics of free speech.

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

01:44 How Robby prepares for Rising

03:35 How the media landscape has changed

10:44 Trump, the press, and censorship

20:26 Cancel culture

23:55 Macklemore, Ed Sheeran, and the Streisand
Effect

30:31 Why should we defend the media?

36:58 Campus free speech

43:48 The changing politics of free speech

58:34 Outro

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