This "housekeeping" (cough cough) episode of The Portal is only for the hard core listeners who launched this experiment with us. This year we begin to take on the idea of the Distributed Idea Suppression Complex or "DISC".
From "Terms of Service" changes, to selective enforcement of rules, peer review, "Strategic Silence", 'authoritative sources only', deboosting, shadow banning, down ranking, "unbiasing", "Good Censorship", 'diversity and inclusion' oaths, 'cancel culture', no-platforming, mob shaming, certification requirements, "trust and safety" and quality control, we are surrounded by others interested in various forms of idea suppression who would prefer to work in private. Obviously some, but not all, of those ideas are truly dangerous. But many of those ideas never reached us because they threatened institutional players rather than public safety.
This is the year we begin to do the unthinkable: attempt to fully reveal and slip the DISC. Stay tuned to the Portal for 2020. Or feel free to unsubscribe right now before we change it up...hope to see you soon.
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42: Cashing Out My Trump & IDW Positions
41: Douglas Murray - Heroism 2020: Defense of Our Own Civilization
40: Introducing The Portal Essay Club - What if everyone is simply insane?
39: Admission To Sugar Baby U.
38: Mass Media, Markets, and Human Malware: A Portal Q&A
37: Andrew Marantz - Surfing the Wake of The Woke
36: Dark Matter, Black Matters and All That Jazz
35: Balaji Srinivasan - The Heretic & The Virus
34: Zev Weinstein - On Parenting, Boys & Generation Z
33: Josh Wolfe - The Mind Financing The Future
32: J. D. Vance - American Dreams and Nightmares
31: Ryan Holiday - Conspiracy, Manipulation & other Pastimes
30: Ross Douthat - The Rave Before the Fall
29: Jamie Metzl - The Bio-Hacker will see you now, Ready or Not
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28: Eric Lewis - The Singular Genius of Elew
27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses
26: James O’Keefe - What is (and isn't) Journalism in the 21st century
25: The Construct - Jeffrey Epstein
24: Kai Lenny - To Play and Flirt with Giants
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