So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast
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Ep. 209: ‘Is money speech?’ with Robert Breedlove
There is a recurring debate in the free speech community regarding whether money is speech.
Bitcoin-focused entrepreneur, writer, and philosopher Robert Breedlove joins us today to discuss this very question. Describing money as “the language of human action,” Robert makes the case that money, like the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, is information and should be free from government regulation and manipulation. During this longer-than-usual episode, Robert and Nico discuss everything from Keynesian economics and 3D-printed firearms to the Chinese Communist Party.
Robert is the host of the popular podcast, “The ‘What is Money?’ Show,” which dives into the nature of money by asking guests one simple question: What is money? In 2020, he co-authored the book, “Thank God for Bitcoin: The Creation, Corruption and Redemption of Money.”
Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
3:56 Robert’s background
19:21 What is Austrian economics?
24:23 Is money speech?
44:48 Can money express irrational things?
51:59 Is access to perfect information always a good thing?
1:05:17 Bitcoin and anonymity
1:14:58 Prediction markets
1:18:14 Theories of information/the marketplace of ideas
1:31:49 Is code speech?
1:39:59 Is economic freedom more fundamental than freedom of speech?
1:49:13 Regulating bitcoin
1:55:16 Bitcoin ETFs
1:57:03 Rapid-fire Bitcoin questions
2:06:16 Does more access to information make the world a better place?
2:06:53 Outro
Show Notes
“The ‘What is Money?’ Show”
“The Creature from Jekyll Island” by G Edward Griffin
“The Bitcoin Standard” by Saifedean Ammous
“The Use of Knowledge in Society” by Friedrich Hayek
“The Logic of Scientific Discovery” by Karl Popper
“Areopagitica” by John Milton
Ep. 99 John Stuart Mill’s ‘On Liberty’
Ep. 98 ‘The First Amendment in the Trump Era’ w/ Professor Timothy Zick
Ep. 97 There’s no such thing as free speech, argues Stanley Fish
Ep. 96 Who was Hayden C. Covington?
Ep. 95 Twenty years of FIRE with co-founder Harvey Silverglate
Ep. 94 Kevin Williamson’s ‘The Smallest Minority’
Ep. 93 ‘Coddling’ one year later
Ep. 92 Free speech, privacy, and President Trump’s Twitter account w/ Alex Abdo
Ep. 91 ‘The Grievance Studies Affair’
Ep. 90 ‘David French-ism’
Ep. 89 Prof. Samuel Abrams wrote an op-ed encouraging viewpoint diversity. Then came the fallout.
Ep. 88 Defending libraries with James LaRue
Ep. 87 Intellectual property 101
Ep. 86 Words, Violence, and Censorship at Williams College
Ep. 85 Wen Fa of the Pacific Legal Foundation
Ep. 84 The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
Ep. 83 Mustafa Akyol on jailing journalists in Turkey, ‘re-educating’ Uyghurs in China, and cultural conformity in America
Ep. 82 ‘Can free speech be progressive?’
Ep. 81 Techdirt’s Mike Masnick
Ep. 80 Ten Worst Colleges for Free Speech: 2019
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