Decoder with Nilay Patel

Can Cloudflare save the web from AI?

Over the last decade, Matthew has had to make the call when to stop providing service to websites like those, even as he's championed Cloudflare as a bastion of free speech and a tool used by journalists, activists, and dissidents in authoritarian regimes. It is a profound balancing act, and you'll hear me ask Matthew how he thinks about making those types of decisions and the company values he says drives them.

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Can Cloudflare save the web from AI?

As an infrastructure company, Cloudflare is one of the only defenses — in some cases, the only defense — standing between websites and the people who want to take them down. That includes websites for social good, like news organizations around the world, but also means unsavory or downright despicable ones, like neo-Nazi haven The Daily Stormer and hate and harassment breeding ground 8chan.

Fresh Air

Colin Kaepernick is still fighting – for justice and for his football career

The NFL tried to send a very clear message that if you protest police killing Black folks, if you fight for a better society and better community, we're going to try to take your career from you. I don't accept that that is going to be the end outcome of this, and will do everything I can to make sure that I change that narrative.

Book of the Day

Marlon James' novel 'The Disappearers' chronicles the aftermath of a violent attack

If you're saying there's such a thing as too much violence, then you're automatically saying there's such a thing as just enough. You know what is too much rape? I don't understand. What is just enough rape?

TED

You Have More Power Than You Realize | Idea Knock Down | TED

Somebody once told me that a democracy is working if we're actively disagreeing with each other. And uh and that really hit home, right? If if we're all agreeing, we're probably not in a democracy.

Book of the Day

'America's Founding Son' documents John Quincy Adams' influential post-presidency

But now you're not talking about abolition, you're talking about the first amendment. You're talking about the right to petition the government which is protected. And so he becomes a defender of the abolitionists not on necessarily on the grounds of abolition but on the grounds of free speech.

Pivot

Kara Swisher on Buttigieg Family Swatting Attack: “This Was Terrifying” | Pivot

The internet doesn't have a speech problem. It has an accountability problem. And our fetishization for free speech and anonymity has resulted in a total lack of accountability.

Fresh Air

Banned books, shocking art & the birth of the culture wars

It starts with a really intense sense of grievance or performance of grievance that other people expressing their rights, essentially other people's speech is oppressing you, that other people's point of view, that you're, you know, Alice Moore says this flat out. It's not that I don't want my child learning X, Y, and Z. I don't want my child to even know what they are, you know?