The Heartland Institute’s Donald Kendal, Jim Lakely, and Justin Haskins are joined by Isaac Orr in episode 277 of the In The Tank Podcast. The crew gives their takes on the assault on free speech by Big Tech and the destruction of Parler. In the second half, Donald is joined by film producer and entrepreneur Dallas Sonnier to discuss the Daily Wire’s acquisition of the distribution rights the movie Run, Hide, Fight.

OPENING CHIT CHAT

Joe Rogan Conspiracy

PRIMARY TOPIC: PARLER’S DEMISE

Reason – How to Respond to the Great Deplatforming of 2021

https://reason.com/video/2021/01/12/how-to-respond-to-the-great-deplatforming-of-2021/

Slate – Why everyone should be worried about Parler being booted from the Internet

https://slate.com/technology/2021/01/parler-google-apple-amazon-aws-okta.html

Reason – Millions of Users Are Flooding Encrpted Apps After Social Media Purges

https://reason.com/2021/01/12/millions-of-users-are-flooding-encrypted-apps-after-social-media-purges/

Reason – Why Purging Social Media of Extremist Speech Might Not Make Us Safer

https://reason.com/2021/01/12/parler-twitter-social-media-speech-ban-terrorists-capitol-riot-trump/

Cato – Content Moderation Cannot Fix Elite Failure

https://www.cato.org/blog/content-moderation-cannot-fix-elite-failure

SECONDARY TOPIC: INTERVIEW WITH DALLAS SONNIER

Run, Hide, Fight

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