#172 – Ryan Schiller: Librex and the Free Exchange of Ideas on College Campuses

Ryan Schiller is the creator of Librex, an anonymous discussion feed for college communities. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(07:06) – Librex
(08:59) – Deep Fakes
(13:06) – Silencing of ideas
(24:01) – Building Librex
(33:47) – How Librex took over Dartmouth
(42:13) – Anonymity
(45:04) – Private vs public life
(54:32) – Building a sense of community
(59:14) – Refusing to sell user data
(1:06:05) – Moderation
(1:12:54) – Freedom of speech
(1:23:45) – Scaling
(1:28:02) – Yik Yak
(1:35:22) – AWS and Parler
(1:40:25) – Safe spaces
(1:43:22) – Jeffrey Epstein
(1:52:50) – Chess and poker
(2:03:29) – Advice for young people
(2:14:21) – Book recommendations
(2:20:16) – Mortality