“Because when you talk about the Internet, when you talk about deplatforming, when you talk about humor - as you said, people are going back and they’re looking at your jokes, they’re putting them in quotes as a different context, you’re being attacked by it. Something you’ve said looks bad.
There’s things that you’ve said, things that I’ve said, things that the person listening right now have said that they believed, that they meant, that they said ten years ago, that they said one year ago, that they said three weeks ago, that they no longer believe. That they’ve abandoned, they’ve been persuaded otherwise, that they’ve changed their mind on.
And this was one of the central themes in the book, Permanent Record. We are no longer allowed to forget our worst mistakes. They are there. They haunt us. They’re used against us, they’re weaponized. And this society has become aware of this.”