#2237 - Mike Benz – The Joe Rogan Experience

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We're up. Nice to meet you, Mike. Nice to

Mike

meet you, Joe.

Joe

I wish you didn't have to exist. You're one of those guys that when you talk, like, god, I wish what he's saying isn't true, but I know it is. But I'm happy you do. I I don't remember what I where I first, saw you speak, but, I mean, right away I was thinking, okay, this makes a lot of sense when you're explaining, like, the Ministry of Truth or what whatever it is. Is that what it's called? Ministry of Truth? Well, yeah. That's

Mike

exactly right. They

Joe

tried to do that for a while. That was, I think so just as a background, please tell people what you do and what your what positions you held.

Mike

I do all things Internet censorship. That's really my mission in life, my North Star. I started off as a corporate lawyer and then worked for the Trump White House. I was a speechwriter. I sort of advised on technology issues, and then I ran the the cyber division for the state department. Basically, the big tech portfolio that interfaces between sort of big government international diplomacy issues on technology and then the sort of private sector US national champions in the tech space like Google and Facebook. So I was the guy that Google lobbyists would call when they wanted favors from bi

#2237 - Mike Benz

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