{"podcast":{"title":"ToKCast","slug":"tokcast-76992","podcast_index_feed_id":76992,"rss_url":"https://brettroberthall.podbean.com/feed.xml","website_url":"https://brettroberthall.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/3210771/TOKCAST_e8uwkp.png","author":"Brett Hall","episode_count":263,"summary":"This is a podcast primarily about the work of philosopher and physicist David Deutsch and related matters (such as Popperian epistemology). I read from and comment upon the books ”The Beginning of Infinity” & ”The Fabric of Reality” (both by Deutsch), ”The Science of Can & Can’t” (by Deutsch’s collegue Marletto) and ”Rationality” by Pinker (so far). In addition I make stand alone episodes about topics like resources, environmentalism, economics, science, philosophy, epistemology (especially explanations) and reason broadly.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-05T14:17:01.933436+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tokcast-76992"},"episode":{"title":"Ep 254: Australia: The Land of Bans. (Social Media prohibited for under-16s. Analysis of the arguments \"for\".)","slug":"ep-254-australia-the-land-of-bans-social-media-prohibited-for-under-16s-analysis-of-the-arguments-for","published_at":"2025-12-25T01:20:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tokcast-76992/ep-254-australia-the-land-of-bans-social-media-prohibited-for-under-16s-analysis-of-the-arguments-for","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tokcast-76992","url":"https://brettroberthall.podbean.com/e/ep-254-australia-the-land-of-bans-social-media-prohibited-for-under-16s-analysis-of-the-arguments-for/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7rghz9pqwbyew3dn/Bondi_3_Podcast82pee.mp3","summary":"This is effectively part 3 in a series of responses to the Prime Minister of Australia about censorship, legislation, policy, philosophy, Bondi and Social Media. The Prime Minister attempted to explain, as best he could, the reasons for banning under-16 year olds from certain social media platforms. I remark on an interview he conducted and make some broader remarks in conclusion to a short series on his response to the Bondi tragedy and other issues. These are largely off-the-cuff rather than prepared remarks - so expect the tone, tenor, tempo and expression to be a little different than usual.","meta_description":"This is effectively part 3 in a series of responses to the Prime Minister of Australia about censorship, legislation, policy, philosophy, Bondi and Social…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5588,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/tokcast-76992/episodes/ep-254-australia-the-land-of-bans-social-media-prohibited-for-under-16s-analysis-of-the-arguments-for/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/tokcast-76992/ep-254-australia-the-land-of-bans-social-media-prohibited-for-under-16s-analysis-of-the-arguments-for.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}