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Eric Brakey took over as Executive Director of the Free State Project in 2024 and

served as producer of the March 2024 Liberty Forum. So Brakey is ultimately responsible for the speaker list.

IMO, Kauffman is sincerely interested in promoting liberty. After all, he founded LBRY/Odysee, an open source, decentralized, censorship-resistant alternative Youtube. (IMO, the best of Youtube's competitors.)

He also fought a years long, multi-million dollar legal battle against SEC in defense of the LBRY ICO. He can be an eloquent and tenacious defender of liberty.

Unfortunately, he's allowed his hatred and fear of gay people, immigrants, and blacks to override his commitment to liberty. He's a current leader of the socially conservative "paleo" strain of libertarianism that has been part of the libertarian movement since at least the 1960's. The paleo faction has been in the minority for most of the libertarian movement's history. But they took the reins in 2022 following the growth of the paleo faction due to the Ron Paul campaigns.

I go into more detail in these posts:

https://archerships.substack.com/p/why-are-libertarians-fighting-each

https://archerships.substack.com/p/why-have-authoritarian-populists

https://www.facebook.com/archerships/posts/pfbid02H64PAsk1pEgFtH98kMEbCqFNAvnzbAbBFSRMcCBAZG5H9fptXnfM1oxL2GBNUptVl

denise ward's avatar

Being a free thinker, there have been some things about the Free State Project that concerned me and that's why I never joined it. The main thing is their acceptance of the banking system. I have never heard a word against this system by them and bottom line is the money system is what keeps us in the cage. So all the things we think we are doing to achieve freedom are for naught because as long as we keep investing in this money system (by using it) we shall remain slaves. The designers of this system really knew what they were doing and their design is working splendidly.

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