Banned TED Talk

Via Business Insider: "As the war over income inequality wages on, super-rich Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer has been raising the hackles of his fellow 1-percenters, espousing the contrarian argument that rich people don't actually create jobs.
The position is controversial — so much so that TED is refusing to post a talk that Hanauer gave on the subject. National Journal reports today that TED officials decided not to put Hanauer's March 1 speech up online after deeming his remarks "too politically controversial" for the site...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks.

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[Nick Thorsch]

TED, why should we be suppressing important and accurate political ideas anyway? That makes you no better than the US Government's suppressive tactics on a range of subjects.

[MysticPsyche]

TED is a pro-establishment corporation.

[Sergey WontTell]

Banned talk right here guys:

watch?v=iIhOXCgSunc

[unamor]

/watch?v=iIhOXCgSunc

[BiggerThinking1]

too political? he simply discussed economics. He didn't mention political parties once!

OH WAIT! SO THE RICH ARE SAYING THAT POLITICS IS REALLY ABOUT INEQUITABLE WEALTH DITRIBUTION!

B-I-N-G-O !!!!! There you have it - straight from the horse's mouth!

[max bowman]

How did you watch it pray tell?

[Oxa1]

who sponsors TED? the sponsors have a say too...

[ConsciousKing10]

why does Kunggreen have negative votes...? if you take the + view of Kungreen, and the - view of lifehole1, and find an equilibrium between the two perspectives, that's where I think most americans should be.

[Nick Thorsch]

Besides, how is it even "political" that people lives are suffering because of the income disparity. That's beyond politics, it's just the right thing to do to have a fair society.