Interview with Peter Hirshberg
summary
An effort uses high-altitude hydrogen/nitrogen balloons to float packages of DVDs and USB sticks and clandestine radios into North Korea, claiming safer delivery than smuggling or shortwave alone; defectors and black‑market sellers pocket the material, a banned comedy reportedly sells a couple hundred copies a day in border markets and fetches ten times the usual price on the black market, while the regime even assigns a three-star general to stop it.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00North Korea innovation work
- 0:26Hacking back with free info
- 1:51High-altitude balloons deliver content
- 2:33Black market generation in NK
- 3:36Defectors risking freedom
- 4:38Defectors react to The Interview
- 5:20Silicon Valley’s role in defectors
- 6:04Free speech debates after attacks
- 7:29Satire versus oppression ambiguity
- 8:12Historical satire parallels
- 8:54Future of internet governance
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