Watch Joe Rogan's face as tech legend shares dark plans of gov't officials

When it comes to the internet, Marc Andreessen knows what he’s talking about. That’s why when he warns Joe Rogan what the government might do with the internet, we should all be listening.

The billionaire entrepreneur, venture capital investor, and software engineer sat down with Rogan, who asked, “If the open-source movement does take hold, if people recognize this as being a real serious threat,” Rogan continues, “don’t you think the government would somehow or other try to regulate that as well?”

Rogan notes that the government already has control over Facebook and Twitter.

“Well that’s the threat,” Andreessen says.

“The threat always is that they’re going to come in and do that,” he continues, “and that is what they’re threatening to do.”

“There is energy in Washington by people trying to figure out how to regulate or ban open source,” he adds.

However, banning open source does not come without consequences.

“Interfering at that level carries consequences with it. And so, for example — and there are proposals, there are serious proposals from serious people to do what I’m about to describe,” Andreessen warns.

“Do you run a software program on everybody’s own computer, right — watching everything that they do because you have to make sure that they’re not running software they’re not supposed to be running,” he continues.

Andreessen suggests that in order to do something like that, you’d need an “agent” built into everybody’s chip.

“And then what do you do when somebody’s running unapproved software? You know? Do you send somebody to their house to take their computer away?” He asks.

Dave Rubin breaks down Andreesen’s warning in his own words.

“The point is, even as we decentralize things, will the machine try to figure out how to take us out? Why is the machine so against Bitcoin? The idea that I could store a decentralized something of value and exchange value with you in a decentralized way that has nothing to do with the government.” Rubin explains.

Rubin believes it’s a threat to the government because “then they don’t get their piece.”

“They’re basically like the mafia,” he adds.

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