The soft censorship of our times (08-09-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk about censorship. Let's specifically talk about a thing called soft censorship versus hard censorship. Seth Dillon, the founder of the Babylon Bee, which is a satirical website, they've been censored hardly and softly in the past. And he defines the two terms as such.

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Hard censorship is when government or some other entity like takes down your content. And again, he's an online guy. He's on the different social media platforms, but also they run a website. So, and they have YouTube channel and that sort of thing.

[00:01:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Hard censorship is when hard censorship is when the entity or the platform or the government comes in and shuts your stuff down, right? That's a hard censorship move.

[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Soft censorship is when they scare you into silence.

[00:01:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Both, he says, are forms of tyranny. But the latter, the soft censorship, the scaring you into silence, is actually more abusive and degrading.

[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_00]: It's the tyrant's way of saying, quote, do my work for me with the full confidence that you'll comply.

[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And I will add here that you lose a little bit of yourself. You lose a little bit of your soul when you comply.

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_00]: This is why, for example, before Elon Musk purchased Twitter, one of the things that they would do, and I believe Facebook did it as well,

[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_00]: but they would make you take down your offensive post if, you know, you got reported and then they blocked your content or something,

[00:02:27] [SPEAKER_00]: and they would require you to delete the tweet. And if you did that, then you got access back to your platform.

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And this came to a head with the New York Post. Prior to the 2020 election, in the month before, in October before the November election,

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_00]: you'll recall the New York Post broke the story about the Hunter Biden laptop, which did exist, which has been corroborated,

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_00]: and in fact was corroborated by the intelligence and law enforcement communities. The investigators that looked at it and stuff, they knew it was real.

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And so what did Twitter do to the New York Post?

[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_00]: They shut down their account and they said, we'll open your account back up if you delete this tweet.

[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And then in a form of hard censorship, they blocked you from sharing it, even in a direct message, which is like the email accounts that are, you know, your personal messages, your DMs.

[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_00]: You have that on Twitter, now called X.

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And they, which by the way, I don't think that branding, that rebrand is working very well.

[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_00]: How long has it been now? It's been over a year, right?

[00:03:48] [SPEAKER_00]: People still call it Twitter. It's still Twitter. I don't think it'll ever not be Twitter.

[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be Twitter, or it's going to be X, formerly known as Twitter, forever, I think.

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, the hard censorship was done in the DMs and they blocked you from sharing the article.

[00:04:04] [SPEAKER_00]: They literally blocked the URL, the domain, or not the domain name, well, partly the domain name, but the URL of the story.

[00:04:12] [SPEAKER_00]: They blocked you from sharing that in an effort to tamp down what they called at the time misinformation or disinformation, depending on who you were listening to.

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_00]: The soft censorship occurs when they tell the New York Post, if you debase yourself and delete your tweet that we found to be offensive or the offending tweet, you take that down and then we'll give you access to your account back.

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And you lose a little bit of yourself in that process because you know that you bent the knee.

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a demoralizing thing. It's a humiliation.

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And it is counted upon that you receive it as such and interpret it as such.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So this way, in the future, you self-censor and it reduces the government or the social media platforms.

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_00]: It reduces their requirement to have to police you so hard because you're going to police yourself.

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And we see this in tyrannical governments and societies throughout history.

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. The worst offenders.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Of ratting people out to a totalitarian regime were your neighbors.

[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. I've talked about this many times, which is people like to think that they're the family that would hide Anne Frank in their attic from the Nazis.

[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And. The reality is that most people actually would be the ones calling the Nazis to rat out the family and have them all arrested and killed.

[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. So we're seeing this right now over in the UK.

[00:05:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Where there is a little bit of unrest after some maniac went in and I believe may have been may have been I'm not sure,

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_00]: but may have been chanting something along the lines of Aloha snack bar when he stabbed a bunch of.

[00:06:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Young girls at a dance camp or something and.

[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Murdered them.

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And that was the spark.

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And now you've got riots and protests and such.

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_00]: You've got the UK government cracking down.

[00:06:26] [SPEAKER_00]: On only one side, much like we saw in the Black Lives Matter, fiery, but mostly peaceful summer of love where cities were burned.

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_00]: They were on the lookout, constantly on the hunt for the proud boys.

[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. For the the outside right wing agitators, the people coming in screaming, this is mega country in Detroit.

[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Right. Like that was the that was the focus of the efforts.

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, when.

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_00]: When the UK sends out its police, they're going after.

[00:06:59] [SPEAKER_00]: The British people.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_00]: The native citizens.

[00:07:03] [SPEAKER_00]: The native citizens.

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Who are angry at the policies of both the Labor Party and the conservative party that have been running the show.

[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_00]: For the last 30 years.

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And they've been allowing.

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Migrants into the country.

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And now they're not.

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And the migrants have not been assimilating.

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_00]: They've not been acculturating.

[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_00]: They've not adopted sort of the Western civilization mores, if you will.

[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And so they are.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_00]: They're now in conflict, as was predicted, because it's completely predictable.

[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_00]: When you take in too many people from different cultures and they don't assimilate, then you lose the native culture and you end up with balkanization.

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_00]: You end up with people fighting each other because they don't share any of these cultural norms and values.

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So the newly elected leader, what's his name?

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Keir, I think.

[00:08:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Keir, Keir, whatever the guy's name is.

[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Leftist guy.

[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And he has been threatening more arrests of the British citizens, not just for going out to the streets and protesting.

[00:08:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I did see one troll that was that was hilarious where because they much like.

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_00]: In America, they are, you know, the boogeyman of the KKK.

[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_00]: They are.

[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my gosh, they're all over the place, you know, and they're not.

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the KKK basically exists now, I think, as sort of an undercover FBI honeypot.

[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_00]: That's it just serves as a as a vehicle, as an organization to kind of recruit people and then arrest them.

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, anyway, there's an organization over in the UK called EDL.

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I think they haven't even been around for a decade, but that's still the boogeyman over there.

[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And so some people, I don't know if they had the little cartoon frogs in their avatars or not, but they sent out.

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Social media posts that they were going to be the EDL, that they were EDL and they're going to be organizing some sort of a protest and they're going to be here.

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And that, of course, then prompts the the Islamists to show up with weapons.

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And when the cops get there to bust all of the EDL people, there's no one there except the Islamists, who, of course, the cops allow to then protest and march and threaten people and all that.

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_00]: And the citizens of the UK see this.

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's that's the sort of the backdrop.

[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And now what Keir Sturmer, whatever the guy's name is, and his government is doing is they're they're threatening not just the arrest of people who come to the protests and such, but also if you post something online because they don't have the First Amendment over in the UK like we do.

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_00]: So they will crack down on you if you say something that the government doesn't like the hard censorship.

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And so they put out this message today.

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Think before you post content that incites violence or hatred isn't just harmful.

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_00]: It can be illegal.

[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_00]: The CPS take this.

[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_00]: The Crown Prosecution Service takes online violence seriously and will prosecute when the legal test is met.

[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Remind those close to you to share responsibly or face the consequences.

[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_00]: So, again, more threats.

[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, a bunch of Americans saw this and promptly began trolling.

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_00]: The UK government.

[00:10:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And the Cheshire Police Department, I believe it is.

[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And just dragging them in the comments.

[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_00]: So they locked the post so nobody can now comment anymore on their threat.

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_00]: It didn't stop.

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_00]: People then started going to the websites of the police departments and dragging them there.

[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So they blocked access apparently to the entire continent of North America.

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_00]: That's where we are.

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_00]: This is where we are.

[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_00]: People who don't want to recognize where we are.

[00:11:08] [SPEAKER_00]: But we are here.

[00:11:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I know it's difficult and it's uncomfortable and there's a normalcy bias that kind of kicks in here.

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_00]: But people need to wake up and realize where we are on the censorship front.

[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_00]: But there is some good news.

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_00]: You know me.

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I've got good news sometimes.

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Not a lot.

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_00]: But sometimes.

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And this is one of those times I have some good news.

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Got a message here.

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_00]: An email from Kirk to Pete at the Pete Calendar Show dot com.

[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_00]: He says it's like our good friend Ray.

[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Governor of North Carolina.

[00:11:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Marching with the Floydites while putting the reopen NC crowd in the Smackdown Hotel.

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah remember that?

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Roy Cooper did a lap around the governor's mansion without the mask on.

[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Raising the fist in the air.

[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_00]: It was a show of solidarity with the people that were rioting and burning cities and stuff.

[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_00]: During the summer of fiery but mostly peaceful love.

[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_00]: All of those folks got to skate.

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And when the legislature came back and tried to crack down and stiffen the penalties.

[00:12:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Democrats were like well how do you know that they're actually participating in a riot?

[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And I'll never forget Democrat Congress or Representative Abe Jones.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Former judge.

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And he gets up there and he's like you know what this looks like.

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_00]: You know like this is not just protesting.

[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Because he lived in Raleigh.

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_00]: He lives in Raleigh.

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_00]: And he said I know I'm going to anger a lot of my fellow colleagues here.

[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_00]: But like I don't want these people tearing up my town.

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_00]: You shouldn't either.

[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_00]: So it was actually a bipartisan vote for that.

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway there is some good news on the censorship front.

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Have you heard of NewsGuard?

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Or how about this one?

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_00]: The Global Alliance for Responsible Media.

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_00]: A.K.A. G-A-R-M.

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Or GARM.

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_00]: GARM.

[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_00]: These are as Jonathan Turley calls them.

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_00]: The most sophisticated components of a modern blacklisting system.

[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_00]: That targeted conservatives or dissenting voices.

[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_00]: NewsGuard.

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_00]: And GARM.

[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Two different operations.

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Now the House Judiciary Committee.

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Up in D.C.

[00:13:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Under Chairman Representative Jim Jordan.

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Is moving forward in demanding documents and records.

[00:13:31] [SPEAKER_00]: From the leading companies that utilize the GARM system.

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_00]: They sent demand letters.

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_00]: To preserve evidence.

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_00]: They sent the letters to companies including Adidas.

[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_00]: American Express.

[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Bayer.

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_00]: BP.

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Carhartt.

[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Chanel.

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_00]: CVS.

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And General Motors.

[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_00]: There's an advertising trade group called the World Federation of Advertisers.

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Or the WFA.

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And it told its members yesterday that it is now discontinuing activities for GARM.

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_00]: So GARM is an initiative of the WFA.

[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_00]: World Federation of Advertisers.

[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_00]: GARM.

[00:14:25] GARM.

[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Got sued.

[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Under an antitrust lawsuit filed by.

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Twitter.

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Elon Musk.

[00:14:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And as part of that you get discovery.

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And so then.

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_00]: You got the House Judiciary Committee.

[00:14:44] [SPEAKER_00]: They're asking for information.

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_00]: They're sending out demands to preserve evidence for the companies that have participated in this endeavor.

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_00]: In this initiative.

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_00]: This GARM initiative.

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_00]: And you've got the lawsuit.

[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And I believe now Rumble has also.

[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_00]: That's a YouTube competitor.

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_00]: They have also signed on with a lawsuit against GARM as well.

[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_00]: The CEO of the WFA.

[00:15:06] [SPEAKER_00]: The World Federation of Advertisers.

[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_00]: He wrote in an email.

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_00]: This guy's name is Stefan Lorkey.

[00:15:12] [SPEAKER_00]: And or.

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_00]: L-O-E-R-K-E.

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Lurk.

[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Stefan Lurk.

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Again with these names that sound like.

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_00]: The thing you need to remember them by.

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_00]: You know.

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_00]: The lurker.

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_00]: The lurking lurk.

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway.

[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_00]: He's the CEO of the WFA.

[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_00]: He wrote an email to the members.

[00:15:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Saying.

[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_00]: That the decision was not made lightly.

[00:15:39] [SPEAKER_00]: To ditch the GARM.

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_00]: But.

[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_00]: GARM is a not for profit organization.

[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_00]: With limited resources.

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Lurk said that the WFA.

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And GARM intended to contest the allegations.

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_00]: In the lawsuit from.

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Elon Musk's Twitter.

[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Or X.

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_00]: And they're confident that the outcome of the case.

[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Will demonstrate our full adherence to competition rules.

[00:16:04] [SPEAKER_00]: In all of our activities.

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Businessinsider.com reporting.

[00:16:09] [SPEAKER_00]: That the news.

[00:16:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Came just two days after.

[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Filed an antitrust suit.

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_00]: In a Texas court.

[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Which alleged that GARM's members.

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Illegally colluded.

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_00]: To quote.

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Collectively withhold billions of dollars.

[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_00]: In advertising revenue from Twitter.

[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Now known as X.

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_00]: GARM members.

[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Unilever.

[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Mars.

[00:16:30] [SPEAKER_00]: CVS.

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And Orsted.

[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Are also named as defendants.

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_00]: The CEO of X.

[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_00]: A woman by the name of Linda.

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Yaccarino.

[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Posted on X.

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Shortly after the.

[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Business Insider.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Published this article.

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_00]: That quote.

[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_00]: No small group.

[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Should be able to monopolize.

[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_00]: What gets monetized.

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I have a message here.

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_00]: From the media research center.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_00]: The MRC.

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's.

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Who is this?

[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_00]: The.

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_00]: The vice president of MRC's.

[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Free speech America.

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Talking about.

[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_00]: The GARM.

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Being.

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_00]: This is the global alliance for responsible media.

[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_00]: That is.

[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Being.

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Deactivated.

[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_00]: He says.

[00:17:21] [SPEAKER_00]: The left never goes away.

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_00]: They just rebrand and try again.

[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_00]: GARM.

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Appears to have thrown up the white flag.

[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_00]: After getting caught.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_00]: For conspiring.

[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_00]: To deprive people of their free speech rights.

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_00]: But the battle is not over.

[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_00]: All the anti-free speech players.

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Who have been meeting in secret.

[00:17:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Have their marching orders.

[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And still hold to the same agenda.

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_00]: They want to starve any media outlet.

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_00]: That does not pursue left-wing goals.

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_00]: They want to make sure their narrative.

[00:17:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Is the only one the public has access to.

[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Founded in 2019.

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_00]: According to.

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Business Insider.

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_00]: GARM.

[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Is a U.S.-based initiative.

[00:17:57] [SPEAKER_00]: That created.

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Frameworks.

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_00]: To provide.

[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Common definitions.

[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Around areas.

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Like.

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_00]: Hate speech.

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Brand.

[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Safety.

[00:18:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And misinformation.

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And so the premise here is that.

[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Look.

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of advertising.

[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_00]: That gets automatically.

[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Inserted.

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Blindly.

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Basically.

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_00]: In fact.

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_00]: If you are listening to this program.

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_00]: On a digital platform.

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Chances are.

[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_00]: The ads that get inserted.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_00]: In a podcast.

[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Or a digital feed.

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Like.

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_00]: We don't have.

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_00]: I as a host.

[00:18:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Definitely have no control over it.

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_00]: And oftentimes.

[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_00]: The content creators.

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Their organizations.

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_00]: They don't have control over it.

[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_00]: So if you're putting stuff out.

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Let's say on YouTube.

[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_00]: YouTube.

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_00]: And its parent company.

[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Alphabet.

[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Which is.

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Google.

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_00]: They.

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Will.

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Automatically.

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Insert.

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Ads.

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Into the video.

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Or into the podcast.

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_00]: And what has happened.

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_00]: In the past.

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Before.

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_00]: They brought in all the algorithms.

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And such.

[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_00]: You had advertisers.

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_00]: That ended up being.

[00:19:10] [SPEAKER_00]: Uh.

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Placed.

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Their ads being placed.

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Into videos.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_00]: That were.

[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Offensive.

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_00]: And they didn't want to be.

[00:19:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Associated with particular brands.

[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_00]: But the.

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Advertisers.

[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_00]: The companies.

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Like General Motors.

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_00]: For example.

[00:19:24] [SPEAKER_00]: GM.

[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not going to get into.

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_00]: The individual.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Ad buy.

[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_00]: On every single podcast.

[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_00]: And every single TV.

[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_00]: And news station.

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Or whatever.

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_00]: So they hire agencies.

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_00]: They hire some other firm.

[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_00]: To come in.

[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_00]: And make those buys.

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Well.

[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_00]: If you're doing buys.

[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_00]: All over the country.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And you're.

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Doing buys.

[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_00]: On hundreds.

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Or thousands.

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Of stations.

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And podcasts.

[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And YouTube.

[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Videos.

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_00]: You don't know.

[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Where it's all going.

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_00]: So.

[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_00]: The advertising industry.

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Says.

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to create.

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_00]: This initiative here.

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Where.

[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_00]: We will rank.

[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Publications.

[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Based on criteria.

[00:20:05] [SPEAKER_00]: That we develop.

[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And they were the ones.

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_00]: That came up with these.

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Common definitions.

[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_00]: They claim common definitions.

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Of hate speech.

[00:20:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Brand safety.

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Misinformation.

[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_00]: And you'll never guess.

[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_00]: This is.

[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_00]: You may want to sit down for this.

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_00]: You'll never guess.

[00:20:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Which.

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Websites.

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And podcasts.

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Tended.

[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_00]: To get labeled.

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_00]: As not a place.

[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_00]: To put your advertising.

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_00]: Conservative media.

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_00]: And so the companies.

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_00]: They're not making the individual buy.

[00:20:40] [SPEAKER_00]: They're just giving a check.

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_00]: To the advertising agencies.

[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_00]: That are then following these.

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Initiative rules.

[00:20:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And so.

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_00]: If you can.

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Construct.

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_00]: The rules.

[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_00]: In such a way.

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_00]: That it.

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Funds.

[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_00]: A particular political philosophy.

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Then you can.

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Soft censor.

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Your political opponents.

[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_00]: And this is what.

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Has been occurring.

[00:21:08] [SPEAKER_00]: The platform's lawsuit.

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_00]: This is Twitter's lawsuit.

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Alleged.

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_00]: That after Elon Musk.

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Acquired Twitter.

[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_00]: In 2022.

[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Garm.

[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Persuaded top brands.

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Not to advertise on it.

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Founded in 2019.

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Again.

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Business Insider says.

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_00]: That it created this.

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Framework.

[00:21:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Advertising.

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Insiders.

[00:21:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Expressed concerns.

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_00]: To this publication.

[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_00]: That while they thought.

[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_00]: The claims made in the lawsuit.

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Were baseless.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_00]: The action.

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Would nonetheless.

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_00]: Sap.

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Garm.

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Of resources.

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_00]: That would hinder its work.

[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh.

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Lawfare sucks.

[00:21:45] [SPEAKER_00]: When it goes the other direction.

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.

[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Cry me a river.

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Lefties.

[00:21:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Garm.

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Has only two.

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Full-time members of staff.

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_00]: And had already.

[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Retained counsel.

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_00]: To deal with legal requests.

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_00]: From the House Judiciary Committee.

[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Jim Jordan.

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_00]: The committee has.

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Been investigating.

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Whether Garm.

[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_00]: The companies.

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Illegally colluded.

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_00]: To demonetize.

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_00]: Conservative platforms.

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_00]: And voices.

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_00]: That investigation.

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Is ongoing.

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I mentioned.

[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_00]: Rumble.

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_00]: The video.

[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Like YouTube.

[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Website.

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_00]: It also filed.

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_00]: An antitrust.

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Lawsuit.

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Against.

[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_00]: The WFA.

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_00]: The WFA.

[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_00]: The World.

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_00]: Federation of Advertisers.

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_00]: That created.

[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_00]: Garm.

[00:22:30] [SPEAKER_00]: They also sued.

[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_00]: The ad agency.

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Holding company.

[00:22:34] [SPEAKER_00]: WPP.

[00:22:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's media.

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Arm.

[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Group M.

[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_00]: So there's all these different.

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_00]: You know.

[00:22:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Organizations.

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Inside this umbrella.

[00:22:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Structure.

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Saying that they collectively.

[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Agree to restrict.

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Advertising on social platforms.

[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Including.

[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Rumble.

[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Back to Jonathan Turley.

[00:22:52] [SPEAKER_00]: His website.

[00:22:53] [SPEAKER_00]: JonathanTurley.org.

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_00]: This is the constitutional law professor guy.

[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_00]: He says.

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_00]: In my new book.

[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I discuss.

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_00]: These rating systems.

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_00]: As a new and insidious form of blacklisting.

[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Notably.

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Elon Musk filed the lawsuit.

[00:23:06] [SPEAKER_00]: And may be able to get more evidence out in discovery.

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_00]: On the operations of this outfit.

[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Garm.

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_00]: It is an effort.

[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_00]: It is.

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_00]: He says.

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_00]: It is an effort to strangle the financial life.

[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Out of sites.

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Websites.

[00:23:20] [SPEAKER_00]: By targeting their donors.

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_00]: And advertisers.

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_00]: This is where the left has excelled.

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Beyond anything that has come before.

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_00]: In speech crackdowns.

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_00]: In other words.

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Crackdowns on free speech.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Because that's what this is doing.

[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_00]: By starving the platforms of advertising revenue.

[00:23:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Based on politics.

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_00]: You.

[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Then shut them down.

[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And you end up with no dissent.

[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_00]: You end up with no other side of the story.

[00:23:47] [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's Wikipedia.

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_00]: Wikipedia entries.

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Are more likely to paint public figures.

[00:23:53] [SPEAKER_00]: On the right.

[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_00]: In a negative light.

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Than people on the left.

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_00]: That's according to a study.

[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_00]: That was released.

[00:23:59] [SPEAKER_00]: In June.

[00:24:01] [SPEAKER_00]: By the Manhattan Institute.

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_00]: The study analyzed.

[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_00]: The sentiments of.

[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_00]: 1,628 words.

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_00]: That were used in reference.

[00:24:08] [SPEAKER_00]: To political topics.

[00:24:10] [SPEAKER_00]: And found that Wikipedia.

[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Generally uses more negative terms.

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_00]: In reference to right-leaning public figures.

[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_00]: And less when referencing.

[00:24:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Left-leaning figures.

[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I am shocked.

[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_00]: The results.

[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Would suggest that.

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Wikipedia is contradicting.

[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_00]: It's quote.

[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Neutral point of view policy.

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_00]: It also found.

[00:24:29] [SPEAKER_00]: That certain terms.

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Associated with right-wing politics.

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Are connected with emotions.

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Of anger.

[00:24:35] [SPEAKER_00]: And disgust.

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_00]: More than.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Left-wing politics.

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_00]: The same pattern.

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Can be seen.

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_00]: With left-leaning ideas.

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Being more associated.

[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_00]: With joy.

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Related terms.

[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Than right-leaning ideas.

[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of joy.

[00:24:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Joy.

[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Have you noticed this word.

[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Popping up all over the place.

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_00]: In regards to Kamala Harris.

[00:24:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Tim Walls.

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_00]: The.

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_00]: The veep.

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Pick the other day.

[00:24:55] [SPEAKER_00]: When they came out.

[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_00]: For their first.

[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Joint appearance.

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_00]: In Pennsylvania.

[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_00]: He was like.

[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.

[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_00]: Kamala Harris.

[00:25:02] [SPEAKER_00]: For bringing joy.

[00:25:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Back to politics.

[00:25:06] [SPEAKER_00]: My belief.

[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Is that.

[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_00]: They know.

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_00]: That.

[00:25:09] [SPEAKER_00]: Her weird.

[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Cackling laugh.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Is.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_00]: A problem.

[00:25:13] [SPEAKER_00]: And so.

[00:25:14] [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to.

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Rebrand it.

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_00]: As joy.

[00:25:16] [SPEAKER_00]: So the more she cackles.

[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_00]: They'll just say.

[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_00]: That's her bringing joy.

[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Back in.

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_00]: See it's branding.

[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Because they know.

[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_00]: She probably can't help herself.

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Talking about.

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Soft censorship.

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_00]: And hard censorship.

[00:25:29] [SPEAKER_00]: The soft censorship.

[00:25:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Being done through.

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Organizations.

[00:25:32] [SPEAKER_00]: Like Newsguard.

[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Global Alliance.

[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_00]: For Responsible Media.

[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Or GARM.

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_00]: In fact.

[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_00]: The head of GARM.

[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Rob Rakowitz.

[00:25:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Sent an email.

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_00]: To GARM.

[00:25:46] [SPEAKER_00]: This email.

[00:25:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Was obtained.

[00:25:48] [SPEAKER_00]: By the House Judiciary Committee.

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Last month.

[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_00]: And he wrote.

[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_00]: That he wanted.

[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_00]: To ensure.

[00:25:53] [SPEAKER_00]: You're working.

[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_00]: With an inclusion.

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_00]: And exclusion.

[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_00]: List.

[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_00]: That is informed.

[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_00]: By trusted partners.

[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Such as.

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Newsguard.

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER_00]: And.

[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_00]: GDI.

[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_00]: GDI.

[00:26:04] [SPEAKER_00]: By the way.

[00:26:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Was an initiative.

[00:26:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Called the Global Disinformation Index.

[00:26:09] [SPEAKER_00]: This was used.

[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_00]: To discourage.

[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Advertisers.

[00:26:12] [SPEAKER_00]: From supporting.

[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_00]: Certain sites.

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER_00]: All of the 10.

[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Quote.

[00:26:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Riskiest.

[00:26:17] [SPEAKER_00]: Sites.

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_00]: Targeted by the index.

[00:26:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Again.

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_00]: You may want to sit down.

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_00]: For this.

[00:26:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Popular sites.

[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_00]: For conservatives.

[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Libertarians.

[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And independents.

[00:26:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Websites like.

[00:26:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Reason.

[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry.

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Dot.

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_00]: Dot org.

[00:26:36] [SPEAKER_00]: My bad.

[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Reason.

[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Dot org.

[00:26:37] [SPEAKER_00]: This is the libertarian.

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_00]: Magazine.

[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Reason magazine.

[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_00]: They've been around forever.

[00:26:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Not forever.

[00:26:42] [SPEAKER_00]: But a long time.

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_00]: also libertarian and conservative law professors who would write about cases or legal controversies

[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_00]: they were put into the risky categories gdi would warn advertisers against quote financially

[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_00]: supporting disinformation online at the same time the huffington post a far-left media outlet was

[00:27:09] [SPEAKER_00]: included among the top 10 sites with the lowest risk of spreading disinformation once gdi's work

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_00]: and bias were disclosed government officials quickly disavowed the funding and this is the

[00:27:26] [SPEAKER_00]: familiar pattern within a few years jonathan turley writes that we found the work had been

[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_00]: shifted instead to groups like the garm which is the same thing but a little bit more so

[00:27:41] [SPEAKER_00]: it's the creation of a powerful and largely unknown group called the world federation of advertisers

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_00]: which has huge sway over the advertising industry and was quickly used by liberal activists to silence

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_00]: opposing views and sites by cutting off their revenue streams he goes on to say rakowitz the head of

[00:27:59] [SPEAKER_00]: the garm uh views on his views on free speech are chilling he has denounced the quote extreme

[00:28:07] [SPEAKER_00]: global interpretation of the u.s constitution he attacks civil libertarians left or right if you're a civil

[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_00]: libertarian he says oh you shouldn't be citing these principles for governance and apply them as literal

[00:28:26] [SPEAKER_00]: law i mean it was written 230 years ago by a bunch of white dudes the threat against free speech today is

[00:28:35] [SPEAKER_00]: being led by private groups seeking to exercise an unprecedented level of control over what people can read

[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_00]: and discuss turley goes on to say later in his piece those who value free speech should oppose blacklisting

[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_00]: systems like this the current anti-free speech movement is the most dangerous in history due precisely to

[00:28:55] [SPEAKER_00]: the sophistication and the unprecedented alliance of corporate media academic and government interests

[00:29:05] [SPEAKER_00]: right the thing that unites them all all of these different people in these different organizations

[00:29:11] [SPEAKER_00]: corporations media uh universities and government the thing that unites them is their political philosophy

[00:29:19] [SPEAKER_00]: and their political philosophy is to apparently shut down opposing views

[00:29:28] [SPEAKER_00]: and to do it either directly through hard censorship as we see in other western societies like the uk i just mentioned

[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_00]: oh and by the way there's a a guy here who is the um

[00:29:41] [SPEAKER_00]: he's one of the uh uk police officials and he's threatening basically to go extradite people like elon musk

[00:29:49] [SPEAKER_00]: who are posting things on twitter about what's happening in the uk and he's like

[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_00]: you know you keyboard warriors we can go after you in the online space and you will be just as

[00:30:02] [SPEAKER_00]: accountable as people that are rioting in the streets

[00:30:06] [SPEAKER_00]: okay well not all the people rioting in the streets just certain people like british citizens

[00:30:10] [SPEAKER_00]: the non-migrant non-islamist people who are rioting if you're a muslim you're migrant you're islamist

[00:30:17] [SPEAKER_00]: you can continue to riot you could take over streets and stuff that's totally fine even bring out some

[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_00]: swords and weaponry and stuff that's still all totally fine see that's why that's why this stuff

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