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Zuckerberg Dumps Leftist Fact Checkers From META · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  Speaker 1: Here's the full video from Mark Zuckerberg announcing the end
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  Speaker 1: of censorship and misinformation policies. I highly recommend you watch
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  Speaker 1: all of it as totally. It is one of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest indications of elections have consequences I have ever seen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: this is a perfect example of elections have consequences, like
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  Speaker 1: really good ones. Sometimes actually, like everything that happens isn't terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's a good thing, right, Maybe I should mention
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  Speaker 1: that on X because it's got the new positivity score.
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  Speaker 1: I checked mine. It was like thirty eight out of
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  Speaker 1: one hundred. Not great. Maybe I should say that not
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  Speaker 1: everything is a disaster anymore. Some things are actually good.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing. All right, let's take a look at this,
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  Speaker 1: and this is a massive change, like this is this
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  Speaker 1: is really should this should be seen as just a
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  Speaker 1: massive earthquake in the whole narrative control landscape.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, everyone, I want to talk about something important today,
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  Speaker 2: because it's time to get back to our roots around
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  Speaker 2: free expression on Facebook and Instagram. I started building social
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  Speaker 2: media to give people a voice. I gave a speech
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  Speaker 2: at Georgetown five years ago about the importance of protecting
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  Speaker 2: free expression, and I still believe this today, but a
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  Speaker 2: lot has happened.
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  Speaker 3: To He didn't seem to believe it before.
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  Speaker 1: That's the problem, right, Like he admitted that he bowed
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  Speaker 1: to pressure from the government to sensor things, from government agencies,
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  Speaker 1: from intelligence agencies, to censor things, right, So, I mean
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  Speaker 1: he didn't actually believe that before.
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  Speaker 2: For the last several years, there's been widespread debate about
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  Speaker 2: potential harms from online content. Governments and legacy media have
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  Speaker 2: pushed to censor more and more. A lot of this
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  Speaker 2: is clearly political, but there's also a lot of legitimately
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  Speaker 2: bad stuff out there. Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation. These are
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  Speaker 2: things that we take very seriously and I want to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that we handle response.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and everybody's for that. Everybody's for getting that out right,
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  Speaker 1: it's just the you know, dead naming, you know, fifty
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  Speaker 1: security experts, that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, let's continue possibly.
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  Speaker 2: So, we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content.
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  Speaker 2: But the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: Even if they accidentally censored just one percent of posts,
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  Speaker 2: that's millions of people. And we've reached a point where
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  Speaker 2: it's just too many mistakes in too much censorship. The
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  Speaker 2: recent elections also feel like a cultural tipic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the mistakes are where the narrative control lies. That's
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  Speaker 1: the narrative control. There the mistakes. But let's continue to.
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  Speaker 2: Point towards once again prioritizing speech. So we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes,
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  Speaker 2: simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms.
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  Speaker 2: More specifically, here's what we're going to do. First, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to get rid of fact checkers and replace them
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  Speaker 2: with community notes similar to X. Starting in the US,
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  Speaker 2: after Trump first got elected in twenty sixteen, the legacy
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  Speaker 2: media wrote NonStop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy.
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  Speaker 2: We tried, in good faith to address those concerns without
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  Speaker 2: becoming the arbiters of truth, but the fact checkers have
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  Speaker 2: just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust
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  Speaker 2: than they've created, especially in the US. So over the
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  Speaker 2: next couple of months, we're going to phase in a
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  Speaker 2: more comprehensive community notes system. Second, we're going to simplify
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  Speaker 2: our content policies and get rid of a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just
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  Speaker 2: out of touch with mainstream discourse.
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  Speaker 1: They've always been out of touch with it. Immigration has
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  Speaker 1: always been a topic that's been that should be fair
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  Speaker 1: game in the public square. Always everything, gender theory, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the infinite series of abstractions made up out of whole cloth.
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  Speaker 1: But now apparently he's come to the realization, is he
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  Speaker 1: genuine or not? Is he just going with the winds
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  Speaker 1: of change. Either way, this is still a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: What started as a movement to be more inclusive has
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  Speaker 2: increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out
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  Speaker 2: people with different ideas, and it's gone too far. So
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  Speaker 2: I want to make sure that people can share their
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  Speaker 2: beliefs and experiences on our platforms.
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  Speaker 1: I like the fact that he's admitting there that, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's just been a way, this fact checking, the censorship,
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  Speaker 1: you know, editorializing. You know, what you can talk about,
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  Speaker 1: what you can talk about in the public square, and
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  Speaker 1: what you can't based on essentially on leftists, not essentially
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  Speaker 1: entirely on leftist standards.
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  Speaker 3: That has shut down debate. Right. I'm just glad to
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  Speaker 3: hear him admitting this.
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  Speaker 2: Third, we're changing how we enforce our policies to reduce
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  Speaker 2: the mistakes that account for the vast majority of censorship
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  Speaker 2: on our platforms. We used to have filters that scanned
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  Speaker 2: for any policy violation. Now we're going to focus those
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  Speaker 2: filters on tackling illegal and high severity violations, and for
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  Speaker 2: lower Sivie already violations, we're going to rely on someone
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  Speaker 2: reporting an issue before we take action. The problem is
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  Speaker 2: that the filters make mistakes and they take down a
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  Speaker 2: lot of content that they shouldn't, So by dialing them back,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to dramatically reduce the amount of censorship on
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  Speaker 2: our platforms. We're also going to tune our content filters
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  Speaker 2: to require much higher confidence before taking down content. The
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  Speaker 2: reality is that this is a trade off. It means
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  Speaker 2: we're going to catch less bad stuff, will also reduce
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  Speaker 2: the number of innocent people's posts and accounts that we
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  Speaker 2: accidentally take down.
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  Speaker 1: Fourth the filters were always there, always super sensitive, for
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  Speaker 1: the purpose of taking down anything that Marxists found politically incorrect.
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  Speaker 3: That's the reality. I'm glad it's changing. I'm glad it's changing.
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  Speaker 2: Now we're bringing back civic content. For a while, the
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  Speaker 2: community asked to see less politics because it was making
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  Speaker 2: people stressed, so we stopped recommending these posts. But it
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  Speaker 2: feels like we're in a new era now and we're
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  Speaker 2: starting to get feedback that people want to see this
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  Speaker 2: content again. So we're going to start phasing this back
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  Speaker 2: into Facebook, Instagram, and threads while working to keep the
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  Speaker 2: communities friendly and positive. Fifth, we're going to move our
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  Speaker 2: trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California
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  Speaker 2: and our US based content review is going to be
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  Speaker 2: based in Texas. As we work to promote free expression,
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  Speaker 2: I think that will help us build trust to do
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  Speaker 2: this work in places where there is less concern about
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  Speaker 2: the bias of our teams. Finally, we're going to work
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  Speaker 2: with President Trump to push back on governments around the world.
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  Speaker 2: They're going after American companies and pushing to censor more.
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  Speaker 2: The US has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression
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  Speaker 2: in the world. Europe has an ever increasing number of
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  Speaker 2: laws institutionalizing censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative.
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  Speaker 2: Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies
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  Speaker 2: to quietly take things down. China has sensored apps from
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  Speaker 2: even working in the country. The only way that we
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  Speaker 2: can push back on this global trend is with the
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  Speaker 2: support of the US GO and That's why it's been
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  Speaker 2: so difficult over the past four years, when even the
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  Speaker 2: US government has pushed for censorship by going after US
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  Speaker 2: and other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to
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  Speaker 2: go even further. But now we have the opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: restore free expression, and I am excited to take it.
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  Speaker 2: It'll take time to get this right, and these are
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  Speaker 2: complex systems. They're never going to be perfect. There's also
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  Speaker 2: a lot of illegal stuff that we still need to
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  Speaker 2: work very hard to remove. But the bottom line is
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  Speaker 2: that after years of having our content moderation work focus
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  Speaker 2: primarily on removing content, it is time to focus on
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  Speaker 2: reducing mistakes, simplifying our systems, and getting back to our
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  Speaker 2: roots about giving people voice. I'm looking forward to this
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  Speaker 2: next chapter, Stay good out there, and more to come soon.
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  Speaker 1: So whether or not he's being sincere about his own
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  Speaker 1: his own ideas, his own thoughts, it doesn't matter as
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  Speaker 1: long as he's sincere in following through on it. As
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  Speaker 1: long as he follows through on that actually does it,
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  Speaker 1: then that's good. That's just a win, right, that's just
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  Speaker 1: a win. I mean that would mean that the norm
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  Speaker 1: is returning to sanity again, and that people are operating
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  Speaker 1: within a sane norm again. They just automatically will do that.
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  Speaker 1: That's good, that's good for society. Does it matter if
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  Speaker 1: he really believes it or not, or believes in it
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  Speaker 1: or not, whether he's just going with the winds of
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  Speaker 1: change or not.
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  Speaker 3: Right, the norm.
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  Speaker 1: Returning to sanity again is still a good thing. But
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  Speaker 1: in the larger picture, what I see is whether or
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  Speaker 1: not he's genuine or not doesn't really matter. What we
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  Speaker 1: see is that the norms are returning to sanity, right.
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  Speaker 1: The default is returning to sanity, right, the default being.
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  Speaker 3: No, you don't.
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  Speaker 1: Censor legal speech, you don't censor normal speech. You don't
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  Speaker 1: censor people for accurately describing the world as they see it. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: That's all I'm gonna say about that. Please like, share,
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  Speaker 1: for that. I will see you next time.