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  Now broadcasting from the next-gen conservative studio in
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  Sunny South Florida, bringing you the latest in politics
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  current events and pop culture. This is he's the Whitfield
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  Report with Sam Whitfield. Hello, everyone, and welcome
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  back to the channel for the Whitfield report.
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  And wow, what an amazing, you know, past 24 hours, we've had
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  in terms of the news cycle at the time of recording this
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  video, I believe it's been exactly 24 hours since it was
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  announced that Elon Musk took over Twitter.
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  His Twitter IQ acquisition was indeed successful.
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  And it's very interesting to know how people are reacting to
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  this first and foremost just - reaction was.
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  Wow, the madman actually did it. There were a lot of people that
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  did not want him taking over Twitter.
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  They're worse. still a lot of people who are unhappy that he
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  took over Twitter and we will you know, will get into why that
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  is here in just a second but honestly, folks, I have not been
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  this giddy Really, since Donald Trump won the election in 2016,
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  really since election night 2016 to be precise. it was a huge
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  upset then because Trump was not supposed to win according to,
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  you know, the mainstream narrative, you know, Hillary
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  Clinton was supposed to be the, you know, the anointed one.
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  It was her turn to be president. And, you know, Donald Trump was
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  a rodeo clown. And there, you know, mines, he
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  was not one to be taken serious, and then he went and did it.
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  And for the next, you know, really, Really the, you know,
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  the next two years. They spent a whole narrative
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  about Russia, they bitched and moaned endlessly, but I'm being
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  president, it really was not a, you know, it was not a pretty
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  sight. I don't think they took
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  Hillary's lost as well as they could have.
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  And I'm seeing a lot of parallels between how the left
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  is reacting. You know, to Elon, buying out
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  Twitter to how they reacted, when Trump Became president.
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  Now, to be fair, I don't think Elon Musk is particularly right
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  wing. I don't think he's necessarily
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  conservative, you know, leaning. I don't know.
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  I could be wrong on that. Ultimately though, he doesn't
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  seem like that much of a political guy.
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  He seems to be a free speech absolutist.
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  He has said, so in, you know, interviews that I've heard, you
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  know, he has said, he wants Twitter to be a platform for
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  all. In fact, since we are talking
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  about Twitter, let me go to his Twitter real quick.
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  Oh yes, and we'll get, we'll get into these headlines as well.
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  But what me what me navigate on over to Twitter real quick.
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  Okay. And what's go to your on?
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  Okay, let's go to he ones Twitter top.
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  Timeline. And boy.
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  Oh boy, is it? You know, this place is hopping.
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  And you know, there you have, let me go ahead and retweet that
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  right now the extreme end to body reaction from those who
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  fear Free Speech says it all. Yeah, and this is what it comes
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  down to. He's not really looking to
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  censor any one as far as I can tell.
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  He just wants the platform to be open, you know, to everyone.
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  Let me see if I Find the, you know the thing, okay?
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  So what's all this up, yesterday?
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  Musk said, free speech is the Bedrock of a function,
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  democracy, and Twitter is the digital Town Square.
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  We're matters vital to the future of humanity are debated.
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  Said Mr. Mosque. I also want to make Twitter
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  better than ever before. By making the product with new
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  features making the algorithm to open source to increase.
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  Trust defeating the spam Bots. And verifying all human Twitter
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  has let's see, tremendous potential.
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  I look forward to working with the company and the community of
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  users 10 log it. Okay?
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  So, that is what he said, yesterday.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, so, he's not talking about, You know.
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  Turning into a right wing Echo chamber.
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  That's what the, you know, that's what the narrative is 0.
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  Trump's, you know, Trump is Elon and Elon is Trump, they're, you
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  know, they're the same person, almost identical sort of that,
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  you know, that's what the media narrative seems to be.
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  He just wanted you to be open and, you know, free for everyone
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  and what is so bad about that. Well, let's just look at all
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  these headlines. There's nothing bad about it.
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  In my opinion, folks, I'm all I'm all for, let's turn Twitter
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  into, you know, the Free Speech, you know, Zone, where anyone and
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  everyone can come to communicate.
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  Right. But here's the narrative.
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  That is coming about. Okay, so from the mainstream
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  media, we have several articles Twitter has been focused on
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  healthy conversations, Elon Musk could change that.
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  And that's from CNN and their definition of healthy
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  conversation is basically sensor, anyone who is true
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  far-right from speaking or what, you know, or who they think is,
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  you know, unhealthy? Twitter words face of reality,
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  they long feared Elon Musk as owner Really, which Twitter
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  employs are Fray. There there are some other ones,
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  there's a great one. I read.
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  Just the headline from The New Yorker which we all know so far
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  left rag. This headline here, pretty much
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  says it all, how Congress can prevent Elon Musk from turning
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  Twitter back into an unfettered. Disinformation machine.
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  So this right here, ladies and gentlemen, this is the narrative
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  that there really trying to push that, you know, when Trump was
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  on Twitter, it was a knocking chaos and you know, prior to 20
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  prior to 20, you know, 18 or whenever it was just chaos it
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  was you know people are just slinging, you know,
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  disinformation and arrows and probably fecal matter on what it
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  was. It was a dumpster fire, this
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  information everywhere, you know, that's what they that's
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  what the left Cries Out. When they're presented with an
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  argument that they don't like, oh, you're just spreading
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  disinformation, you just spreading lies.
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  Well, you know how is having a debate about?
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  Out, you know, something like a certain Jab.
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  How is Raising concerns about that?
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  How is that spreading disinformation?
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  How was questioning, you know, Joe Biden's viability as
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  president of the United States? How is it?
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  That spreading disinformation. how is, how is he on Moscow,
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  allowing hundreds of thousands of You know, just ordinary
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  people who have been banned, how is that allowing the spread of
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  misinformation, right? That seems to be a.
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  You know, big bone of contention ear.
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  Now, You know disinformation is the big catch all here, right
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  folks? That's that's the main argument.
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  that the left is using for, you know, why elon's takeover is Pat
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  that and hate speech which At this point, ladies and
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  gentlemen, and we've covered it on the show multiple times.
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  Hey speech is such a catch-all term now.
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  It doesn't really mean anything anymore.
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  Basically the left has made it. You know, that anything I don't
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  like is, hey speech. Anything I disagree with is hey
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  speech. Right.
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  And so going back, too. Going back to yawns tweet, the
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  extreme antibody reaction from those who fear Free Speech says
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  it all. And I completely Only agree,
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  100%. This is not something that
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  people should be afraid of the ones who are afraid of you ons,
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  take over and wanting to turn this back into read speech are
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  the people who wanted to control a narrative and he want you to
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  use big Tech to do it now. As some of you may remember, A
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  few months ago, I had my friend Sean some anko.
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  Host of Real News, founder uncensored America, you know,
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  you know, just an all-around great guy.
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  I had him on because he was banned from Twitter for platform
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  manipulation. Right.
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  But when I asked him what platform manipulation was or if
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  they you know, explained to him how he was, you know,
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  manipulating Twitter's platform. He said they didn't know.
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  He said he didn't know. That was just the time. term
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  that gave him, you know, it and he was, Perma banned.
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  So the only or the only accounts that he has, you know, able to
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  him at this time, our diverse media, you know, accounts, which
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  he only uses to tweet out the real news podcast and then
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  uncentered America, which is his organization's Twitter account,
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  but he himself has no personal Twitter, right?
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  And, you know, platform manipulation like I said that
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  such a broad sweeping turn. You know my friend Rob.
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  My friend Rob lorch who I've talked about on the show before.
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  Wait isn't gentleman. I met Rob.
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  On the old Dennis Miller radio show forms back. back when that
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  was a thing, scuse me back when I first moved to to Florida, Way
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  back in the day. You know, Rob was one of the
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  most entertaining people on Twitter.
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  He was funny. He was witty, you know, he still
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  has, he's not dad. You know, any Eve was political
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  somewhat, but mostly he would like, just retweet political
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  things from other accounts and then mostly his whole thing was,
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  he would either like Jokes or a when he was big into like, 80s
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  horror film stuff. I remember he would tweet a lot
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  about that. He got banned.
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  I can't remember why I think I think was because like some
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  feminist activist basically called him, you know, a rapist
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  or something. He basically told her to, you
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  know, pound sand. She basically, flagged him for
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  harassment or something like that, that and he got banned,
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  you know, even though she was the one who instigated Yeah.
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  Right? So there are there are
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  definitely cases like that. And by the way, ladies and
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  gentlemen. Well we are well, we are on this
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  video. Go to my profile here.
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  I want people to see this. Hold on sec.
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  Okay. This was a tweet that I put out
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  yesterday. On Twitter, dear are Li Yuan
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  mosque. I humbly ask that you unbanned,
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  my friend Rob out at our Lord, as he was unfairly band.
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  Five years ago, he has a great sense of humor and as avatars
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  wins a prize, as a kid too. So how can you say no to that?
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  Thank you. And yeah, I hopefully we will be
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  getting the edit button folks because you know, there is a
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  typo here as you can see and there's no way to edit that and
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  you know, my good friend Dominica section.
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  I second this Rob large is one of the funniest clubbers and
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  smartest people on Twitter hashtag free of Borg Which I
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  completely agree with. It's gotten 10 likes and one
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  quote tweet from Rachel Winstead, shout out to her to
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  her and her husband Jeff, the Fantastic comic book artist And
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  you know, Rob lorch is not like a celebrity.
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  You know, he's not like some edgy shitpost or anything like
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  that. I mean he is a celebrity in my
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  world you know, in my small little corner of it and I he
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  should be, he's certainly comedic Lee talented enough but
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  you know, he's just an ordinary guy.
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  And he got unfairly banned from Twitter.
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  But you know, there are other accounts that were banned the
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  already have come back, I think. You know, off the top of my head
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  my good friend. John.
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  Eric. Hey, He is back on Twitter,
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  actually, after being banned. I think he was, I think he was
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  banned actually before I met him honestly.
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  Because he just followed me last night.
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  I know that drunk three pios accountants back, so that's
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  good. Baked Alaska's account.
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  Although, you know, I'm not a big fan of baked Alaska anymore.
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  He's back on Twitter. And yes folks I do want to get
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  into that a little bit because right there are some people on
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  the right who I think are troublemakers.
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  And who I don't necessarily agree with Owen, Benjamin being
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  the most notable one, right? You know, Owen Benjamin doxxed.
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  Two of my friends was harassing them, you know, by extension
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  his, you know, his Colt fans were like spanning my chats, you
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  know, trying to like, harass me on Twitter, trying to get my
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  stuff taken down. Right?
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  Because I called out Owen on some of his BS when he went
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  crazy. But I've always said that when,
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  you know, one of the reasons why I think Owen Benjamin went crazy
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  was because he got censored from Twitter and You know, that the
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  decline in I went, it seemed pretty, you know, sharp.
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  Once he got banned from Twitter, And so while I don't agree with
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  you. No oh and on a lot of stuff now.
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  I definitely think that censoring and banning him from
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  Twitter. Twitter, hurt him.
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  To be honest, I don't think he would have become as crazy or
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  radical, you know, if he if he were still on Twitter I think he
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  would have had, you know, more mainstream voices and more R.
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  I guess not even mainstream but more rational voices, perhaps
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  speaking to him. You know, and this is the other
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  thing too is like, you know, censorship David being even done
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  studies on this. One in one of the big Arguments
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  for Banning like super right-wing.
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  People as You know, or like you know, hey speech accounts like
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  the KKK, wanting one reason they have is, well, they don't want
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  to radicalize people, right? They don't want to rely on
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  social media to become a group, a breeding ground for a speech.
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  The problem with Banning Speech off Twitter, even if it is hey
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  speeches, those who seek that stuff out.
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  Will find it anyway. And I'll go down rabbit holes,
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  so go deeper and deeper into their Echo Chambers and it never
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  ends up. Well, you know, turning out.
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  Well anyway, whereas, you go onto a platform like Twitter
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  back in the old days, when things are open.
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  When you have, you know, A diversity of opinion.
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  Yeah, you might get hate speech. You might get some racist
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  speech, but I guarantee you like, back in the old days of
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  Twitter. If?
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  you know, if if someone said something like, you know, why
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  people are superior to black people or, you know, Vice verse
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  black, people are spiritual white people or anything like
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  overtly racist back in the old back in the old days, you would
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  have people. You know, we replies that person
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  and yeah you might get people, you know, that say, fuck you
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  that's racist or you know whatever.
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  But there were a lot of instances back in the old days
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  of Twitter where you would get radical people like No, people
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  from the Westboro Baptist Church who would tweet out you, do
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  Insane things. But then you know, counter to
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  that, you would have black people responding to them and
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  question their logic and actually challenging them to an
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  intellectual debate and that's what we need.
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  You know, and Twitter we don't need more censorship of thought
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  we already have that and too much of it at this point.
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  I, you know, all be bold enough to say that the only antidote to
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  hate speech is more speech than good speech.
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  Don't censor? Hey, speech allowed.
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  Good speech. You know, to come in and
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  counteract that speech, if it's such an age, if it's such an
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  issue for you censorship does not work now, you know, doxing
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  and like threatening and harassment.
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  That's a different story. but, you know, if it if actually like
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  causes harm to your physical safety, like a threat, if
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  someone's threatening to kill you and it's, you know, active,
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  you know, and it's verifiable that that's one thing that's
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  shouting fire in a movie theater but Yeah, climbing Haze.
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  Connie hate speech, because someone says something, distaste
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  for something. You don't agree with.
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  That should not be banned animal.
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  That should be debated. Maybe and, you know, allowed for
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  discussion, but it certainly should not be banned.
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  So that's just my take on the whole free speech.
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  Thing with Twitter in regards to Features, I like to have well we
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  certainly need an edit button. And I, you know, I know you'll
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  on is looking at doing that and that's kind of the meme at this
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  point, you know, the Elan. But at Twitter simply to add and
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  edit button, right? That's one of the memes.
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  But now I think, you know, an edit button needs to be, you
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  know, taken into account. I think the you I might need to
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  be cleaned up a bit one feature that I really think needs to be
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  brought back, is 0 is allowing Warren are accounts to be
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  verified. And what do I mean by verified?
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  Well, you know, back in the early days of Twitter, basically
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  anyone could apply to be verified to have a blue
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  checkmark verification, essentially means that You know,
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  your profile is your official profile that it's you who is you
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  know, representing an account and not like a fan account or
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  not someone doing like a parody Or, you know, kind of like an
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  impersonation account. And I think You know.
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  Now, Twitter verification is kind of like us is kind of like
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  a, you know, a celebrity stat that is type of thing.
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  But in all honesty, I think verification should be, like,
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  open to anyone. Who is actually wanting to
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  verify their identity because I for one have multiple accounts.
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  Yeah, I have this one and then I have a back one by also have,
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  you know, I've seen there was an account like about a year or so
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  ago that was using my profile picture and that was kind like
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  impersonating me to send spam to people, you know.
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  And fortunately I was able to report it and shut it down one
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  and whatnot and whatnot. but, You know, by having my actual
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  Twitter account verified by having that blue checkmark,
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  people could know that it's actually me, you know, what
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  speaking and representing myself even though I'm not, you know, a
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  major public fear. I still am a public figure
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  somewhat. So, just like on mountains.
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  I think we should be allowed to verify easily.
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  So you know that's my main stick.
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  Now as far as like other platforms like you know mines
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  and gab was a night I think Gap is from pretty much dead you
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  know if they do bring back Trump and they start to bring back all
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  these other band figures back onto Twitter I think gab is dead
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  minds and I wasn't I actually think mines will continue to
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  maybe be a viable thing. Because people say that Minds is
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  a twit alternative. But honestly, I see mines is
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  more like a Facebook alternative to be honest.
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  And Minds is also trying to do its own thing with crypto, you
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  know, currency and why not and using that for social media.
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  So honestly I don't think alt text should necessarily be shut
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  down everything. Now the Twitter is, you know,
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  and more responsible, my hands anything.
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  I think, you know, people should be allowed to you know, be on
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  multiple platforms and maybe some of these platforms can
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  actually be real competitors to Twitter now, But honestly, those
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  are just a mole in my initial thoughts on this whole thing.
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  I don't want to take too, too much more of your time, really
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  appreciate everyone for tuning into this video.
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  And you know, for those of you watching this, I will have a
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  video and actually full-length episode of the podcast up later
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  today. So be sure to check that out
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  like good friend, Luke Nicholas. Is my guest we recorded an
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  interview on Sunday, we talked for two hours so that will be be
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  premiering at like 5:00 p.m. eastern time on Spotify and on
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  YouTube. So be on the lookout for that
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  should be pretty good but folks I want to thank you for all your
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  time and thanks for watching this video and you're listening
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