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Andrew Dickens: Why should America check my socials? · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: I don't want to ask what is America thinking? But
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  Speaker 1: what are they thinking? As more details of their social
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  Speaker 1: media information request to enter the States came to the
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  Speaker 1: light yesterday, the less I wanted to go there. To
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  Speaker 1: get in, I need to supply a wealth of personal information,
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  Speaker 1: including DNA and all my social media links. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: love America and it's people, but if I have to
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  Speaker 1: jump through all those hoops, my first reaction is to
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  Speaker 1: forget it. The Land of the Free is no longer
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  Speaker 1: the land of the free speech. Say the wrong thing
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  Speaker 1: on social media, they may cancel you. This is worse
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  Speaker 1: than anything under Biden and Obama. It's canceled culture writ large,
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  Speaker 1: and the irony is so dumb because if you really
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  Speaker 1: are an enemy of the States, you've already canceled all
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  Speaker 1: your social media. This is going to cancel the tourists
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  Speaker 1: and not the terrorists in Seace. I'll probably get canceled
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  Speaker 1: because I've said this. Here's the other bonkers thing that
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  Speaker 1: I heard yesterday out of Trump's America. Marca Rubio halted
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  Speaker 1: the State Department's official use of the typeface Calibri. He
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  Speaker 1: called the whole font wasteful and order the return of
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  Speaker 1: Times New Roman called it as part of a push
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  Speaker 1: to stamp out diversity. Now, I thought, how does that work. Well, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty three, Anthony Blincoln ordered the typeface
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  Speaker 1: change to Calibri to improve accessibility for readers with disabilities.
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  Speaker 1: If you've got low vision or dyslex here and people
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  Speaker 1: who use screen readers, it's easier to read. And that
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  Speaker 1: is in fact true. It was invented for people with
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  Speaker 1: low vision. And by the way, it's Microsoft Officer's default font,
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  Speaker 1: and apparently it works. But apparently it's also woke. So
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  Speaker 1: America's going back to Times New Roman. And the left says,
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  Speaker 1: of course they're going back to Times New Roman. Meg
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  Speaker 1: is obsessed with all things Roman. Now, this would all
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  Speaker 1: just be a bit funny, you know, I just change
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  Speaker 1: the font. If it wasn't actually so expensive, you'd think
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  Speaker 1: you just have to ask everyone changing the default font,
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  Speaker 1: off we go. But no, Apparently teams are going to
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  Speaker 1: have to check every little unit. And apparently that's one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty five thousand dollars an agency. And there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of agencies in American bureaucracy. And here's the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Times New Roman takes more ink, and then when you
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  Speaker 1: calculate the sheer volume of wordage being printed out of
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  Speaker 1: the American state, the cost actually mounts into many millions.
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  Speaker 1: The rite off and complain about the cost of crazy
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  Speaker 1: left wing ideology, seemingly blessfully unaware that their jest is
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  Speaker 1: ideologically crazy. For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,
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