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Well, good morning and welcome to this impromptu Friday edition
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of The Whitfield Report live on Rumble X and now on Kik dot com
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as well. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to
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the show. I'm just going to be upfront.
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The entire purpose of this show here is to try out kik.com and
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you know, see how it works for us as far as streaming goes.
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And I apologize, I had my mic hot.
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Well, you know, I had the splash screen up, but you know, we seem
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to be we seem to be live now and, you know, going strong.
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So that's that's good. So anyway, welcome to everyone
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tuning in the live and hello to those in the chat.
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But I actually do have a little bit of a show today as well.
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Going to be kind of a short one, but a live 1 nonetheless.
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So folks, I want to start off today's show.
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We have, we talked about this, this children's or this kids
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protection act online on Wednesday.
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And basically, there are two things that are really
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concerning to not just me, but to a lot of people online.
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A the government is trying to, and this seems to be
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unfortunately a bipartisan thing for right now.
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This Kids Online Safety Act is basically the proposed
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legislation would be basically that any U.S.
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Citizen would have to basically give their ID, their government
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issued ID anytime that they wanted to access an adult
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website to view adult content under the guise of protecting
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children. And you know that this database
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would be essentially either available to, you know, your
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local government or to, you know, the, you know, the service
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provider, right, Which is really, you know, that might
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seem like a good, you know, aspect as far as like, you know,
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don't Condon goes to some people.
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But the problem is, is then you can enter the whole issue of
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what, well, what constitutes adult, you know, content right
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now, You know, the, the, the big thing seems to, you know, Oh,
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well, this is just, you know, to protect young children from
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going on to Pornhub and seeing, you know, inappropriate content
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on there, right? But, you know, unfortunately,
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the problem is, is that this, you know, Bill is way too broad.
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And, you know, adult content, as we pointed out, you know, on
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Wednesday's show for right now, it could just mean, you know,
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pornography, which I kind of have have an unpopular take on
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perhaps, you know, for some people in the audience.
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But it could also extend to things like, you know, video
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games, even like, you know, firearm, you know, related
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websites and firearm related magazines.
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You know, the left for sure is, you know, would try and shoehorn
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that in. And so I, you know, I think
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having these ID databases just in general is a really bad idea.
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And I also have perhaps, and I actually got some, you know,
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comments in my DMS regarding the show on on Wednesday because I'm
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not sure people under under really understand where my
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position is on this whole thing. So let me be absolutely clear on
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things, right? I understand that some people
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might have good intentions for wanting to support this
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legislation, you know, to protect underage children from
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viewing explicit content online. I understand as good intentions,
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but as the saying goes, the road to hell is paved with good
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intentions. And you know, this seems to be
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yet another. And of course, Rumble Studio,
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you know, it's going to kick me out.
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But anyway, as I was saying, ladies and gentlemen, the road
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to hell is paved with good intentions.
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And while I certainly believe that, yes, we should protect
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children from, you know, viewing pornography online, what I mean,
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we what I really mean is parents and guardians need to first and
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foremost be responsible, you know, for protecting their
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children from that. And teachers, you know, to, you
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know, to the extent as well, although, you know, given some
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of the literature that's been in schools, you know, for the last
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couple years, one could argue that that literature is, you
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know, pornographic. And, you know, that's a whole
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nother discussion. But Needless to say, like, yeah,
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there's this whole kind of argument out there and I don't
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know where people kind of come from this, you know, argument.
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I, I don't see where people draw these conclusions.
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But there's this whole line of thought that like, if you don't
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support this kids Online Safety Act that you somehow like think
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that kids viewing pornography online is OK and what not.
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And no, I don't think it's OK for kids to view pornography.
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You know, I think it could be, I think it could be be very
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damaging, you know, to kids to view that stuff at an early age.
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But I also think that, you know, playing violent video games can
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be, you know, particularly harmful for small kids.
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So yeah, I think we should protect them from that, you
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know, from porn and from violent content.
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You know, teenagers, I would also agree to some extent,
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shouldn't be exposed to that. However, this goes into like
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more, you know, this goes into more territory where like I
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don't think a teenage boy seeing a boob on the computer is
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necessarily the worst thing in the world either, you know,
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depending on, you know, depending on the, the context
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and like how explicit thing is. Like, I don't think Playboy is
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really all that bad, you know, in the ground scheme of things.
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But, you know, like I said, it's only up to, you know, the
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parents when you know, content like that.
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Should you know when their kids should be allowed to see conduct
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like that or like I said, violence would be a better
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example what this ID verification system would do
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for, you know, for the government.
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I don't think we necessarily even prevent, you know, kids.
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It wouldn't it wouldn't protect, you know, kids necessarily from,
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you know, seeing adult content. Maybe it would it maybe would
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prevent them from, you know, stumbling upon it like
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accidentally. But there are already tools out
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there to prevent that that parents can enable.
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And, you know, the private sector has done a pretty good
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job of that. But, you know, if if there are
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malicious adults out there who, you know, want to groom, groom
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kids, it's not going they'll find a way to, you know, bypass
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this, you know, alleged verification ID so it wouldn't
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run and protects kids. And then, you know, I think I
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think the bigger picture that people are, you know, missing
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here is, well, if you're requiring ID for, you know, porn
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sites, then you should also be required to have your government
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ID for social media and for your music streaming platforms like
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Spotify and Apple Music, which by the way, Spotify is already,
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you know, rolling out in some countries because of the whole,
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you know, why they got passed regarding all this in the EU,
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because kitchen be exposed to explicit lyrics either, right.
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So do you see where I'm I'm going with this?
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It's not just about, you know, pornography, as proponents of
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this, you know, are saying. This really does lead down a
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slippery slope that I think a lot of us are really unprepared,
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you know, prepared for. And I, I don't think people have
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fully, you know, grasped that, you know, today could today
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could be, you know, pornography, but tomorrow it could be
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orderly, your religious group. If it's, you know, considered a
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hate speech or something. And
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and apparently Rumble is not wanting to play nicely today, so
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that's lovely. But any who.
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So yeah, I mean, I have concerns about this and I think, you
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know, justifiable concerns regarding the censorship.
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Now I actually have a video about this that I want to, you
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know, go ahead and play that actually talks about the, you
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know, it talks about the, you know, ID registration for porn
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sites like in Texas and how much of a problem it's been.
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So this clip comes from the Linus I well, I know this is
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Linus Tech Tips. One of these guys is, I don't
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know the name of their podcast, but this is essentially their
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thing. And this is titled They're
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Making You Give Them Your ID. It's a 7 minute clip, but I
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think it's very interesting. And this is only from about like
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two or three weeks ago and it's very prescient into what we're
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talking about now. The Supreme Court in the US has
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upheld a Texas law that would require ID to visit some
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websites. Last Friday, in a six to three
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vote, the Supreme Court upheld a Texas law aimed at blocking
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minors from accessing online adult content.
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Which, on the face of it, sounds like a good thing.
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I don't think most miners need to be seeing that kind of
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content. However, like many potentially
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well-intentioned policies and legislation, this one is full of
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holes. And no, not all of them can be
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filled because we can't get to the websites to see it.
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Yep. The Free Speech Coalition had
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challenged the Texas law due to worries about the First
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Amendment being infringed upon. Justice Clarence Thomas stated
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he didn't believe that this restricts adults free speech
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rights, saying adults have the right to access speech obscene
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only to minors, but adults have no First Amendment right to
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avoid age verification. OK, even though this is now
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overturning decades of precedent and has the potential to upend
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access to 1st Amendment protected speech on the Internet
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for everyone, children and adults alike, said Samir Jane,
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vice president of policy at the nonprofit Center for Democracy
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and Technology. Yeah, this is because.
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And yeah, she's right. And I love Clarence Thomas, but
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this is an instance, you know, people ask why Max and I are so
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hard on the the baby boomers. And This is why.
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Because Clarence Thomas being a baby boomer, I don't think fully
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understands the nuance of what this means and how much of A
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slippery slope it is. Back in 1996 and 2004, as well
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as many other times, there were rulings that federal law at the
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time said it would be unconstitutional to have
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restrictive measures on content filtering.
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Several websites that would be required to have this age
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verification check are simply not running in Texas.
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As well as in several other states because they don't want
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to be the ones responsible for holding people's private
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information like driver's licenses, passports, and
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whatever other ID would be used to verify the user.
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See, that's the problem with this law is that I.
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Don't want that either. The government is not doing the
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work to make it manageable. They don't have a nationwide ID
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program for every man, woman and child that is properly
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administered and properly safeguarded and whatever.
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And I'm not even advocating for that as the solution here.
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I'm just saying that they are not doing the work and not
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putting in any kind of infrastructure that would enable
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these organizations to perform the identity and age
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verification checks that they are demanding that they perform.
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They're putting all of the liability on these private
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enterprises, all of whom are going to have to create from
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scratch some kind of solution to collect this information,
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validate it and store it. Which is I'm assuming they're
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sane. I'm assuming what they're hoping
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if I can make a if I can try to find an argument for them.
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Right now I'm assuming what they're hoping is that the free
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market will make a stripe like thing where the liability goes
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on a third party company that is very highly security focused.
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Sure, I mean that worked great for the credit monitoring
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industry. Equifax is awesome.
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TransUnion too. I love them both.
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Dude, what? I'm kind.
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Of surprised site is so garbage. I had to, they had a wrong
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address in my history and I, I had to, I like went in and tried
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to change it. And once you try to change it,
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first of all, it took me like or three times on the phone with
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them to stop my account from just randomly locking when I
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would try to get into it. And then we finally managed to
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get me into the account. And then it's like a separate
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portal to go and like register for a change.
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And then when I went, I finally got an e-mail saying that there
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was an update to my change request.
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And then when I tried to log into it, the page would error
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out every time I would try to go to it.
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I still don't know what happened with that, but I have never
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lived in Edmonton. It's it's been a wild saga.
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I. Yeah, I mean I the the.
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Thing that surprised me. The thing that surprises me the
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most is that there wasn't one of.
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That's true. Like how many times have the
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credit Bureau bureaus been hacked?
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How Max and I covered like earlier this year that the
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entire Social Security database or no, it was the end of last
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year, but but still it's, it's, you know, it's irrelevant as to
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what happened. But there was like a major
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security breach in the, in the Social Security website and
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millions of people's data got, you know, stolen and the
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government never did anything out and still hasn't.
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And yet we want to trust these people with, you know,
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government ID for, you know, quote, UN quote adult content
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websites. It's really really, you know, as
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more these would say this is ultra SUS behavior.
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So yeah, I don't I don't like this at all.
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But yeah, let's finish this up. These sites already queued up by
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one of the people trying to push for this bill.
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That's the thing that surprises me is that there isn't a
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solution that already at least sort of exists.
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I don't think they've got that far ahead.
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There's a There's a really interesting point at the end
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here. I think you're giving them too
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much credit. I think this is just classic
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well. Somebody.
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Please think of the. Children, I know, but as Elijah
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says at the end of this topic, I swear this prom topic comes up
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every month. I we've talked about the Texas
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one in particular, I think like 3 or 4 times.
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This is crazy. I don't have another solution to
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accomplish the thing that they want other than just clicking
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yes on a website and I don't think there is one.
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I I don't think so either, but like that's the issue is you're,
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you're supposedly, you know, anti government overreach and
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anti regulation, except when it's convenient or in this case
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like inconvenient. Like there isn't even there is
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no plan. There's no concept of a plan for
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how this could possibly be implemented.
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And look, I'm not saying that the adult entertainment industry
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is precious and should be protected at all costs at all.
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I'm just saying that if your argument is that they need to do
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this thing and you have literally no idea how you expect
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them to do it, how do you how do you legislate that?
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I like. I can't think of another example
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of something this stupid. And like, if you're, yeah,
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because I can imagine legislating something where you
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don't have the answer for it. I, I can't imagine that being a
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thing in a variety of scenarios. But in this scenario, the thing
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that you're trying to tell them to do is putting serious
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security risks on everyone involved.
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Well, yeah. So it's like you, you kind of
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know the only direction that they can go in and you know that
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it's bad, which seems not good. Yeah, I got to wonder what
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lobbyist is pushing this. Like who is who is asking for
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this? I don't know, genuinely unsure.
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Helen Lovejoy. That's the only possible thing I
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can think of. Who's that?
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Won't somebody? Please make up the.
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Children. Oh, that's actually, yeah, that
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is actually her. Wow, you're so informed.
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Am I? On The Simpsons, I'm.
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Sure. Yeah, Yep, yeah, pretty, pretty
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much. I mean, I haven't seen that.
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Yeah. So I mean, that's, that's the
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other thing. It it, it's really telling how
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like I'm not going to say all, I'm not going to say this is
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the, you know, the case for all of them.
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But like a lot of these, you know, admittedly, again, boomers
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and also, you know, Karen's and some of them were, you know,
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were Trump people. They were upset when Facebook
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and Twitter was censoring their, you know, their conservative,
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you know, you know, social media groups and justifiably so.
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And yet some of them are now saying, well, we need to
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restrict access to porn sites for children.
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And we need to have the government, you know, have
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everyone give them their IDs to do so or have these private
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institutions collect that data. And after all the abuses, you
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know, from censorship and privacy regarding, you know,
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social media platforms, do we really want the, you know, do we
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really want the adult industry or any other industry to be
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collecting ID like this? And by the way, they're,
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they're, they're all, there are already ways to like verify, you
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know, age for, you know, adult websites particularly like if
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you have an account on these sites, you know, most of them
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like, you know, they require you to pay to get in anyway.
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So you have to have a bank account, you know, where you're
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like credit card is tied to. And yeah, like they can tell
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from that that, you know, whether or not you're 18 or
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older. So again, this thing is
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incredibly stupid and it's it's a slippery slope that no one is
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focusing on on. Here's another take on the, you
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know, on the ID thing. This is actually a clip from a
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podcast that Mister Medicare was on back in 2022 with Clifton
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Duncan. Now, for those who don't know
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who Mr. Medicare is, Mr. Medicare, most people who wasn't
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to this show I know will know who Medicare is.
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OK, I know the vast majority of this audience does, but for the
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uninitiated, Mr. Medicare is basically a he's an Internet
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commentator from that was, was really famous like during the
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2015 kind of a, you know, Internet commentary era.
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He's not really, you know, he's not really like political, or at
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least he he wasn't for a long time until the far left and the
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social justice wars really started to, you know, try and
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cancel people online for a hate speech, right?
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He got cancelled himself, you know, off of some of these
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platforms. Like he's banned off YouTube
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officially. He's been banned off of all off
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of all these other platforms. And so he's kind of like a free
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speech, you know, protections guy essentially.
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There's more to him, obviously, but in this context of which
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we're talking about, yeah. Like he's, you know, a free
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speech online advocate. And so he was on this podcast
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with Clifton Duncan about two year, you know, to almost, you
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know, three years ago now. And they're talking at the state
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of the Internet and Medicare brings up this idea of, you
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know, of online censorship under the guise of we must protect the
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children and how some of these legislate like lighters at the
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time. You know, they want to they want
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to require one to, you know, give their ID's to the
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government or to these private, you know, companies, but that
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they don't understand the intent, you know, how that could
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backfire or what the downside of this is.
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So I want to play this segment of that interview for you.
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And by the way, I will link this in the notes of the show because
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I do think this is that this entire interview is worth
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watching again. Again, it's, you know, Mr.
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Medicare with Clifton Duncan. You can look it up.
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But yeah, so this is Mr. Medicare and Clifton Duncan
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talking out. You know the slippery slope with
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government in private institutions online asking for
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ID like this. There are crazy people in the
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world, right? Very basic safety stuff.
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But now you look at kids and what do they do?
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Here's my full name on my YouTube page that links to my
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Facebook that shows you the class I go to.
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It shows you who all my family members are, the city I live in,
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the phone number I have, you know, I have accounts to give
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donations to, all my favorite streamers.
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And so they know my bank account information and my mom's bank
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account information. There's no anonymity.
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And we're heading for, you know, what I see as being bad right
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now will be 10 times worse within the decade because I
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think the movement will be for the protection of people and for
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the protection of children and for safety and security.
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We need real ID. And so that's going to be a back
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end system when it starts and they'll sell it to people as
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listen, it's OK. You can still call yourself, you
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know, sniper XXX 360 no scope on YouTube.
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But to have that YouTube account, we need your ID.
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And when you have a, a Twitter account with a different name,
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it also links to that ID and your Facebook links to that ID.
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So on the back end, if you ever misbehave anywhere, we know
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exactly who you are. So we can protect you, right,
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until eventually that gets turned front way, you know, a
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kind of front forward and everybody can see it.
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That's my fear. I, I know people think anonymity
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on the internet's a bad thing. I think that's a perspective
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that's very new and I think it's wrong.
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I think it allows you to express yourself and for all the
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terrible things you might encounter, you don't want a
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system where your, the spotlight's on you.
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And that's not even for outrageous statements or
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nefarious things. Just even talking about what we
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just talked about, about kids being stupid and doing stupid
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shit. They should be allowed to.
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Like, if you're a kid, you're going to do dumb stuff.
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You know, that's just part of growing up.
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And I don't think your life should be destroyed for it.
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Yeah. And you know, I, I, I don't know
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if we can put the, the cat back in the bag or you know.
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So, yeah, that that's basically, you know, Medicare's point and
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that's kind my whole point regarding this whole whole thing
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too. I, I don't think this, you know,
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effectively an online censorship thing really like is a good
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idea. I don't think it solves the
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problem that, you know, well-intentioned people have.
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Honestly, I don't think that the people really pushing this bill
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have, you know, good intentions with this at all.
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I do think it's purely authoritarian.
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So I am very skeptical of this whole thing, but I can at least
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see the I can at least see the argument of like
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well-intentioned parents wanting to protect their, you know,
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children from this type of stuff.
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And so to those people, I am saying that, yeah, this, this,
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this is not the solution you want.
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And it's on you to protect, to protect, to protect your kids
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from online content like this. So anyway, well, folks, I just
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wanted to, you know, test out the the the kickstream here and
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see how it it goes. We've we've been going for about
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40 minutes here. So yeah, I think I think that'll
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about do it. I know this is a climb shorter
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episode, but yeah, this was fun to try out.
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I think Kik will be good for us and hopefully you know, the
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video on demand archive will work well and in rate.
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You can also find us on the Wiffle support over on on
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Rumble, over on the Wiffle Support Live.
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You can follow me on X at some of your brunch square in DC
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kick.com/the Whitfield Report. And you can follow the Whitfield
37:38
Report podcast, which basically is like, you know, it's podcast
37:44
version of these live streams on Spotify, you know, Apple
37:49
Podcasts and wherever else you get your podcasts to.
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This is right to find media as well.
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So check out all our other shows as well.
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Bits and Bones tonight at 10:00 PM with Morpheus over on his
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channel on Rumble. Anyway, like I said, folks, I
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hope everyone has a Good Friday. Thank you for tuning in for this
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stream. I'll, I'll talk of you down the
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road later. And take care, ladies and
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gentlemen. The right to offend is not some
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pesky little part of freedom of speech that we have to put up
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with. It is the heart and soul and
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lungs of freedom of speech. It is the coursing lifeblood of
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human protests. It is the instigator of liberty
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and modernity and science and understanding.
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What a laughing stock today's student leaders are that they
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can so casually dismiss the right to be offensive without
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realising that their lovely, enlightened lives are the gifts
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of individuals who gave offence. Offensiveness is not just
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something we have to begrudgingly accept.
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Offensiveness is the motor of human progress.
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