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Trump's Billionaires Now Control Your Media · The imuRgency Room

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  So MAGA owns the media now. Anyone, anyone cheering nobody.
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  I didn't think so. Hey guys, sub emergency, welcome
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  back to my channel. And let's let's talk about this
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  because if you weren't aware, there was just a monumental
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  media merger. That's a lot of M's that just
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  went through between Paramount, Skydance, essentially Paramount
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  Pictures and all that comes with that and Warner Brothers
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  Discovery. And if this sounds like old news
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  to you, that's because because it initially was or at least we
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  all thought it was like this is nothing new.
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  There has been talks of a Warner Brothers merger happening for
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  honestly like months now. And a lot of people when this
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  news broke were like, Oh my God, this is really bad because this
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  is the potential death merger of media of having everything under
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  1 conglomerate. Except that conversation was had
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  primarily around Netflix because for a while it was poised that
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  Netflix was going to buy Warner Brothers discovery and
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  everything would be under the Netflix umbrella.
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  However, as I lived yesterday, as of recording this video,
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  Paramount made a counter offer towards that deal that was at a
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  higher amount than what Netflix is going to pay.
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  And Netflix yesterday decided that, yeah, I don't need that.
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  I don't know who need that, but we at Netflix do not need that.
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  So we are backing out of the steel, which means that
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  Paramount is now acquiring Warner Brothers Discovery, which
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  again is flooding the news with the end times of media rhetoric.
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  Paramount just outbid Netflix to take over Warner Brothers.
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  And if you live in the US, this is actually pretty bad news.
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  Over the last year, President Trump has been quietly planting
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  allies at almost every major news outlet.
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  And if one person controls the media, they control the
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  narrative. Everything that you see, but
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  importantly, everything that you don't see.
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  And I'm pretty much here to tell you that, yeah, some of that is
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  very valid. Like, this was a $110 billion
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  deal that essentially just sold our news, our media and our
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  entertainment to the Trump administration.
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  Like, this might be hyperbole, but this feels very similar to,
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  like, the entertainment equivalent to the Supreme Court
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  being packed with conservatives. Because this is going to last us
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  quite a long time. And the repercussions of this
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  have yet to be fully seen, but definitely will be realized in
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  due time. And I think by the time that
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  they are fully realized, it might be too late.
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  And let me explain why to breakdown exactly why everyone
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  is freaking out about this, we have to understand what these
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  parent companies really entail and why this feels so sketchy
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  entertainment wise. Like, yeah, this sounds like a
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  big deal. Yes, this was a large amount of
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  money that was used for this deal.
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  But what has actually come with it?
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  And in order to break that down, we have to initially talk about
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  what comes with each company. So let's look at Paramount.
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  So when you think of Paramount, you may think of things like
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  Paramount Plus, which does not sound really crazy because
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  Paramount Plus historically hasn't been the most relevant
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  streaming service. Although, and I say that as
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  someone who's had a Paramount Plus gift card for I want to say
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  like four or five years at this point and has not redeemed it
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  because I have to watch it on there.
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  So maybe this is an example of patience being a very true.
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  But Paramount as it stands prior to this deal going through owns
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  the CBS network, which includes things like CBS News and all
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  that comes with that. BET, Comedy Central, country
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  music television, Nickelodeon, the Paramount Network, Pop,
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  Smithsonian TV Land, VH1 and Showtime as well as Pluto TV.
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  And that's already a huge swath of entertainment and news when
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  we talk about that. But with this Warner Brothers
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  acquisition, they're also gaining HBO and HBO Max, CNNTNT,
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  the Discovery Channel, TOCHDTV, the Food Network, Cartoon
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  Network, and much, much more. And that combined under one
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  company is insane and is an exorbitant amount of IP under
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  one name. And I'm going to get serious in
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  a second, but I swear, if I see Superman being some kind of
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  dealer for roof smoking a point with SpongeBob SquarePants in
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  this new season of Vuforia, I am going to crash out.
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  Because what do you mean they are now all under the same
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  company? Like this is insane.
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  We can't win. We can't win bro Why?
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  But getting that contract? Be serious.
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  For me, this essentially means that in the streaming sector,
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  the three main superpowers right now are Netflix, now Paramount
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  and Disney. And that's already not great
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  when we're talking about like, the whole, let's not monopolize
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  all of entertainment. But the implications of this
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  politically is really where things start to look scary.
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  Now just came out literally to go to Netflix is declined to
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  raise the offer and it's looking like Paramount is going to buy
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  Warner Brothers. We were just getting used to the
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  idea of Netflix and Warner Brothers being one unit and that
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  took a lot. And you mean to tell me that the
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  fucking Ellison's are going to have a major stake in Hollywood
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  and going to be pumping out Trump Zionist and conservative
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  propaganda? This is some bold mind.
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  It is after multiple CEO's went to Congress, went to go visit
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  Trump, the DOJ was stepping in. Meanwhile, us, the consumers,
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  have to suffer. So like I said, with this
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  acquisition, one parent company now owns news sources like
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  CBSCNN and TNT, if you can call with that.
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  I just say that because TNT typically owns things like
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  sports and Sports News as well as also owning MTV.
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  And this becomes especially concerning when you look at who
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  the head of Paramount is right now and who his ties and
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  allegiances are currently to enter David Ellison.
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  And if that last name sounds familiar, that's because David
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  Ellison is the son of Larry Ellison, the very popular
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  billionaire who has not only been a long time Republican
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  supporter and donor as well as someone who has very closely
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  aligned themselves with Trump, but he also is the owner of
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  Oracle. And if Oracle's sounds familiar
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  to you, it's because Oracle is pretty much everywhere.
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  But Oracle is most recently in the news because they are now
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  the largest stakeholder of TikTok.
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  Yes, yes. So one family with very close
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  allegiances to Trump to the point where they get personally
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  invited to the State of the Union address, not only own the
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  largest social media platform in the country, but also own damn
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  near half of the news media companies as well as regular
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  media entertainment companies. And if that doesn't sound
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  concerning to you, or if you're like, just because they're
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  really close aligned to Trump, doesn't mean they're going to do
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  things in favor of Trump and let their political affiliations
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  bleed into their work. And then I have some news for
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  you. And that news for you,
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  ironically, comes with the historical precedent of CBS and
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  specifically the recent fall of CBS.
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  Because if you weren't familiar, CBS was a news platform that
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  used to pride itself on its neutrality, often trying to
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  report on stories geared towards the mainstream massive audience.
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  So they weren't perfect by any means, but they generally tried
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  to stick somewhere in the middle in terms of reporting and in the
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  ways that they wrote about stories.
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  However, many have noticed that recently CBS has taken a turn as
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  David Ellison has become more and more cozy with the Trump
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  administration has moved CBS from being more center left to
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  now leaning more right. With CBS News's new editor in
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  chief, Barry Weiss taking prominent stances to make CBS
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  more anti woke and also getting in the news for the untimely
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  cancellation of the late night show with Stephen Colbert.
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  Essentially making moves and going after people that have
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  criticisms over the Trump administration and what's been
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  going on in the world. And we've also been seeing CBS
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  make interesting changes to the languages and headlines that
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  they put online, either covering more of what the Trump
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  administration is doing and framing it in a positive or
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  neutral way as opposed to a neutral negative way no matter
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  what is coming out. As well as under reporting on
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  things that are just flat out bad IE Epstein stuff, economy
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  stuff, ICE stuff. This is a chart showing the
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  decline in Tony Decapol's first week on air. the Y axis here.
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  Admittedly not very generous to Tony Decapol and CBS, but here
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  it is. On Monday of last week, his
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  first week, the viewership was around 4.4 million.
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  Pretty good. But by Thursday, literally 3
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  days later, it shot down to 3.9 million.
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  Fully 500,000 people said Nah we're good.
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  And now after two weeks we know. Viewership down 23% compared
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  with the same period a year. Ago and this is setting a spooky
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  precedent now that we have more news networks under that same
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  parent company of Paramount and only time will tell if these
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  news networks like CNNMTV and TNT go down a similar the root,
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  which does bring up more questions around what it means
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  to be a Free Press. Like is the press really free if
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  billionaires can essentially just buy them out and make them
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  say and report on whatever they want or not report on whatever
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  they want. And this is all coming out of
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  time where we are deep in the mis and disinformation wars
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  where it is harder than ever to know if something is true or not
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  AI manipulated or not, or are in some way shape or form just
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  plain flat out propaganda. And just to zoom out again, I do
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  have to reiterate, like, things are wild when you have these
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  billionaires controlled doing pretty much all of entertainment
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  and news because again, the Ellison family now has control
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  over large swaths of news networks, large swaths of
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  entertainment, and again, the largest and most popular social
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  media app in the US with that being TikTok.
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  And we are already seeing the rise of censorship and takedowns
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  of content that are political, anti Trump, anti ICE, pro
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  Palestine, anti Israel or generally any other
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  controversial topic on that platform.
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  So let's just hope that doesn't spread to the others as well.
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  Like we're really living in a time where billionaires own our
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  media. Like besides the Ellisons, you
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  already have tech billionaires that have continuously cozied up
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  to this current administration like Bezos who owns the Amazon
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  properties as well as the Washington Post that has become
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  a publication that has been known to underreport, misreport,
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  or does not report on things that are not in line with this
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  administration's goals. Then you have other tech
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  billionaires like Zuckerberg and Musk who own the other social
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  media platforms, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter who have
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  all tailored their apps to become these pro Trump rage
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  baity misinformation slop sites where you really can't tell
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  what's real and what's fake. And that is so sad to me because
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  I will always talk about how they follow Twitter is so
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  personal to me. Like I remember a time where you
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  can go on Twitter and reliably, you know, Internet literacy and
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  all, but you know, like reliably trust that like breaking news is
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  going to break and be by and large pretty accurate on that
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  app when it happens. And now you just can't use the
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  app that way anymore. Because for one, if you're lucky
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  enough to get news that is actually relevant to your area
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  and or relevant to stuff that is actually happening, all the
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  posts under it are either going to be engagement farmers only
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  fans, bots, or a vague post you're trying to capitalize on
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  the moment or just random red pill conservatives with three
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  American flags in their bio saying like slurs.
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  And before I go any further, I do have to have a quick reality
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  check with you. If you zoom out right now and
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  think about all the things that we've just talked about and
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  imagine you were hearing about this all happening to another
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  country. It would sound like that country
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  is not doing well and is in the throes of authoritarian
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  propaganda. So let's not pretend that it's
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  just different because it's happening here in America.
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  Like should all this happen anywhere else, we would think
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  that it is a problem and it is one.
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  And this is all just so pointing because this mass acquiescence
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  that we're seeing of our media to the Trump administration and
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  to the MAGA movement is scary because we've now reached a
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  point where the administration essentially controls or at very
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  least has very heavy influence and a large share of our news
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  and media. And besides the propaganda of it
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  all, I don't need to explain to you why this might not be a good
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  thing just solely based on how things have been playing out
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  over the past year. And I don't mean to fear monger
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  when I say this, but our press, our media and our entertainment
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  have become compromised and it feels like we kind of just got
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  AI don't know, deal with it. And this is really my main thing
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  here and where I'd like to hear from you in the comments as to
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  what's your thoughts, solutions and how you're going to move in
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  the future are going to be because like, what do we
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  realistically do from here? Where do we go from here?
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  Because in my mind, boycotts are the first thing that come to
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  mind. But what happens when we get to
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  the point where we have to boycott pretty much all of the
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  companies that are involved in our forms of entertainment, in
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  our forms of news and our forms of community building and
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  engagement with the global world?
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  Because in my mind, that becomes isolating in a different way.
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  And I really don't have an answer to this.
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  And again, I'd love to hear from you because, yeah, I don't have
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  answers to this. I really just am making this
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  video to, for one, keep you informed and to two, open a
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  conversation about this because I think we do need to come
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  together to figure out how we're going to move, what's going to
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  happen because this cannot continue.
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  And this does feel illegal. I don't know the legality behind
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  this. I know there are some lawsuits
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  like antitrust stuff, but it doesn't really seem like those
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  are going to have substantial gains in terms of changing
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  things. What are we to do?
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  And again, I really feel bad making these sorts of videos
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  because I don't mean to be alarmist and don't mean to be
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  dumorous and super negative, especially because I feel like
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  you come to these videos on YouTube or Spotify, wherever
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  you're watching this to kind of get an escape or at least to
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  think about something else while you're eating a meal.
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  But I really just want to make sure you're informed in the loop
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  and thinking about these things critically because we need to be
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  doing that more, especially in the times we're currently in.
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  So for at least while the lights are on here on YouTube, we're
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  going to keep talking about it. But yeah, things aren't looking
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  good right now.