EZRA LEVANT ｜ President Biden tells Facebook to delete posts it finds “problematic”
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The White House is directing Facebook to censor mean tweets and dissonant ideas on the lockdown. It's crazy. I'll show you a bunch of clips from Jen Psaki, Joe Biden's spokesman. But let me invite you to become a subscriber to what we call Rebel News Plus. That's the video version of this podcast, where you get my weekly show, Sheila Gunn-Reed's show, David Menzies' show, and Andrew Chapman's show.
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I tell you, I thought Canada was bad at censorship, and it is.
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But the things that they're saying in the White House are terrifying, directing Facebook
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to censor mean tweets and dissonant ideas on the lockdown.
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But let me invite you to become a subscriber to what we call Rebel News Plus.
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You get my weekly show, Sheila Gunn-Reed's show, David Menzies, Andrew Chapman.
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And the satisfaction of knowing you're keeping Canada's free speech channel, that's us, alive.
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Tonight, the President of the United States is telling Facebook to delete posts.
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It's July 16th, and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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They have a long list of things you specifically can't say.
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You can say that the 2016 U.S. presidential election was unfair, for example, that Hillary Clinton actually won.
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But you can't say the same thing about the 2020 presidential election.
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You can't promote ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine as remedies for COVID-19.
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But you can recommend them for any other malady, even ones you make up.
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You can say you're the king of the moon, and that's fine.
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But if you say that a transgender athlete is a he instead of a she on Twitter,
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that's called illegal misgendering, and you'll be suspended.
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It's pretty extreme, but not extreme enough for Joe Biden and the Democrats in the United States,
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or Justin Trudeau and the liberals and the Democrats in Canada.
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Take a look at this clip from Jen Psaki, Joe Biden's spokesman in the United States.
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So about, I think this was a question asked before,
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there's about 12 people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms.
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All of them remain active on Facebook, despite some even being banned on other platforms,
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Third, it's important to take faster action against harmful posts.
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As you all know, information travels quite quickly on social media platforms.
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Sometimes it's not accurate, and Facebook needs to move more quickly to remove harmful,
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Posts that will be within their policies for removal often remain up for days.
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Finally, we have proposed they promote quality information sources in their feed algorithm.
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Facebook has repeatedly shown that they have the leverage to promote quality information.
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We've seen them effectively do this in their algorithm over low-quality information,
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And that's certainly an area that would have an impact.
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We engage with them regularly, and they certainly understand what our asks are.
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The government is tracking 12 people that they don't like.
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They're just saying things the Democrats don't like, and the government is tracking them?
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Imagine if Donald Trump or Stephen Harper had done that to liberals he didn't like.
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It's not just a subject of disagreement, according to Psaki.
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What they're saying is harmful, and Facebook needs to move.
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And in case that wasn't clear enough, the White House has been in constant touch with big tech companies,
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making proposals, engaging with those companies to censor people they hate.
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And to promote quality points of view, which of course means people who agree with them.
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Here's a Fox News reporter asking a question you'd think every journalist would be asking.
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For how long has the administration been spying on people's Facebook profiles looking for vaccine misinformation?
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That was quite a loaded and inaccurate question, which I would refute.
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Well, Peter, first of all, as you know, we're in a regular touch with a range of media outlets.
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As we are in regular touch with social media platforms.
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This is publicly open information, people sharing information online,
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just as you are all reporting information on your news stations.
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Okay, so these 12 people who you have on a list, 12 individuals,
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do they know that somebody at the Surgeon General's office is going through their profile?
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I'm happy to get you the citation of where that comes from.
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I will tell you that these are people who are sharing information on public platforms on Facebook.
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Saki is saying that she wants all the big tech companies to act as a cartel.
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If you're banned from one, you should be banned from all of them.
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Providing for Facebook or other platforms to measure and publicly share the impact of misinformation on their platform
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Also with the public, with all of you, to create robust enforcement strategies that bridge their properties
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You shouldn't be banned from one platform and not others for providing misinformation out there.
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Another reporter from a different network asks the question, why isn't the government going harder?
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Can you talk a little bit more about this request for tech companies to be more aggressive in policing misinformation?
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Has the administration been in touch with any of these companies?
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And are there any actions that the federal government can take to ensure their cooperation?
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Because we've seen from the start there's not a lot of action on some of these platforms.
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Well, first, we are in regular touch with these social media platforms.
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And those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff, but also members of our COVID-19 team.
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Given, as Dr. Murthy conveyed, this is a big issue of misinformation, specifically on the pandemic.
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In terms of actions, Alex, that we have taken or we're working to take, I should say, from the federal government,
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we've increased disinformation research and tracking within the Surgeon General's office.
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We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.
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So they're flagging posts for Facebook, just being helpful, I guess.
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Facebook's not flagging them hard enough already.
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So this is just friendly help because Facebook doesn't have enough staff, maybe.
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So the White House is just helping the company do its censorship work.
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But, no, they're not censoring anything themselves.
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About things that are on Facebook, I looked this morning.
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There are videos of Dr. Fauci from 2020 before anybody had a vaccine.
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And he is out there saying there's no reason to be walking around with a mask.
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So is the administration going to contact Facebook and ask them to take that down?
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Well, first, I think what Dr. Fauci has said himself, who's been quite public out there,
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is that science evolves, information evolves, and we make that available in a public way to the American people.
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I have never seen any data to suggest that the vaccines cause infertility.
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That is information that is irresponsibly traveling.
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About the science evolving, Facebook used to post, used to block people from posting that COVID may have originated for a lab.
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That is something this president now admits is a possibility.
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So is there any concern that things you are trying to block or have taken down might someday turn out to be...
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Facebook and any private sector company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform.
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Our point is that there is information that is leading to people not taking the vaccine and people are dying as a result.
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And we have a responsibility as a public health matter to raise that issue.
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The government, media, platforms, public messengers to give accurate information.
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Facebook is already the world's largest censor, censoring people in almost every country.
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I say almost every country because Facebook is not allowed in China or a handful of other authoritarian regimes that don't want to outsource censorship to Facebook.
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And the thing about that is you're often being censored by people in other countries who have their own illiberal authoritarian political traditions.
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And how is she in charge of anything you do or say here in Canada?
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And what we're trying to find, of course, I think many of us were engaging in this conversation, is that middle road.
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And how do you find that balance between human rights and free speech, which is a human right, but also other human rights?
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Because obviously free speech is not an absolute human right.
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Until now, we have seen content moderation, as I said, from a select few in Silicon Valley.
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And ultimately, Mark Zuckerberg has been moderating content.
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Now we have the Oversight Board, which is a completely new invention, to do this work.
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And of course, I want to say that I think this is a very, very positive new way of doing it.
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That's a former Scandinavian politician, but she's now on Facebook's censorship committee, along with this failed British politician.
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They're the ones who actually decided to censor Donald Trump.
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Speaking of foreigners, let me show you something from a left-wing Danish TV station.
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This was on YouTube, by the way, but then they took it down.
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Tommy Robinson was set to go to Copenhagen for a free speech award.
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And this local left-wing TV station wasn't happy about it.
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So they were going to do a show condemning Tommy Robinson.
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And they put their Facebook page, a post, asking their viewers to give them their opinion.
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But when they simply put his name and face on their Facebook page, it was deleted by Facebook within nine minutes.
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They just always thought that happened to the bad people like Tommy Robinson, not the good people like them.
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So they called up the Facebook boss for all of Scandinavia to ask him about it.
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And you've just got to watch a few minutes of this.
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I'm going to play five minutes, but you're not going to regret it.
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They supported Tommy Robinson, and now Facebook is starting to announce Tommy Robinsons name.
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I'll ask Facebook's Nordic communications chef, Peter Münster, about a moment.
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Når en radikale højrefløjsaktivist Tommy Robinson talte donder om indvandring og islam, nåede hans budskaber engang bredt ud på Facebook.
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I februar blev Tommy Robinson nemlig smidt af Facebook, og hans side blev lukket.
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Det var ikke nok med det. På det seneste har bandlysningen fået andre konsekvenser.
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På det seneste har en masse danske Facebook-brugere nemlig oplevet, at opslag er blevet fjernet til synligheden alene, fordi de omtaler Tommy Robinson.
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Bliver vores ytringsfrihed reelt ødelagt, og hvorfor reagerer magthaverne ikke?
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Spørg for eksempel nye borgerlige Slasborg og Mathisen på sin blog i Jyllandspost.
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Tilsvarende spørger jurister SF'er Leif Donbæk i Ekstrabladet, om vi kan leve med, at det er en privat amerikansk virksomhed, der egenhættigt dikterer, hvorledes vi skal have en offentlig debat.
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Samtidig med, at han vælger mærke, kalder Robinson en kæmpe idiot.
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Efter at have delt sin klone på Facebook, er Donbæk i øvrigt netop blevet udelukket fra at lave opslag og kommentere på Facebook de næste 24 timer.
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Og på sin hjemmeside skriver Trygge Frihedsselskabet i dag, at selskabet er blevet truet med at få fjernet sin Facebookside, og her til aften meddeler de så, at de er blevet blokeret fra at poste på den.
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Desuden skriver formand Aya Fogh, at hun selv er blevet blokeret i 30 dage på grund af omtale af Tommy Robinson.
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Ifølge Aya Fogh kommer forbuddet ikke fra Facebook selv, men, citat, fra stærke politiske kræfter, der mere eller mindre direkte lægger pres på de sociale medier, citatslut.
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That's why I said it's good to be seen. Because I've been a completely young person from all social media, even Snapchat, Instagram.
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And the maddest thing is, I've done nothing wrong. They run with these lies. They keep saying that I've promoted violence against Muslims.
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Show me where. Show me one screenshot that I've done.
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Peter Münster, Nordisk Kommunikationschef for Facebook.
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Ham vi lige så her, Tommy Robinson. Er han så farlig, at alene det at nævne hans navn gør verden til et farligt sted?
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Problemet er ikke i udgangspunktet, at man nævner hans navn. Problemet er, at han er faldet i en kategori af det, vi vurderer af hadprædikanter.
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Altså folk, som primært bruger deres position i det offentlige rum til at organisere had eller til at opvinde til vold mod en minoritet.
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Og det tillader vi ikke. Vi tillader ikke, at man deler hate speech, racistiske angreb.
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Men vi tillader faktisk heller ikke, at folk, som har det som en væsentlig del af deres offentlige arbejde og offentlige profil, opfordrer folk til noget lignende.
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Så det er en hård sanktion. Det er en hård sanktion mod ham. Ham har I udelukket.
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Men det der jo så sker nu, det er, at også folk, der omtaler Tommy Robinson, får fjernet deres opslag, bliver blokeret eller bliver truet med at blive pillet helt af Facebook.
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Hvordan hænger det sammen? Altså vores regler forbyder ikke, at man omtaler Tommy Robinson.
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Man må godt skrive, at ham kan man ikke lide, eller at ham synes man er en IEO, som det bliver nævnt her i introen.
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Men i udgangspunktet, der er det, man ikke må ifølge vores regler, det er støtte eller hylde,
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eller på anden måde sådan give en repræsentation til de her hadepredikanter.
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Jamen det betyder, at hvis vi har en politik, som betyder, at en mand som Tommy Robinson ikke må have en profil, og han heller ikke må have en side,
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så går det selvfølgelig heller ikke, at han har en følgerskare, som kan være på Facebook og sige, at jeg har talt med Tommy Robinson i dag.
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Han bad mig om at sige til jer alle sammen, at sådan og sådan og sådan.
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Jeg vil godt lige holde fast i det, du sagde, var et andet spørgsmål.
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Jeg vil godt lige vise dig et opslag, som min redaktør lavede tidligere i dag.
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Han skrev på Facebook, i aften skal vi i deadline lave noget om Tommy Robinson.
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Hvad er den bedste artikel om Tommy Robinson, vi skal læse på redaktionen?
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Der gik ni minutter, så blev det et opslag fjernet.
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Er det fremmende for sådan en forståelse af et fænomen som Tommy Robinson, og muligheden for at tale om den tænkning, han repræsenterer, at sådan et opslag bliver fjernet?
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Jeg vil vise dig hele videoen, men vi har ikke tid for det.
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Du må gå til en dissident-video site, som hedder Bitchute, for at finde den.
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This Facebook guy can't actually name anything or prove that Tommy Robinson, he can't show anything Tommy did that was promoting violence, for example.
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But he still equated him with a terrorist, I'm serious.
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You can only denounce Tommy Robinson on Facebook.
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There's a secret list of people who are blacklisted, and you can't see who's on the list, and you can't appeal, and you can't get off it, and just trust us.
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Fordi i det her tilfælde, der er der jo sådan, det er jo et retssikkerhedsspørgsmål i det omfang, at I nu er vores fælles infrastruktur for vores fælles offentlige samtale.
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Så hvor kan enten dem, der bliver dømt ude, eller også journalister, som skal stille magthæver til ansvar, hvor kan vi gå efter i søvnene i sådan en situation?
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Vi er ikke platformen for den offentlige samtale. Vi er én platform, som supplerer den offentlige samtale, der har været i mange år.
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Men fra 16 til 24-årige, for en fjerdedel af dem er i de sociale medier i hvert fald, den eneste platform, de tilgår nyheder for.
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Altså, som sagt, den her konkrete liste er ikke offentlig.
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Og det er en liste over dem, der er helt udelukket som Tommy Robinson?
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Det er en liste over de personer, hvor vi ud over vores almindelige regler imod hate speech, faktisk heller ikke tillader folk at hylde eller støtte dem.
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Jamen, det ved jeg ikke. Jeg har faktisk heller ikke set den selv.
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Det er som sagt ikke min rolle at være nede i alle detaljer omkring de her afgørelser.
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Det har det team, vi har, der laver vores politikker.
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Og det er et arbejde, de udfører i samarbejde med eksterne eksperter, når de har brug for det.
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Så det er, by the way, from a couple of years ago.
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And now they're going after 12 people in the United States, they won't say who, who have the wrong ideas.
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Not about terrorism, but about the pandemic and lockdowns and vaccines.
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Funny, because what is a wrong idea about the pandemic?
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Is it still wrong to say the virus came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology?
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Is that still banned this year or is that now back in vogue?
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I showed you just yesterday Jacinda Ardern, the New Zealand Prime Minister.
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I thought she was an extremist and she is, but she's really not that much worse than these Americans.
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We will share with you the most up-to-date information daily.
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You can trust us as a source of that information.
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You can also trust the Director General of Health and the Ministry of Health.
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For that information, do feel free to visit at any time to clarify any rumour you may hear, covid19.govt.nz.
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We will continue to be your single source of truth.
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Everything you are, else you see, a grain of salt.
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It appears to be this text which originated in Malaysia and has become a viral hoax in Australia and in New Zealand.
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How irresponsible is it the people that are sharing that news of a lockdown imminent in New Zealand?
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Yeah, and look, that's the kind of thing that adds to the anxiety that people feel.
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And when you see those messages, remember that unless you hear it from us, it is not the truth.
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And I really ask people, just visit covid19.govt.nz.
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And we will continue to provide everything you need to know.
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Lawful but offensive Twitter posts are undermining Canada's democracy.
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Heritage Minister Stephen Gilboa's department says in a briefing note,
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regulation of hurtful comments is needed for a truly democratic debate, it said.
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If we really want to democracyize our democracy, we've got to censor our democracy democratically, of course.
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What to make it more free? You have to make it less free?
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The last time we spoke to you about the Fight the Fines project, we had 1,834 cases.
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I remember when we took our first case, it was actually Pastor Arthur Pawlowski who was fined for feeding the homeless.
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Well, 1,834, our friend Victoria Solomon, who's the legal coordinator for Fight the Fines, she went on a much-deserved holiday for a week just to take some time off.
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You've come back, and I asked you, well, what's the latest number?
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And you told it to me, but I want you to tell our viewers, how many Fight the Fines cases do we have, including those that we're just now distributing to lawyers across the country?
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Well, when I came back from my vacation this week, I counted the client number again, and it was 2,006 people.
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I remember when I announced at a staff meeting that I wanted to take 1,000 cases.
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And everyone looked at me and said, you're crazy, what are you doing?
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I'm exuberant that we can take so many, but at the same time, each one of these cases is a disaster for the individual family or person who's been hit with this.
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I mean, I'm excited that we're taking it, and that's why I'm sort of laughing that the number's large.
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There's actually no humor in it, because each one of these cases is someone who's facing stress, possibly financial ruin, in some cases a criminal record.
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And actually, one of our clients, Pastor Arthur Pawlowski, has served three days in jail.
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Another client, Chris Scott from the Whistle Stop Diner, he was in jail, too.
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So each one of these is a potential life-altering crisis.
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So we've got to be serious, and we've got to keep fighting.
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And some of the Quarantine Act tickets, I mean, in Ontario, there's $3,750.
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And people, certain people have multiple tickets arising out of the same occasion.
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So there may be a family with up to $20,000 worth of tickets.
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You know, unless you are a millionaire, a $20,000 bundle of fines will break your family.
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It could force you to miss your mortgage payments.
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There's no more vacations, no more kids' sports.
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A $20,000 after-tax penalty is, that's, I mean, when you think of it in terms of after-tax,
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that's half a year's work for an ordinary family.
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And it's not only the financial aspect, but people are stressed.
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And I'm glad we're able to step in and help people, I mean, by providing them legal assistance,
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Now, you were on a well-deserved one-week vacation.
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I'm saying that because you were telling me, and I hope you don't mind me telling it to the camera,
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you were telling me you were having dreams about cases.
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And I know that if you're dreaming about work, that means you needed a baby.
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But while you were away, obviously, we still had hands on deck.
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We have two full-time paralegals, and we have a team of lawyers around the country.
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And actually, we have three full-time paralegals now.
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He was actually a provincial offense prosecutor.
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In Saskatchewan, we have a new team member, a new lawyer, Luke Kupal.
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And he's doing just an amazing job for our clients.
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I mean, if you're a prosecutor, you really know how it works, how the other side thinks.
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So now to come and fight for our side, that's very exciting.
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I remember you mentioned his name to me, but I didn't really know much about him.
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Now, while we have people's attention, there is one province that we've been having a little
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If there is a lawyer watching who's interested in joining fight the fines, we do pay.
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I mean, you're not going to get rich doing this kind of law, but you will get paid.
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We don't have any pro bono lawyers or paralegals because we want people to really fight hard,
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You know, I find that lawyers, when they do pro bono, it's always well-intentioned,
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but it seems to fall down their priority list because they have to earn a living.
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Tell us where we need help to fill in the gaps.
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In particular, in Nova Scotia, we have over 20 clients that have asked for help,
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and we've been trying hard to find a lawyer in Nova Scotia.
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We've asked clients to assist, and so far, unfortunately, we have not been lucky.
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And I believe we have one client that asked for help in Newfoundland,
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So if there is anyone interested in assisting us who practices in the married times,
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we would be more than happy to have a new member join us.
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People can send me a note, and I'll pass it to you.
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Just send me a note at ezra at rebelnews.com, and I'll pass it on to Victoria.
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You know, I went to the law school myself out west,
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and I know lots of lawyers in Calgary and Edmonton and whatnot,
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but I just don't have that many buddies in the Atlantic.
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You know, the one fellow we tried to get on board with this.
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because every province has a slightly different procedure.
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And so we just need, and we don't want to fly someone out there.
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We just need someone in Halifax mainly and Newfoundland, St. John's, to help.
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So if you can help, go to ezra at rebelnews.com, send me a note.
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Now, last time we spoke, you told me that 91 cases had been resolved,
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including dozens where the Crown prosecutor, when he looked at the ticket, said,
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They basically realized that it was a junk ticket meant to scare people into paying a fine.
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To me, that's appalling that they're handing out such rotten tickets
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and hoping just the fear factor will make people pay them, fear and stress.
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You know, in a sense, those are the best ones because they're the most unjust
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Do you know the latest stats in terms of how we're moving along?
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They haven't changed since then, but unfortunately, I mean, compared to 2,000 people,
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Now, I mentioned the very first case we took was Arthur Pawlowski 15 months ago.
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And you and I have talked about how one of the rules in our criminal law system
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and in our Charter of Rights is the right to a speedy trial because evidence fades away.
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It's hard to defend what you did 2, 3, 4 years ago if you can't even remember exactly.
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And it's unfair to the accused because you have this cloud over you for years,
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the stress, the stigma, even though you're not convicted yet,
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the fact that you've been charged or accused or ticketed is a kind of a blemish.
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And you need that trial to acquit yourself of that.
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If the first cases we took were from April 2020, May, June, July, so we're 15 months into it.
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By the time we get around 18 months, like that's about the time that these cases start to really rot
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What sort of, what's the standard rule do you think?
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I believe it's somewhere between 18 and 24 months depending on the offense.
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So I think we're approaching a decision point for a lot of these governments.
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Do you want to go for that grandma and that grandpa and ring out a thousand bucks?
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If so, you know, we've got a lot of lawyers, but the government has unlimited resources.
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So really, I think we're coming on that decision time, aren't we?
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Yeah, I think it remains to be seen how courts are going to deal with this.
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I mean, ultimately, I think it will be up to the judge if this comes before him or her
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It's possible that they will decide to extend this period due to the pandemic.
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But I mean, it remains to be seen how the courts will deal with this.
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In Ontario, most jurisdictions haven't been hearing contested matters.
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And this is why none of our cases have come up for trial.
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And the tickets haven't been classified as an emergency matter.
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So this is why we haven't had trials in most jurisdictions.
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We have two in Alberta that started and have been adjourned.
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But it's mostly because courts have been closed due to COVID.
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So when they reopen now and things start moving, we will see how this unreasonable delay issue is going to be dealt with.
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It's very, very interesting from an academic point of view.
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But, you know, one person being ground down is a tragedy.
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And so we always have to remember it's individual families going through this.
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For a while there, the largest fine for any of our clients was $14,000.
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It was the church in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, which we have since won.
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Have you heard, you mentioned $3,000 fine multiplied by family members.
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Is that the largest fine that you've seen out of these $2,000?
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The $14,000 as an individual fine, I think that's the largest one that I've seen.
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But because, you know, there may be multiple family members getting those Quarantine Act tickets.
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And sometimes it may be four family members, two tickets per family member multiplied by four.
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I mean, just for the viewers, seriously, imagine if you had to come up with $14,000 or $20,000
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for some foolish COVID hotel that was frankly more dangerous than just going home to your house.
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Now, can you tell me, you mentioned cases are still coming in.
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You would think that the lockdown is easing in most parts of Canada.
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So I suspect our number now is higher than 2006.
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But the cases that are coming in, they are Quarantine Act tickets because people are still crossing the border by land and by air.
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And some people believe that they may be exempt from a quarantining requirement or exempt from taking a COVID test.
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And they're actually not exempt and then they get fined.
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And then there are people who receive tickets before the lockdown was eased, but they haven't come to us yet.
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So I suspect that we're still going to be getting a steady flow of tickets.
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You know, I mean, when 2,000 people across this country, like really in almost every province and territory.
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But I know we have Yukon, Northwest Territories, obviously Ontario in the West, Quebec.
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Well, I don't want to sound too proud of this because you don't want to be proud of helping in a disaster.
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You, Victoria, you're a lawyer and you're the coordinator.
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I forgot about the new fellow we just hired to handle it.
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I'm proud of the fact that we've assembled a network of lawyers coast to coast.
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We do need help in Halifax and St. John's, if you can help us.
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And obviously the greatest thanks goes to our viewers who paid for it.
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Because everyone, you know, of the lawyers, we do pay.
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Now, I think we do try and negotiate to keep their rates down.
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I mean, if you give a lawyer 20 cases, he's going to give you a discount.
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So I feel like we are being responsible with the money.
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And yeah, and these are lawyers who are doing this for the principal.
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All of them are senior counsel, some former crown prosecutors.
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They have, yeah, they have entire law firms behind them.
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So there is one head, you know, main lawyer that's representing the firm,
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but they're working with many lawyers within their firm and paralegals and staff.
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So it's a staggering amount of lawyers and staff and law firms that are working with us on this project.
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I mean, and some of them our viewers probably know Leighton Gray.
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We've interviewed him actually as a guest a couple of years ago on the channel.
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Anyone who's a QC, Queens Council, that means you've been around a while
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and you're recognized by the government as being a leader in the profession.
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Well, I just want to say one more thing because a few months ago we had an innovation that really helped us,
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and it was the advent of the Democracy Fund, which is a registered CRA charity that has as one of its activities
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And so all of a sudden the money we were raising and spending on these lawyers could be,
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And that made a lot of difference because all of a sudden someone who was going to donate 50 bucks,
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well, they could donate 60 or 70 or 80 and have the same net result.
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If you could pay $20 less in tax to Trudeau and have that money go to fight the fines,
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So the democracyfund.ca is the charity that's been helping us.
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And I want to say that they are looking for a project manager.
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So you would be working with Victoria and other folks on the team to continue the good work.
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If you or someone you know would like to be a project manager for the Democracy Fund
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working on civil liberties projects, other humanitarian projects,
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go to thedemocracyfund.ca slash jobs and apply,
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and you'll be working with great folks like Victoria.
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I want to say we've done a lot of things in six and a half years at Rebel News.
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Done a lot of interesting stories, not just here in Canada, but around the world.
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We've been to a great many countries, you know, a great many crises from Hong Kong to Iraq,
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to Israel, to Mexico, to all over America and Europe.
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But I think that perhaps the greatest thing we have done in terms of changing the world
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And I like to joke that when I get to heaven and they close the pearly gates on me
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And then I'll say, I did something worthwhile in my life.
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And everyone who chipped in, whether it was 50 bucks or 500,
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I think we're just beginning because now courts will reopen
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Well, we better keep fundraising then because it's one thing to take the cases.
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2,006 cases plus, you know, 5, 10 more every day.
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If you want to join the team, the Democracy Fund is looking for a project manager.
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And as Victoria can show, it's a very meaningful job.
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Well, they're not even asking you to trust them.
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Jacinda Ardern, she has so many trappings of a cult leader, but that is oozing around the
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I wonder who sends them their daily briefings to read to the public.
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When Trump was in office, he was a real anomaly.
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And since he was the president of the most powerful country in the world, that was enough to be
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a dam against this mighty river of globalism and leftism.
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But now that Joe Biden is there, the river runs through it.
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And you've got everyone from Angela Merkel to Trudeau to, you know, pretty much to
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Macron to pretty much every country in the world now on board.
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I don't know if America is going to be transformed enough in the next four years to stop such a
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Until next time, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home,