Sheila Gunn-Reed fills in for Ezra Levant on the show to talk about internet censorship from the Liberal Party, and how the party is going to get even more radical under the leadership of Jagmeet Singh. Plus, we talk about the latest Russia-gate scandal, and why the whole thing is a complete fabrication.
00:00:00.000Oh, hey guys, I bet you were expecting the melodious sounds of Ezra Levant's voice, but no, it's me, Sheila Gunn-Reed.
00:00:07.040I'm filling in for Ezra tonight in the big chair.
00:00:10.680And we're talking about a bunch of things today, but mostly internet censorship.
00:00:14.920You see, the NDP have signed on to the Liberals' censorship plans, although the NDP, as the NDP tend to do, they don't think the Liberals are going far enough.
00:00:24.040Now, this is very concerning to me because the Liberals need the NDP support to hang on to power, and Justin Trudeau's only ideology is attaining power and hanging on to power, and not really earning power.
00:00:35.300And so I think his censorship is going to get even more radical because he needs to please the NDP.
00:00:43.140And then we're talking about the latest Twitter leaks and how basically the entire Russia collusion, Russian bots problem on Twitter was a complete and total fabrication of the U.S. government and their mainstream media enablers.
00:01:00.860And we're doing that with Ian Miles Chong, Rebel News journalist, but also Elon Musk's Twitter friend.
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00:02:40.780You know, if I were an NDP voter and it's hard for me to put myself into the mind of one, I would like to think that I would be upset that my leader Jagmeet Singh is constantly propping up the Liberals.
00:03:05.780I'd like to think that there's a reason why normal NDP voters vote for the party that they do as opposed to the other progressive party on the left, the Liberals.
00:03:14.600But here in Canada, if you voted for the NDP, you're disenfranchised.
00:03:18.840Your vote really doesn't count because a vote for the NDP is, as always, at least under the leader Jagmeet Singh, a vote for the Liberals and their weird symbiotic relationship with Justin Trudeau.
00:03:28.780No matter what the Liberals do, no matter what the Liberals say, no matter how corrupt they are, no matter how they get things wrong, no matter how they stomp all over the rights of Canadians to assemble, to protest, to speak their minds.
00:03:40.200And in the case of the internet, to express themselves without fear of reprisal, the NDP party apparatus is simply the socialist caucus of the Liberal Party, propping up Justin Trudeau without question or consequence.
00:03:53.600Which makes me wonder, why did these people vote for the NDP in the first place?
00:03:58.900Why didn't they just vote for Justin Trudeau?
00:04:01.540And if they didn't want to vote for Justin Trudeau, then why aren't they demanding a change in leadership of their own party?
00:04:09.500I have so many questions for NDPers because as a Conservative, it's very difficult for me to understand any of this.
00:04:16.480Because one of the things that makes the Conservative movement great, but also makes it difficult for the Conservative movement to win elections,
00:04:24.340is that when they have a leader who's not listening, who is not Conservative enough, the Conservative movement just throws them out.
00:04:33.540Right, Erin O'Toole? Right, Andrew Scheer? Right, Jason Kenney?
00:04:37.840Anyway, the Liberals want to shut you up.
00:04:40.620And as always, the Liberals are going to do everything they can to help them.
00:04:43.720Take a look at this from the good people at Black Locks Reporter just this morning.
00:04:50.42025 new Democrat MPs will pressure Cabinet for legislation this year to regulate legal internet content,
00:04:59.780party leader Jagmeet Singh said yesterday.
00:05:02.160Regulations should include censoring, quote, misinformation, he said.
00:05:06.420The Liberal government has not done the job of making sure platforms are following the rules around making sure hate
00:05:14.540and misinformation are not being spread, Singh told reporters.
00:05:18.580That puts the responsibility back on the government to do what it should be doing.
00:05:23.940We are going to continue to pressure the government to do this.
00:05:26.480The government has a responsibility to play in making sure social media platforms are adhering to proper guidelines
00:05:33.700around misinformation, around hate, and why we have been saying for a long time
00:05:38.320the responsibility to keep people safe from misinformation and radicalization
00:05:43.140cannot rest in the hands of private companies, said Singh.
00:05:47.460It has to be the government taking responsibility.
00:05:51.700Cabinet to date has not reintroduced a censorship bill that lapsed in the pre-election 2021 Parliament,
00:05:57.620Bill C-36, an act to amend the criminal code, proposed $70,000 in fines for internet users responsible for legal content
00:06:06.240deemed, quote, likely to foment detestation or vilification.
00:06:10.280Now, thank God for that, that Bill C-36 hasn't been reintroduced, much to the NDP's chagrin.
00:06:16.520Because even though the Liberals have two new laws right now proposed and working their way
00:06:21.380through committee to censor critics like me, the NDP don't think the Liberals are doing enough.
00:06:28.300The problem with the Liberals is that anything they don't like is now misinformation, no matter how true it is.
00:06:36.580And I think the Liberals have earned detestation and vilification from Canadians.
00:06:40.980If the NDP get their way, and they just might, because the Liberals need the NDP to stay in power,
00:06:48.020it might become illegal to show how much you dislike the government, how much you detest the government,
00:06:55.000because others may join you in your disgust.
00:07:35.320He's got a real familiarity with the fraudulent as far as information goes.
00:07:39.680For example, Justin Trudeau accused the Conservatives of spreading misinformation about Justin Trudeau's new gun control legislation, Bill C-21.
00:07:49.520C-21 absolutely bans millions of Canadian hunting rifles because the legislation targets centerfire semi-automatic rifles and shotguns capable of holding a five-round magazine.
00:08:00.780That means anything from a good old reliable cheap SKS to your grandpa's 12-gauge shotgun.
00:08:14.500They've said that they might do it, yes, but the reality is Canadians are overwhelmingly worried about gun violence, want to see stronger gun control.
00:08:25.600We have a mandate to do exactly that, and that's what we've done.
00:08:34.600And now we're ensuring that there is a definition going forward so assault-style weapons remain banned.
00:08:40.860Now, there's been a lot of misinformation and disinformation around it, and I'll be entirely honest.
00:08:46.800There are some guns out there, not many, but some, that hunters are now using for hunting that are overpowered or have characteristics that make them assault-style weapons,
00:08:57.240and the definition will probably catch those.
00:08:59.800And there are some people who hunt with a gun that is considered an assault-style weapon who will have to change weapons on that,
00:09:06.720and we'll have a buyback for that weapon because they're not criminals.
00:09:10.040But we are changing the definition to make sure that guns designed to kill the largest number of people as quickly as possible have no place in this country.
00:09:18.900Did you screw up the legislation, though?
00:09:22.840Well, I think everyone, you've been very criticized by everybody under the sun, the NDP, First Nations, Conservatives,
00:09:29.340other groups, so that indicates to me that it's not right the way it is now.
00:09:33.140It indicates to me that it's a hard thing to do to move forward on gun control in a country where the gun lobby holds a lot of sway in a lot of places.
00:09:43.960The Conservative Party is moving hard, and they have successfully weaponized a pitting of urban Canadians against rural Canadians.
00:10:51.280A year of challenges and divisive issues that remain unresolved,
00:10:55.520including the controversial Liberal government's gun ban,
00:10:58.720with Justin Trudeau admitting that some of those rifles, even those used legally by hunters, will be banned.
00:11:04.400There are some guns, yes, that we're going to have to take away from people who were using them to hunt and say,
00:11:10.800but we're going to also make sure that you're able to buy other guns from a long list of guns that are fine.
00:11:19.400And then, of course, there was Justin Trudeau telling you to get a vaccine to stop the spread of COVID.
00:11:24.820If you can stand to watch Freeland in the background of this clip having some sort of seizure while she wears a mask outside for some reason.
00:11:32.840There are a lot of different reasons people are deciding to get vaccinated after having been unsure for a number of months.
00:11:39.580And I'm just so pleased that they're doing that.
00:11:42.460It was a combination of I need it for work.
00:11:51.480And we need people who still haven't been vaccinated to choose to get vaccinated.
00:11:55.980We have, as of a few months ago, received enough vaccines for everyone who's eligible in this country.
00:12:01.780So please step up and do what you need to do to keep yourself, your family, your community, and indeed our country safe.
00:12:10.500We know that getting vaccination rates up is the way to ensure not only we're keeping our loved ones safe,
00:12:16.660but we're keeping our health systems from getting overloaded.
00:12:19.540We're keeping away from having to do further lockdowns in our communities and we're allowing our economy and normal life to get back as quickly as possible.
00:12:29.420But here is Justin Trudeau triple boosted getting COVID allegedly for the second time, perhaps to avoid dealing with the convoy for freedom.
00:12:40.680Misinformation is information that's inconvenient to the Liberals.
00:12:44.940Justin Trudeau wants to ban hateful rhetoric along with his friend Jagmeet Singh from the internet, but he doesn't mean hateful rhetoric directed at you.
00:12:53.780Remember this clip when Justin Trudeau was saying hateful things about you?
00:12:59.100You deserve a government that's going to continue to say, get vaccinated.
00:13:15.280Justin Trudeau wants to ban hateful rhetoric directed at him, like those F. Trudeau flags that populated the Freedom Convoy and became an avatar of the anti-lockdown resistance.
00:13:26.440Those flags might foment detestation, according to the NDP.
00:13:30.860I have attended protests and rallies in the past when I agreed with the goals,
00:13:37.080when I supported the people expressing their concerns and their issues.
00:13:41.780Black Lives Matter is an excellent example of that.
00:13:44.880But I have also chosen to not go anywhere near protests that have expressed hateful rhetoric,
00:13:51.840violence towards fellow citizens and a disrespect, not just of science, but of the frontline health workers and, quite frankly,
00:14:02.520the 90 percent of truckers who have been doing the right thing to keep Canadians safe, to put food on our tables.
00:14:21.560I don't think saying untrue things on the Internet should ever be a matter for the government to intervene upon anyway.
00:14:28.440You know, there are laws that already exist around hate speech, incitement of violence, death threats, threats of violence, and, of course, libel.
00:19:13.760And they were pressured by the State Department to start looking for more Russians.
00:19:19.100And the State Department, what it would do, and this is all in those files, is they would collude with journalists in the AFP, in Vice, in NBC, right?
00:19:30.980NBC News, the so-called disinformation experts.
00:19:34.280And they would publish a piece that was damning for Facebook, Twitter, Google, using their own, quote-unquote, research, which claimed that there were Russian disinformation bots out there.
00:19:45.740And so Twitter was compelled to act or face the wrath of Congress because Democrats in Congress, in particular, were keen on seeing results.
00:19:55.880And given that there were no results, they had to manufacture them.
00:19:58.960So tens of thousands of users, in fact, over 250,000 users were flagged for removal on Twitter by the State Department.
00:20:07.140And among them were the Canadian Armed Services, in fact, because they were following two accounts or more that were Russian accounts, Russian diplomatic accounts.
00:20:17.620And that was enough to flag them as a Russian disinformation bot.
00:20:49.820And then you've got, so they're getting pressure from the government.
00:20:53.220They can't find what the government insists they must find.
00:20:56.760So journalists now become tools of the state.
00:21:00.840Again, I think there's a term for that.
00:21:02.720And they create, you know, the Russia hoax, really.
00:21:07.800And then Twitter now has to produce evidence of a hoax they know is a hoax and start purging innocent people because of the red scare that completely doesn't exist.
00:21:23.040Yeah, it's a feedback loop because the State Department, using whatever analytical tools they have, which is perhaps non-existent because it's probably just some guy in an office, an analyst, providing his opinion on what is a bot, sends it to Twitter.
00:21:39.920The State Department leaks it to a journalist, which then publishes that information, claiming that they found evidence of Russian disinformation bots.
00:21:48.540Now, none of the characters are named, no accounts are named in those reports, but then Twitter gets bad press.
00:21:55.140And then congressmen call up Twitter saying, hey, why don't you act on it?
00:21:59.520If you don't act on it, we'll take away your Section 230 free speech rights, your ability to remain immune from liability, right?
00:22:35.520And then literally every state was demanding that they take action against various accounts.
00:22:40.760And now while some of these requests are certainly legitimate, like taking down terrorists or actual criminals who are using Twitter to facilitate their crimes, I understand that.
00:22:51.480But for the most part, when they send them large Excel files, sheets of tens of thousands of users and tell them to delete it and they don't, then there's a problem.
00:23:01.640The government demands immediate action.
00:23:03.900And so eventually Twitter became a sort of a hand of censorship.
00:23:07.760This was, you know, the foundation for the so-called disinformation governance board, where they decided, you know, the government, the DHS, decided to expand its censorship of social media because it wasn't enough for them to just get rid of Russian disinformation bots.
00:23:23.440They had to start getting rid of anyone who spoke out against the narrative.
00:23:26.440Now, fortunately, it was shut down thanks to the efforts of a journalist like Jack Posobiec last year.
00:23:32.920But before it was, I mean, they were starting to target people who were critical of the vaccine narrative, the, you know, the origins of COVID-19.
00:23:44.560If you said it was from China, that got you censored, right?
00:23:47.360That was actually part of the State Department where they started to censor anyone who talked about how the virus may have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
00:23:57.800And now it's, you know, it's anyone's guess as to why they would do that.
00:24:04.080It's quite frightening, actually, how quickly Twitter allowed itself to become the Ministry of Truth for the American federal government, because that's really what happened here.
00:24:15.240Because of the First Amendment, the government cannot censor you directly.
00:24:19.260But it's a neat little trick they did by doing it once removed through a social media company that they were pressuring.
00:24:24.660And the social media company being a left-leaning or at least left-managed company, they were pretty happy to do it because they had the same political enemies.
00:24:33.560Also, as you were talking there, I thought, how quickly they moved to remove innocent people who were alleged to be imaginary Russian bots.
00:24:44.120But Twitter, for the longest time, had the absolute most evil proliferation of child and revenge porn for a very long time.
00:24:55.240And the platform said that there's nothing they could do about it.
00:24:58.240There's no way that they could manage it.
00:24:59.680But they could, after pressure from journalists and the government, wipe innocent people right off the platform for doing nothing except following a Russian account.
00:25:12.420Because that's where they wanted to focus their resources.
00:25:15.680They always had the means to do these things.
00:25:17.720But they would allow content that was created through child abuse to remain on their site while censoring a grandma who followed a Matryoshka account.
00:25:31.980I mean, and this is largely in part due to the FBI itself because there were so many agents, well, maybe not agents, but analysts working for the FBI who were positioned inside of Twitter.
00:25:43.240They were in these internal Slack channels.
00:26:48.580So you mentioned that there was a lot of child sexual exploitation on the site, and that's true.
00:26:54.300And what's, I guess, maybe not amusing, but what is interesting is that the FBI, instead of focusing its resources on catching child pornographers or busting all these people up, all these rings, these pedophile rings,
00:27:09.400it instead chose to focus all of its energies on Russian disinformation and on election misinformation, whatever you want to call these things.
00:27:17.740So they had the manpower for it, but they were told from, you know, higher up to only focus on the issues that were important to the political class in the United States and not to the issues that were actually, you know, victimizing children or women, right?
00:27:55.100Yeah, Jim Baker was one of the lead counsels for Twitter, and he was responsible for much of the censorship.
00:28:02.440He, you know, if you're not familiar with this guy, he's responsible for the so-called Russian disinformation, I mean, Russian collusion hoax.
00:28:09.820He was the one who brought it to the interests of the FBI way back in Hillary's days, and he ended up working for Twitter for some reason.
00:28:17.480And, you know, it's anyone's guess as to whether he was planted there by the feds, but he was certainly, you know, amenable to what they wanted.
00:28:24.640And so when Elon found out that he was still working there, he fired him on the spot.
00:28:28.380And that was after the drops of one of the Twitter files very recently, like three weeks or two weeks ago.
00:28:34.920So, yeah, there were lots of feds there.
00:28:37.100And it's interesting how, you know, after firing about 3,000, 4,000 people, Twitter is better than ever.
00:28:43.600It has, you know, it still manages to function despite all of the doom and gloom that was in the media saying that Twitter would be dead by the weekend,
00:28:51.980that it wouldn't be able to handle any of the burdens because all the people's expertise were fired.
00:28:58.280And it turns out that most of the people who got fired were, you know, diversity commissars.
00:29:04.120Their only job was to keep everybody else in line politically, not to actually contribute to the development of Twitter as an app.
00:29:12.300And now with, you know, Elon in charge, Twitter's faster than ever.
00:29:15.800It's unveiling or releasing a lot of new features in the coming weeks and months.
00:29:19.900And we've seen a lot of these features already added.
00:29:22.660The spaces, for instance, works a lot better than it used to.
00:29:25.880So it's really fascinating to see where Twitter will go in the future.
00:29:29.900I mean, he only recently re-enabled political advertising.
00:29:33.240So now if you're a right-wing organization like Judicial Watch, you can actually buy ads on Twitter, whereas before they didn't let you.
00:29:40.920So it was very one-sided as to who got to have a voice versus now who has a voice on Twitter.
00:29:47.140Yeah, when Elon Musk first took control of Twitter, I was of two minds and I didn't really care what the outcome was.
00:29:54.080I thought, okay, if he buys it and makes it better, great.
00:29:59.240And if he buys it and it ceases to exist in a week from now, also fine.
00:30:03.500I didn't really know what I was cheering for there.
00:30:07.280Now, how does this most recent Twitter leak, this Twitter files leak, thread back through some of the previous ones?
00:30:15.720So what is sort of the overarching theme that is coming together the more Twitter leaks we get?
00:30:22.500Okay, so I think we have to look at the first leak, right?
00:30:25.320The first leak showed how Twitter very slowly became a vehicle for censorship and how it censored Donald Trump, right?
00:30:33.620That was what the first Twitter files drops was about and how they ceased to follow their own terms of services and decided willy-nilly to start banning people.
00:30:43.560So we had a snapshot of Twitter from, say, 2019 to 2020 where this happened.
00:30:50.700But now we're getting to understand the government's involvement in all of the censorship.
00:30:57.980It wasn't always a place to censor people's political speech.
00:31:01.320It was something that happened gradually over a period of time where, you know, at first, Joel Roth, you know, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, was willing to offer pushback against the federal government when they demanded that he censor things.
00:31:15.620But eventually they had come to, you know, become subservient to the federal government because they had been giving in bit by bit by bit to the point where they started to feel special.
00:31:25.220I mean, Twitter was paid $3.5 million to perform these acts of censorship because at one point in the latest drops, they showed how Twitter executives were complaining about how their inbox was completely full,
00:31:37.860just full of requests from various state and federal government agencies demanding that they censor hundreds of thousands of people.
00:31:46.680So they couldn't cope with it anymore.
00:31:48.740So they just had to, you know, they just offloaded it to a bunch of moderators, you know, in places like the Philippines to have them deal with it.
00:31:55.460And the algorithm was tweaked to make it automated.
00:31:58.540So, you know, the instant you said anything about election fraud, even if you were having a discussion about it, you got flagged and subsequently removed.
00:32:05.440And if they wanted to reinstate you, well, you know, it's a crapshoot, right?
00:32:08.780Maybe you got reinstated, maybe you didn't.
00:32:27.540Well, Ian, I have no idea what time it is where you are, but I feel like it's probably either late at night or very, very early in the morning.
00:32:35.480So I want to thank you for taking the time to come on the show with me today.
00:32:38.920And I want to thank you for your hard work covering the Twitter files, but everything else that you cover for us here at Rebel News.
00:32:48.960Your letters to Ezra read by me up after the break.
00:32:52.120We've come to the portion of the show where we open it up to you.
00:33:07.800You become the star of the last segment of Ezra's show, but also of my show, too.
00:33:12.740We actually care about what you think about the work that we do here at Rebel News.
00:33:16.000Unlike the mainstream media, we don't have a sugar daddy named Justin Trudeau who can just give us somebody else's money to create content that you don't care about.
00:33:24.840That's why we like to take the temperature of our audience.
00:33:28.160So today's letters are on David's monologue about the trans criminal Amber McLaughlin.
00:33:34.700Now, Amber McLaughlin stalked, terrorized, raped, strangled, and stabbed a woman 19 years ago.
00:33:47.400Three years ago, while on death row, the good taxpayers of the state of Missouri paid for him to transition into his true self.
00:33:57.880He was like a caterpillar just emerging from a chrysalis as a butterfly, a murdering butterfly.
00:34:04.960But nonetheless, his execution will go down as a female killer being executed at the hands of the state and a big victory for diversity in that he is also apparently the first transgender person executed for murdering a woman.
00:34:28.720I suppose in his final act of misogyny, he's counted as a female.
00:34:33.740Previous to murdering his victim, he was incarcerated for raping a 14-year-old girl.
00:35:37.120I don't think I could have said it any better than Lousy Seven.
00:35:39.720I don't care how your hair was done when you went into the death chamber.
00:35:46.400I don't care what was surgically attached to your chest or otherwise altered on your body.
00:35:53.980I don't care about the hormones surging through your body, whether they were estrogen or testosterone, synthetic or natural.
00:36:03.280I mostly only cared that your body was teeming with adrenaline because of the fear you felt as you were being executed for the crimes that you did commit.
00:36:15.180On David's interview with Jesse Johnson.
00:36:17.640Now, Jesse Johnson is the man behind Without Papers Pizza.
00:36:21.860He lost his business because he refused to discriminate against his customers by checking their vax pass.
00:36:29.420He refused to be a part of a system that forced him to discriminate against his unvaccinated customers.
00:36:36.660And for that, his business was destroyed by the Alberta government and the Calgary municipal government.
00:38:22.680When the Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell threatened parents participating in the Freedom Convoy with having their children removed from the area prior to the start of any police action.
00:38:36.560In response to a New York Post article about Sports Illustrated putting an arguably obese model on their cover,
00:39:07.320What on earth does the College of Psychologists have to do with Peterson debating public political issues of the day?
00:39:17.680Now, you can agree or disagree with any of Peterson's political views,
00:39:21.560but where does a group of censors with the power to end someone's career get off telling them what they can and can't say about non-psychology things?
00:39:31.620Of course, they would never dare to do this to a left-wing psychologist.
00:39:36.620And of course, we wouldn't want them to do that either.
00:39:39.620Not only are they censoring Dr. Peterson, or at least they're trying,
00:39:43.620they've demanded that he submit to a coaching, a re-education about what to say in public politically.
00:39:49.620Some unknown censor now gets to tell a leading public intellectual what he can and can't say,
00:39:54.620and if he doesn't comply, he'll be banned from treating patients?
00:40:18.620Let them know that this is a witch hunt against Canadian values like freedom of speech and the right for people to hold a variety of opinions,
00:40:26.620including opinions that the establishment doesn't like.
00:40:30.620That's really the whole point of free speech, isn't it?
00:40:34.620To be able to criticize power, not just obey it.
00:40:38.620Tell these people to drop their case against Jordan Peterson.
00:40:41.620That number again is 416-961-8817 or go to SavePeterson.com where you can see it again.
00:40:48.620At SavePeterson.com we'll also have a one-click button that you can press to send an email to every single one of the 19 people on that censorship committee.
00:40:58.620So you can put your disagreement to them in writing too.
00:41:02.620Dr. Jordan Peterson has changed lives.
00:41:28.620Call the number there during business hours to talk directly to the College of Psychologists of Ontario.
00:41:34.620I bet we can get more than a thousand people to call that number.
00:41:38.620More than they've probably ever had in their history.
00:41:41.620And at SavePeterson.com you can also click one button.
00:41:44.620It's very easy to send an email to all 19 censors over there to let them know that you're on to them and that you see exactly what they're doing.