Youtube Demonetization! Is Misgendering A Crime?
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Summary
Rebel News has been demonetized by YouTube, and now there s a sort of Damocles dangling over our heads, given that this woke tech giant might deplatform us altogether as for our crimes, well, we're not marching in lockstep with the leftist media. In other words, we re not pro-big government, pro-lockdown. We re NOT pro-cancel culture. And Drea Humphrey has an update on CD, who is now languishing in jail for committing a misgendering crime.
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Welcome to Rebel Roundup, ladies and gentlemen, and the rest of you,
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in which we look back at some of the very best commentaries of the week by your favorite Rebels.
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Well, it's official. Rebel News has been completely demonetized by YouTube.
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And now there's a Silicon Valley sort of Damocles dangling over our heads,
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given that this woke tech giant might deplatform us altogether.
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As for our crime, well, we're not marching in lockstep with the leftist media.
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Rebel commander Ezra Levent will drop by with all the unbelievable details.
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who's now languishing in jail in BC for committing a misgendering crime.
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In other words, this father refers to his biological female child as a girl.
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And he refers to her by her given birth name, too.
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But that makes him an enemy of the state, apparently.
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Oh, and the judge would rather that you don't know the sort of details about this case,
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And you had plenty to say about a man who had re-entered Canada via land, not air,
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but was nevertheless sent to one of those horrific quarantine hotels.
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And I do not exaggerate when I reference horror.
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This particular inmate, I mean guest, has a severe seafood allergy.
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A meal that could have sent him into anaphylactic shock.
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Last night at 5.30 p.m., I received this letter from YouTube.
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They're completely cancelling all remaining ads on our channel,
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even from advertisers who specifically request our channel.
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And worse, they're banning our 1.45 million YouTube subscribers
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from voluntarily paying us through what are called live stream super chats.
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This is going to cost us about $400,000 a year.
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they say we can reapply in 30 days and possibly get our ads back.
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Or we could gut our company, cut out $400,000 a year in costs.
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We've just hired great new folks, new reporters, editors.
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Cutting $400,000 a year means probably cutting seven staff.
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I think that's really what YouTube wants us to do.
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We're not going to be just like the CBC or CNN.
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Or if you can't wait, just go to afteryoutube.com, and it's all right there.
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To be honest, I think their next step will be to suspend our channel altogether, just to delete us.
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I really don't know how long we've got left on YouTube at all, but I do have a plan, and you can see it at afteryoutube.com.
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It's a simple plan, and today we started to implement it.
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Frankly, we were expecting something like this, and we started putting things in motion months ago.
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But just quickly, before I get to the plan, you might think that maybe we did something wrong.
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YouTube has a three-strikes-and-you're-out policy for inappropriate videos.
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We've published more than 15,000 videos on YouTube, and we've never violated their terms of service.
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Much like the game of baseball, YouTube has a policy of three strikes and you're out.
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But after publishing some 15,000 videos, Rebel News has zero strikes, yet we are completely demonetized now.
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Well, unlike baseball, the umpire that is YouTube is allowed to change the rules in the bottom of the ninth inning.
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Rebel News is being told to hit the showers, basically, because the new rule is zero strikes and you're out.
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Well, at least that is the new rule if you are a news organization that is not woke, politically correct, and pro-lockdown.
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And to borrow another reference from the unforgiving world of hardball, say it ain't so, Ezra Levant, say it ain't so.
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I mean, I keep an eye on things because I'm aware that we're constantly being hunted by censors and deplatformers.
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I think we probably take more care than most media because we feel like we're being scrutinized harder than most media.
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So when I got the email out of the blue from YouTube, I immediately called our rep.
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We have a strategic partner manager over there.
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And I said, well, can I see what was the video that got us into trouble?
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And I checked because we have a special email that we're given notices of problems.
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So if there's nothing wrong, I said, well, can we appeal?
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I said, well, can you at least point me in some direction?
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And she pointed me to the harmful and dangerous acts category, which is for things like extreme sports, like cliff diving,
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or do you know parkour when you're hopping around a cityscape with no harness and it's nerve wracking, or fail compilations or pranks?
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And there's this one line in there about giving out homemade remedies for cancer or denying that AIDS or COVID-19 exist.
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We just have a different point of view about the right political response to it.
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I mean, YouTube demonetized all conservative pages after Trump won in early 2017.
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But we built it back up through something called Super Chats, which our viewers chip in a few bucks.
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And we were getting it up to respectable numbers, about $30,000 a month or about $400,000 a year.
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That covers five, six, seven salaries around here.
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And all of a sudden, bam, it's just punched right out of our system.
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But I'm worried it's a precursor to the next step, which is just delete the page.
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And we have 1.45 million subscribers on YouTube.
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As I said to our rep, if you're willing to suspend Donald Trump, you're surely willing to suspend some Canadian news channel.
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But, you know, speaking of Donald Trump, I agree.
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Going back to 2016, Ezra, that was a shock to the left.
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That was the asteroid dinosaur event, if you will.
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I mean, before Trump was Brexit, it was another shock.
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But, you know, that was across the pound over there.
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And then that's when they had this jihad against right-leaning commentators and websites and what have you.
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You would think that they would, you know, take their foot off the accelerator as opposed to continually driving it.
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Or is this all about intimidation, submission, and complete control?
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When they have a win, that's the new front line for the next move.
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And, I mean, you can see that just to pull an example out of the air.
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I mean, instead of taking a victory lap and saying, guys, you did it.
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I mean, black president, black people, visible minorities in high office, in Canada, in the United States, in business, in sports, in entertainment.
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We need woke, you know, inherent racism, self-denunciations, whatever.
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So demonetizing us, the next step will be deplatforming us altogether.
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That's just the beginning of the great new world for them.
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And I said to our rep, I said, look, this is so obvious because we don't share the worldview of Google and YouTube, which are headquartered in Silicon Valley, the most left-wing place in America.
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We've never broken a term of our terms of service.
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And I suppose it's obvious by now, but no one in the media party cares.
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But just a week ago, we discovered the U.S. Navy and the Canadian Armed Forces both hired the same Arkansas-based defense contractor to smear us.
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They whipped up a cyber forensic report, just a bunch of BS.
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And part of me is thinking, gee, I wonder if they gave that BS dossier about us to YouTube and said, oh, you better shut them down.
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You know, Ezra, I just can't get it out of my mind that how a few years ago, when we got messages from YouTube, they were good messages.
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We have a silver plaque congratulating us on half a million viewers.
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And they sent us an even bigger golden-hued plaque congratulating us on one million viewers.
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So it would seem that they were happy with our success.
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My question to you, Ezra, I don't know if it will ever get answered.
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Who is the person or persons that said that's it for Rebel News in terms of them getting any money at all?
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At least when the government comes to censor us, we see them coming.
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None of that happens when censorship is outsourced to big tech.
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And what I think we've seen in the last five, ten years is the merger between big government and big tech.
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And now you still have governments doing censorship.
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But let's say you're Justin Trudeau and he despises Rebel News.
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Is he going to, like, he sent a couple of his election commissioners to harass me because I wrote a book called The Libranos.
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Justin Trudeau could use the government to censor us.
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Or maybe if there's a close collusion between big tech and big government, there's no lawsuit.
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Was it someone within the belly of the beast of Google who just didn't lie?
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And that's the problem when companies like Google, which are really as large as countries
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And the guys at the top start to get a God complex, whether it's Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos
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The guy at the top of Twitter, he really thinks he's Rasputin.
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So when people are worth, worth, Bill Gates, you know, 50, 100, 200 billion dollars, these
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guys, they start to think of themselves as gods because everyone around them does their
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And they start to think of people as ants in an ant colony.
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And when politicians get that way, we can hold them to account.
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You can take down the greatest man in a democracy in a vote.
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Well, you can't do that with Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg or the likes.
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Well, I think they're going to find out that in terms of the ant community, we're army
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You know, but what really galls me, Ezra, is the fact that we go back 10 years ago to
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the infancy of Facebook and Twitter and YouTube.
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And back then, they advertised themselves as like the Wild West of freedom.
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And come one, come all, we want your free content.
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And then all of a sudden, it was you, you, you, you and you out of the tent.
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Our future, obviously, there is no future with YouTube.
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Well, we are setting up accounts with a bunch of other alternatives to YouTube.
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DLive, Twitch, Odyssey, Rumble, just to name a few.
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And altogether, they're not even 1% as big as YouTube.
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YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world.
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But we can get into the lifeboats, the 10 of them.
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And one thing I really want to do is the 1.45 million subscribers through YouTube,
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Because if YouTube shut us down, I'd never be able to talk to those people again.
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So that's why we've encouraged everyone to go to afteryoutube.com.
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The most important is, hey, can you tell us your name and email address?
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That's one of the ways they hold power over creators.
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So number one, go to afteryoutube.com and give us your name and address.
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Number two, sign up to one of our accounts on these alternatives, Rumble, Twitch, places like that.
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And number three, if you can, $400,000 kicked out of our company.
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And I don't want to lay off anyone because we're just doing so great these days.
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So I've asked our viewers to help us out again through crowdfunding.
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And I know people say, oh, you're always crowdfunding.
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Well, I think it's a more honest way to live than the alternative.
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Because I see four ways to be in the media these days.
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And that's what about 99% of Canadian media does.
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Number three, be part of a corporate VC, woke capital.
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You know, BuzzFeed, that's where they get their money.
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Left-wing investors, big corporate, but you better not color outside the lines.
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If I'm not a gazillionaire, if we're not going to take Trudeau money,
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if we're not going to get woke capital, well, what's left?
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And I think it's a far more honest way to do journalism,
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to look into the camera and say, folks, if you like what you're seeing,
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You can do that right there at afteryoutube.com.
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And last I checked, we were close to $100,000 already.
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And by the way, what I like is we do our stuff,
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you know, even though about 99% of our people don't give,
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I don't mind because I want them to hear the message.
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And I'm grateful, very grateful, the 1% who do give.
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You know, I'm not even going to call those other 99% free riders
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And it takes a while to get used to us, to get to know us,
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Maybe they want to give help through Fight Defiance.
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We've made, there's some way that people get involved with us.
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Over time, it takes people from zero miles an hour
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they really get drawn in to the whole rebel approach.
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that we're going to come out of this smelling like a rose.
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And we are going to come out of this even stronger than ever.
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You know, George L. Orwell, he had the right narrative.
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More of Rebel Roundup to come right after this.
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standing in front of the Vancouver law courts again.
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We are going to hear what is to happen to the man
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Justice Tayman will be ruling on whether or not
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C.D. has to remain in jail until his trial next month.
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Or if he's going to be out here getting interviewed
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You can catch the full report on the first day on this,
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the hearing that just took place a few days ago
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just a brief explanation of what's happened here
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is C.D. has been accused of breaching a publication ban
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about your child receiving treatment to transition
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if you don't think that is the right thing for your child.
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And one thing in particular was on the GoFundMe page
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there were allegations made that C.D. had his full name
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including a report that allegedly included a certificate
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Apparently that was a big factor in the ruling today.
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but he did want to express a clear warning to C.D.
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which was that apparently there was another report done
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Now the publication ban does not apply to journalists in the U.S.
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that go around transitioning children all the time
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but for some reason don't want people to know about it
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because apparently when it comes to British Columbia
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just for voicing a politically incorrect opinion
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How oh how Drea did C.D. get into this predicament
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and I think that's why it's getting national attention