The NUCLEAR Option ｜ Steven Crowder
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Steven Crowder has the sniffles, and he s got kicked off YouTube because of it. What does that have to do with the flu? Well, we ll find out on this week s episode of Mythology!
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You may not have seen a lot of Steven Crowder lately.
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Where has this international man of mystery gone?
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He does have the sniffles, and he's got a box of tissues on his desk.
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Is it because he's gone to the other side of the world?
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No, it's because YouTube is taking him down, like they've been doing more and more in recent days.
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I apologize that I sound like Hunter Biden on a parmbender, but I'm very sick.
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The only thing that I know it's not is COVID because of many, many tests that I've done.
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I'm sure you've taken a bunch of tests, and now, you know, even if you want to walk into, like, a Starbucks, I think you've got to get three negative COVID tests.
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So you actually didn't remember that anyone could get sick with anything else over the past year other than COVID.
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And it turns out that there's pneumonia, bronchitis, these things still exist.
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As a matter of fact, it's almost more likely for some of you out there to get it, depending where you are.
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And depending on your age demographic, you know, if you're a young, healthy person, you might be more likely to experience these symptoms like I have, where, you know, if I could check off a list, hey, which symptoms of everything that I have, you know, the throat that feels like the device from seven had been jammed into it, the nasal drip, or a slight loss of taste and smell, I would pick that.
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But, wow, I'm so upset that not only are you going to get yourself kicked off YouTube, now that you have suggested that some people are less likely than others to get COVID, you're going to get me kicked off of YouTube, too.
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It's almost as risky as suggesting that if people are vaccinated, they don't need to wear masks.
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And retroactively, we don't fix those bans, do we?
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They were removed from social media platforms until Fauci said, well, you know, it really was Theta because I didn't want to send the wrong message.
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Well, I think we sent the wrong message by banning people who were actually following the science.
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You know, this brings up, there was a fact check.
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They came out and they said, oh, my God, I'm going to get COVID just from sitting on the, oh, gosh.
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I saw this fact check where someone said early on, it looks like the Wuhan Institute of Virology was associated with this leak.
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And then they had to put an editor's note on the fact check.
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And they said, oh, actually, yeah, maybe it was.
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Where's the reinstituting their social media platforms?
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I don't, I don't think it was COVID that got you booted this time.
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Can you tell us anything about why you're off YouTube right now?
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So first off, let me preface it with this, because you and I both know that there, you want to do your show.
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There are some people who thrive off of just social media drama who, oh, they have a Twitter temporary suspension.
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We do hours of content, you know, we get more viewers on a live show than Jimmy Kimmel, than Jimmy Fallon.
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We are filing a lawsuit with YouTube and an immediate injunction, request of injunction, because, as you know, on YouTube, if you have three strikes, your account is gone forever.
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This happened a while back, and they found that we violated no policies, right?
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So they demonetized us, then they re-monetized us, and they demonetized us.
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And we've always said, your sandbox, okay, your rules, 230 may have something to say about it.
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But in this case, actually, COVID was one of them.
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So the first, I don't remember the exact order, but for people out there who aren't paying attention, and we're still broadcasting, by the way, live at livewithcrowder.com slash mug club.
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And the free content is available on Rumble right now until we're able to stream back on YouTube, and it remains to be seen.
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The first strike, which wasn't a strike, which was a warning, was about election, about voter fraud, I should say.
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We never said the ghost of Hugo Chavez, rigged the Dominion voting machines, and Donald Trump was the rightful, you know, president who won re-election.
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What we did do, and it became a joke with my lawyer, was I said, what, look, just like Amy Klobuchar, just like Elizabeth Warren, just like Jimmy Carter, where we talked, they talked about, they had commissions to say, hey, voter fraud, which can occur, is one of the biggest threats to our national security, to our national democracy.
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Can we cross-reference voters with the current voter rolls and the addresses that don't exist?
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And if we go on Google Earth and show that it doesn't exist as an address, can I just talk about those?
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He said, nope, because Google Earth is not up to date.
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I said, what if I sent interns that day with a copy of that day's newspaper live on camera to show that it's an overpass or an empty lot, double, triple confirmed?
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He said, if you're willing to do that, sure, fine.
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And we actually booked tickets to Nevada and Michigan and did it.
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They just said, well, you know, this violates election policy.
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Well, they should have been considered hard strikes.
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You know, listen, tomato, I say, you know, Orwellian.
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So, the COVID one, we did a one-year anniversary to 15 days to flatten the curve.
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And we went through the sequence of all of the science.
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So, for example, we had a montage of Fauci saying, don't wear a mask.
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A mask is actually worse because people touch their face and touching their face.
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We had the Surgeon General saying, stop buying masks and then saying, do buy a mask.
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But then we had him saying, double masking is unnecessary.
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And keep in mind, I think we're the only show that does this.
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We provide all of our references, like a bibliography, at loudearthcredit.com.
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Our sources for this episode were primarily the CDC and the World Health Organization.
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But I believe the statement that got us into trouble, and I'm sorry, hopefully this doesn't
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get anyone into trouble, was something along the lines of, and so I will make sure that
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it's not specific, but we brought up an image of the CDC mortality charts and said COVID is
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significantly more lethal than the flu to old people.
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And we need to recognize that and treat it properly.
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For some reason, it's significantly less lethal than the flu exclusively to young people.
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That was going against, that was considered medical misinformation.
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This is the sort of thing, you know, my wife was pregnant during COVID.
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We'd go into the doctors and we'd say, gosh, do we need to be worried about this for the
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Because, you know, flu is actually kind of a big deal if you're pregnant.
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But the doctors, all of them said, no, actually, for whatever reason, COVID is not really
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a threat to the babies or to pregnant mothers, so you don't need to worry about it as much
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I mean, this is not some kooky conspiracy theory.
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I just went through, I mean, my wife is pregnant with twins right now, and I am up in the den
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in the far wing of the house like Dracula, like Castlevania version of Dracula, you know,
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where I'm slightly charming but still a little bit intimidating, and I just emerged from my
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That conversation could result in a strike or a ban.
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Now, the final, this is the one that just happened that was the second strike, and again, I,
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Here's, it's one thing to have a rule book, people to understand it, and they break the
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This happens all the time in sports where you go, I don't agree with the call, but okay,
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You grab my shorts, you're not allowed, but the ref didn't call it.
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The recent strike was, let me be as clear as, I'm trying to be as succinct as possible so I
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Remember the police officer, the hero who saved a young girl of color in Ohio who was
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I only remember the vicious monster who wouldn't even allow that young, wonderful girl to stab
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the other girl to death and who was imposing his white supremacy on her.
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No, so we talked about this on air, and I said, not only, not only do I think this was
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a justified shooting, I think it was a necessary shooting the police officer.
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I think it'd be an abdication of duty if you don't shoot someone while they are attempting
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And this was celebrating, and by the way, I make no apologies.
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Sure, we wish that people wouldn't lose their lives.
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But I actually think that once someone has made a decision to put someone else's life
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in danger, the happy ending is the innocent civilian is saved lawfully by the police officer.
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That was considered broadly harassment, bullying because of reveling in the death of apparently
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Now, look, people need to understand that as comedians, as a comedian, this is a comedy
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There's a difference between when we're joking about things, when we're covering stories.
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I think a lot of people can sort of, you know, you look at like Alex Jones at one point was
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deplatformed, and I disagree with Alex Jones on a whole lot.
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I think a lot of people can separate themselves from what they view as extremism.
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Look, I am basic pumpkin spice latte, basic conservatism, a Christian conservative who came
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to notoriety because Amy Schumer attacked me for talking about how I wasn't having sex until
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And these points of view, YouTube is saying you cannot say that the science matters that
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two-year-olds shouldn't mask, according to the CDC.
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You cannot say that voter fraud occurs on an individual level and agree with Amy Klobuchar
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You are not welcome to say on our platform, good for you, police officer, for a fraction
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of a second, placing a perfect shot to save someone's life.
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That is saying, if they remove us here from YouTube, and we have good reason to believe
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that they're looking for other potential violations because these aren't actual
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violations, as far as we know, we really haven't gotten the specificity.
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This is tantamount to saying half the country, your points of view are not welcome on this
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This is really important because I guess the line here that they're pushing is, you know,
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But what you're saying is, no, it's not a joke.
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You know, it's sad that this is a fallen world and people do bad things and they face consequences
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But this is a good conclusion when someone is about to be stabbed.
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It is good that a cop goes in and saves that person's life.
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And the other thing here that when I see the coverage every time you get suspended or they
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try to deplatform you, you see it in Media Matters or any of the other leftist organizations.
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They'll go out and they'll say far right, extremist, radical right winger Stephen Crowder.
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And I think, you know, I don't, they're obviously being disingenuous and dishonest when it's
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Media Matters or Right Wing Watch or any of those other groups.
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But I bet a lot of other people out there might not realize how pumpkin spice you are.
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I mean, look, I spend a lot of my day reading far radical leftist content, watching far radical
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leftist content and watching far radical right wing content.
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And I'm, and then some stuff in the middle too.
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You are, I say this, it's going to sound like an insult almost.
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If they go after you, they are, it's not like it's the fringe radical right.
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If they go after you and they deplatform you, what they are saying is anyone in this country
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who identifies as conservative is no longer welcome here.
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That is exactly what, and I hate to, because I don't want to be a martyr.
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I want to do the show, but this is, this program is the biggest conservative program that's
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ever existed on, it's ever existed on a new media platform period.
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And look, I defy people, point out to me my most extreme right wing view.
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Non-interventionism unless our country's security is at stake?
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Free open markets where people have to be transparent?
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I couldn't point to any radical points of view.
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What I would say is what they probably try and say is, well, we didn't like the way you
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And the only thing, this didn't come from YouTube as far as I know, people were mad because
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they said, well, you joked about Mekhi Bryant being overweight.
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But the statement that I made was at this time, people need to understand at this moment
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in history, when we went out there and we did this stream, for example, LeBron James
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had just tweeted out, you're next to this police officer.
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And the story was a police officer showed up, Mekhi Bryant called the police and he showed
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And I said, look, this isn't a 15, this is a 230 pound woman who was mid-step.
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It might've been Marvin Hagler who said, listen, the size of someone matters, regardless
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He said, I remember he was talking about, I think it might've been Marvin Hagler.
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Or he was about to fight someone who they thought was a stepping stone.
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And they said, what are you saying to people who say your opponent doesn't have a shot?
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Just like it's relevant how the immune system of a four year old reacts differently to a novel
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And people tell us that we need to follow the science.
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We always try to be as transparent as possible.
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And it's, look, could I go off and do something like mug club?
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There are ways to make a living when you're not on these platforms.
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And I hope that there's an alternative at some point where people in the future can make
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I started doing political videos in 2008 or 2009 with a blue bed sheet in my den.
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Now, I know there's been sort of a mean factory sort of people talk about alt-right.
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I'm soon to be a father of two with 12 people, 12 to 15 people who I employ depending on the
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And I don't know that there can ever be another young Steven Crowder coming up.
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I don't know that there can ever be another Rush Limbaugh because the entire town square,
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the entire digital town square is controlled by effectively three companies, Facebook,
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you know, Google Alphabet, YouTube, and Twitter.
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And certainly then if you include Amazon and Apple, who also control the app stores and
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the ability to even get a competing application up there, I don't know if you're not allowed
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to say, hey, officer, not even blanket back the blue.
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Hey, officer, thanks for saving that girl's life and shooting that woman while she was trying
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If you're not allowed to say that on YouTube, I don't see how anyone could censor themselves
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And by the way, let's say now you're just going to do your show.
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You, you'll go onto some private website and, and by the way, they'll try to shut that down
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too, just like they shut Parler off of Amazon Web Services.
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But then let's say, okay, you find some other server and you're going to host it and that's
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And you're going to be on, you know, Stephen Crowder's special secret Mug Club dot club
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It is simply the case that even if you bring over a huge portion of your audience, that
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is going to be ghettoizing your extremely mainstream conservative content.
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And so you're going to, you'll get, you'll get to keep some of your viewers.
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But by the way, the, the whole point of YouTube or these other social media platforms that have
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gotten a critical mass and now control the flow of information around the internet is discovery.
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So sure, maybe you get to eke out a living and maybe some of your most diehard fans who
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can follow you and keep track of all this stuff.
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The big blob, the liberal establishment's fine with that because no, no one else is going
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to discover you and they'll keep their control over the information.
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And then they'll go and write New York times columns, pitching about an echo chamber, right?
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They'll say, we need to stop the radicalization.
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So you got rid of the guy who wrote about not having sex until marriage.
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You got rid of the guy who said, you know what?
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Uh, actually you already do have to pass a background check to, uh, legally purchase a
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You got rid of the guy who said, I come from a country where we don't have a first amendment.
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And so the first amendment is really important to me and defended liberals who I do not like
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Like you said, basic mainstream, basic conservatism, right?
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Um, and then you complain about an echo chamber.
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Whereas people who don't believe that the police should exist at all, nor, nor prison systems
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No, I'm taking United States representatives in Rashida Tlaib, in Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
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in Ilhan Omar, people who Joe Biden has praised.
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These are mainstream leftists and they hold far more extreme views.
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Um, and it's just ironic to me that then they complain about an echo chamber.
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But really, look, I've always said this before is, is when they demonetize us, everyone
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I run a business and it does, and it hurts everybody here.
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But I say, if you don't have to, uh, YouTube, they don't have to pay us for the content.
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Now, that being said, sometimes ads were run anyway.
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Also, I've run ads on YouTube and they said, well, advertisers don't want to be associated
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When I run ads, I can't run my videos as ads on the kind of content I would like to sponsor.
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You preclude me as both an advertiser and you preclude me as a content creator.
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Well, they have three different sets of standards.
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This is determined by YouTube, which is if you're bullying, harassing, you know, I just
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think it should be the actual speech code laws.
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If you're breaking the law, that's how simple it should be.
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Then they have, uh, advertiser friendly guidelines.
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And then there's a third category now, borderline content, which isn't a violation of policy,
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but they have other think tanks and organizations and strategic business partners who determine
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And from what I understand, they said, well, you didn't violate the guidelines per se, but
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in totality, maybe there's a pattern of whatever it is, LGBTQ AIP or racism or something.
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You know, cause this is a new thing, by the way.
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We've always known that, you know, for example, blackface or you don't do blackface.
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We've ever since we've grown up, we know white people don't do blackface.
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But I guess we don't do it, is what you're saying.
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But what's very new is you can't do an impression of someone who happens to be black.
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I mean, I was just watching a show, Life and Times of Tim, one of my favorite shows.
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It's a white guy playing a black female hooker on the show.
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So now they try and say retroactively, well, this is, now this is racist.
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You can't do a lisp because it might be mocking LGBT.
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They just keep changing the rules and act as though it's the same as using the N-word
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And I think that people need to be very clear about that.
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And to be clear about it, you just need to be able to, it's not hard.
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Well, there's a historical connotation with blackface and minstrel shows.
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The N-word was created from the ground up to oppress.
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It's not because we view the world through the lens of oppressor and the oppressed.
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Other words have been changed and morphed and reappropriated so that there's a war against
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And so my issue, sorry to go back to the point here.
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This brings up actually a pretty important point though, because I remember when they
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canceled Aunt Jemima, they said, you know, Aunt Jemima is racist.
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And I said, well, actually, because she's a black woman.
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I said, well, you can't have black women on products now?
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They say, no, it's because that woman is offensive.
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I said, well, you know, it was a black model who portrayed Aunt Jemima.
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They said, yeah, but that was, she didn't realize how oppressive it was.
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And I said, I looked up and I said, well, actually, you know, it was a black comedian
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who created the character Aunt Jemima, Billy Kersands, who was a minstrel performer.
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He was the writer who popularized this character, Aunt Jemima.
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So now you've got some 27-year-old, almost certainly, I don't have evidence of this,
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but I'd bet the farm on it, a white chick working in some marketing department in the
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company that owns Aunt Jemima, saying that we need to cancel a black actress, a black
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character, and a black writer because it would be offensive to black people that she's feeling
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And not only that, we've said, hey, white people who, by the way, were the largest consumers
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of Aunt Jemima, you're not allowed to be comforted by a southern black lady, which, by the way,
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it was, the reason it was marketable is because there were enough white people in this country
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who thought that was appealing and thought Aunt Jemima was likable, that it was, it was
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If you're a racist, you don't have Aunt Jemima on your table.
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If you're a racist, you never have to see Aunt Jemima on your table again.
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And the issue, so the issue here, I mean, I look, I feel like I'm living in a parallel
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And Whitlock, actually, Jason Whitlock made the point.
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He said, I think the reason that people like myself or people like you get in trouble where
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people say that's racist is because there is not even a shred of racism.
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When there's no shred of racism in your personal life, you feel free to communicate authentically.
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You're not worried about the landmines because, I mean, we have, I mean, in this office alone,
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Pretty sure we have, we have, pretty sure we have two gays, but I don't want to out
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We have, we have people who didn't even speak the language until a couple of years ago.
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This is a really surprisingly diverse office place and it's not even an issue.
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So the issue here with, with YouTube though, is I didn't care about the demonetization
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because I was saying, you don't have to pay me if you, that's fine.
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Let us know what the violence, they read, they, they did a full audit of everything.
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And so these aren't violations, but we would request that you, you know, maybe get rid
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We told people YouTube wants us to get rid of these.
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It wasn't a Spotify situation where they just disappeared.
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And now we're at a point where we're going, whoa, hold on.
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There is no other course of action at this point to maintain a livelihood for everyone
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And all we want to do is a show that's not even a strong PG-13, a show that could run on
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Of course, because it would seem to me what they're proving now in big tech is this old
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line, you hear it in New York, which is you can indict a ham sandwich.
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You can, they, I don't think they saw a violation and they said, that's it.
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I think they, they decided they're going to get you.
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Well, now we have this kind of ridiculous category called borderline content.
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The whole reason that you have the guidelines is so that you're either on one side of it
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So if you have borderline content, you, you obliterate the, the point of the guidelines
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We'll find something in the meantime, you're suspended.
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And I just want to make sure I have to, because I want to quote directly here for, for,
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So maybe you need to have your censor button of Stephen Colbert and of Samantha Bee, because
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I've had these conversations where they say, well, do you need to do this segment?
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And it usually involves a terrorist or maybe Don Lemon, something like that.
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You shouldn't have, one time was, you shouldn't have laughed when this transgender individual
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threw a lunchbox at you and ran and tripped over their high heels when she was running
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And I said, okay, I can see how that offends you.
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But is it anywhere near as close to calling our sitting president's mouth Putin's c**t
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And don't try and conflate a joke with a point.
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And it's, listen, it's tough because we make both of those on this show.
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It's really the only show that does it the way that we do.
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I say it on my knees, grateful for the fans that we have who have supported us.
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And we've played by the rules as best we know how.
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Yeah, people see the muscles in the gun and they just say, you know what?
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And people know that, you know, I have a hobby like combat.
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And every other week we have a UFC champion because it's a sport we follow.
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And we work with, sometimes we train with these people.
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There is nothing anyone can say to me that will offend me enough to fight.
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There's nothing anyone can say about my wife that will offend me enough to fight.
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Now, I'm not saying that that should be the line for everyone.
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But as a public figure, I understand the line is different for me.
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However, if I get to the point, and again, I've never been in a physical altercation.
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Meaning I've been assaulted and I have retreated and not actually fought back.
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But if it's at a point where I believe that there is no escape and it is my duty to protect
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either my safety or those around me, I've predetermined that it will be as swift and
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But it's the same thing with this lawsuit right now, an injunction with YouTube.
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You want us to try and set, okay, I think there'll be a conversation somewhere down the
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line about 2.30, whether you're a publisher or a platform.
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But we're at the point now where there is no other way to proceed.
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And so we've got to make sure that people know exactly what is going on here.
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And this is, like you said, this is tantamount to saying no conservative viewpoints are welcome
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I mean, here's, we're talking about the publisher issue.
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This is separate, but I don't think there's ever been a more clear example than President
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He was removed from all these platforms while he was president, right?
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He was removed for saying fight like hell, which by the way, our shirts are available at
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Anyone who acts like, anyone who acts like fight like hell is not a phrase that had been
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Um, removed the president of the United States.
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So Twitter has now said, listen, we have decided editorially that Donald Trump's tweets are just
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Which must mean that they've decided Hamas and the Ayatollah Khomeini are not.
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You can't enjoy the legal protections and say, we're just a platform when you are clearly
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I think that kicking Trump off and they all did it, right?
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I mean, basically every single social media platform and, and some technology platforms
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To me, that was, it's so, that, that hipster Rasputin, you know, Jack Dorsey in Silicon Valley,
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that he and these other oligarchs would ban the duly elected sitting president.
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Whatever you think about the 2020 election, the man was the duly elected sitting president
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on January 7th, January 8th, and they booted him off.
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So of course, next, they're going to go for Steven Crowder.
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Steven Crowder has got the biggest conservative show on social media.
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And I love what you said there about, look, YouTube, I don't want this fight.
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I'm, I'm willing to play ball to a certain degree.
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I am not the sort of person who says you ought to be able to say whatever you want at any
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You're not allowed to have, uh, to discuss fraud right in this country.
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You've had protections against that from the very beginning, a sedition, obscenity, direct
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But here's, but here's something that's even more concerning, uh, uh, Mr. Knowles.
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And I don't, you probably know this, but a lot of people skim over it.
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Do you know why citizen journalism is going to be dead?
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And I got into it with John Stossel about this.
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He wouldn't be able to do the stuff that he used to do in 2020.
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Um, because the things that you just meant, these are laws, for example, not hate speech.
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That's not a real thing, but a direct threat or direct call to violence.
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Or if we're talking about slander libel, they don't follow those laws on YouTube.
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You're in a state where you have the right to record.
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In other words, that's how you record corrupt politicians engaging in corrupt political
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YouTube says, well, no, we actually don't follow those laws.
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If it's slander or libel, sometimes they'll leave it up.
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We've had shows with YouTube where we've interviewed people.
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They have been on camera saying, I give permission, spelling out their name on camera, right?
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And then they went afterwards and said, I didn't like the way that I looked.
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So they don't follow the laws that we should all agree.
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Whether we agree with the laws or not, we all agree that since they are law, need to
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And then they create their own new laws while benefiting from the legal protection of 230.
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How could you ever catch a corrupt politician, dark money in politics, if this is a standard
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And of course, it's not a standard that they apply equally.
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All someone needs to say is, yeah, you know what?
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I did offer money for that, uh, that underage, uh, uh, boy of the night, but, uh, I didn't
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like the way that clip made me look and I want you to remove it.
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And then they let the Matt Getz stories roll for, you know.
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So this, this, this point is so important because yeah, we all agree there are, there
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are standards and we have laws for those standards and okay, good.
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And it's, it's actually, I don't even just mean to single out YouTube.
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It's all of these woke corporations and specifically big tech.
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They say, no, we're going to, we're going to kind of pass our own laws.
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And actually cocaine Mitch himself as establishmentarian as you get on the right, Mitch McConnell
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came out and he said, this is a big threat because these woke corporations are operating
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They are in many ways the, the real governing force in the country.
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And they, look, I don't like big government, but I, I also don't like big woke corporation
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because they're even less accountable to the people than the government is.
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And they're more powerful than any government that's ever existed.
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If you were to actually get in a DeLorean and go back to the Roman empire and show Caesar
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the power of alphabet, Google, YouTube, and show them the map and how much information
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Caligula would be like, that's a little extreme.
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People, you know, listen, I just, I just, you know, was seeing a few ladies in the brass
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Whoa, by the way, it looks like that Epstein picture.
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No one was allowed to cover that until, uh, he, uh, he died under a security camera
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But the point is, yeah, no, these people are more powerful than government.
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And I do think that people need to understand it's not just, it's not about private corporations
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Um, it's not about an open market when they collude and when they don't follow the laws and
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they enjoy the legal protections that by the way, other business owners out there
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don't, if you post something at daily wire and it is incorrect and it is malicious and
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We have been sued and we've won and it cost us money just to win because someone says,
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I don't like the article that you're, they would never dream of suing YouTube because
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Um, and next time I will bring you the cigars when I'm not, you know, coughing.
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You know, just to let, let the audience in a little bit, we were supposed to hang out
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We were going to, we're going to have a great time.
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Obviously, Steven, had you exercised your lungs properly, you probably wouldn't be in
00:33:59.960
I think this is because a lot of liberals, even if you say, oh, you know what?
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Basic conservative, even though you acknowledge it, not extreme.
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You won't be able to conduct any sort of business at all in the world, really, uh,
00:34:14.480
without access to Facebook, YouTube, Amazon, Google, Alphabet, you know, Google, YouTube.
00:34:18.900
Um, this is also a business issue for people who own and run a business.
00:34:22.920
We just talked about how we've advertised on, uh, on YouTube or on Facebook.
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And I don't have the, I'm entirely independent.
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So I haven't advertised, I haven't spent nearly as much money as other people, but I've done
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it consistently to understand how the systems work from both sides.
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And you know, they send you these, these, they send you these requests and you get someone
00:34:42.420
As opposed to billboard, they have this whole kind of spread, right?
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They encourage you to spend your money as a business on these platforms.
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And then they decide which businesses they're going to allow through and which businesses
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are going to pinch the valve to give you an idea with the Vox apocalypse.
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Vox, they've co-produced a show with YouTube and Netflix, right?
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This is something people need to understand in original studios.
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It wasn't just us versus some independent online video creators.
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It was us versus one of the biggest multimedia conglomerates that has existed before big
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And then you go through a period where you search Steven Crowder, change my mind, abortion,
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And this is what's really concerning for anyone out there who runs a business.
00:35:32.780
It's taking away your ability to put up flyers for guitar lessons to give you an idea as to
00:35:36.660
how we've had to change our business model online.
00:35:40.940
We just, you know, used to upload the shows, let the cards fill where they may.
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We're not really showing, we're not being able to reach people, search, browse.
00:35:47.940
People are entering in the title of the video and being taken to a nine-year-old PBS video
00:35:53.820
So we said, okay, then we need to focus on subscriptions, notifications, but then notifications
00:35:59.160
And so YouTube doesn't really tell you why they don't work.
00:36:01.100
So what we had to do at this point, because YouTube is favoring live streaming, we live
00:36:06.560
We just tell everyone we've gone back to the old school Johnny Carson approach.
00:36:09.900
So weekdays at 10 a.m. Eastern, just bookmark it and tune in so we don't lose touch with
00:36:21.060
We still have millions of people tuning in no matter what.
00:36:22.940
And if you go on the YouTube live page, we're number one, two, and four out of five in any
00:36:30.760
Because if I were Seth Meyers, and even though I was getting all that autoplay, I'd be pretty
00:36:36.560
But we constantly have to reinvent the business model that is different from the terms we
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And everyone here, their livelihoods depend on it.
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And anyone who says they know the rule book is being dishonest.
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Because YouTube has said, we don't show you the rule book.
00:36:57.220
This, I'm so glad you brought this up because yes, there's the ideological point.
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And so they're going to support the leftist views too.
00:37:07.300
You're taking away eyeballs and you're taking away dollars from the left-wingers who can't
00:37:13.200
And there's a lot of moneyed interest here that is trying to get those eyeballs back.
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You know, we've got eyeballs we got to work on.
00:37:20.300
We've got lungs that we got to work on next time.
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I hope that we can exercise those lungs with those stogies.
00:37:25.980
Because when you are feeling better, hopefully when you're back on YouTube, in the meantime
00:37:30.120
though, seriously, people need to go to the mug club.
00:37:33.700
Because I got to tell you, pal, look, I hope it all works out.
00:37:37.100
I think you're big enough in the sense that it would be a really big deal if they took
00:37:45.500
And most importantly, it would be bad for me and all the rest of the conservatives out
00:37:51.240
Because if they come for you and it really seems like they are, they're coming for all of
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Especially, I don't know if you've been vaccinated or not.
00:38:14.300
We won't be exercising our lungs when I come out because you don't inhale stogies.
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It's, I actually got someone wrote into me today and they said, Michael, should I take
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And they said, well, but it's bad for your mouth and your lips and you're this and you're
00:38:34.280
I said, you know, look, man, to quote a great liberal economist, in the long run, we're
00:38:39.560
So we got to, we got to enjoy ourselves a little bit.
00:38:45.100
Digitally, we may be dead sooner rather than later if big tech gets its way.
00:38:50.080
Before that happens, everyone head on over to the Mug Club.
00:38:55.000
And on audio, by the way, people can still listen on audio on Apple, on Android, on Spotify.
00:38:59.200
And it doesn't, you know, listen, it's a video show.
00:39:01.980
So that's one thing we often, you know, we try and direct people to watch the video on
00:39:07.800
Just don't let us lose touch with you guys out there.
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If you don't have the money, we still provide plenty of free content on audio.
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And I will, I will say before we go very quickly, if by the time this video goes up, if YouTube
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has permanently banned Stephen Crowder, I never liked him anyway.
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I don't, please don't associate me with him at all.
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I just hated that Michael Knowles told me to never get the vaccine.
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