This week on America First, we have an update on the ongoing Great Patriotic War that Russia continues to wage against the evil empire in Ukraine, and our featured story is about how Facebook and Instagram have now changed their terms of service and rules to permit their users to threaten violence against Russian people and the Russian government. We'll also be talking about DuckDuckGo, a Google alternative to Google, and a man in a duck costume who is spreading hate and bigotry on a platform that is supposed to be a free speech alternative to the big tech companies like Google and all the other major tech companies that censors all of us. We'll talk about all that and much more on this episode of America First! Subscribe to America First to get immediate access to all of our newest episodes, and stay up to date on what's going on in the world of Tech and the future of the Alt-Tech space. Logo by Courtney DeKorte. Theme by Mavus White. Music by PSOVOD and tyops. If you like what you hear, please HIT SUBSCRIBE and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Subscribe, Like, and Share, and tell a Friend about what you think of the show! We're listening to, and spreading the word to your friends about this podcast on all of the great things we're doing! - Nicholas J. Fuentes and the crew at America First. Thank you for listening to and supporting! Peace, Love, Blessings, Kristian, XOXOXO, J.J. - Kristian and the Crews, EJ & the Crew, Michael, and the team at and the gang at . - Jon and the rest of the Crew at , and all of your support and support at ! , & Jon at the Podcasts, and Jon and his team at the podcast, Jon and Jon at his new book, The Truth About It, Jon at and his new podcast. and all his amazing wife, Tom at the Podcasts at ? and so much more. Thank you so much, Jon is a true rockstar, Jon, Jon and all out of love and respect, and thank you for all the love and appreciation, and respect and appreciation. Jon is so much love and support, and all thanks for all his support.
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00:00:19.000We have another update on the ongoing Great Patriotic War that Russia continues to wage against the evil Empire America.
00:00:29.000In Ukraine and our featured story is about how Facebook and Instagram have now changed their terms of service and rules to permit their users to threaten violence against Russian people and the Russian government.
00:00:46.000So as you know, Facebook, Instagram, like all other social media, their terms of service prohibits people from threatening violence.
00:00:57.000But as of this week, they changed that, and they changed that specifically to allow people to threaten violence against Russians in light of the war.
00:02:09.000So Russia Today, I assume, and other state-sponsored Russian media will be pushed to the back and State Department propaganda, US and British propaganda will be put at the front.
00:04:18.000Media requests and all kinds of stuff and I'm putting out all these fires all day because of this one duck man, this little ducky man, this man in a duck costume.
00:04:29.000You know, freedom and fun comes at a price.
00:04:58.000We implemented a report function and we take this very seriously.
00:05:03.000I told you yesterday, we take these reports very seriously.
00:05:08.000There were hundreds and thousands of reports that a streamer on the Cozy Platform by the name of UX
00:05:15.000Was spreading vile bigotry and hatred on his stream yesterday using this platform to spread hatred and negativity and evil in the world and we take this very seriously.
00:05:31.000We take the safety and the trust of this community very seriously and particularly the most vulnerable among us.
00:05:40.000The homosexuals, transgenders, blacks, Jews, women, we take all of this very seriously.
00:05:48.000So in response to your concerns, which are extremely serious and valid, we've implemented a report function on the site.
00:05:56.000You'll be able to report any channel and any replay of any video if you see any of this bigoted, hateful content.
00:06:04.000And believe me, our trust and safety team will be reviewing
00:06:09.000Every report and we will be monitoring all future streams to ensure compliance with our terms of service I can assure you when you type of those reports.
00:08:45.000He now understands the stakes here he understands the gravity and the risks associated We gave him a very thoughtful little educational seminar on
00:08:57.000Thank you for joining us in our mission to free the world of vile antisemitism!
00:09:20.000Anyway, we're just having a little fun here.
00:09:23.000We're just having a little casual Friday.
00:09:24.000Now that that serious portion is out of the way, we're gonna have a little casual Friday fun.
00:11:22.000And it's also refreshing to see Russia stand up to the evil empire.
00:11:28.000Honestly, it really is refreshing to see that.
00:11:31.000Because for so long, America, and particularly the American regime, just gets away with everything, spreading their evil around the world.
00:11:39.000And it's a beautiful thing to see Russia take a stand.
00:11:43.000And I love to see all these all these homos with the Ukrainian pin and like I said all this blue and gold shit stand with Ukraine and all this and it's so awesome that Russia is just bulldozing this country and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
00:12:09.000And all these suckers here in America are paying $5 a gallon per gas because the Biden regime is waging this futile economic war against the greatest statesmen in the world?
00:12:48.000Whatever I don't know it's like I said it's been a long week long day but we're happy we're happy finally something cool is happening but before we get into the news I just want to remind you follow me on gab and telegram links are down below follow me here on the cozy platform right here cozy dot TV slash Nick to get a push notification whenever my show begins what the hell was I gonna say I totally forgot I don't know
00:13:26.000Vladimir Putin is a hero, and I love to see it.
00:13:31.000It's so awesome to see something like this in the 21st century because we were supposed to believe that nothing cool could ever happen again.
00:16:49.000I put it in my telegram the other day, but he really pleasantly surprised me.
00:16:54.000I've been critical of Madison Cawthorn, you know that, and I've been skeptical about a lot of the things that he's said and done since getting into Congress, like divorcing his wife after eight months, but
00:17:07.000He put out a statement the other day where he said Zelensky is a thug, he said Zelensky's a dirtbag.
00:17:13.000I'm paraphrasing here, but he said something like, Zelensky's a Western dirtbag and he'll be grouted at the heel of the new Tsar Putin.
00:17:23.000He said something to that effect, something like that.
00:17:26.000And I saw this clip and I was like, you know, say what you will about Madison, but that was a really brave and bold thing to say.
00:17:34.000That was really fresh and a bold new flavor.
00:17:37.000Really crisp and I really love to hear that.
00:17:40.000I was really pleasantly surprised because you don't really hear that too much from all these rhinos.
00:17:45.000You know, these rhinos will never stand up to this thug, this Western dog, Zelensky.
00:17:52.000These other rhinos, these cucks in the GOP, they will never support the new czar of Russia, Vladimir Putin.
00:17:59.000Finally, thank you Madison Cawthorne, thank you based Madison Cawthorne, for standing up for Russia.
00:20:08.000I don't want to make it too obvious, but hey, I know everybody's been saying, hey, Nick, you're going to need to shell out another $20,000 for a wheelchair accessible ramp at AFFPAC 4.
00:22:39.000Our first story is about DuckDuckGo and
00:22:43.000For those of you that don't know, I'm sure you guys are all familiar, but DuckDuckGo is supposed to be a free speech alternative to Google.
00:23:48.000But that all changed this week when DuckDuckGo put out a statement and they said that they would actively be targeting Russian disinformation and pushing it further down in the search results.
00:24:05.000It says, quote, DuckDuckGo, a search engine dubbed by many as the free speech alternative to Google, has announced that it will be taking steps to combat Russian disinformation.
00:24:15.000The move was announced by DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg in a tweet.
00:24:28.000Weinberg wrote in a tweet, quote, Like so many others, I am sickened by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the gigantic humanitarian crisis it continues to create.
00:24:39.000At DuckDuckGo, we've been rolling out search updates that downrank sites associated with Russian disinformation.
00:24:46.000Further down in a Twitter thread, Weinberg said the company would be downraking sites associated with disinformation.
00:24:53.000Weinberg did not make it clear what the company considers to be Russian disinformation.
00:24:58.000Several narratives that have come out of Ukrainian media since the Russian invasion began have been debunked or called into question, such as the ghost of Kiev and Snake Island stories.
00:25:09.000Weinberg's statement did not address the possibility of Ukrainian or Western misinformation and disinformation being disseminated and spread online through DuckDuckGo, rather that they would use news modules and information boxes to highlight quality information for rapidly unfolding topics, which means censorship.
00:25:32.000All of that is a roundabout way of saying censorship.
00:26:55.000It says DuckDuckGo, which is headquartered about 40 minutes outside Philadelphia, has been marketed as a privacy alternative to Google.
00:27:04.000The search engine has gained widespread popularity among Western political dissidents in recent years who use it due to its lack of algorithmic suppression that is common with Google.
00:27:15.000DuckDuckGo also markets its commitment to privacy and seeks to guard users from personalized search results based on collected data.
00:27:22.000DuckDuckGo's move follows the general crackdown of U.S.
00:27:25.000and European companies against Russian interests.
00:27:28.000Russian nationals have been barred from air travel to and from the U.S.
00:27:32.000and the European Union, while various Russian exports have been banned across the world.
00:27:37.000On the tech front, Russian gamers have been barred by Xbox and Sony after requests from the government of Ukraine.
00:28:50.000Free speech, all these other arguments,
00:28:54.000That's really, at the end of the day, just a cover for the fact that we are seeking a platform where we can disseminate thought, opinion, narrative, and information that goes contrary to the agenda of the elites.
00:29:15.000The security apparatus in America, which is comprised of the Pentagon, the intelligence agencies, the bureaucratic state, to some extent the defense contractors, the broader military-industrial complex, they understand that part of our security is control of information.
00:29:52.000The Atlanta Council puts out papers on this.
00:29:56.000State Department, United Nations, Department of Homeland Security, they all put out bulletins and papers about exactly this.
00:30:03.000That part of securing the homeland is controlling the political narrative.
00:30:08.000And they've talked a lot about this in the past year, ever since January 6th.
00:30:12.000They said that part of their security strategy is to embed confidential informants, to spy on dissidents, to monitor the emergence of fringe or extreme narratives, because, and I think this is correct actually, from their perspective, they know that if a lot of people in America start to believe that, hey, the whole government's corrupt,
00:30:37.000And the government's illegitimate and, you know, the Russians are right and all this.
00:30:41.000It is going to undermine the State Department policy.
00:30:45.000It is going to undermine America's ability to project power and have credibility on the world stage.
00:31:15.000And lately, in the past seven years, they've also been controlling what's online.
00:31:19.000And so the State Department, the intel agencies, the Ivy League schools, and the social media companies have been working like this to control emerging political narratives.
00:31:32.000And so this war over free speech is really anything but.
00:32:44.000That's a big part of why they control the financial system for the same reason.
00:32:49.000The reason you need to show an ID to open a bank account is because they know that if just anybody opens a bank account and you can't track that, anyone can access the power of money.
00:32:58.000Once again, that could be used to undermine the security posture of the American homeland.
00:33:02.000So you have all these tight controls over finance.
00:33:04.000It's the same thing with regards to speech.
00:33:07.000It's the same thing with regards to political narrative and discussion.
00:33:11.000So the point I'm trying to make is these cutesy free speech platforms...
00:33:17.000It doesn't matter if every day of the week it's a free speech platform, if on the day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, they're suppressing so-called Russian disinformation.
00:33:31.000So that when Russia invades Ukraine, it can be a place where you can get the real story about the most consequential topics in the most consequential time.
00:33:40.000We don't need a DuckDuckGo if they do this at this moment.
00:33:44.000We don't need a getter if getter bans Russia today at a time like this.
00:33:49.000It's not to say that we can't make use out of these platforms.
00:33:52.000We should instrumentalize these platforms for our purposes to the extent that we can, like we do with the others, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and all the rest.
00:34:01.000But it is to say that it really defeats the purpose of their stated goals.
00:34:05.000The goal is not to create a free speech platform so you could Google, like, QAnon stuff or whatever.
00:35:37.000America projects power all over the globe, and we've got many adversaries, and our adversaries do try to undermine our security.
00:35:44.000Often it is defensive, but yes, Russia and China and our adversaries, Iran, they are trying to undermine our security.
00:35:52.000And when they see someone like Trump, who is a disruptor and shaking things up, and then there's a siege at the Capitol,
00:36:00.000When the Justice Department rounds up all those people and throws the book at them and throws them in jail, it's actually an extremely rational response.
00:36:07.000Because they have to demonstrate for the same reason that Obama had to follow up the red line in Syria in 2013.
00:36:14.000For the same reason that Trump had to strike Syria in 2017 in April.
00:36:19.000For the same reason he had to send out carrier strike groups and all the rest.
00:38:08.000The regime is waging a war against its own people, with the elite and witness stuff, the trannies, the gay people, the women, the Muslims, the black people, the Hispanics, the poor, the homeless, the criminals, let them all out of jail, the felons, and so on.
00:38:26.000And Sam Francis writes about this, it's a war of the top working with the bottom against the middle.
00:38:34.000All of that being said about, you know, the Trump coalition disrupting America and showing the inadequacy of the security apparatus and that's broadcasting a message to Russia, that kind of tells you about, like, sort of what our posture should be towards these foreign countries.
00:38:50.000You know, I see all these conservatives saying like, you know, I'm a conservative, sure, but I'm also a patriot and I back America against Huawei and China and Putin and all this.
00:39:03.000The elite is working with the homeless and the criminals to screw you over and kill you and steal all your resources and devalue the currency and so on.
00:39:11.000And you're gonna work with the government?
00:41:18.000It's a little bit more complicated than that, but that's a big part of it.
00:41:21.000So when they're coming at you with the censorship and all this, it's about control of information, control of opinion, control of narrative for the sake of so-called national security.