In this episode, Simone and I discuss the censorship of conservative media outlets by the mainstream media, and how it relates to the current state of free speech in the United Kingdom. We also discuss the Biden administration's censorship of right-wing media outlets, and why we should be worried about it.
00:00:00.520Hello, Simone! Today we are going to be talking about news, which is largely being covered up by mainstream news organizations that just two weeks ago were freaking out that Trump threatened to pull Jimmy Kimmel from the air, or threatened to put pressure to pull Jimmy Kimmel from the air, for lying, lying, I should point out.
00:00:21.720Not like a character attack that he did on somebody, or disagreeing with Trump's politics, but lying about an assassin, somebody who's killed, right?
00:00:34.720So Trump goes, all these organizations freaking out about this.
00:00:38.120It drops, literally, like within four days of that, we're covering this a little late, that Google admitted that the Biden administration had secretly gotten them to censor wide swaths of mildly right-wing information, and, we'll get into this, very true information, okay, that we now know is what was true from a lot of studies that we're going to go over now.
00:01:05.340And I think that this, fundamentally, when people are like, the difference between the left and the right, is the modern right threatens to censor you for lying.
00:01:16.460The modern left will ban you without telling you or anyone else for telling the truth.
00:01:25.340If you can't tell who the fascist is there, you know, be aware.
00:01:30.420And I'll point out, like, another thing that will be a part of this, which I think is important to talk about, is sort of what's going on with free speech in the UK right now.
00:01:41.060And we've talked about it before, so I'm not going to go too deep.
00:01:43.340But the complete degradation and subjugation of the British people, where one person, for example, Garim Evans, this is in 2023, in Fife, Scotland, which is where I lived in Scotland, actually, wrote, Islam is questionable on the exterior of her home, and was arrested for that.
00:02:13.580Now, the reason why this is important to note here is if you wrote that about Christianity, or if you wrote that about Judaism, you would not be arrested.
00:02:24.500And this is true sort of across the progressive sphere, which is there are classes of people that you are allowed to question and classes of people that you are not allowed to question.
00:02:34.540And I think through that, it's easy to form an alliance, which I think is why the Christian communities and the Jewish communities have come together so much recently, is like, hey, they want to get rid of you too?
00:02:47.140Maybe we have some overlapping interests at the moment.
00:02:50.600Well, no, I mean, it matters, like, a lot to me, that you literally can't write, and we'll go into other instances, because he was released after being in jail for a while.
00:03:01.920But the point being is, like, that he was arrested at all for just saying, like, can you question Islam?
00:03:07.240Like, is this a thing that we're allowed to do in this society?
00:04:13.840When this came to the Supreme Court, that the Biden administration had done this, despite people who had YouTube channels with millions of followers being shut down for saying things that were true,
00:04:24.440that they said no harm had come to anyone, and so it lost at the Supreme Court.
00:04:29.100The Supreme Court justices on the progressive side are not going to say that presidents shouldn't be able to bully people into, you know, well, we can do it the ethical way, and they can do it the unethical way.
00:04:40.680We can just say, hey, let's stop the people who are actively lying.
00:04:44.040If we don't do that, it never becomes illegal because the left is like, but you see, the right always resists using this.
00:04:54.080Any thoughts on that point, by the way?
00:04:56.040Yeah, I mean, yeah, I appreciate you're arguing it that way, because I see it argued in the opposite way, that Trump is going to restrict free speech, and then this is even bad for the right at this time, because then once the left is in power, they're going to use the precedent that Trump put in place to restrict free speech.
00:05:18.600We literally just learned that the left was already doing that, but secretly.
00:05:22.620Yeah, that's the thing, is I would, one, I mean, I think it's very different to encourage the FCC to...
00:05:32.360Ban people from blatantly lying about easily verifiable facts, and then the reason he was banned wasn't even because he lied.
00:05:39.320It was because he refused to admit that he lied on air and apologized for it.
00:05:43.560Well, and he still, I mean, everyone says that he released an apology video.
00:05:47.000It was very heartfelt, but he didn't acknowledge the fact that he misrepresented the affiliation of the assassin, and that's also odd.
00:06:27.840But the government can choose who gets spectrum, who gets allocated spectrum in the United States, and they get to choose that it's for the public good.
00:06:40.180And if there is active misrepresentation of reality that is provable, I don't see that as being a problem.
00:06:48.100That's really, I don't care, especially with the internet.
00:06:51.920Do we really care that much who gets spectrum?
00:07:10.220The reason why you can't just say it is what you're saying.
00:07:13.860Simone, the reason you can't say what you're saying is because the left, when they banned people for telling the truth, and we now have science showing that it was the truth, at the time...
00:07:22.020At the time, you now have proof that that happened.
00:07:24.460...COVID experts saying that it wasn't true.
00:07:51.700And yet, they'll just say, well, it is true because I hired my gender expert, you know, and my...
00:07:58.000And this person says that, you know, this thing about race, and we have our team of race experts, and we have our team of fat studies experts.
00:09:10.480Had his parents not been MAGA, he wouldn't have grown up around gun culture and had the agency and ability to do what he did, therefore he's MAGA.
00:09:29.640Because eventually, if you are engaging with the truth, you end up winning, because you're going to make more sound decisions.
00:09:37.100In the same way that I can tell a leftist, if you don't have kids, because, you know, nine out of ten kids who are born to a leftist are left as adults,
00:09:46.000and eight out of ten kids who are born to a Republican or Republican as adults, if you don't have kids, leftists are going to disappear.
00:09:51.360And they can re- and yell at me, and I tell that to a Republican, and they're like, yeah, that makes sense, we should probably have more kids.
00:09:55.780You know, because we're playing with real data here, okay?