Free speech is under threat in the UK, and it s time to reclaim it in the USA. Simone and I discuss why we need to fight for our right to free speech, and why we should all be fighting for it.
00:08:23.380And they're like, how could you say that?
00:08:24.780Like, that's where we're all employed, like gesturing at everyone in the room.
00:08:28.260And I'm like, well, maybe that's part of the problem.
00:08:30.020And so I think that, again, a lot of conservatives today, they get angry.
00:08:35.060And this is what we saw from, like, Leather Apron Club.
00:08:37.040And he was like, no one should vote for president.
00:08:38.620He's like, look, the new right is accepting of gays.
00:08:41.620I don't like that the new right is accepting of gays.
00:08:44.320I don't like that they have, you know, absolute heroes like Scott Pressler, considered heroes among them.
00:08:49.300I do not like that gays speak at their events.
00:08:51.780You know, he was talking about all this.
00:08:53.200We should not support them or we are platforming this new agenda, which is basically just what Democrats were in the 90s.
00:08:58.960And I'm like, if you think that, you are fundamentally wrongheaded because you're so stuck in a 90s culture.
00:09:04.240We just basically aren't fighting those battles because they're not relevant in the common era.
00:09:10.600We are fighting much bigger battles than either Republicans or Democrats were fighting in the 90s era.
00:09:16.620Battles over things like basic free speech.
00:09:19.980We think that this should be a fundamental right, whether I'm on YouTube or X or any other platform.
00:09:25.800And this needs to be enshrined in law and in the way that we act.
00:09:30.480And so that the new right goes after this, because this isn't what leftists would have gone after in the 90s.
00:09:35.780This isn't what leftists would have gone after at the 2000s.
00:09:37.780This would have been seen as radical and insane what's about to be proposed.
00:09:40.520But it is what the new right cares about.
00:09:42.940And so the question is, do you care about this stuff more than you care about banning gay marriage?
00:09:49.080You know, do you care about keeping our borders safe more than you care about hating on Hispanic people?
00:09:55.260There is a portion of the legacy GOP that's like, yeah, these are just bigger battles.
00:10:01.520And then there's a portion that genuinely did care about their homophobia and racism more than actually fixing anything.
00:10:07.000And we're like, oh, we're happy to see you go.
00:10:09.140I'm earnestly telling you that it may not be in your best interest to vote this election cycle.
00:10:13.940To vote for a candidate is to assent to their platform, to signal to those running their campaign that you approve of the messaging that they have put out.
00:10:21.820Our message to gay Americans tonight is this.
00:10:25.440You're free to marry who you want, if you want, without the government standing in your way.
00:10:30.540And I think that, frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if me and Trump won just the normal gay guy vote.
00:10:37.920Because, again, they just wanted to be left the hell alone.
00:10:40.760But what should you do if, like so many other conservatives, you see the Republican Party shifting ever further away from real conservative values?
00:10:47.640It reminds me of the atheist movement, when the atheist movement shattered and there was one faction that was like, oh, actually all the statistics say religion is super important and as society has descended into secularism, everything has fallen apart.
00:10:59.440And then there's another group that we found out just like dunking on conservatives.
00:11:02.900And that's where like Bill Nye went and like black science guy went, whatever his name is, Tyson, whatever.
00:11:40.060And I think what many conservatives are realizing now is there was a faction, small faction of the party that turns out wasn't relevant to winning elections.
00:11:47.060They're really just like dunking on gay people and racial minorities.
00:12:52.300First, within hours of my inauguration, I will sign an executive order banning any federal department or agency
00:13:00.740from colluding with any organization, business, or person to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens.
00:13:11.220I will then ban federal money from being used to label domestic speech as mis- or disinformation.
00:13:19.540And I will begin the process of identifying and firing every federal bureaucrat who has engaged in domestic censorship directly or indirectly,
00:13:30.300whether they are the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Health, Human Services, the FBI, the DOJ, no matter who they are.
00:13:40.060I guess it's sad that this has to be done.
00:13:46.060Like, how did we get here where we have to be like, we're going to have to fire the people who, you know, we shouldn't be-
00:13:57.020How did that happen in the first place?
00:13:59.520But no, I think that this is really important, and I'm glad that there's going to be consequences for this.
00:14:04.940When I think we don't just need to fire them, we need to fire them and say why they're being fired.
00:14:08.780Well, yeah, I want to be public about firing, but I want to be really public about, you know, what has happened and what we're doing about it.
00:14:17.340I think, I've heard some people commenting on their hope for the Twitter files, but for various government departments, like, what actually happened with COVID?
00:14:25.540What's actually going on with all these different things?
00:14:49.580Well, and here's what I think a lot of government officials didn't realize.
00:14:52.600And if we get in the Trump administration, this is something I want to work on implementing if we can, is do mass scrapes of government data into AI to find all evidence of collusion and wrongdoing.
00:15:04.940Because I think a lot of people thought there was just too much information to sort through.
00:15:08.780And with AI, that's no longer the case.
00:15:11.280I mean, maybe, except what I will say is among the most effective people at knowing to keep things offline are the government people.
00:15:49.920They talk in coded language, but it's very obvious that it's coded language when it's coded language.
00:15:54.200We can't talk about that, because if we talk about pizza-related maps, I don't know what's going to happen.
00:16:00.880Yeah, I don't know what's going to happen, but I can tell you they definitely weren't looking for a pizza-related map, because that's not a real thing.
00:16:10.640No, sorry, this is where, like, all of my walls broke down.
00:16:13.400It's when they were talking about pizza-related maps on a napkin.
00:16:17.380That would have been an amazing Halloween costume, is, like, some kind of explorer with, like, a giant, like, pizza-related map, like, an actual one.
00:16:27.320Your Halloween costume is you are a PDA file, but it turns out that, like-
00:16:31.620Sorry, I remember seeing that, and I was like, wait.
00:16:34.760Even if we're going to say this isn't what-
00:16:36.500And I don't think it's what the conspiracy theorists thought it was.
00:16:39.260We need to at least admit that the Clinton campaign had admitted an obviously coded language was released in the emails.
00:16:46.020Why is nobody asking follow-up questions to this?
00:16:49.540Even if we admit that, okay, yeah, oh, the cheese bread-related date and all that is wrong, you know, all that's nonsense.
00:16:56.880Why were they emailing a party about a pizza-related nap on a napkin?
00:17:02.440For those who don't know what we're talking about here, in the email leaks that were confirmed to be actual leaked emails, even by the campaign, there is a quote where one person is asking another person,
00:18:23.900But, you know, the other thing I wanted to talk about, this being mentioned here, is to have an order banning federal departments and agencies from colluding with any organization, business, or person to censor, limit, categorize, or impede the lawful speech of American citizens.
00:18:38.140And, like, why didn't he campaign on this shit?
00:18:45.620What's so cool about Trump winning is normally I'm used to getting really excited about a candidate, and then they win, and then they proceed to immediately disappoint me.
00:18:56.900Yeah, no, this is like, he won, and we're unwrapping presents, and instead of them being full of shit, they're full of shit.
00:19:11.040Second, I will order the Department of Justice to investigate all parties involved in the new online censorship regime, which is absolutely destructive and terrible, and to aggressively prosecute any and all crimes identified.
00:19:27.560These include possible violations of federal civil rights law, campaign finance laws, federal election law, securities law, and antitrust laws, the Hatch Act, and a host of other potential criminal, civil, regulatory, and constitutional offenses.
00:19:46.280To assist in these efforts, I am urging House Republicans to immediately send preservation letters, and we have to do this right now, to the Biden administration, the Biden campaign, and every Silicon Valley tech giant, ordering them not to destroy evidence of censorship.
00:29:06.640University has discovered to have engaged in censorship activities or election interferences in the past,
00:29:14.180such as flagging social media content for removal of blacklisting, those universities should lose federal
00:29:21.700research dollars and federal student loan support for a period of five years and maybe more.
00:29:27.600We should also enact new laws laying out clear criminal penalties for federal bureaucrats who partner with private entities to do an end run around the Constitution and deprive Americans of their first, fourth and fifth amendment rights.
00:29:43.860In other words, deprive them of their vote.
00:29:47.560And once you lose those elections and once you lose your borders like we have, you no longer have a country.
00:29:54.340Furthermore, to confront the problems of major platforms being infiltrated by legions of former deep staters and intelligence officials,
00:30:03.640there should be a seven year calling off period before any employee of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DNI, DHS or DOD is allowed to take a job at a company possessing vast quantities of U.S. user data.
00:30:22.120I absolutely love this concept of a digital bill of rights.
00:30:25.560I, there's something so scary and empty when you get disempowered by a system and there's just absolutely nothing you can do.
00:30:35.060Like, oh, sorry, like your account has been completely locked.
00:30:38.260And this isn't just with regard to censorship.
00:30:41.300I think this is also with regard to like your data, like all of your photos are shared on some platform and suddenly they just decide that they're going to shut you down.
00:30:49.140I think that there do need to be better citizen rights if you are a social media or data management company domiciled in the U.S.
00:30:58.160that you should be subject to giving your users some minimal rights.
00:31:02.940I mean, I'm really against regulation and the EU has gone way overboard with this.
00:31:06.200But when it comes to like just literally saying, you know, you can't even like export your data after all this is pretty messed up.
00:31:15.260Well, one, come on, don't you love that all of these academic programs and all of these academic systems that have been because the university systems have become the priesthood cast or the at least a certification for priesthood cast of the urban monoculture of this virus, this mimetic virus that's spreading through society.
00:31:35.940They have done, quote unquote, studies to enforce what's said and stuff like that.
00:31:40.240And they have had no fear around doing this to people.
00:31:42.900They have had no fear around censoring the common American citizen for saying normal.
00:31:48.620And what he is doing here is these people who sit around all day, these gender studies, people, these fat studies, people who don't have to do real research because it's not a real field of study and come up with ways to enforce the urban monoculture on people who are not of that cultural subsystem.
00:32:06.320They now, they now have to fear there is now consequences to doing this to other people.
00:32:15.140And frankly, if somebody was like, could you roll out the most pro natalist policies you could conceive of?
00:32:22.180It would be this plus his education policy.
00:32:24.960With the education policy, he's breaking the urban monocultures back there.
00:32:28.200He's doing the Bane Batman smash on the urban monoculture.
00:32:32.700And here he's tossing the corpse in a ditch because this is how they enforced their cultural value system on the disintermediated conversation that's been happening online.
00:32:43.360And the level of safety, I feel, for this country and the future, if this stuff gets enacted, is absolutely enormous.
00:32:54.700Fifth, the time has finally come for Congress to pass a digital bill of rights.
00:33:00.460This should include a right to digital due process.
00:33:04.640In other words, government officials should need a court order to take down online content, not send information requests such as the FBI was sending to Twitter.
00:33:15.980Furthermore, when users of big online platforms have their content or accounts removed, throttled, shadow banned, or otherwise restricted, no matter what name they use,
00:33:28.980they should have the right to be informed that it's happening, the right to a specific explanation of the reason why, and the right to a timely appeal.
00:33:39.260In addition, all users over the age of 18 should have the right to opt out of content, moderation, and curation entirely, and receive an unmanipulated stream of information if they so choose.
00:33:53.400The fight for free speech is a matter of victory or death for America and for the survival of Western civilization itself.
00:34:01.320To sort of sum things up, what I really love about this is that we may be returning to a time of genuine discourse and letting the best ideas win.
00:34:29.520So when you go back to, like, the old university systems, they were all about debate, and often very raucous, very animated, very passionate debate, but in the way that, like, sports teams compete, right?
00:34:42.720You know, people would get animated, but there wouldn't be personal attacks.
00:34:47.900And the problem with censorship and moderation is that the best ideas can't win, and even worse, really shitty ideas end up in echo chambers where they get shittier, and there's no challenging them.
00:34:59.160And if we return to a system where this is no longer allowed, where dumb ideas aren't shunted to isolated bubbles where they become stronger and fester, but instead are allowed to just be exposed to mainstream ecosystems so they can die out and be challenged, I'm thrilled.
00:35:44.960This seems like an obvious thing that we should have, given that the digital world is the medium through which we communicate.
00:35:51.280You cannot have free speech if someone else owns the air and can stop certain words or phrases or ideas for traveling through the air, or can make them a little quieter when they're traveling through the air.
00:36:05.720That's why we haven't had a real free speech ecosystem for a while.
00:36:09.860And I think here that the idea of digital due process, that one, the FBI and other organizations like that, if they're demanding something from a company, they need to go through judges.
00:36:29.500It's one of these things where it's like so dumb that it wasn't the case before, that just a random person at the FBI could be like, I don't want Trump to win.
00:36:35.040Okay, yeah, sure, I'm going to call up and get the 100 Biden laptops to race islands.
00:36:50.260And I also am glad that he's putting consequences on the people who are using the government in this way.
00:36:55.620And then in addition to that, the idea that you cannot be shadow banned without being explained why you were shadow banned and being told that you're shadow banned.
00:37:04.220But better than that is you have to be told why.
00:37:07.180I can't tell you all the times YouTube will say one of our videos is ineligible for monetization.
00:40:46.220So for all of the DC-based think tanks, there is a long line of people and you have to do your, pay your dues and do your time and then you get put up through those organizations.
00:40:56.100Some organizations are willing to reform faster than others.
00:40:59.120Like, the Heritage Foundation of all the organizations we've talked to, which is actually kind of ironic because they've got all the hate for the, you know, Project 2025.
00:41:07.800Anyway, they basically, they got hit by all of this mindset the hardest when they're actually the most.
00:41:16.480And I actually say, if you're reading Project 2025 and you're like, some of this stuff is really like old school, ultra progressive, like nanny state stuff.
00:41:24.060The other organizations, the Heritage Foundation is the most open to change.
00:42:14.800And this is honestly very appropriate.
00:42:16.440This kind of focus, hyper focus, and like basically pit bull binding stuff until they're fixed is the way to go during a governmental transition because these initial days are so essential.