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00:07:10.000I feel so bad because Pantelis is from Montreal.
00:07:13.000He calls in by Skype and he works for the pitch meetings every morning and then this week because of all the sh** That's been going on legally from the Oscars livestream, which we'll get to in a second.
00:07:22.000Pantelis was here and he had very little to do because we weren't able to do the shows.
00:08:53.000So let's explain for people who don't know, we have a few things to get to.
00:08:56.000What happened on YouTube, why you guys have not seen the Oscar stream.
00:08:59.000And by the way, they're biding their time hoping that by the time this last false strike on our Oscar stream is removed, you guys won't want to see it.
00:09:05.000Make sure when that Oscar stream is up.
00:09:08.000You like it and comment till the cows come home so they see that, you know what, they don't get to play this game.
00:09:12.000But we'll move on to YouTube as well as some other issues that have been occurring here behind the scenes.
00:09:16.000And it's just gotten to the point where our legal battles, you know, we're at the point we've had you on Retainer, you're probably going to be coming on full time.
00:10:34.000So all of the strikes, we should mention this, that are hard legal strikes, where when you file a counter notice, that's, hey, see you in court.
00:10:41.000And they're legally liable if it's a false strike.
00:10:45.000Yeah, so we get this one, the first one of the four, ABC Disney comes in, everything just blows up on Sunday night.
00:10:52.000Then on Monday, we're following the things that we need to do, everyone's getting crazy, trying to investigate what is ABC Disney doing, reaching out to YouTube.
00:11:07.000Well, that's just the first of the four.
00:11:10.000So within the stream itself, after the ABC Disney one comes off on Tuesday, the Academy Awards decides that they want to have the same thing.
00:11:19.000I don't know that they're not run by the same parent company.
00:11:31.000I mean, look, they're obviously financially, there's no secret, it's not even to be critical, but they have a network, the network's doing an event, and they're streaming the event, and the event is the Academy Awards.
00:11:42.000So now the Academy comes in after ABC Disney has given up and says, oh, no, no, no, no, we're going to keep you down on the mat.
00:11:48.000But within 24 hours, again, we unleash the whole thing again, and they file a response back to our response, or a reply, if you will, that says, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're totally right.
00:13:12.000ABC Disney, though, appeared to have learned their lesson, and they did not attack on the Archive.
00:13:17.000But the Academy goes in, they do theirs, now they've dropped theirs again, and then we had a fourth one on the Archive, which is still there, and we're still fighting right now.
00:13:24.000Be clear though, the fourth one, and this is why this is so important for people to understand, there's a broken YouTube system.
00:13:29.000If you file a hard strike, and for people out there, I know a lot of people are looking for legal representation, and we're planning on trying to provide some more assistance to other people out there at some point.
00:14:01.000It was two hours and thirty-four minutes of our content.
00:14:06.000Meaning sketches, totally original, non-Oscars at all.
00:14:10.00031 minutes of commentary, just us talking about it.
00:14:14.000What I would say, visual and audio overlays that transform the original work into something that is a new work and is critical of the original work.
00:14:23.000I had to fit into a Freddie Mercury slash Eddie Murphy raw leather jacket.
00:14:58.000I mean, it's not only transformative, but one of the other factors is how much of the original work are you just showing wholesale?
00:15:04.000And that's what you're doing is you're coming in, you're commenting, you're adding visuals, you're actually specifically critiquing the work.
00:15:10.000And so of the few minutes, or really actually seconds when you break it down, a few seconds of clips here, a few seconds of clips there, where you're literally taking a breath between comments.
00:15:19.000I mean, that's what that adds up to over almost three hours.
00:15:22.000I think the most amount of time we watched was Rami Malek's speech because we said, oh, he seems like a real class act.
00:15:45.000If they're repeatedly proven to be false claims, is there a legal recourse for us to be like, hey, listen, man, this is three, four times, obviously it's on purpose.
00:15:55.000There is a whole procedure involved with doing that.
00:15:58.000And one of the things is that we can get involved with, sorry about that.
00:16:01.000You can get involved with going after some of these, you know, random accounts that are doing small fake claims and maybe they do one a month or two or three a month.
00:16:09.000And look, we've got a lot of things that are happening.
00:16:10.000We can take away from dealing with this or we can go back in the war room and start dealing with these.
00:16:15.000But when they get to a level like this, when you have major companies that are coming in and saying, Hey, we really don't like you creating new content and transforming our works in a way that appeals to this audience.
00:16:26.000That's when we have to stand up and do something different.
00:16:39.000We just happen to be an example, unfortunately, because particularly on YouTube, we're the number one conservative channel, so we kind of are the blueprint.
00:17:05.000That being said, that's, yeah, and that's really easy to do because they can say, oh, we're going to claim this, we're going to claim that.
00:17:09.000There really aren't, there's no recourse.
00:17:11.000Now, when they try to hard strike your channel, that's where they, in fact, someone has manually submitted a legal notice and we, Bill, half-Asian Bill, uh, half-Asian Bill Richman, manually submits a count, is it a counter notice?
00:17:54.000They've got a month to respond, and then there's a different process related to it.
00:17:57.000But ultimately, that is why it's a criticism of YouTube's system.
00:18:00.000Because when you think about it, all the history of what we have done over the last year, 18 months, two years, has been time and time and time again demonstrating how these claims are bogus.
00:18:10.000They're just used to disrupt business.
00:18:11.000They're used to make people have to stay late for the show to have to pay more people, and do more resources, and redo work, and ultimately disrupt the audience.
00:18:19.000And even though they know it's not ultimately going to stop us, They know it is going to have a disruptive effect, and it's the only thing they can do, so they keep doing it.
00:18:29.000So it's not a system where, despite 10, 20, 30, 100 false claims that we've won every time, and so they have to affirmatively prove it before we get affected.
00:18:40.000It's still, we get affected, and then we have to come and prove it the other way.
00:19:16.000Think about if we're talking about a presidential election or a Senate election or some bill that's trying to be passed in Congress and they're like, we're commenting on what they're doing, talking about it.
00:19:24.000Or if Congress is putting something out for us, we're commenting on that.
00:19:27.000They can shut us down so that we can't influence people.
00:19:29.000They tried to shut us down once with a presidential debate.
00:20:35.000The big thing that many of you may not know about this week, if you haven't been following James O'Keefe, is the Facebook issue.
00:20:41.000So all week, picture this, if this were your job, okay, and you suck at math, which, okay, I do as well, and someone said, you have to do math all day.
00:21:20.000Okay, so we had YouTube, and then we have Facebook.
00:21:23.000Well, let me give you a little bit of history here with Facebook.
00:21:26.000I guess, Bill, why don't you jump in kind of on the general history with Facebook before we're going to have James O'Keefe want to talk about the most recent, I don't know, at this point, is it even a sin?
00:23:38.000And then Gizmodo, there was an article leaked where we were manually selected as a page to throttle.
00:23:45.000It was Ted Cruz, Chris Kyle Foundation, and myself.
00:23:48.000And I called Bill, not knowing about the time, saying, I don't know if this is related to the accounting issue, but can you tell me what you think?
00:23:55.000And he says, let me check it out, and I'll call you back.
00:23:57.000And then you called me back, and you said, yeah, this looks really bad.
00:24:01.000Well, you know, I mean, you get a call and you hear something like this and you think, crackpot!
00:24:05.000But you can imagine, I get a lot of calls that are, you know, some are, you know, got credibility and some don't.
00:24:14.000And when we started to look into it and we started to investigate and we started to say, If you investigate it as a true thing, what are the things you could use to verify that this is the way that it's happening?
00:24:23.000And when you looked at, I mean, before I even got involved, you were time after time after again, message, message, message, message, money, money, money, card, card, card, check, nothing.
00:24:32.000And then Gizmodo just confirmed the suspicions that you had at the time that there was something happening.
00:24:37.000And what the big part here is that we've always said this, right?
00:24:40.000You know, people use the term censorship, which we understand is a governmental thing versus a private company thing.
00:24:58.000But the problem is when they say the rules are A, but they're actually enforcing a set
00:25:03.000of rules called B. And that's what happened here.
00:25:05.000They're telling you, spend hundreds of thousands of dollars of your money to build your business on this platform because here are the rules.
00:25:12.000But in reality, the rules were different for you.
00:27:34.000There's a lot of people, and there's maybe a times where you could say, hey, someone's acting rogue, or hey, maybe there's an unintentional, but, you know, the Gizmodo article was most important because it wasn't just one person saying, hey, I looked in the cubicle next door and this guy's deleting conservative pages, right?
00:27:47.000It was like, no, no, there's a whole room of people, and then actually we have papers, and the papers say, man, The conservatives, right?
00:27:52.000It's like, well, I accidentally printed this policy and put it into place for years.
00:27:56.000I mean, that's not, there's a difference there.
00:27:58.000It was a draft, it shouldn't have gotten out, alright?
00:28:43.000Before we get to James O'Keefe very soon, Facebook started something called Show Pages.
00:28:46.000And they reached out to us and they said, hey, we'd like you to be a show page, which shows basically, as I understood it, multimedia-type pages would be in someone's feed, would be given priority.
00:28:56.000Basically, you would automatically appear at the top of the feed.
00:29:16.000It's the same thing that's happened with YouTube.
00:29:19.000When they look at just the numbers, when they look at just the impact, they go, hey, this is the exact kind of content we want on our platform.
00:29:31.000You watch an average of 12 minutes per video over 30 minutes on a podcast.
00:29:35.000We play by every single rule, and they change it.
00:29:37.000So they said, please, please, please, please, please turn your show into a show page.
00:29:40.000We want you to be one of these pioneers as a multimedia show page.
00:29:43.000Then, ah, you're not allowed to do it.
00:29:45.000Um, and we always suspected one thing too.
00:29:48.000We had this, we called it here the YouTube algorithm, the YouTube Facebook sort of equation, where if we would have 20 or 30,000 viewers on YouTube, we'd have a thousand on Facebook.
00:29:57.000Despite at the time we would have more fans.
00:30:00.000On Facebook we'd have, I think we have about two and a half million fans, something like that.
00:31:50.000throttling of live streams and specifically again Stephen Crowder's at the top of that list.
00:31:55.000And what's important here is I'm this page and the only reason I don't want to do the like I
00:31:59.000want to talk about myself in Von Braun Joe. I just what I'm saying is we are unfortunately an example
00:32:05.000uh of potentially anybody but we are the only as far as I know at page that was fingered in
00:32:11.000both the Gizmodo article back then and now with video live streaming.
00:32:15.000A big part of that was, we lost so much profit on Facebook, because people weren't clicking the links anymore, traffic was being throttled, so okay, we're gonna focus more on multimedia, and then that went... And we kept saying, well, what's going on here?
00:32:26.000It doesn't make any sense, we can look at our growth on MugClub, we can look at our growth on YouTube, why is this not applying on Facebook?
00:32:31.000No answer, no answer, no answer, no answer.
00:32:33.000That's what's so important to note here, is this is something we had long suspected.
00:32:38.000Matter of fact, we talked about never live streaming again, On Facebook and just live streaming because we can only split it two ways to YouTube and to Mug Club because we got so few viewers.
00:32:48.000Then this drops from James O'Keefe and we're sitting there going, okay, he has the code.
00:32:52.000He has the actual code that's baked into our page.
00:32:55.000Again, tell me that that's not a dishonest business practice.
00:32:58.000Wait, if you tell us you can't say the word tranny, all right, fine.
00:33:02.000You tell me you're not going to verify us on Instagram.
00:34:08.000Obviously, everyone's been following this very closely, and the work is really appreciated, I know, across the community.
00:34:13.000And probably my first question right off the bat, and I think what a lot of people are interested in knowing is, How did you understand the credibility of the information that you were obtaining, and what steps did you take to make sure that it was verifiably correct?
00:34:40.000So, about a year ago, we had this insider send us these documents, and this was a lot of documents, and I'm not an engineer, so I don't know exactly what they mean.
00:34:49.000Fast forward a couple months, we get a lot of information, we get a lot of tips at Project Veritas, as you can imagine, from a lot of people claiming to be a lot of things.
00:34:57.000And we find out that this person did, in fact, work, or she claimed to work in content review intellectual property.
00:35:04.000So we look at the documents, and You know, my team went through all these, and we see the word de-boost, and we go, whoa.
00:35:11.000Because you don't have to be an engineer when you see this term, and I have it in front of me, iAction de-boost live distribution.
00:35:18.000And there was a screenshot of Mike Cernovich's, this woman had actually taken out a camera and took a picture of the computer screen showing this de-boost.
00:35:28.000So we're like, oh my God, I can't believe we didn't notice this earlier.
00:35:34.000I could tell the whole story, but I'll cut it to the bottom line.
00:35:37.000I have other sources inside Facebook that are not willing to go on the record, of course, and a couple of them logged into the back end and showed me this engineer's name, Danny Ben David, showed me his definition of of de-boosting.
00:35:54.000I know that it's not just a made-up document that someone photoshopped because I saw it with my own eyes from another source that corroborated the identity of the engineer and the document itself.
00:36:03.000But the other source did not have access to the other part of Facebook where this de-boosting activity took place.
00:36:11.000He could only corroborate that de-boosting was a thing and that Danny Ben-David is in fact someone who works for Facebook.
00:36:17.000And number three, Facebook's response corroborates the fact that this woman is real because they fired her and I'm actually quite captivated by the response because they say it fired her for in fact leaking these documents.
00:36:48.000So in terms of having some substantial evidence, having someone who can corroborate what the evidence is, that is actually what it purports to be, and they can actually explain it, you're going to hit those authenticity, you're going to hit admissibility, so it goes a long way to what you have.
00:37:00.000And from a practical standpoint, it's not just having one piece of evidence, and that's kind of why I wanted to ask about the credibility.
00:37:05.000Everything that we do here, and I know that you do as well, is based on not just a rumor or a hearsay or a random anonymous tip, but it's taking those things and verifying them Separately and individually.
00:37:16.000And so that's knowing what the credibility is and the steps you took.
00:37:19.000In addition to afterwards getting, you know, essentially verified by Facebook, acknowledging, I think, Stephen, you raise a very good point.
00:37:26.000Not to include the 7 plus 1, by the way.
00:37:27.000That's not very well researched, but that'll come up next.
00:37:38.000They, in fact, very much corroborated that these documents, they could have said these documents are fake.
00:37:43.000Before we get to that, I do have a question.
00:37:45.000How do you know I was included on the Deboost, amongst the Deboosted?
00:37:49.000So, and I have a copy of the, you know, this is the, from the video, this is the actual code.
00:37:55.000It says iAction, Sigma iAction Deboost Live Distribution.
00:38:00.000This whistleblower took a screenshot of Mike Cernovich's page, and then she saw this code appear on your page Stephen, we didn't get a screenshot of your page, but we did get a screenshot of the code that appeared on your page.
00:38:17.000It says, Psi Sigma I action debushed live distribution by this engineer.
00:38:21.000And that's something that would be discovered in a motion for discovery, motion for enforcement.
00:38:25.000And I asked the whistleblower, you know, whistleblower insider, whatever you want to call her, I said, would you swear under oath?
00:38:31.000in a court of law that you saw this on Steven Crowder's page is 100%.
00:38:35.000She saw this de-boost action taken on your page and the Daily Caller's page and Mike Cernovich's page.
00:38:42.000She did not see it on any other liberal or political liberal pages.
00:38:49.000So then I asked you, Steve, and I said, well, did you do anything malicious?
00:38:53.000Did you talk about suicide in such a way that would get you banned?
00:38:56.000I probably have in the sense that I said, don't do it.
00:39:00.000Well, you shouldn't be banned for that, and if you are deboosted, they should be notifying you.
00:39:05.000Yes, we certainly were not notified, yeah, of the deboosting.
00:39:09.000And I think something that's really important here as well, James, and you didn't know this before you released this article.
00:39:13.000You know, this is how I met Bill Richman.
00:39:15.000We just talked about the Gizmodo article.
00:39:17.000Because there was a leak where someone said we were manually throttling pages.
00:39:22.000Before that, Bill and I had talked about this, we had several videos trending at the top of Facebook.
00:39:27.000One of them was guns, and I can't remember what the other video was.
00:39:30.000It could have been the Feminist Film Festival.
00:39:32.000And then afterwards, we never trended again.
00:39:34.000And we had an issue with accounting, and this article came out, and I spoke with Bill.
00:39:38.000And you didn't know that I was one of the few people named To have been manually throttled before, and I think I'm the only one named in both of these stories.
00:39:48.000Back in that one, it was Chris Kyle Foundation, Ted Cruz for President, I think Breitbart, and yours truly.
00:39:53.000And here, the only three that I've heard named are, I believe you said Cernovich, Daily Caller, and myself.
00:39:58.000So, a big part of us dealing with Facebook was, hey, this ain't gonna happen again, and that's why this story was such a surprise.
00:40:04.000Well, one of the most shocking things about the story, and this is what the insider said, is that What makes this so damning, what makes this so egregious is that... Listen, let me defend Facebook for one second here.
00:40:16.000Facebook has thousands of employees that police... There are some anomalies where some crazy low-level employee takes down, you know, Ben Shapiro or takes down Dennis Prager.
00:41:05.000But in this case, the de-boosting, you guys don't know that it's happening to you.
00:41:10.000That's the thing that is very shocking.
00:41:13.000That is the reason why I asked her, she said, well the reason why I chose to lose my job and leak these documents, she actually went on food stamps for a few months because she was broke and unemployed, is because she said the people don't know that it's occurring.
00:41:28.000It doesn't even show up on Facebook's content review, I'm sorry, on Facebook's task Management system.
00:41:34.000It doesn't show up that they're doing it.
00:41:37.000And I've got 75 pages of code, iAction.
00:41:53.000We called it something in the office, I think Quarter Black knows this, we called it sort of the Facebook to YouTube ratio, in the sense that we were almost guaranteed whatever stream viewership we had on YouTube, it would be anywhere from one tenth to a thirtieth the amount on Facebook, and same thing for videos that were uploaded.
00:42:07.000And here's the thing, with YouTube, and I'm not letting YouTube off the hook here, certainly not when we just talked about ABC Disney and the broken system there, We can see how long people are watching our videos for, where they're coming in.
00:42:20.000We can tell exactly how many people are watching.
00:42:22.000And we can never really tell that with Facebook, and we haven't been able to monetize videos as far as I know on Facebook.
00:42:27.000But when you have consistently videos, I think our average viewership is close to the million mark.
00:42:33.000And then on Facebook it's 40,000, 50,000, and there's still a couple million fans who've liked that page proactively.
00:42:40.000We just assumed it was, well, Facebook's dying off because nobody likes it anymore and they're, you know, snapping wiener pics on Snapchat and Instagram.
00:42:51.000Well, one of the other questions is, in a lot of these instances, when you hear from one of the social media platforms, they'll say, you broke this rule, however subjective or vague the rule might be, and so we're going to have this consequence.
00:43:01.000But at least we have a rule that we can argue with, or fight with, or that kind of thing.
00:43:05.000Here, the response from Facebook is very interesting.
00:43:08.000They say, well, you may have acted with misconduct by uploading to the live stream pre-recorded videos.
00:43:14.000But what you don't find is, where's the example of this actually happening?
00:43:17.000If this really was a rule that Facebook had in its policies at some point in the past, and it was actually violated, why hide behind a secret algorithm?
00:43:27.000I think James has that quote, because I don't think we filled the audience in on that.
00:43:29.000They did respond, and they didn't deny that they've been doing this.
00:43:34.000I can read it to you, or you can throw it on screen, but I'm going to read you Facebook's response to this iAction deboost.
00:43:40.000So what's interesting about the response, Bill, is that Again, within like an hour of our story breaking, Facebook corporate responds to their buddies at theverge.com and all these mainstreaming reporters are buddy-buddy with the people inside Facebook.
00:43:53.000Facebook says, Some pages that tried to game the system by uploading pre-recorded videos to the live API, a violation of Facebook's policy, if moderators found the video, the action deboost tag would be applied to undo the newsfeed boost otherwise applied to live videos.
00:44:12.000And Stephen, I asked you, do you recall doing this?
00:44:20.000But if it would have been done, it would have been done a long time ago once to test, because we thought there was something fishy with our live streams.
00:44:26.000Going, hold on a second, we're getting 1,000 viewers on a live stream here, and we're getting 20, 30,000 on YouTube?
00:44:32.000Let's see if we upload this as a video separately versus a live feed.
00:44:35.000If it would have been done, and I don't believe that it has, I just don't want to be put on the hook for that.
00:44:39.000It would have been done once to test a theory.
00:44:43.000That we thought Facebook is doing exactly what they appear to be doing.
00:44:46.000So, no, I don't know that we have done it, and we certainly haven't done it consistently, and their answer isn't very... To me, it's not very clear if they just de-boost that video, that feed, or if they de-boost the whole page, because we've spent a lot of money on Facebook advertising, and a big part of that was them courting us, saying, hey, the great thing here, especially with media, is you're going to appear in people's timelines, we really want to be a multimedia platform.
00:45:08.000So that's why it would be nice to have clarification.
00:45:11.000Well, another thing, another fact that's very interesting is that if you look at the code in the video where it says Sigma Distribution, Sigma is this name of this program authored by this engineer Danny Ben David with the intention of rooting out like suicide.
00:45:27.000I mean, people on Facebook live stream, Facebook's a big company.
00:45:31.000There's pornography, there's people getting chopped in half, there's all gory thing, child porn.
00:45:37.000The content review agents go through and go through that.
00:45:40.000So this system was apparently used to combat things like that.
00:45:46.000That does not exist in Facebook's response, but my insider showed me that the reason why this was taken allegedly, was to combat suicidal or violent things.
00:45:59.000So I'm hearing two different explanations of what this de-boost is for.
00:46:03.000If you want my opinion as someone who's done this for 10 years, you know, hidden camera,
00:46:07.000exposing people, I think they're just caught and they're not debating what we've exposed.
00:46:15.000They're just sort of obfuscating here.
00:46:18.000And I think you guys are owed an explanation.
00:46:20.000I think you need to see the back end and you need to know what's going on with your live stream.
00:46:23.000In their defense, if it's the child porn issue, they could have seen your nudie scene and been confused.
00:46:30.000They could have thought it was cherubim porn.
00:46:33.000Do you have any other follow-ups for James?
00:46:36.000The big thing is, like I was saying, if there really was a violation, then they lead with saying, you have violated X policy, instead of a post-hoc, well okay, our response now for having done this for however many years or months it's been going on, and only to your pages, is because we think you may have done something wrong.
00:46:52.000But notice the response does not even say, the pages had issues, or the pages that were discussed, or Stephen Crowder did these things.
00:46:59.000They just say kind of generally, Oh, well, that's why we did it.
00:47:02.000And that might even be true, but I think, James, your point is correct.
00:47:06.000There has to be an opening of the kimono.
00:47:08.000Let's share what exactly are the facts here.
00:47:11.000Yes, you have to go to the kimono reference, of course.
00:47:13.000He's trying to make sure if there is to be a lawsuit that he has the Asian card in there, but it's really only half a kimono.
00:47:32.000Well, you would serve discovery requests.
00:47:33.000Okay, so how important would it be to, let's say, a case if it were verified that this is a real thing—and it seems like it's a real thing, they're not denying it—and that it was not equally applied across conservative and liberal platforms?
00:47:45.000Would that change it if they said, well, this was applied pretty much consistently across leftist platforms, not just conservatives?
00:47:52.000What it would do is it would only mean that everyone is being conned.
00:47:58.000It does make it worse if it's targeted to a certain political group, just as if it would be bad if it was gone after a certain race or religion or that type of thing.
00:48:06.000But it's essentially saying a political creed or race or religion is bad, but it's somewhat like hate crimes.
00:48:11.000The crime is still a crime, regardless of whether it's a hateful or targeted at a specific group.
00:48:16.000And James, can you confirm anything like that?
00:48:19.000I know you said your source mentioned this, but do you have any information that could confirm that people on the right were more unfairly targeted?
00:48:27.000There's a deboosting, and then there's this other part of the story.
00:48:31.000I've got these documents on my desk, so I have my facts correct here.
00:48:34.000These are all screenshots taken by the Woman Who Blew the Whistle, this is something called a troll report.
00:48:40.000A troll report where they identify language, that there's a whole bunch of tactics they use, there's a glossary of words that are used by individuals, and this guy confirms that they do, in fact, demote bad content.
00:48:54.000Can you give us some examples of those words?
00:48:56.000Because I read this, I've seen this, and I was obviously not appalled, but... I wish I could say surprised.
00:49:02.000Not surprised, just... It was really more of a disappointed, apparently.
00:49:37.000It's not like they've re-appropriated the word and go, we're proudly SJW.
00:49:41.000I mean, you know, maybe if you found some like transgender black single mom with rickets, maybe there's someone who would carry that mantle.
00:49:47.000But that's something, if they're saying these are words to throttle pages, putting in SJW would definitely disproportionately target conservatives.
00:50:03.000On the inside of Facebook, we saw this Seiji Yamamoto character, one of the top engineers, right?
00:50:08.000After the 2016 election, meme culture kind of helped elect President Trump.
00:50:15.000So they decided to have an influence on elections, and this is one of the most powerful parts of the story.
00:50:19.000They assigned what's called a troll score.
00:50:23.000under the fake account index, a special feature leading, this is a direct quote, leading up to important elections, unquote, identifying these keywords that conservatives use.
00:50:36.000And Mark Zuckerberg said under oath and testimony last spring that they don't do this, that they don't make political determinations.
00:50:44.000Yes, they ban Klansmen and pornography and violence, but they don't But this engineer, Seiji Yamamoto, and he's not a low-level guy.
00:50:51.000He's the head of the whole department that heads this stuff.
00:50:54.000We have a copy of the confidential report where they identify these words, and it's all in the documentation that this whistleblower gave to us.
00:51:05.000All right, do you have any more questions?
00:52:24.000I think the answer would be no, but I'm asking him, like, is there anything behind the scenes where, like, oh, it's both conservatives and liberals getting screwed?
00:52:29.000It just seems like conservatives are getting screwed, and I just wanted it to be not my opinion, but fact.
00:52:39.000Allegedly, according to the eyewitness.
00:52:43.000And the amount of documents that we have.
00:52:45.000A phone photo of a computer screen, allegedly.
00:52:50.000It is that the specific code was only seen on conservative pages.
00:52:53.000And of those conservative pages, the ones that were memorable, Mike Cernovich has got an actual screenshot, which was not able to get a screenshot of Stevens, but affirmatively said, I saw the code on Stevens' page.
00:53:03.000And then said, I've seen other pages that did not have the code.
00:53:09.000So, is it possible that it is on other pages?
00:53:12.000Is that something that Facebook could come out and be like, hey guys, actually it's on everyone.
00:53:16.000Hey look, we can show you the usage that we actually only did it if you uploaded a pre-recorded video to the live feed, which is the excuse they've given.
00:53:36.000This is one thing too, and I really did enjoy Alex Jones on Joe Rogan's show, and they're both actually, they've both been on the show, I consider them both friends.
00:53:44.000But there was a point where they were talking, and they were saying, is it true that on YouTube now they demonetize any videos that have the word truth or liberty in them?
00:53:53.000So the lie is not necessary because the truth is bad enough.
00:53:58.000We have videos up there like the truth about guns, the truth about... we have multiple videos that have the words the truth in them, and not all of them have been demonetized.
00:54:04.000So is it true that conservative videos have been unfairly targeted?
00:54:17.000It's not accurate and it doesn't help the legal cases going forward.
00:54:21.000This is something you need to understand.
00:54:22.000There's bitching on social media and then there's actually taking legal matters into your own hands and taking the proper steps and using the avenues that are available to you.
00:54:31.000So just, my only point is, if you don't know, Don't lie, because then you toss the lies in with all of the truth.
00:54:35.000All right, but these are the seven plus one big tech legal dramas, which really shouldn't be... They were missed.
00:54:43.000It's almost like big tech's run out of ideas at the DMG sex parties.
00:54:46.000Number seven, to copyright a mockingbird.
00:54:50.000Yeah, that almost... That's not good use of an attorney's time.
00:56:30.000By the way, we have a major conspiracy episode coming up, and it is about the graphic designer for all early 90s through early 2000s John Travolta films.
00:56:40.000I'm pretty sure it was the same person.
00:56:42.000I'm not saying Illuminati, but... Number two!
00:57:06.000Number one, top big tech legal dramas is Presumed Guilty.
00:57:12.000That's a striking similarity to Harrison Ford.
00:57:16.000And the plus one this week, plus one top ten, top seven, top seven plus one, the plus one, the plus one, I keep saying the plus one, the plus one, the plus one, top big tech legal dramas, Aladdin.
00:58:22.000I mean, look, there's a lot of work that we put in, not just on the legal team, but working with you and your team to make sure that everything that we're doing, we're verifying it, we're checking against legal structure, we're looking about what the natural consequences are, and also weighing it against the fact that it's going to take time away from content and away from the audience.
00:58:38.000So that's why we have to go out, do the right thing, both to the audience and from a legal standpoint, also being that You know, this isn't just about you.
00:58:50.000I mean, there have been times where both the left and the right have stood up and said, what are these social media companies doing with their shadow banning and their ridiculous rules and their subjective application of them?
00:58:59.000Here, again, though, consistently, consistently, consistently, the only one name between Gizmodo and James O'Keefe's investigation is Steven Crowder.
00:59:08.000It gives us more of a leg to stand on so that we can hopefully pave the way for the rest of you.
00:59:12.000Because I don't want to do this for the rest of my life, and I'm hoping for someone else to come.
00:59:15.000I want to see other conservative channels out there.
00:59:32.000I shut the clerks and moral legal team and listen let me know if here's one thing a lot of people go sue Charles Hermes sue Twitter sue well it's at some point that does mean that there are going to be some days some weeks if we're in court or I have to take the stand where you're gonna miss out in the show and and that's a part of what Mug Club is and I I want to make sure that if we go down this road that you understand the magnitude of it, that you understand the severity of it, that you understand we are doing it for you.
00:59:57.000And so I want to know if you're willing to sacrifice some content in the short term for us to be free from the shackles of corporate censorship long term.
01:00:06.000Half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman, I look forward to the updates.
01:00:35.000There's a lot of crime going on in Mexico, and the drug cartels are sort of infiltrating the suburbs, and MS-13 is all over Long Island, you know, with Oxycontin.
01:00:46.000If you want to help, just stick with the calling the police and stuff like that.
01:00:50.000I don't recommend actually getting involved in sort of, you know, citizens' arrests, and then sort of like, what are you guys doing there?
01:00:57.000and I'm gonna tell the gobs and that doesn't turn out great.
01:01:08.000A cold, hungry, half-Asian lawyer with no one to sue.
01:01:13.000For only 27 cents a day, you can ensure a steady, nutritious diet of big-tech shadowbanners and corporate hypocrites to a hungry, half-Asian lawyer.
01:03:26.000Thank you so much on behalf of Eden Lawyer Bill Richmond, we will keep you updated, and let us know which sins you think are most egregious here.
01:03:31.000It has nothing to do with the power of the mob, We've just, we've filed for motions for information before in the past.
01:04:42.000I've talked about this a lot, but I'd like to put a finer point on it.
01:04:46.000A good example, recently I was watching television.
01:04:48.000And I saw a commercial that mentioned Huntsville, Alabama, you know, Rocket City, USA, and the man in the commercial was talking about how failure, failure was not an option.
01:04:55.000Now here's the thing, I understand where he's coming from, I'm not saying that rocket scientists, NASA, whoever this guy was, is being dishonest.
01:05:02.000He's effectively trying to express the importance of the task, and the severity of the failure therein.
01:05:07.000Okay, someone could die, something could blow up.
01:05:09.000I appreciate the accountability being expressed in the sentiment, so do not get mad, don't say you're attacking NASA, that's not what I'm doing here.
01:06:49.000The latter, acknowledging it, seeing the roadblock, including this data, incorporating the information into your reality, largely because it is reality, I'll come back to that in a second, living your truth, would be more productive, it would lead to a solution.
01:07:02.000You know it's there, but you don't want to end up in that roadblock, so you're more likely to Take a different route!
01:08:17.000Only to find yourself at some point when you've been living with this mantra, I don't know, a broken marriage, possibly a divorce, losing your job, or in the most literal sense, physical harm, finding yourself under a barbell.
01:08:28.000By the way, I don't know what's happened with my wrist.
01:08:30.000It's not the power glove with the boy from Boy Meets World, the brother, the old Fred Savage.
01:08:38.000And by the way, that's why I believe that physical training is so important.
01:08:40.000A lot of people say, oh, you're a meathead.
01:08:42.000Sometimes experiencing the most literal strain possible tells you a lot about yourself, a lot about your place in this world and how you interact with it.
01:10:13.000It just has to be consistent with what you did before.
01:10:15.000Now, instead of performing it and then adding 15% and amping yourself up with failure is not an option, I want you to take a different tack.
01:10:22.000I want you to acknowledge that that is your limitation.
01:10:25.000That going past it will lead to failure.
01:11:04.000I guarantee you that using that method, you will surpass it.
01:11:09.000And you'll probably be surprised by how quickly it happens.
01:11:11.000Now, this experiment here, it's not about lifting weights.
01:11:14.000is to show you that one way of doing things, the failure is not an option, doesn't work.
01:11:18.000You can try and move that weight, shove and heave and strain all you want, you will be no closer, 0% closer to achieving growth than you were when you started.
01:11:25.000The other, while not sexy, very workmanlike, it's not a show horse, it's a Clydesdale, will lead to breakthrough.
01:11:33.000The breakthrough you were seeking in the first place.
01:11:34.000It's a great irony in life that these triumphant, these grandiose ways that we try to achieve our breakthroughs, they're usually the ones that keep us from achieving them.
01:11:43.000Because it's the preparation that matters.
01:11:45.000It's the in-betweens, like I've talked about.
01:11:46.000It's the unsexy measures we take when no one is watching.
01:11:50.000When the excitement's worn off and failure is always an option in the back of our mind.
01:11:55.000See, one, the failure is not an option is effectively the false mantra of living your truth.
01:12:02.000Whereas the decision to acknowledge failure as an option, but disallowing it to determine your long-term circumstances is the equivalent to living in the truth.
01:12:12.000I don't think there's anything sillier than saying I'm speaking my truth.
01:12:16.000That's a hedge to say, you could be a f***ing liar.
01:13:54.000Right now, to give you an idea, to tie this back into us, and I don't want this to just be about me, we were hit with four copyright claims in the same day, on the same show, to try and suppress it.
01:14:06.000They're just biding their time on the fourth, hoping that the Oscars will no longer be relevant, and that you don't watch it when it's available.
01:14:33.000When the dust has settled, the excitement of the initial war, the battle cry has died out, when we're in the trenches, rained on, covered in dirt, waiting.
01:14:44.000I have to be honest with myself, right now, failure is the most easy, readily available option.
01:14:51.000I'm not a rock, I'm not a man without limits, I'm a very limited man who is fallible and breakable.
01:14:58.000It'd be a lot easier to fail right now, because rather than continuing, rather than reinvesting and creating for the unheard majority of Americans, you, the international fans out there, I know we have a lot of Canadian Greek Orthodox, Pantelis just told me this, I could collect my marbles that I've gained thus far right now and go home.
01:15:14.000Even more, I'm at a point right now where I know that failure of this program, of this movement, of your movement right now, is a much more easy option today than it will be once we're in this fight.
01:15:25.000Because once we're in this fight, we can't unring that bell.
01:15:27.000Unless we win, I can't recoup all the resources, finances, creative energy, and just life energy that's been invested into it.
01:15:34.000Failure is a much more easy option for me to choose today than it would be tomorrow, or the next day, or the next, and I know that, and I struggle with it.
01:15:44.000I could lie to you, I struggle with it all the time.
01:15:46.000There are times where I come really close to calling it and packing it in.
01:15:51.000To deny that, to lie to myself, and to lie to you about it for the sake of some kind of inspirational soundbite would not only be dishonest, it would cloud my judgment to the decisions that I have to make for all of us moving forward.
01:16:04.000It would also belittle, by the way, the magnitude of what you've done for me.
01:16:09.000The truth is that you've helped us build something so impactful, so important to such a multitude of people that the walls are closing in, tempting us by providing the option of failure.
01:16:46.000We can choose peace through failure right now.
01:16:48.000Or we can choose to go through the hard door.
01:16:51.000And this may not be as inspirational, it may not sell as many books, but I can promise you this, so long as you, all of you watching, listening, streaming, choose to go through those hard doorways, those thresholds, meaning many, doorway after doorway after doorway, so long as you keep choosing to do that with us, I promise you so will I. You tell me, are you in?