Louder with Crowder - PROOF: YOUTUBE CENSORED TULSI GABBARD | Louder with Crowder

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00:08:18.000 Listen, this is something that's a little bit more impromptu, so we are live, I can confirm that.

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00:08:30.000 So, we're live.

00:08:32.000 I'll say that for the last time.

00:08:33.000 Before I dive into anything here, and because I genuinely worry that this stream and content could be taken down, I ask that everyone watching right now please tweet, Facebook, Instagram, post this wherever you can.

00:08:46.000 Include the hashtags YouTube 2020 Election Blacklist and Crowder Exposes YouTube.

00:08:51.000 I know that's self-serving but we want to make sure that people know where to go to find this stream.

00:08:55.000 We are live streaming to the Blaze TV right now in case the feed gets cut and I want you to know that I expressly give permission for anyone out there to screen record and pirate this stream in the event that it's banned and this content removed.

00:09:09.000 So, it's going to take a little bit to sort of unpack, but let me state on the outset that I and the team here at Lottery with Crowder have uncovered what I believe to be undeniable proof of Google and YouTube's current meddling in the United States presidential election.

00:09:30.000 Directly.

00:09:32.000 I want to be clear so there can be no misrepresentation regarding the information I'm going to present.

00:09:37.000 Again, please tweet, Facebook, get this trending.

00:09:39.000 What I'm about to show you is, what I'm about to discuss, it's not a left or right issue, we've heard that so much it's become a cliche, but it really does affect anyone who believes in fair and honest elections, okay?

00:09:49.000 Let me work backwards, understanding that I am going to get to photographic and videographic what I believe to be Irrefutable evidence of altering the fundamental landscape of the election.

00:10:01.000 Let me start backwards.

00:10:03.000 Many of you remember the Vox Adpocalypse, okay?

00:10:05.000 That was a time in which this program was a target of a selectively edited smear campaign from the company Vox, and it should be noted in which the parent company, NBCUniversal, Comcast, they have at least a 34% ownership stake.

00:10:19.000 The event actually, the controversy, went all the way up to the top of YouTube with Susan Wojcicki herself even commenting on the story publicly.

00:10:25.000 Was it the Recode Conference?

00:10:26.000 Yes.

00:10:26.000 Something like that?

00:10:27.000 It should be noted publicly stating that we had not violated any guidelines.

00:10:32.000 So while we were found to be in no violation of YouTube official policies or guidelines, in order to appease the leftist torch mob, we were completely demonetized on this channel, meaning that we would no longer be able to sustain a living on the platform.

00:10:45.000 Now, it should be noted that behind the scenes during the Vox Apocalypse, my half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman, who will be here in a second to speak about this more with me, him and I received a phone call from YouTube representatives.

00:10:57.000 who refused to give their name or any additional information outside of a pre-written statement.

00:11:03.000 We were told that they had extensively reviewed our channel in full, and that the violations with the channel, or the, I guess, not necessarily violations, but what it was that we had done which warranted demonetization, let's go, there's no official term for it, that the detailed follow-up would be sent in an email so that we could attempt to rectify the situation and remonetize ourselves.

00:11:24.000 This is all we ever received.

00:11:25.000 We have the email up right here.

00:11:28.000 So despite multiple follow-ups asking for the promised details, YouTube went to complete radio silence.

00:11:33.000 Again, I'm explaining this so you understand the backstory when we get to the evidence that doesn't involve me at all directly.

00:11:41.000 YouTube went to complete radio silence.

00:11:42.000 We even removed over 50 videos that are now available exclusively for Mug Club members at The Blaze.

00:11:48.000 Even though they didn't list 50 videos that could potentially be a violation.

00:11:51.000 We took our shirt out of the merch store to be on the safe side.

00:11:54.000 We continued to reach out, by the way, all the while to YouTube to complete radio silence.

00:11:59.000 And this is not a sob story.

00:12:01.000 Your support and joining MugClub was so overwhelming, we more than made up for the losses and demonetization very quickly.

00:12:06.000 So I really appreciate it was support that we needed then and we would absolutely welcome now for those who haven't joined.

00:12:13.000 Consider it, especially given the information I'm about to reveal.

00:12:15.000 There's no promo code or anything like that.

00:12:16.000 You just search Mug Club and we would appreciate you joining.

00:12:19.000 Here's the thing.

00:12:21.000 Demonetization is never what really bothered me.

00:12:24.000 So let's get closer to the issue that we're about to discuss here.

00:12:28.000 It was a canary in a coal mine, if you will.

00:12:29.000 I've openly said many times I would gladly take demonetization for the rest of this program's lifespan if it guaranteed that the organic reach and the search algorithms were corrected and they were transparent.

00:12:42.000 Because, and this is central to what I'm about to release here, while money in politics is important and it's an issue, more impactful and more valuable, I would argue, in 2019 is information.

00:12:54.000 I would argue that we've reached a point where big money in politics doesn't wield nearly as much influence as the mechanisms of information or informational delivery in 2019.

00:13:04.000 It's how Donald Trump was elected despite being opposed by many huge Republican donors.

00:13:11.000 And it's how many fake stories run by traditional media have been exposed.

00:13:16.000 At the same time that demonetization was occurring with us, all of a sudden our organic reach and traffic on YouTube was decreasing.

00:13:25.000 Specifically, more specifically, the gaining of new subscribers on a daily basis.

00:13:29.000 Everyone here, we did a complete overhaul.

00:13:32.000 We would dig into our analytics.

00:13:34.000 We tried to see what was happening.

00:13:35.000 The odd thing was that on an individual video per video basis, Our views were better than ever.

00:13:41.000 So was our retention.

00:13:42.000 So was the amount of time viewed.

00:13:43.000 So are the overall interactions on videos.

00:13:45.000 All the most valued metrics for video algorithms, according to YouTube's own statements.

00:13:51.000 What we noticed was a drastically reduced reach in search and organic traffic, despite having really created the kind of content that we always had and the kind of content that YouTube said they always wanted.

00:14:02.000 I don't know if you guys can hear, I'm a little parched.

00:14:06.000 Going up against the biggest company in the history of ever makes me a little nervous.

00:14:11.000 I don't really get starstruck, but this one has me sweating.

00:14:16.000 Not quite sweating blood like Jesus and Gethsemane, but, you know, Gethsemane?

00:14:20.000 Is that what we were talking about yesterday?

00:14:22.000 Alright, okay, listen.

00:14:23.000 I just deal with discomfort through jokes, and they're usually worse than other jokes.

00:14:28.000 I give you this backstory.

00:14:31.000 So you understand how it is, really, that a late-night host in a comic was able to stumble across some information that will be shared in this broadcast.

00:14:39.000 It is only because of all this tomfoolery, if you want to call it that, if I may, on YouTube, that we had begun digging into the potential reasons for it, and we were watching everything like a hawk.

00:14:51.000 We were continually running effectively comparative studies, analytics, testing for controls on a daily basis behind the scenes because of all that transpired.

00:15:00.000 So I want to note, it's at this time where we discovered some very odd, I guess some peculiarities we can say, in simply trying to find one of my own change my mind videos, an employee here Realizing that it was likely faster than combing through the archives himself, our own video channel, because it's not necessarily the most robust platform for that on YouTube.

00:15:19.000 He just ran a YouTube search, Steven Crowder changed my mind.

00:15:23.000 And nothing showed up.

00:15:25.000 Which we thought was odd.

00:15:27.000 And so we ran some other similar searches.

00:15:30.000 Again, nothing.

00:15:32.000 Now when I announced this publicly, we received responses from you, numbering in the high five, potentially six figures.

00:15:39.000 Many viewers were receiving the exact same results.

00:15:41.000 Many of you.

00:15:42.000 But a lot of you accused us of lying or doctoring photos because our content was showing up as normal in your search results, which didn't make a lot of sense to us.

00:15:52.000 Noticing a trend, then, on a hunch, my wonderful, brilliant, and terrifying researcher, Reg, he ran some controlled experiments, if I may, using different VPNs.

00:16:03.000 And that's when the puzzle pieces started coming together.

00:16:06.000 The blacklisting of this channel and its content on search was occurring in the United States exclusively.

00:16:14.000 Let me explain what that means.

00:16:16.000 That means that if someone searched Steven Crowder Changed My Mind in Argentina or any other country, the appropriate content showed up.

00:16:21.000 If someone typed the exact same search in the United States, nothing.

00:16:27.000 Now we found, or we were sent proof of this, many of these examples from countries all across the world.

00:16:35.000 And it was concerning for several reasons.

00:16:37.000 Not only because it provided a direct answer as to why the organic reach had plummeted, but more importantly, this is the number one conservative-leaning channel of all time on YouTube.

00:16:47.000 One with a vast majority of our fans being in the United States.

00:16:53.000 And one that has hosted not just a few, but many national presidential candidates as well as political figureheads.

00:17:00.000 This week, I think we have Rand Paul on the show.

00:17:03.000 So why would YouTube do this?

00:17:05.000 How could it be an algorithm?

00:17:07.000 And this is going to get to more of the direct evidence of the current election, but I want you to follow the story here.

00:17:12.000 This is why we are in a unique position to uncover this.

00:17:16.000 Didn't intend for it to happen.

00:17:18.000 We just wanted to find out what was screwy about our channel.

00:17:23.000 So how could it be an algorithm?

00:17:25.000 And if they were doing this, by the way, to the largest, we were thinking the largest conservative presence on the platform, YouTube, despite in their own words having found, they found no violations of policies on our part, what could this mean for the political landscape of America?

00:17:38.000 More specifically, the 2020 elections, okay?

00:17:41.000 I expressed these concerns in a cell phone video, a flippant cell phone video.

00:17:46.000 Making sure to communicate that at the time, I didn't have any evidence available to me of this occurring to anyone else, but I encouraged everyone out there to send in your own test results.

00:17:57.000 And I also expressed my concern in potential election engineering.

00:18:01.000 So this is several months removed from the Vox Adpocalypse, a cell phone video.

00:18:05.000 After this, for the first time since the Vox Adpocalypse, I was immediately contacted by YouTube.

00:18:11.000 And this time, not by faceless, nameless people reading a statement, but representatives in positions of power who were looking to try and ameliorate the situation.

00:18:21.000 Of course I found it odd.

00:18:23.000 Why reach out to us now?

00:18:25.000 Why did everyone refuse to talk to us when we were at the center of this national scandal that the CEO of your company had to address publicly?

00:18:34.000 When our livelihoods were on the line, why did we receive complete radio silence?

00:18:40.000 And now because of a throwaway cell phone video?

00:18:43.000 Direct contacts to the higher-ups and assistants with our channel?

00:18:48.000 Seemed really odd, but wanting to act in good faith, we opened communications while we were still conducting more research experiments behind the scenes.

00:18:57.000 And yet the excuse that we often hear, and that you'll often hear from YouTube, is that all of these results are based on algorithms.

00:19:03.000 That's kind of been the crux of this.

00:19:05.000 These algorithms are designed really to best serve the most relevant content to viewing audiences.

00:19:10.000 That's the constant defense.

00:19:12.000 Obviously that didn't add up in our case, when people couldn't find our content exclusively in the United States.

00:19:17.000 So after the initial call, The contacts at YouTube were kind enough to switch the status of our channel to show the, I believe it's called the Prominent User Interface, if I'm not mistaken.

00:19:29.000 And that includes a channel card, which identifies our channel, and a link to the subscribe at the top, along with our videos and suggested links column.

00:19:36.000 And we were notified that not everyone had gotten this, including some other prominent channels.

00:19:41.000 This is important!

00:19:42.000 Because it proved two things.

00:19:44.000 One, for the first time, someone at YouTube was actually paying attention, and more importantly, two, that ultimately there was a person, or is a person, at YouTube who can make these kinds of calls, or at the very least can correct and guide them, as was the case with our channel.

00:20:05.000 Finally, this brings us to some evidence that we just stumbled upon as it relates to the current DNC primary election.

00:20:14.000 So many of you have probably guessed where this is going.

00:20:17.000 A lot of you may not.

00:20:18.000 But let me start this with Tulsi Gabbard already has a pending lawsuit with Google slash YouTube Alphabet for what she perceives as unfair treatment. 1.00

00:20:30.000 Now I want to let Tulsi Gabbard explain the case in her own words first.

00:20:35.000 I know that you had some problems that you are contesting.

00:20:38.000 Google did not treat you fairly after the last debate.

00:20:41.000 Tell us about that.

00:20:43.000 Look, in the first debate, I was on the first night and I was the most searched candidate of that event.

00:20:49.000 Unfortunately, Google chose to arbitrarily block our Google Ads account for several hours at the time that was most critical for our campaign.

00:20:58.000 I'm suing Google for taking that action.

00:21:00.000 They've provided no valid explanation for why that was done.

00:21:02.000 There was no wrongdoing or problem on our part, not because of me, but because of this

00:21:07.000 monopoly, this power that these big tech monopolies have to simply shut out people arbitrarily.

00:21:14.000 This is a threat to our freedom of speech.

00:21:16.000 And it's an important thing for us all to stand united in calling out and to protect,

00:21:22.000 because whether you're a Democrat or Republican or on the left or on the right, for a big

00:21:27.000 tech monopoly to have this power, this affects all of us.

00:21:31.000 Okay.

00:21:33.000 And let me be clear, I don't really agree with Tulsi Gabbard on a whole lot.

00:21:37.000 I wouldn't vote for her if she were the candidate for president. 1.00

00:21:41.000 But I can still tell right from wrong.

00:21:43.000 Her lawsuit, let me be clear about this in case you didn't fully grasp it, it centers around her being blocked out from Google AdSense accounts. 1.00

00:21:49.000 Now what that is, is an advertising arm run by Google and YouTube allowing you both to create and pay to promote ads or videos as well as receive ads on your channel.

00:21:58.000 Two things here.

00:21:58.000 Okay?

00:22:00.000 One, I've also experienced the exact scenario that Tulsi Gabbard is describing.

00:22:06.000 We've run ads here on YouTube for years.

00:22:10.000 Okay, now what kind of ads?

00:22:11.000 We've really only run ads where we run our videos as pre-roll ads before other videos, right?

00:22:15.000 You know, where you can click skip ad, although people don't skip.

00:22:20.000 We just run our videos.

00:22:20.000 We've been doing it for a long time.

00:22:22.000 I was approached by YouTube to do this.

00:22:23.000 We don't run as many ads, of course, as NBCUniversal or Disney, Viacom, Vice, but we do what we can.

00:22:30.000 Now, many of the ad campaigns that we've run here on YouTube through Google AdSense were actually engineered by YouTube employees themselves.

00:22:38.000 Again, who reached out to me and taught me how to create these ads and encouraged me to spend more money on these YouTube advertising campaigns.

00:22:46.000 But at some point, they decided that these campaigns, the ones they initially created, were now a violation of policy and began locking them out.

00:22:57.000 Not only that, But even though I was told the exact opposite, I had clearly been blacklisted from promoting any of my videos on the platform here.

00:23:05.000 So again, I ran some tests behind the scenes, and I tried to pick the most vanilla milquetoast examples I could find of my videos, and I attempted to promote them as ads on the platform.

00:23:15.000 Like this long-form conversation I think is one with Climate Change original Greenpeace member Patrick Moore.

00:23:21.000 And then of course all the civil, productive, change-my-mind segments.

00:23:26.000 All were declined.

00:23:27.000 All were deemed shocking content.

00:23:30.000 Again, even though YouTube had helped design campaigns around these exact pieces of content and collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising those same videos years before.

00:23:42.000 So, I say this because I want you to know I'm well aware of the screw jobs that can occur with AdSense without any answer.

00:23:49.000 Gabbard.

00:23:49.000 Ms.

00:23:50.000 Second point.

00:23:51.000 Most importantly, this establishes a record with Tulsi Gabbard of Google YouTube altering the rules for a specific window of time when Tulsi Gabbard was trending or was widely searched due to a bump in the debates.

00:24:04.000 You don't get that back!

00:24:07.000 So now we enter the most, what I would say is, I would argue the most troubling portion of all this, okay?

00:24:13.000 Again, please do tweet it out.

00:24:14.000 Use the hashtags Facebook, Instagram, in case this gets removed.

00:24:18.000 Are we still up?

00:24:18.000 Is it still up?

00:24:19.000 Yeah, we're still up now.

00:24:20.000 Okay, good.

00:24:21.000 Good-ish.

00:24:23.000 On Friday, Hillary Clinton Rodham, in case you're thinking of someone else. Hillary

00:24:29.000 Rodham Clinton claimed that Tulsi Gabbard, well she claimed that there were people who were Russian

00:24:34.000 assets and then it was confirmed that it was Tulsi Gabbard, right? Confirmed that she was talking

00:24:38.000 about Tulsi Gabbard, accusing her of being a Russian asset, and Tulsi's response had her trending

00:24:44.000 number one on Twitter, I think it was It was last Friday.

00:24:49.000 That's when we were looking into this.

00:24:50.000 Okay, so she was the number one trend.

00:24:51.000 Actually, I think, like, number one through four, because one might have been Tulsi, another might have been Russian Asset, another might have been Gabbard.

00:24:57.000 The point is, she was the belle of the ball, with many verified checkmarks, by the way, and pundits running with the story, fighting over whether she was a Russian plant.

00:25:07.000 So, during this time, we decided to, again, while Tulsi Gabbard was in the spotlight, run some comparative searches on YouTube.

00:25:16.000 When we set our VPN, so I want to be clear, this is the crescendo.

00:25:22.000 Share it, pirate this in case it gets removed.

00:25:23.000 When we set our VPN to a non-United States country and we searched for Tulsi Gabbard, her channel and the videos from her channel all showed up first.

00:25:35.000 Yet again, when we switched our searches to the United States, however, nothing.

00:25:42.000 Exclusively in the United States, the country in which she is currently running for president, you would receive no results from Tulsi Gabbard's channel or her videos until scrolling past the first page.

00:25:54.000 Here's a video screen recording, just in case people try to say that we've doctored it.

00:25:58.000 By the way, these video screen recordings will be available as clips on YouTube should you want to use them for articles.

00:26:05.000 So, that Friday, you search, she's trending one on Twitter, all of a sudden, boom, valve is pinched, you can't find her, exclusively in the United States, you can if you're in Germany, you can if you're in Spain.

00:26:14.000 United States, however, nothing.

00:26:17.000 By Sunday, once the trend of Hillary Clinton's character assassination had subsided, the results for the U.S.

00:26:23.000 and other countries were magically switched back to being identical.

00:26:30.000 Now, it's worth noting that her channel is right now, as far as I know it, omitted from both sets of results.

00:26:36.000 So everyone out there, take some screenshots, do some VPN experiments.

00:26:39.000 I assume they're going to be fixing this once this video is out, and I assume that someone there is watching this right now, so they may not necessarily be consistent.

00:26:46.000 You don't always have the same result twice.

00:26:50.000 Even though, by the way, they're the same, her channel is not as prominent as it was before.

00:26:55.000 Let me say this.

00:26:56.000 Tulsi Gabbard is not my candidate.

00:26:57.000 Like I said, I wouldn't vote for her.

00:27:00.000 This is chilling.

00:27:02.000 Especially when you consider... Let's think about this for a second.

00:27:04.000 Again, we stumbled across this accidentally.

00:27:07.000 I don't know if anyone else has proof that there is someone who flips a switch on YouTube to make your channel a part of the Preferred Channels Network, whatever the hell it's called.

00:27:16.000 We only found out because of the Vox Adpocalypse.

00:27:19.000 And then we only found out because I flippantly mentioned that this reeks of election meddling.

00:27:24.000 All of a sudden a phone call and someone says we remedy that scenario.

00:27:27.000 That means that if someone can flip that switch, and it's not entirely algorithmic, or it's almost as though the algorithms are determined by a human being initially, it's not iRobot, that means that same person can flip off the switch for someone like Tulsi Gabbard.

00:27:43.000 All of this is hair-raisingly scary, and if you're interested in a fair election, whether for the presidency or just for the Democratic candidate for the presidency, this should raise some major red flags.

00:27:56.000 The influence that big tech has, and their willingness to manipulate information in the face of what should be a Democratic election, regardless of whether it's happening to someone I support or not, Is terrifying.

00:28:08.000 So let me address some arguments, by the way, that I know will be presented.

00:28:12.000 And I hope that you are being skeptical of this.

00:28:14.000 I encourage you to be, and I encourage you to run your own tests.

00:28:17.000 YouTube and Google will inevitably claim one of three things, or several.

00:28:22.000 Because this is what we've run into, this is always what they claim publicly.

00:28:25.000 One, that it's simply algorithmic.

00:28:27.000 It's not.

00:28:28.000 Again, this channel is singularly unique in that we're able to prove that it's not because our channel was fixed by someone manually.

00:28:33.000 Someone flipped a switch, someone could unflip that switch for Tulsi Gabbard.

00:28:36.000 Two.

00:28:37.000 YouTube may try to pass this off as an accident, a result of a poor, lower-level employee with bad judgment claiming that this was an oversight and that the individual didn't make the proper corrections and they have since addressed the issue.

00:28:48.000 Don't buy that either.

00:28:49.000 We've been in direct contact with decision-makers at YouTube who are aware of these problems and have been trying to do damage control to fix the problems.

00:28:49.000 Why?

00:28:56.000 It would stand to reason that the status of a current presidential candidate who is actively suing YouTube would be under the same kind of close watch from the world's biggest information and technology company, and that she wouldn't be someone pawned off on some patsy for the higher-ups.

00:29:11.000 Doesn't pass the sniff test.

00:29:14.000 This is another argument they'll use, and this is most important.

00:29:15.000 YouTube in the past has consistently argued that their algorithms, policies, that they are the results... Well, they argue that it's a result of algorithms.

00:29:25.000 But they do argue, let me be clear here, that the algorithms of policies, the results that you find, are often geographically dependent.

00:29:31.000 That's something that we were told.

00:29:33.000 It's something that many of you have been told.

00:29:34.000 And that's because it's geographically dependent because it's designed to best serve viewing audiences with the most appropriate content for their search.

00:29:43.000 I've heard his argument made a whole lot, and I expect it to be made now.

00:29:47.000 If that's the case, I would implore YouTube, please, because I know someone there is watching, could you please explain to me, your shareholders, and in all likelihood a congressional hearing, why you believe it most appropriate in serving your audience to block the content of a United States presidential candidate exclusively in the country in which she is running.

00:30:15.000 How is that best serving anybody?

00:30:19.000 In the same way, how does it serve the audience searching for Stephen Crider Changed My Mind to not show them what it is that they are searching for?

00:30:27.000 I'm sure shareholders and people who want to understand how these algorithms and big tech work, they would love to know why it's in their best interest for users to not find the content they signed on for and are actively searching.

00:30:40.000 How does allowing Tulsi Gabbard's channel and videos to show up Everywhere around the world, except for the United States, best serve your audience.

00:30:49.000 YouTube, you are in the information business.

00:30:51.000 And I want to clarify this, when we say big tech, no, it's the information business right now.

00:30:56.000 From a business perspective, YouTube, how does it make sense to preclude your users from finding the content they are searching for specifically and passionately?

00:31:08.000 The only answer I can come up with In the face of mounting evidence, is that it's not even profit-driven, but to an extent, ideological.

00:31:17.000 And finally, to the detractors, who I know will say, well, Tulsi's not a serious candidate.

00:31:23.000 In the grand scheme, it doesn't really matter.

00:31:25.000 Tulsi's not a serious candidate.

00:31:26.000 Okay, you know what?

00:31:27.000 Not very high in the polls.

00:31:27.000 I get it.

00:31:29.000 People just, people say the same thing about us.

00:31:31.000 Well, it's just some right-wing, edgy channel.

00:31:33.000 Who really cares?

00:31:34.000 Well, actually, it's the biggest conservative channel in the history of the world's largest media platform because of you, and we are so grateful.

00:31:39.000 I don't say that boastfully.

00:31:40.000 I say that in a terrified, from a place of terror, because who knows where we'll be tomorrow.

00:31:47.000 But the biggest conservative channel on the platform, they've actively tried to silence it.

00:31:50.000 Tulsi, Tulsi Gabbard is not a serious candidate.

00:31:53.000 I hear that.

00:31:53.000 Well, let me, let me ask you a question.

00:31:55.000 Let's assume that's true.

00:31:56.000 Why do you think that is?

00:32:01.000 We often hear the left talk about big money in politics all the time, right?

00:32:04.000 The Koch brothers!

00:32:05.000 Oil money!

00:32:06.000 And listen, I think it's a problem, but the Koch brothers opposed Donald Trump.

00:32:10.000 And money can't save people from the viral news cycle in 2019.

00:32:14.000 Donald Trump, like it or not, is the new media president.

00:32:19.000 He can affect the globe with his tweets.

00:32:21.000 That's why it's an international scandal.

00:32:24.000 You can't buy that.

00:32:25.000 Bernie Sanders didn't have the money or the power that the Clintons did, and it took everything they had to try and shut him down.

00:32:32.000 Why?

00:32:33.000 Because of the radical new media landscape.

00:32:37.000 Information in 2019 is more valuable in elections than money.

00:32:43.000 And right now, I am confident in saying that Tulsi Gabbard is being barred from access to or delivery of necessary information.

00:32:52.000 Sure, listen, we don't know whether Tulsi Gabbard can get the votes and be a winning candidate.

00:32:56.000 I'll give you that.

00:32:58.000 Just like we don't know how large this very channel could grow if there were a level playing field.

00:33:03.000 Let me paint a picture for you for people to say, well, she's not a serious candidate. 0.99

00:33:06.000 Asking you why.

00:33:07.000 Let's run this little thought experiment.

00:33:08.000 If back in the 60s, well, let's even say early 50s through, sorry, late 50s through early 60s.

00:33:15.000 Back in the 60s, JFK was completely banned from appearing on the only three main networks that existed, ABC, NBC, CBS, right?

00:33:22.000 And then after a certain amount of time, it was an Indian going, boo! 1.00

00:33:24.000 If he was banned from all of those networks, do you think he would have been the Democratic candidate?

00:33:31.000 If he had never been allowed to appear on those networks, which reached, I think, 28 million homes.

00:33:37.000 That was about, yeah, we have the source here, 60% of United States household.

00:33:40.000 Do you think that he would have had the same fan base?

00:33:44.000 Do you think he would have been a serious candidate on everyone's lips?

00:33:49.000 I would argue likely not.

00:33:51.000 Well, let's compare that.

00:33:52.000 YouTube has 2 billion monthly active users and is used by 73% of United States adults.

00:34:00.000 Google has a 90.46% share of the market as it relates to searches conducted online worldwide.

00:34:12.000 It is far greater than the influence of every television network combined in the era of JFK or Nixon.

00:34:21.000 Make no mistake, this is the most powerful information company on the face of the earth today and likely to have ever existed.

00:34:30.000 And they've repeatedly shown an inability and unwillingness to invite, to engage, and sometimes they ultimately just block people from even having a seat at the table.

00:34:40.000 We often hear folks say, and this has become a catchphrase, like I said earlier, but in this instance, I think this is accurate.

00:34:45.000 It's truly not a left or right issue.

00:34:48.000 This is a fundamental issue that relates to the state of our republic.

00:34:51.000 And I would hope that everyone, from the Young Turks, to their subsidiaries, to Seth Meyers, to John Oliver, to folks in the Yang Gang, even the Tulsi Gabbard followers themselves, who I know have been asking questions if she's been getting a raw deal.

00:35:04.000 Hopefully this helps you.

00:35:05.000 I would ask all of you, with whom I have very little in common, To see the gravity of this situation and, in this instance, come together to demand answers and transparency from the world's largest information company as it relates to free and fair elections.

00:35:22.000 I will await YouTube's answers with bated breath.

00:35:25.000 Sorry it wasn't all that funny because I had to make sure that I got this out and that I didn't say anything that held me legally liable.

00:35:31.000 That's why my half-Asian lawyer, Bill Richman, is here.

00:35:35.000 Are we good, sir?

00:35:36.000 Yeah, so far.

00:35:38.000 So far.

00:35:39.000 And please do, again, keep this going.

00:35:41.000 We have some videos right now right on Twitter.

00:35:43.000 We had this prepped.

00:35:44.000 We did our due diligence.

00:35:45.000 And the hashtags are?

00:35:47.000 Hashtags are CrowderExposeYouTube.

00:35:51.000 And I believe it's YouTube 2020 Election Blacklist.

00:35:55.000 YouTube 2020 Election Blacklist and Crowder Exposes YouTube.

00:35:58.000 So I want to make sure that you keep that going.

00:36:01.000 These screenshots will be available to everyone.

00:36:03.000 And to those who were asking, we said, listen, we think we're on to something.

00:36:06.000 A lot of people behind the scenes.

00:36:07.000 I know half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond had a deal with us.

00:36:09.000 Poor guy was pulling.

00:36:10.000 Pulling his hair out, but he's got a thick mane.

00:36:12.000 Can you get it to us?

00:36:13.000 If we get this info to you now, it's going to go public, and someone else is going to try to run with it, and they might not get the story right.

00:36:21.000 So, yes, it's been a very stressful few days, but half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman, your thoughts?

00:36:28.000 So I think that people don't necessarily, if you kind of sum everything up, you've given them a lot of information in order to be clear and to be detailed.

00:36:34.000 And to really boil it down, Tulsi already publicly knows and has been publicly fighting since July when she filed her lawsuit against Google and YouTube to say that they had been screwing with her on the Google ad side.

00:36:46.000 And knowing that the ads are the way that in this market, in this current economy, in our current tech world, how we communicate to voters Whether you're on the left or the right, whether you're Republican or you're Democrat, and she already knows about that.

00:36:58.000 And that's the same thing that we've had to deal with in terms of our own ads being removed and unable to actually do the kinds of things that every other platform is able to do with no clarity on the violations.

00:37:09.000 So what the other parallels we had here and again that's what kind of led to where we are now is being able to see that not only is it ads and ads her ads are ads but it's also search for her and search for us and that's the most incredible part about this is you know we looked at it and we were very skeptical you know to say hey How could this be true?

00:37:29.000 The spotlight is on them.

00:37:30.000 Why would they continue to do this?

00:37:32.000 And so again, there's someone there.

00:37:33.000 The kind of back-and-forth action makes it clear that there is a person making the decisions.

00:37:39.000 I think your point is very, very key.

00:37:41.000 It's actually mentioned in the amended complaint filed by Tulsi Gabbard in her lawsuit against Google, is that algorithms are written by people.

00:37:49.000 They are written with an intended result.

00:37:51.000 They see the results, and their job is to monitor the results.

00:37:54.000 So if anyone's out there thinking, well, you know, with all eyes on them, surely they didn't intend to screw with Tulsi's campaign, to screw with her ability to rise in the polls, to screw with her ability to communicate to people on both sides of the aisle about her candidacy for the Democratic primary ticket.

00:38:12.000 One still has to put the blame back on these companies for not taking the action that they could.

00:38:17.000 It would be kind of going back to that first case that we dealt with together with Facebook.

00:38:20.000 Remember it wasn't you know up at the top they were saying well we had no idea that there was this group of contractors who were supervised by employees that had a written policy that included a blacklist and you happen to be on it and you know but it was an accident right well clearly in the years that that's happened that excuse no longer makes For people who don't know, that was when, was it Engadget or Gizmodo?

00:38:41.000 That's how Half-Asian Lawyer Bill Richmond and I initially met, was there was a list of people on Facebook to throttle, to make sure that their, really I think this was a list to make sure that their content wasn't trending.

00:38:41.000 Gizmodo.

00:38:54.000 And it was like Breitbart, Drudge Report, some conservative organizations, and yours truly, for some reason, going, well, this is really bizarre.

00:39:01.000 And I reached out to half-Asian lawyer Bill Richman.

00:39:02.000 The thing is, at that point, they didn't argue it at all.

00:39:05.000 They just argued that, well, these were some rogue employees who did it, and we've corrected the problem.

00:39:10.000 And at that point, no one was really looking for it, right?

00:39:12.000 We just stumbled across this.

00:39:14.000 It was actually a friend who was a groomsman at my wedding who introduced me to half-Asian Bill.

00:39:18.000 And a wonderful friendship blossomed from there.

00:39:20.000 That being said, that can't be the case here because this is a current presidential candidate who is already suing the company.

00:39:28.000 They wouldn't be able to say, well, we had no idea.

00:39:30.000 We passed her off to some low-level employee. 0.96

00:39:32.000 If that's the case, then you're far too inept to be the single biggest information delivery company in the history of mankind and there needs to be some more oversight.

00:39:40.000 Well, and I think the other question there is that when we saw the Facebook situation, remember, there were inquiries from the Senate, from Congress, representatives were reaching out, there was many statements that Facebook had to make to explain and to try and give some information, and they were able to get away with not having to say too much about exactly what had happened at that time, but had to really open the kimono, if you will.

00:40:01.000 And here, there's really no other answer that YouTube can give other than to say, We've got to look at all the files and you've got to get a congressional hearing I mean these are the kinds of things where regardless of the validity on the legal aspects of Tulsi's lawsuit I know she's had to switch from different claims and actually just a week ago Google and YouTube filed a lawsuit They filed a motion to dismiss her entire claim now.

00:40:23.000 They don't want to provide any information.

00:40:24.000 They don't want to provide any data They don't want to provide any explanations even just on that issue so for them being blocked on her being blocked by the way She doesn't know about this Tulsi Gabbard this This is very new information.

00:40:37.000 No one, as far as I know, has talked about this or revealed this information.

00:40:41.000 While she was trending last week, being accused of being a Russian asset, you search anywhere not in the United States, Tulsi Gabbard's content shows up, search in the United States, ghosted.

00:40:49.000 She doesn't know this.

00:40:50.000 We'll be reaching out after this.

00:40:51.000 And if you just want to draw the parallels there, on the Friday that we

00:40:54.000 discovered this, on the Friday that she was trending because of

00:40:58.000 Hillary calling her a Russian-backed groomed asset, that was the day 0.64

00:41:02.000 that YouTube filed its motion to dismiss her claims. So if you're

00:41:06.000 asking as a consumer, you know, just like companies may try and use the

00:41:10.000 law to be able to skirt and be able to use the current legal system to get away

00:41:14.000 from answering questions, what they can't get away from are the customers.

00:41:17.000 What they can't get away from are the viewers and the creators who want to know, regardless of political ideology, if I'm not the favored person, am I going to be treated differently?

00:41:28.000 It's all very clear.

00:41:30.000 There may be a lot of people who enjoy Hulsey Gabbard's frankness, who enjoy her service to this country, but have very differing views on her politically.

00:41:38.000 And I think that's most of us on this show.

00:41:41.000 But that doesn't mean that we're again in that classic line, we may not agree with what you're saying, but we'll fight for your right to say it.

00:41:47.000 And what's clear now is that YouTube is not interested in fighting for your right to say it if you happen to be a disfavored Democratic candidate.

00:41:54.000 And I think where we can also all find some common ground, we can all, you know, hold hands and sing Dahu Dorhe around the Christmas tree and agreeing that Tulsi Gabbard is fine.

00:42:03.000 She's a good-looking lady. 1.00

00:42:04.000 Good-looking lady. 0.99

00:42:06.000 Watch, they'll throw this out due to egregious sexism. 1.00

00:42:08.000 Because I said she's an attractive woman. 1.00

00:42:10.000 We're bridging the divide here.

00:42:13.000 No, something else that's also really odd to me is Tulsi Gabbard is She's been tarred and feathered so much.

00:42:18.000 She's really, I mean, she's pretty far left.

00:42:20.000 She's only moderate as it relates to free speech and she was the one who named a cutoff when it came to abortion at 28 weeks.

00:42:26.000 That's seven months.

00:42:27.000 So I don't necessarily think she's a radical pro-lifer at that point.

00:42:30.000 But it is odd.

00:42:32.000 Why isn't her stuff showing up?

00:42:33.000 Why has the deck been so stacked against her?

00:42:36.000 Is it because they want someone so much further to the left than Gabby?

00:42:39.000 Or could it be this idea that Hillary Clinton might toss her hat back? 0.94

00:42:42.000 We have no idea.

00:42:43.000 This is entirely conjecture.

00:42:44.000 It's just weird to me that she's seen as a Russian asset because of slightly conservative views, really libertarian views, in that she's a non-interventionist and she thinks she shouldn't be able to have an abortion after seven months.

00:42:54.000 Is that worth being blocked out?

00:42:56.000 It's extreme, Steven.

00:42:57.000 It's extreme.

00:42:58.000 Well, that is the craziest part about this is there's so much unanswered and there's only one company that has all of those answers.

00:42:58.000 I don't know.

00:43:06.000 We can see the results, right?

00:43:07.000 We can see the physical search results and how they get modified and we can certainly extrapolate from that the impact on not being able to have a voice when you are the most Trending topic on Twitter in a very fast news cycle surrounding a Democratic primary we can see all of that But what we can't see is the motivation or the mistakes that were made and those are the answers that the people of the United States

00:43:31.000 Again, the people who don't get to see Tulsi Gabbard or Steven Crowder's show when searching in results, those are the answers that need to be given.

00:43:38.000 Right.

00:43:38.000 And I want to be clear, too.

00:43:39.000 Full disclosure, we have spoken with YouTube in recent times, but those conversations are to be kept confidential, and we at no point discussed this with them, Tulsi Gabbard, or anything like this.

00:43:48.000 I just want to be clear.

00:43:49.000 Correct.

00:43:49.000 We have not discussed this.

00:43:50.000 I don't know if I have to say that legally.

00:43:51.000 We didn't discuss Tulsi Gabbard with them.

00:43:52.000 I don't know.

00:43:53.000 You're the lawyer.

00:43:54.000 Am I good?

00:43:54.000 You're good.

00:43:55.000 Okay.

00:43:55.000 All right.

00:43:56.000 I just don't want to get sued because, you know, I use the wrong pronoun or something like that, and that's a violation of policy.

00:44:01.000 That's already happened.

00:44:02.000 But I will say this.

00:44:03.000 I have not made myself available, but any of the...

00:44:07.000 I always am confused whether it's a committee or a hearing when they have these different

00:44:13.000 committees.

00:44:14.000 So they have committees, they have subcommittees.

00:44:15.000 I don't know if every single representative and senator is on a various committee, but

00:44:20.000 I believe they are, and they are on maybe five, six, seven, sometimes even 10 or 12.

00:44:24.000 And then those committees will have certain power to send subpoenas, to call people down, 0.88

00:44:29.000 to ask...

00:44:30.000 Sometimes they just do it voluntarily, right?

00:44:31.000 Okay.

00:44:32.000 hey, if you don't wanna show up, right?

00:44:34.000 Susan Wojcicki says, hey, I'm just really too busy to answer questions about influencing the Democratic primary.

00:44:41.000 That's an answer in and of itself.

00:44:43.000 So there's a power there that can be exercised.

00:44:45.000 And if there are any aspects in which you want to see the kind of coming together like you saw with Ted Cruz and AOC on some topics, these are the kind of topics because Every side has these questions.

00:44:57.000 Well, and I want to be clear, we haven't been available before, but both myself and half-Asian lawyer Bill Richmond will make ourselves available if you need us to.

00:45:05.000 Would it be testify?

00:45:06.000 Is that what it is at these points?

00:45:07.000 It could be.

00:45:08.000 It may be under oath.

00:45:08.000 It may be otherwise.

00:45:09.000 Okay.

00:45:10.000 Well, I want to make sure that you guys understand, to anyone who might be watching, again, we've hosted politicians here on this show, senators, congressmen, people who ran for, people who've run for president, who might be running for president, There is no one out there who has had the same kinds of conversations, relationships, or the overall plethora of evidence that we have as it relates to YouTube, because we've had to deal with it on the AdSense side, we've had to deal with it on the organic search side, we've had to deal with it on the demonetization side, and because of this we have been aggregating so much research over the last several decades.

00:45:39.000 We want to be clear, this is not us going, oh, it's censorship!

00:45:41.000 That's not what we're talking about here.

00:45:43.000 We are talking about Dishonesty and misleading business practices.

00:45:46.000 As it relates to our case, as it relates to Tulsi Gabbard right now and this new evidence, and we are going to be searching for more.

00:45:52.000 We encourage you to search for more and send it all to us.

00:45:55.000 It is very disconcerting to see the amount of power that can be exerted over, if you want to call it, just the election.

00:46:01.000 But I think this goes far beyond the election.

00:46:03.000 It goes to a shifting cultural political landscape, really.

00:46:07.000 Let's get rid of the top conservative channels that exist.

00:46:10.000 And then, let's get rid of the moderate Democratic candidates. 0.54

00:46:13.000 I'm not saying this is exactly what's happening, but I am saying that, undeniably, you look at—it is so odd, and there is no answer for why our content would show up in countries not called the United States, and why a United States—I always forget, Tulsa Gabbard, Congresswoman?

00:46:29.000 Congresswoman, Senator.

00:46:30.000 No, it's not.

00:46:31.000 I think she's a congresswoman. 0.99

00:46:32.000 I get that.

00:46:33.000 She's a, yeah, yes, okay, representative.

00:46:34.000 Why a United States congresswoman would show up in Chile and not the United States. 0.94

00:46:40.000 None of the excuses we've heard thus far would work.

00:46:43.000 It's algorithmic?

00:46:44.000 No, it's not.

00:46:45.000 We're the only ones who would have proof that it's not for a lot of these.

00:46:47.000 The idea that it was an overstatement, low-level employee?

00:46:49.000 No, it's not.

00:46:50.000 She's suing and you guys filed a motion to try and dismiss this lawsuit.

00:46:53.000 So it's obviously on your radar.

00:46:55.000 Then it's the idea that you want to most appropriately serve content to people who are serving.

00:46:59.000 Well, how are you most appropriately serving the audience by not showing them the results from a sitting representative right now running for the United States presidency exclusively in the United States?

00:47:08.000 None of those work!

00:47:09.000 These are the excuses that have been trotted out before.

00:47:11.000 My guess is they'll probably say, oh, you know what?

00:47:13.000 It was a glitch.

00:47:13.000 That's still really bad!

00:47:16.000 If you want to say that we faked it, great.

00:47:18.000 We welcome that, too.

00:47:19.000 I really just want to hear some answers at this point.

00:47:22.000 We all want some answers.

00:47:23.000 And there's a very small window of opportunity here to get this right.

00:47:27.000 That's why I want to be clear.

00:47:28.000 We've been talking about this for a long time, our interactions with YouTube, and Our legal issues and run-ins that we've tried to play long ball and be as transparent as possible as be as minimal as possible as as compromising as possible when appropriate but right now if there is something happening tipping the scales of the election and this is so odd we stumbled across it's it's the specific example that you out there thought

00:47:53.000 Had been going on.

00:47:54.000 Last election cycle it was Bernie.

00:47:56.000 You thought that the establishment was colluding against Bernie.

00:47:58.000 This go around, Tulsi Gabbard almost boycotted the last debates because she thought they were treating her unfairly. 1.00

00:48:04.000 And a lot of you echoed that sentiment.

00:48:06.000 I can tell you whether people are treating her unfairly, okay that remains to be seen.

00:48:10.000 As far as how it relates to the information delivered on the platform, she is absolutely being treated unfairly.

00:48:16.000 And I don't want any of these people to be president!

00:48:21.000 I want to be crystal clear!

00:48:22.000 Some people think because I've said that Tulsi Gabbard is hot that I want—no, I don't want her to be president! 1.00

00:48:27.000 I'll absolutely pull that lever every day for Trump and twice on Sunday!

00:48:27.000 I don't!

00:48:32.000 But I want—and this is a big thing too—I want it to be an honest win when President Trump beats whatever candidate it is.

00:48:39.000 And I want that national election, that general, to also be honest.

00:48:44.000 I don't want Democrats to not be able to get a candidate—say what you want about President Donald Trump.

00:48:48.000 He was the candidate people wanted.

00:48:50.000 You can't say that he was pushed by the Illuminati or the Koch brothers.

00:48:54.000 None of them liked this guy.

00:48:55.000 They all thought he was going to burn it down.

00:48:56.000 It's the first time you have Republicans who went, never Trump, right?

00:48:59.000 There was a huge divide.

00:49:01.000 He is the candidate that the people wanted, and the people who voted for him loved him.

00:49:06.000 Even though I disagree with Democrats, Liberals, on almost everything in 2019, not back to JFK, but today, I still want you to be able to have the candidate that you have selected through a process that should remain untainted.

00:49:19.000 I want it to be an honest win, not a cheat.

00:49:22.000 You know, I think one of the questions that we were looking at, and that I know you've been kind of doing some research on, if you can recall the numbers, Yes.

00:49:30.000 I think Reg can probably get that to me.

00:49:32.000 Reg, I know you're in the other room.

00:49:33.000 to this. And I think from just a sheer dollars comparison it was a few thousand dollars of

00:49:39.000 ads from Russian assets and actual Russian assets, you know, trying to influence the

00:49:45.000 election. I think Reg can probably get that to me. Reg, I know you're in the other room,

00:49:47.000 I think it was three thousand something. And so you compare three thousand dollars and

00:49:51.000 three thousand dollars of ads for Tulsi Gabbard would be the ads that she would probably run 1.00

00:49:55.000 in just a few minutes trying to reach the platform of a Democratic candidate for this

00:50:01.000 And so when you compare those different numbers and you look at the impact here, There is a incredible question.

00:50:08.000 And that's one thing that's interesting.

00:50:09.000 In that motion that YouTube filed, they talk about, well, she admits that it was just a few hours.

00:50:15.000 Well, just a few hours in a 24-hour news cycle, it can be a lifetime.

00:50:19.000 I mean, that can be millions of views.

00:50:21.000 That can be millions of messages.

00:50:22.000 If it's a few hours after the debate, it's not even close.

00:50:25.000 Exactly.

00:50:25.000 And comparing the circumstances there and how, oh, conveniently she's back up on Sunday while everyone else is...

00:50:32.000 Watching football or a church. Yeah, well, especially actually even right now. We're top 10 trending. I believe

00:50:37.000 in the in the United States You can't buy that that's good

00:50:41.000 I mean, I guess you can I guess Samsung has but they spend a ton of money and it doesn't last very long and then

00:50:45.000 They're then their phones explode. But um The point is this kind of overall publicity, right? It's

00:50:51.000 something that people can't necessarily buy I think it was, I'm pretty confident in saying it was $3,500 in ads, Russian Facebook ads.

00:50:59.000 How much do you think, let's do this, how much do you think Russia would pay?

00:51:04.000 If they could guarantee that a candidate who they saw as the greatest threat, let's just say for an example, I'm not saying Tulsa Gabbard is the greatest threat, no people are going to say plant, just stop.

00:51:14.000 Let's remove the Russians. 1.00

00:51:16.000 Let's say it's the Chinese. 0.96

00:51:17.000 Sorry, half-Asian Bill. 0.99

00:51:18.000 If someone wanted to stack the deck of the election, right?

00:51:24.000 How much do you think they would be willing to pay to guarantee that the most threatening candidate was not turning up in any organic search algorithms?

00:51:34.000 I'm not talking about just shutting Tulsi Gabbard out.

00:51:37.000 And us, by the way.

00:51:38.000 But Tulsi Gabbard out.

00:51:40.000 This is Tulsi's party.

00:51:41.000 We'll come back.

00:51:41.000 It's not us.

00:51:42.000 We have some more info for you eventually on stuff going on with our YouTube.

00:51:44.000 But right now, it's about Tulsi.

00:51:46.000 She's earned this.

00:51:47.000 How much would you think that these people would pay to ensure that, let's say, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, whoever it is, doesn't show up when you search for them?

00:51:57.000 It's a transaction, okay?

00:51:58.000 Behind closed doors.

00:52:00.000 I do not want Donald Trump to show up in search.

00:52:03.000 Alright, well, what do you want to pay for that?

00:52:05.000 If you guarantee- Do you guarantee that he won't show up if someone search his name in United- What if they search it in Germany? 0.98

00:52:12.000 I don't give shit about Germany! 0.96

00:52:15.000 What about in Dagestan? 1.00

00:52:18.000 I don't give rats ass about Dagestan!

00:52:21.000 But if search in United States, can you guarantee me that their channel will not show up for at least one or two page because we have numbers that show people do not search beyond first page? 0.94

00:52:34.000 And if YouTube said, we guarantee you that Donald Trump, or we guarantee you that Tulsi Gabbard will not show up, I will pay, insert, how many millions that you want here?

00:52:44.000 At least eight figures?

00:52:46.000 And you add that up, the totality of the election span?

00:52:51.000 That's absolutely insane.

00:52:54.000 We're not just talking about blocking her out from running ads, which everyone else can do, we're talking about the organic algorithms.

00:53:01.000 Tipping the scales against her.

00:53:03.000 And the worst part is, you're fighting ghosts!

00:53:06.000 You're fighting ghosts and there's no accountability.

00:53:07.000 They don't have to answer.

00:53:08.000 It's amazing to me that they don't... Can they legally, with Tulsi Gabbard, would they legally be able to dismiss it and just not provide any answers as to why she was blocked out from advertising?

00:53:16.000 I mean, there's a judge who's going to look at all the arguments, make the decisions.

00:53:19.000 Tulsi's team hasn't even had the opportunity to file the response.

00:53:23.000 I mean, the motion was just filed on Friday.

00:53:25.000 Again, the day that her search results were blocked.

00:53:28.000 in the United States while she was trending number one in the United States.

00:53:31.000 But ultimately the core of the arguments are there and frankly any ability to not get the

00:53:38.000 answers from the lawsuit is an indictment of our current statutory system that would allow a

00:53:43.000 company like YouTube or allow a company like Facebook to be able to say, hey we're just a

00:53:48.000 platform. People just send messages, they post what they're going to post, we don't edit those

00:53:51.000 contents. We're not a publisher.

00:53:54.000 We're not a broadcasting studio subject to other restrictions.

00:53:57.000 And what's clear here is that their action that they're taking, separate and apart from the more egregious sin of interfering with the election with a specific candidate, is the issue of whether or not they are on one side or the other of that publisher-platform divide.

00:54:11.000 And what everyone continues to ask, and what they continue to get pressed on but don't give clear answers, is which is it?

00:54:16.000 Just pick one.

00:54:17.000 I almost don't think, I mean this is me, and I'm not a lawyer, but the fact that Google and YouTube host debates themselves seems to me that that would enter the equation.

00:54:25.000 That they're no longer just a neutral platform where people tend to go to watch debate streams when it's actually hosted by Google YouTube and people are sending in questions from Google YouTube.

00:54:34.000 That's why Tulsi was going to protest the last debate because she was saying she thought she was treated unfairly by Google. 1.00

00:54:40.000 That's got to open the door to some higher standard.

00:54:42.000 I think all of those different factors go into play, because it's a pretty complex analysis to decide, are you on one side of the divide or the other?

00:54:49.000 But when you add all of this up together, it creates a scenario that's hard to deny.

00:54:54.000 When you're determining what ads are going to be placed, when you're determining what people can say, whether they're advertising a business or not or it's political ads, if you're changing what people can find and how easy it is for them to subscribe or get notifications, if you're making it difficult for people to be able to find you in search results or to find you in suggested feeds, I think by definition, somewhere along there, you cross the line into being an editor.

00:55:17.000 And when you've edited the content and you become an editor of content, the whole landscape shifts.

00:55:22.000 And that's not even to get into the idea of the paid partnership program and monetization, where YouTube applies different rules as far as, and I would imagine the same applies in running ads, where they say, well, not everyone has a right to post on YouTube, but not everyone has a right to be a partner, to be paid.

00:55:36.000 And at that point, it seems like you're venturing well into the realm of publisher because you are determining who can and who can't make money off of YouTube, which is fine.

00:55:43.000 I'm fine with.

00:55:43.000 But again, there needs to be some sort of transparency there.

00:55:45.000 In my opinion, you are the lawyer.

00:55:47.000 All right, the hashtags, we're going to go.

00:55:49.000 We'll keep you updated.

00:55:50.000 Hopefully, we hear something back.

00:55:52.000 Hopefully, you hear something back.

00:55:53.000 Look for the statements in the public and look for those three arguments.

00:55:57.000 that they always make. They don't hold water.

00:55:59.000 That it's just an algorithm. It's not.

00:56:00.000 There's a person. It was some low-level employee.

00:56:02.000 It absolutely couldn't be.

00:56:04.000 Or the idea that the algorithms best serve the audience.

00:56:06.000 You tell me how you best serve the audience by not serving Americans 1.00

00:56:09.000 information regarding a current American running for president

00:56:12.000 who's also a current United States representative.

00:56:14.000 Look for those three arguments and immediately dismiss them and ask for another answer.

00:56:18.000 And please run your own searches, not just Tulsi Gabbard, not just Stephen Crider, change my mind, but other presidential candidates, political topics.

00:56:25.000 The only way that this gets out, the only way that this gets corrected is, of course, legally.

00:56:29.000 And like we said, we will make ourselves available for any hearings or cross-examinations or whatever legal terms Bill knows.

00:56:34.000 Yes, what you're about to say.

00:56:35.000 I was going to say, for those who are skeptical, and I know this is going to get out further than just our normal kind of right-leaning or conservative groups, this will hit all the different types of groups in America.

00:56:46.000 In case you're just not concerned about a conservative or a not liberal enough candidate being restricted on YouTube, and maybe you think that's okay.

00:56:54.000 I would ask you to go back and look at the different lawsuits, complaints that were made against YouTube and Google and Facebook for complying with the restriction of LGBT content, of other left-leaning content in countries like Saudi Arabia or China or Russia or other countries like that.

00:57:12.000 The power that they have is acknowledged.

00:57:15.000 They've acknowledged using the power, and now we have evidence that they're using it to interfere with an election.

00:57:21.000 Yeah, and I would say, and I was about to go, and I felt like I was on a roll, but I think that's such a good point, and even though I know it's really easy for a lot of people out there to demonize us because, you know, we have a shirt that says socialism's for figs, and you say we don't really care, no love lost if we're gone from the channel.

00:57:34.000 For big tech companies who talk about their philanthropy and talk about being able to affect positive change on a global scale, Right.

00:57:42.000 And so it's easy to hate us because you think, well, we make jokes.

00:57:45.000 Therefore it must be, if there's a racially charged joke, it must mean that someone is racist.

00:57:49.000 Or if we're conservative, it must mean that we're a Nazi, right?

00:57:52.000 Think about what this means overall for not just LGBTQ, but people in other countries who are still fighting for their civil rights, who are still fighting for their rights to

00:58:01.000 access information freely, if you have the biggest tech monopolies, tripopolies, if

00:58:06.000 that's a word, working with governments to enforce their policy or to dictate what

00:58:11.000 governments are installed. And I would also ask, what possible altruistic argument could be presented

00:58:18.000 here right now?

00:58:20.000 It's easy to say, well Stephen shouldn't, the ladder with Crowder, Stephen Crowder shouldn't be on YouTube.

00:58:24.000 Okay, fine.

00:58:25.000 It's easy to say, I don't know, Dennis Prager shouldn't be on YouTube because he's one of those Nazi rabbis. 1.00

00:58:30.000 Okay, fine.

00:58:33.000 But how do you say, you know what, morally we're justified in making sure that people who are searching for Tulsi Gabbard don't find her in the United States.

00:58:41.000 That's the right thing to do.

00:58:44.000 I just don't see a moral case, even if we disagree on everything.

00:58:47.000 And I don't see a moral case because I don't see it as a moral decision to ever silence voices of dissent simply because you can, even though it's unethical and it's what you claim to not do.

00:58:58.000 But I get it.

00:58:59.000 That's my worldview.

00:58:59.000 That's just me.

00:59:00.000 But I don't see how anyone, even from a leftist worldview at this point, could look at this scenario and say, yeah, that's the right thing to do because I don't like her.

00:59:08.000 There's nothing good about this here, folks.

00:59:11.000 Nothing.

00:59:13.000 And I also don't want you to assassinate the mess... Again, I'm not a totally yabbit person. 1.00

00:59:17.000 She might not even want to come on the show to talk about this because people scare her off.

00:59:21.000 And if you're afraid to do the show, you don't have to do the show.

00:59:23.000 But I want this info to get out to as many people as possible.

00:59:26.000 Please, keep it trending.

00:59:27.000 Post it.

00:59:28.000 Write articles.

00:59:29.000 I know we have a... Is it Crowder Exposes YouTube?

00:59:31.000 Is it 2020 Election Blacklist?

00:59:33.000 Yep.

00:59:33.000 YouTube 2020 Election Blacklist.

00:59:35.000 And I encourage you, comment.

00:59:37.000 We're going to leave this stream up.

00:59:39.000 Anything.

00:59:40.000 Any upside that you can see to this happening right now?

00:59:44.000 I don't.

00:59:44.000 I fail to see it and I try to.

00:59:46.000 The reason we do Devil's Advocate on this show and the reason we do Change My Mind is because I firmly believe if you cannot argue your ideological opponent's position, you have no business holding your own.

00:59:59.000 I can't.

01:00:01.000 I cannot make the case for why any of this is justifiable, and not happening to me, but happening to other people right now, most notably Tulsi Gabbard.

01:00:12.000 If someone can make that case, I would love to hear it.

01:00:14.000 We'll keep you abreast as it relates to our channel specifically and our content.

01:00:19.000 There likely won't be a show tomorrow.

01:00:21.000 I think we have Rand Paul on the program live on Thursday.

01:00:25.000 Eastern.

01:00:25.000 8 p.m.

01:00:26.000 Thank you so much.

01:00:27.000 I appreciate you bearing with us.

01:00:28.000 I'm gonna go back to hopefully just doing comedy because I'm not a newsbreaker.

01:00:33.000 It's not my strong suit.

01:00:35.000 This fell in my lap and I didn't want it.

01:00:37.000 All right.

01:00:38.000 We'll see you soon.

01:00:40.000 Bye.

01:00:54.000 Mhm.

01:01:22.000 But again.

01:01:51.000 Never.

01:02:11.000 All.

01:02:14.000 Mm hmm.

01:02:36.000 Yeah.

01:03:04.000 Mm hmm.

01:03:43.000 you you

01:03:46.000 We're gonna take it nice and slow.

Louder with Crowder - October 22, 2019

PROOF: YOUTUBE CENSORED TULSI GABBARD | Louder with Crowder

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