EZRA LEVANT ｜ Leftists try to cancel a brand new news channel even before it launches. But they’re fighting back!
Summary
A bunch of loser jihadists slaughtered 132 innocents in Paris to prove the future belongs to them, rather than a civilisation like France. Well, I can t say I fancy their chances, but I can say I'm riveted.
Transcript
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Hello, my friends. Today, I want to tell you an amazing story of an attempted cancel culture mob in the UK and how the guy they were trying to cancel is fighting back and maybe he's going to win.
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Tonight, leftists in the UK try to cancel a brand new news channel even before it launches, but they're fighting back.
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It's June 17th and this is the Ezra Levant Show.
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Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
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There's 8,500 customers here and you won't give them an answer.
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The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my bloody right to do so.
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This last weekend, a brand new TV network launched in the UK by the name of GB News.
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And I can tell you from my time covering the trials of Tommy Robinson that the UK media is even worse than Canada's.
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I think I might have told you once the story of how a BBC journalist literally contacted the police about my journalism, asking for me to be arrested.
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And a rival journalist literally passed a note to one of the judges in the middle of the trial, asking the judges to kick me out for what I was live tweeting.
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Then they came back in and told the little snitch that tweeting is permitted.
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They literally wanted to have me arrested and thrown in jail.
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That's $1.5 billion a year of left-wing extremism.
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If the CBC had six times as much funding as they do.
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Imagine how they'd smother and destroy everything else.
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Now, the BBC is so vast, there are a few journalists within it.
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You can count them on one hand, who accidentally might be called conservative.
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He's had a lot of different media jobs in the UK, editing several newspapers.
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I first came upon him after the terrorist attack on the Bataclan nightclub in Paris.
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I'd never seen him before, but he was a pretty senior guy even then.
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A week in which a bunch of loser jihadists slaughtered 132 innocents in Paris
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to prove the future belongs to them, rather than a civilisation like France.
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France, the country of Descartes, Boulet, Monet, Sartre, Rousseau, Camus, Renoir, Berlioz, Cézanne,
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Gauguin, Hugo, Voltaire, Matisse, Debussy, Ravel, Sanson, Bizet, Satie, Pasteur, Molière,
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Frank, Zola, Bolzac, Poulonk, Cutting Edge Science, World Class Medicine,
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Fearsome Security Forces, Nuclear Power, Coco Chanel, Chateau Lafitte, Coco Van, Daft Punk,
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Zizou Zidane, Juliette Binoche, Liberty, Egality, Fraternity and Crème Brûlée.
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Beheadings, crucifixions, amputations, slavery, mass murder, medieval squalor,
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a death cult barbarity that would shame the Middle Ages.
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Well, IS or Dash or ISIS or ISIL or whatever name you're going by,
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I think the outcome is pretty clear to everybody but you.
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Anyways, he's always been an outstanding journalist, very rigorous, very fair.
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But I've never seen anyone, I've never seen him give anyone a gentle interview,
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This is him, I think, devastating Boris Johnson, the British Prime Minister who calls himself
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Now, in this case, they're talking about a free trade deal and Brexit, but it really doesn't
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As we come out, to agree under GATT 24, paragraph 5B, that both sides agree to a standstill,
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a protraction of their existing zero-tariff, zero-quota arrangements until such time as
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And of course it would be up to our friends and partners to decide whether they want it
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How would you handle, you talk about Article 5B in GATT 24.
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Article 24, get the detail right, get the detail right, Andrew.
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I would confide entirely in Paragraph 5B, because that is...
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I would confide entirely in Paragraph 5B, which is enough for our purposes.
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Well, you didn't know whether it was an article or a paragraph, but there's enough in Paragraph
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Yeah, Andrew Neal is a Conservative, but he is a journalist first.
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Well, the great news is that when the BBC was done with Andrew Neal, when they were tired
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of him, when they were tired of an old white male, they threw him on the trash heap.
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He, you know, started a rival TV network called GB News.
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And so I'd say half of what they talk about is probably not going to interest people outside
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But the other half, I think they're universal issues.
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Cancel culture, censorship, I don't know, transgender extremism, taking a knee in sports,
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which is ripping up their soccer league right now.
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Joe Biden, the pandemic, lockdowns, Iran, taxes, spending, borrowing, all of those things
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To anyone in the Free West, you can download the GB News app on your phone for free.
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I showed this clip on my live stream on Monday at noon.
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But in case you don't watch that, if you missed it, check out this opening declaration by Andrew
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Welcome to the launch of GB News, Britain's news channel dedicated to covering the news that
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matters to you, and to giving a voice to those who felt sidelined or even silenced in our great
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Because if it matters to you, it matters to us.
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GB News will not slavishly follow the existing news agenda.
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We're not a rolling news channel, nor will we be providing conventional news bulletins.
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But on all of our programs and platforms, you'll always know what's going on and what
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We will broadcast news programs throughout the day that are appointments to view, built
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around passionate presenters with character, flair, attitude, opinion, and yes, a sense
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They will concentrate on the stories that matter to you and that others are neglecting.
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And even when we're covering the same stories as others, we'll come at them in a very different
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We put together a lineup of youth and experience, of familiar faces and fresh ones.
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They come from all backgrounds and all parts of our country too.
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Our team of national and regional reporters covering the whole of the UK is the backbone
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of GB News, embedded in communities they know because that's where they hail from, delivering
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the huge range of stories and voices that reflect the views and values of our United Kingdom.
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What unites us is the firm belief that now is the time to do news differently.
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We are committed to covering the people's agenda, not the media's agenda.
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We will not lecture you or talk down and nobody will be allowed to Hector.
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Indeed, Hector has been banished from the studio.
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GB News will not be yet another echo chamber for the metropolitan mindset that already dominates
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It is our explicit aim to empower those who feel their stories, their opinions, their concerns
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And while we will never hold back from covering our country's many flaws and problems, we will
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not come at every story with the conviction that Britain is always at fault, usually to blame
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We won't forget what the B stands for in our title.
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We will cover the good news as well as the bad, because even in grim times there is much
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that is great and uplifting to report and celebrate about our country.
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We will encourage debate and conversation to include voices you don't often hear on other
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We will sometimes quote controversy, but we want civilised discourse, not shouting matches
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And we like heated discussions, but we will always demand respect for opposing points of
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We won't dwell much on the latest gossip of the Westminster bubble, which is too often
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obsessed about matters of no importance to anybody else.
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We will puncture the pomposity of our elites in politics, business, media and academia, and
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expose their growing promotion of cancel culture for the threat to free speech and democracy
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We'll be more concerned with what will raise prosperity and create jobs in our left-behind
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towns than what some overprivileged and ahistoric students decide to hang on their walls in Oxford.
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Social mobility and a fair chance in life for all will matter more to us than the wasteland
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And if you want fake news, lies, disinformation, distortion of the facts, conspiracy theories,
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Because in everything we do, we will be guided by the highest journalistic standards, written
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into the contracts of everybody who works here at GB News.
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A much wider variety of voices than you currently hear in broadcasting, certainly.
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But never the promotion of matters we know to be untrue, or the pushing of facts that are
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convenient to a viewpoint that may be convenient, but not properly checked.
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And when we do make mistakes, as we will, we will correct them quickly and without quibble.
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GB News will aim to inform, inspire and entertain.
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We hope you'll join us, because if it matters to you, it matters to us.
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The manifesto contained a promise of the triple lock on pensions.
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I mean, the triple lock, just for our viewers, is that pensions should be increased either
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by inflation or the increase in average wages, or by 2.5%, whatever is the higher.
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And actually, if we look at what has that policy achieved, it has ensured that pension
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of poverty is now far lower than it was when that policy was implemented.
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So it's something that has actually delivered for pension.
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So you're telling the people tonight that pensions will rise by 8%.
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Well, I think formally, Andrew, and I have to be careful, because I can't comment about
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fiscal policy outside of events, which you'll appreciate.
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With regard to pensions uprating, there's actually a statutory review that's carried out
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later in the year that sets the uprating, which is then brought to Parliament.
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You promised me the triple lock, and the triple lock earnings are the highest of the three
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So you're saying tonight that pensions will rise by about 8% if that's what average earnings
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He also grilled on how he's going to pay for Boris Johnson's net zero climate BS.
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And it was painfully clear that this chancellor of the exchequer doesn't want to go down that
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Um, GB News is a very diverse outlet, by the way.
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I'm not talking about race, in case you thought I was, although it is diverse that way.
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Mercy Maroki and Inaya Fuller and Aman are warriors in the battle against cancel culture
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Oh, I followed them even before GB News snapped them up.
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I wish we had a critical mass of pro-individualist thinkers like them in Canada.
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I have to make sure I don't spend too much time watching it, because I live here in Canada.
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I should say one more thing, though, just before I go on their opening night, which I
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watched on the app, I was blown away by how many ads they had on.
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Like, I almost had enough of the ads, but it's amazing.
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Now, some brands I don't really know about because they're UK oriented, but you could
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tell they were very blue chip, very professional ad campaigns.
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For example, Amazon, obviously, just doesn't get any bigger than that.
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Even green energy companies, beer companies, like very hip.
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I don't know how it happened that they got so many great ads.
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Fox News in America gets ads, but they're often from ideological supporters like the MyPillow
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I noticed one thing about GB News even before they were launched.
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Even before they launched their first minute on TV, they hadn't said anything yet.
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They were being denounced as racist and white supremacist and far right.
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That's what they call the alt-right over there in the UK.
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There were boycotts even before they said a word.
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If you're a fascist and censorship is the whole point of shutting someone up, it's not
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So the best way to shut someone up is before they even get started.
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Well, the debut of the channel was a smash hit in the ratings.
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GB News, literally on its first night, was the top-viewed news channel in the UK, even
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Unless you think there was just some opening night curiosity, they did it again and they
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It helps that they're getting huge and prominent guests like the finance minister I mentioned
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and they're very important people in the UK and people with an international profile too.
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But the mob, the censorship mob works in funny ways.
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I've seen it many times around the world in the US and Canada, in Australia too even.
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But until you go through a mob, a Twitter mob, a cancel culture mob, you just don't
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know what it's like and maybe you're not up to it.
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A zillion accounts, many of them anonymous, most of them just the equivalent of photocopies
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of a master account, start hounding you, surrounding you, chattering at you, claiming to be a customer
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of yours, claiming that they're going to stop being a customer unless you stop advertising
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with someone or stop supporting someone or fire someone or stop being friends with someone.
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And they basically say, either you join with our pitchforks and torches mob and we're going
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to kill our target and you join us or you're the target.
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Decide quickly because we've got a burning torch here and you've got a grass hut.
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Join us in the mob or the mob's going to get you.
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And it's not even always a decision made by a real decider, like the company president,
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but rather it's usually some hard left wing millennial social media intern or whatever,
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A company called Money Supermarket got some anonymous Twitter tweet by Shazza G8.
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They just literally set that Twitter account up this month.
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It's just a fake account to pester GB News advertisers like this.
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How long do you plan to advertise on the awful GB News channel?
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I'm really surprised a company like yours would want to be associated with them in any way.
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I will be moving my business to another comparison site that isn't happy to fund GB News.
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You don't even know what you're saying, do you?
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You don't have an account with Money Supermarket.
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We understand there are strongly held views on both sides when it comes to this topic.
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Because GB News is such a new channel, we need time to fully understand it.
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With that in mind, we've decided to pause our ad slots pending a review.
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It's some fake account with less than 10 followers just set up, anonymous, telling lies.
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Well, you don't even know what Money Supermarket is.
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And now you have Money Supermarket, whatever it is, thinking it gets to decide the political
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How about stick to your Money Supermarketing, whatever that is.
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But here's a Twitter account with 19 followers.
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Hey, Ikea UK, as you're advertising on a right-wing news channel, we will not be buying
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from your website or stores in the near future.
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And Ikea, that Swedish furniture company, they jumped.
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We are in the process of investigating how this may have occurred to ensure it won't happen
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again in future and have suspended paid display advertisements in the meantime.
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And they said this to another person on Twitter.
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We have safeguards in place to prevent our advertising from appearing on platforms that
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are not in line with our humanistic values and vision to side with the many people.
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You know that Ikea was, you know they were started by a Nazi, right?
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You could probably tell that, guess that, by how hard it is to assemble the bloody things.
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I mean, I'm not holding that against the company in 2021.
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I have some Ikea stuff, but don't tell me about your humanistic values, you Nazis.
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Even today, literally this week, just this week, they were fined a million euros for spying on their own staff.
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I wonder if they called it the Gestapo system in Ikea.
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And you can tell they're humanists because they've set up stores all across Saudi Arabia where they stone gays to death and they don't let women drive or even go out in public without their man owner.
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But they have humanistic values and they would never advertise with GB News.
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And I know that Andrew Neal himself is planning to do a rant on this subject tonight.
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Look at this exchange with some green energy tycoon that got messed up in this.
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So in a BBC story, this green energy guy made a bit of a smear.
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Octopus said it would only run ads in the future if the news channel proved, quote, genuinely balanced.
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Greg Jackson, the company's founder, said it did not advertise on platforms whose primary purpose is the distribution of hate.
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Well, and this is interesting, there's a little bit of a backlash to that backlash.
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I hope GB News and Andrew Neal sue people like this guy for slander.
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Platforms whose primary purpose is the distribution of hate is an outrageously dishonest slur, even if you don't share the political slander of GB News.
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I mean, seriously, saying that the primary purpose of this platform, you got 150 people, a huge operator, your primary platform is not to tell the news.
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Well, that woke CEO read that tweet from a critic.
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And I don't know, maybe he was spooked by how crazy he looked to the world now that he read his own words.
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Because he seemed to climb down a bit right away on Twitter.
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He said, some people were saying we shouldn't advertise on platforms with spread hate.
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We separately said we want to see GBN output before deciding whether to advertise.
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I think you know exactly what the story was about.
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I think you were taking liberties and you realized how insane you sounded.
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Well, Andrew Neal needs no defending, as you saw with Boris Johnson.
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He can take on pretty much anyone he likes and come out on top.
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He said, maybe you should boycott the media that's reporting you out of context instead of GB News.
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And I'll let you know if we want your ads or whether we organize a boycott of you.
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And seriously, you're going to accuse Andrew Neal and his diverse team of being hate mongers?
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So that green energy guy, I think he's chasing a bit.
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He wrote back, he said, actually, Andrew, I'm watching your interview with Rishi right now.
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I wanted to see the channel and am true to my word.
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How many other channels have you watched before deciding to advertise?
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I will be looking at brands to decide if they are fit to advertise with us.
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I will have something to say about that and more on a special media watch tonight on GB News, 8 p.m.
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Oh, seriously, do these brands, does IKEA, for example, examine the editorial policy of every news media it advertises?
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But maybe Andrew Neal has something to say about their Nazi past.
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And his last word on Twitter, here's Andrew Neal.
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I resent even the thought that a channel of which I was chairman would peddle hate.
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I'll let you know what Andrew Neal says on his show tonight.
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By the way, I think the money supermarket guys got scared.
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money supermarket is not boycotting its advertising on GB News.
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And here's what actually a really socially conscious chain called Co-op UK wrote.
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They said, in response to these hecklers, they said,
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we have developed a detailed and thoughtful advertising approach,
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One, we will not seek to affect the editorial independence of publications or channels.
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Two, we will not undermine the commercial value of our society for our members.
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Society, I think that they're talking about the co-op.
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Three, we will ensure our values and principles are clear and undiminished,
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What means they're not going to try and muscle TV or radio or newspaper stations to change who they are?
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Number two, they're not going to make dumb business decisions in the name of being woke.
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They're not going to stop advertising somewhere because someone heckles them.
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And finally, they know who they are and they want their members to know who they are.
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I want to watch Andrew Neal's counterattack tonight.
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He's strong because of a lifetime of credibility and judgment and senior posts in many other media outlets.
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He has high society friends too, rich and powerful friends too.
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He's not marginalized and he's smart and he's not going to let his new project be killed by some cancel culture mob losers.
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Let's watch what he does and maybe, like so many things on GB News,
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maybe he could be a bit of a role model for us over here too.
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there's new legislation that makes it illegal for people to protest here.
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They say that the protests have been moved on into the city.
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Tomorrow there is a mass protest in Hong Kong which is organized
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and they're expecting up to half a million people there.
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This is just an ordinary night here in Hong Kong
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and one of many across the city where people are just spontaneously gathering.
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So what we've got here is you've got hundreds of police in full riot gear
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looking like they're in formation, getting ready to move on the crowds.
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And this is crowds of, you know, people literally wearing protective gear.
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I haven't seen any violence or intimidation or anything that would require police.
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This is a state in crisis with no end in sight.
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Do you see the police? Do you believe that they're a bit over the top?
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How do you see this ending? How do you see it playing out?
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This is our duty to fight against something like Nazi.
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If we don't fight here now, we'll lose forever. It's no more Hong Kong.
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I have to admit, my favorite moment was when he asked this one Chinese fellow in Hong Kong
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what his message to Donald Trump was and should Trump trust China. Remember this?
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China is a evil party. Hong Kong, no more to stand with China.
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Yes. And what's your message to... Have you seen Donald Trump? Do you think he should step in?
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Donald Trump, don't trust China. China is an asshole.
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That's amazing. Well, it's not safe for Avi to go back to Hong Kong anymore.
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It's not even safe for Hong Kong people to speak up.
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I should tell you that yesterday, Chinese police raided the headquarters of a major pro-democracy newspaper in Hong Kong
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called Apple Daily, arresting five executives, including their senior editor,
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charging them with all sorts of trumped up, you know, undermining of the state and colluding with foreign interests.
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It's the typical Stalinist language used for arresting democracy activists.
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It's the same language the Soviet Union used over the years.
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Joining us now from Melbourne, Australia, is our friend, Avi Amini.
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Avi, great to see you again. Very bad news for Hong Kong.
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And so far, not a lot of reaction from the West.
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I think that is the shocking part, because if you look at, you know,
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if you've been following Hong Kong closely, you would expect this escalation.
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You would expect the clamping down of, you know, Apple Daily.
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To be fair, I don't know how they survived so long.
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Jimmy Lay, the founder of it, I think it was last month,
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he was sentenced to 14 months in prison on trumped up charges that I predict will somehow
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So I don't think it's a surprise that they've come in like that.
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The shocking part is that the world before COVID was actually vocal, and it was bipartisan.
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It seemed to agree on this one issue of China, and everybody was outraged.
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And now, it's far worse than it was, like you said in the intro there.
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Even then, I was able to be there at the front line, where now, if I show up in Hong Kong,
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I'll definitely be shipped over to mainland China.
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So it would be a risk probably not worth doing.
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Probably better to advocate for Hong Kong outside of there.
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But back then, I could, and the world was talking about it.
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Right now, it's unsafe for anyone, including Apple Daily, the brave journalists.
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They're great people literally standing there in the firing line, just reporting what's happening.
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But, again, it's the silence from the world right now that's truly shocking in this story.
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But I can kind of understand why, besides for coronavirus taking the headlines over the last year,
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it's the fact that we've all become kind of used to that sort of police, CCP-style policing,
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because that was something that we only saw in mainland China or in Hong Kong during the protests.
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But, you know, in the last few days, we've seen that even in Australia.
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Heck, I've been arrested five times in similar fashion to how those police officers,
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to the Hong Kong police are treating the journalists there.
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So even this week in Sydney, there's a, you know, he's a left-wing journalist.
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But, again, the overreach of the police state once again has taken down somebody who dare criticise them.
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So I think that there is on both sides, again, this kind of people are used to it.
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Yeah, we're becoming more like China in terms of authoritarianism and cracking down on free speech.
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And the worst thing is, it's just, as you say, it's the new normal.
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I don't know if Donald Trump was as vigorous with China as he could have been when it came to Hong Kong.
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But I do know this, that the Chinese government did not do these moves when Trump was in power.
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It did not dare mass arrest journalists, democracy activists.
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I don't know if it just wasn't in their timing or if they thought we better not provoke Trump more.
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I think that Joe Biden's disastrous trip to the G7, to NATO, and his meeting with Putin,
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where he forgot where he was, where he forgot what he was saying,
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where he forgot the name of Putin and called him Trump by accident,
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I think the world immediately got the measure of Joe Biden and thought,
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OK, good, there's a new sheriff in town and he's sleepy all the time.
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Just in case you're kidding, you think I'm kidding, here's a clip of Joe Biden calling Vladimir Putin Donald Trump.
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I caught part of President Putin's press conference.
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Yeah, I don't think China is quite as worried about Donald Trump.
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Sorry about Joe Biden as they are Donald Trump.
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I haven't seen Justin Trudeau weigh in on it either.
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I think that most of the world is just going to shrug.
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Is there any ally for these folks at Apple Daily?
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All the folks who railed against Donald Trump being the enemy of the media,
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Ezra, is there someone that with a straight face can say anything anymore?
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Like, which government can turn around and criticize China for arresting journalists in 2021?
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Well, it's funny because I was watching an interview the BBC had with,
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There is no censorship and there are 80% of internet users.
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This is an attempt to create a perception in Western audience about Azerbaijan.
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But if you raise this question, can I ask you also one?
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How do you assess what happened to Mr. Assange?
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Is it a reflection of free media in your country?
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In order to accuse me, saying that Armenians will not have free media here,
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How many years, sorry, how many years he spent in Ecuadorian embassy?
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So you have no moral right to talk about free media when you do these things.
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Yeah, so if, you know, what are you going to say?
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Is Justin Trudeau going to criticize this when he's putting through his censorship bill in Parliament?
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Joe Biden, I mean, I don't think he's arresting journalists yet,
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We've lost our moral authority on free speech in the West
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and don't think our enemies won't throw it back at us.
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Do you think that Hong Kong is going to continue to slide down this slippery slope?
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when you see an exodus of anyone who wants to hold on to their political and journalistic liberties?
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But do you think you'll see an exodus of the intellectual class, of the democratic class from Hong Kong?
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I remember when I was there, I was inspired by their grit and their willingness to fight.
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But I also remember that there was a sense of an ally in Trump.
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I don't think Hong Kong has maybe agreed with a lot of Trump's rhetoric,
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but when it came to his stance on China and the way he spoke to China on that specific issue,
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And there was this kind of sense when you walked around, you know, we're never giving up and the world is with us.
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And I think, you know, I'm just guessing from looking from a distance now,
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I think that that feeling must be gone on the street now.
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It cannot be the same because they see that the world – I think the world empowered him.
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And I just don't see – you know, I'm feeling depressed for them here watching nobody talk about it.
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So, yeah, sadly, I do think there is going to be an exodus.
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And I think people are going to – they're losing that fight that I, a year and a half ago,
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didn't think that they were going to lose just from the way they were so passionate and willing to stand and fight.
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But I think that fight is – I can't see it going on because China is going to escalate and it's going to get worse and worse.
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If you use Mahatma Gandhi's passive resistance, that only works when you're up against the British Empire
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or, you know, a liberal-minded, rule-of-law-oriented occupier with a conscience.
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It doesn't work against Xi Jinping or Stalin or Hitler.
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If you say, make love, not war, they'll kill you and throw your body on the pile.
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It only works when you're up against noble opponents like the Brits.
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I remember you interviewed one fellow who said he sort of longed for the days of being a British colony.
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We want the British government to come back and rule us again.
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We don't want the Chinese government to rule us anymore.
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What's your message to people who call the old British government a colonial power that used to abuse the entire world?
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Simply we just want the British government to come back and rule us again.
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Well, I find it very sad in how things turn in 18 months to move from a democracy protest in Hong Kong.
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A democracy protest that we could have all learned from.
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Yeah, and now they threw the Wuhan virus at us and we're reeling.
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Avi Amini, Chief Political Correspondent, Chief Everything Correspondent for Rebel News in Australia.
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The last CBC employees to criticize the liberal government were Johnny Wayne and Frank Schuster.
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It's amazing you wrote this email to us before we interviewed Avi Amini today, who told us the similarities between the Western world and his experience in China.
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I am afraid that we are not out of this authoritarian trap yet.
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I think that parts of America are, but not all parts.
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And I think that they all intend to come up with a new variant of concern in September.
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Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night and keep fighting for freedom.