Rebel News Podcast - SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Singh signs on to Trudeau's censorship plan

00:00:00.000 Oh, hey guys, I bet you were expecting the melodious sounds of Ezra Levant's voice, but no, it's me, Sheila Gunn-Reed.

00:00:07.040 I'm filling in for Ezra tonight in the big chair.

00:00:10.680 And we're talking about a bunch of things today, but mostly internet censorship.

00:00:14.920 You see, the NDP have signed on to the Liberals' censorship plans, although the NDP, as the NDP tend to do, they don't think the Liberals are going far enough.

00:00:24.040 Now, this is very concerning to me because the Liberals need the NDP support to hang on to power, and Justin Trudeau's only ideology is attaining power and hanging on to power, and not really earning power.

00:00:35.300 And so I think his censorship is going to get even more radical because he needs to please the NDP.

00:00:43.140 And then we're talking about the latest Twitter leaks and how basically the entire Russia collusion, Russian bots problem on Twitter was a complete and total fabrication of the U.S. government and their mainstream media enablers.

00:01:00.860 And we're doing that with Ian Miles Chong, Rebel News journalist, but also Elon Musk's Twitter friend.

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00:02:15.580 The NDP have just promised to help the Liberals regulate the Internet even further.

00:02:35.600 It's January 5th, 2023.

00:02:37.640 I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed, but you're watching The Ezra Levant Show.

00:02:40.780 You know, if I were an NDP voter and it's hard for me to put myself into the mind of one, I would like to think that I would be upset that my leader Jagmeet Singh is constantly propping up the Liberals.

00:03:05.780 I'd like to think that there's a reason why normal NDP voters vote for the party that they do as opposed to the other progressive party on the left, the Liberals.

00:03:14.600 But here in Canada, if you voted for the NDP, you're disenfranchised.

00:03:18.840 Your vote really doesn't count because a vote for the NDP is, as always, at least under the leader Jagmeet Singh, a vote for the Liberals and their weird symbiotic relationship with Justin Trudeau.

00:03:28.780 No matter what the Liberals do, no matter what the Liberals say, no matter how corrupt they are, no matter how they get things wrong, no matter how they stomp all over the rights of Canadians to assemble, to protest, to speak their minds.

00:03:40.200 And in the case of the internet, to express themselves without fear of reprisal, the NDP party apparatus is simply the socialist caucus of the Liberal Party, propping up Justin Trudeau without question or consequence.

00:03:53.600 Which makes me wonder, why did these people vote for the NDP in the first place?

00:03:58.900 Why didn't they just vote for Justin Trudeau?

00:04:01.540 And if they didn't want to vote for Justin Trudeau, then why aren't they demanding a change in leadership of their own party?

00:04:09.500 I have so many questions for NDPers because as a Conservative, it's very difficult for me to understand any of this.

00:04:16.480 Because one of the things that makes the Conservative movement great, but also makes it difficult for the Conservative movement to win elections,

00:04:24.340 is that when they have a leader who's not listening, who is not Conservative enough, the Conservative movement just throws them out.

00:04:33.540 Right, Erin O'Toole? Right, Andrew Scheer? Right, Jason Kenney?

00:04:37.840 Anyway, the Liberals want to shut you up.

00:04:40.620 And as always, the Liberals are going to do everything they can to help them.

00:04:43.720 Take a look at this from the good people at Black Locks Reporter just this morning.

00:04:50.420 25 new Democrat MPs will pressure Cabinet for legislation this year to regulate legal internet content,

00:04:59.780 party leader Jagmeet Singh said yesterday.

00:05:02.160 Regulations should include censoring, quote, misinformation, he said.

00:05:06.420 The Liberal government has not done the job of making sure platforms are following the rules around making sure hate

00:05:14.540 and misinformation are not being spread, Singh told reporters.

00:05:18.580 That puts the responsibility back on the government to do what it should be doing.

00:05:23.940 We are going to continue to pressure the government to do this.

00:05:26.480 The government has a responsibility to play in making sure social media platforms are adhering to proper guidelines

00:05:33.700 around misinformation, around hate, and why we have been saying for a long time

00:05:38.320 the responsibility to keep people safe from misinformation and radicalization

00:05:43.140 cannot rest in the hands of private companies, said Singh.

00:05:47.460 It has to be the government taking responsibility.

00:05:51.700 Cabinet to date has not reintroduced a censorship bill that lapsed in the pre-election 2021 Parliament,

00:05:57.620 Bill C-36, an act to amend the criminal code, proposed $70,000 in fines for internet users responsible for legal content

00:06:06.240 deemed, quote, likely to foment detestation or vilification.

00:06:10.280 Now, thank God for that, that Bill C-36 hasn't been reintroduced, much to the NDP's chagrin.

00:06:16.520 Because even though the Liberals have two new laws right now proposed and working their way

00:06:21.380 through committee to censor critics like me, the NDP don't think the Liberals are doing enough.

00:06:28.300 The problem with the Liberals is that anything they don't like is now misinformation, no matter how true it is.

00:06:36.580 And I think the Liberals have earned detestation and vilification from Canadians.

00:06:40.980 If the NDP get their way, and they just might, because the Liberals need the NDP to stay in power,

00:06:48.020 it might become illegal to show how much you dislike the government, how much you detest the government,

00:06:55.000 because others may join you in your disgust.

00:06:58.340 You might foment something.

00:07:00.120 You would be fomenting detestation.

00:07:02.800 What I'm doing right now, this show where I'm critical of the government,

00:07:06.300 I could be hit with a $70,000 fine if the NDP had their way.

00:07:10.840 And who is Trudeau to be the arbiter of misinformation anyway?

00:07:14.080 Actually, you know what?

00:07:15.820 Maybe he just is the man to decide.

00:07:18.020 Given his familiarity with it.

00:07:20.420 Do you know how bank tellers or people who handle cash all day for a living are able to

00:07:24.600 determine counterfeit bills from the real ones?

00:07:28.280 It's their familiarity with the authentic that makes the fraudulent so evident to them.

00:07:33.280 Trudeau's like that, but in reverse.

00:07:35.320 He's got a real familiarity with the fraudulent as far as information goes.

00:07:39.680 For example, Justin Trudeau accused the Conservatives of spreading misinformation about Justin Trudeau's new gun control legislation, Bill C-21.

00:07:49.520 C-21 absolutely bans millions of Canadian hunting rifles because the legislation targets centerfire semi-automatic rifles and shotguns capable of holding a five-round magazine.

00:08:00.780 That means anything from a good old reliable cheap SKS to your grandpa's 12-gauge shotgun.

00:08:09.260 Here's the clip.

00:08:10.300 I'm not going to engage into hypotheticals.

00:08:13.000 Well, it's not hypothetical.

00:08:13.920 They've said it.

00:08:14.500 They've said that they might do it, yes, but the reality is Canadians are overwhelmingly worried about gun violence, want to see stronger gun control.

00:08:25.600 We have a mandate to do exactly that, and that's what we've done.

00:08:30.440 We've banned assault-style weapons.

00:08:32.440 We've frozen the market on handguns.

00:08:34.600 And now we're ensuring that there is a definition going forward so assault-style weapons remain banned.

00:08:40.860 Now, there's been a lot of misinformation and disinformation around it, and I'll be entirely honest.

00:08:46.800 There are some guns out there, not many, but some, that hunters are now using for hunting that are overpowered or have characteristics that make them assault-style weapons,

00:08:57.240 and the definition will probably catch those.

00:08:59.800 And there are some people who hunt with a gun that is considered an assault-style weapon who will have to change weapons on that,

00:09:06.720 and we'll have a buyback for that weapon because they're not criminals.

00:09:10.040 But we are changing the definition to make sure that guns designed to kill the largest number of people as quickly as possible have no place in this country.

00:09:18.900 Did you screw up the legislation, though?

00:09:20.480 No.

00:09:21.060 We continue to move forward.

00:09:22.840 Well, I think everyone, you've been very criticized by everybody under the sun, the NDP, First Nations, Conservatives,

00:09:29.340 other groups, so that indicates to me that it's not right the way it is now.

00:09:33.140 It indicates to me that it's a hard thing to do to move forward on gun control in a country where the gun lobby holds a lot of sway in a lot of places.

00:09:43.960 The Conservative Party is moving hard, and they have successfully weaponized a pitting of urban Canadians against rural Canadians.

00:09:53.040 But that's not our focus.

00:09:54.940 Our focus is on making sure that the guns that have no place in Canada because they're assault-style weapons are continued to be banned.

00:10:04.440 But Conservatives have been very, very clear on it.

00:10:06.660 They want to reverse our ban on assault-style weapons.

00:10:09.540 I think most Canadians actually are in line with wanting to make sure that assault-style weapons stay banned.

00:10:15.840 I think it's interesting that you think the Conservatives are pitting people against each other because they would say the same about you,

00:10:21.240 and particularly that you are, as they may be, also entrenching division between rural and urban voters.

00:10:28.360 Now, here's the problem.

00:10:30.400 Even though Justin Trudeau said that the Conservatives were spreading dangerous misinformation about his gun law banning hunting rifles,

00:10:38.040 misinformation that internet broadcasters like Rebel News could be penalized for publishing,

00:10:42.860 Justin Trudeau admitted later that his new law would ban hunting rifles just a few days later.

00:10:50.160 Take a look at this.

00:10:51.280 A year of challenges and divisive issues that remain unresolved,

00:10:55.520 including the controversial Liberal government's gun ban,

00:10:58.720 with Justin Trudeau admitting that some of those rifles, even those used legally by hunters, will be banned.

00:11:04.400 There are some guns, yes, that we're going to have to take away from people who were using them to hunt and say,

00:11:10.800 but we're going to also make sure that you're able to buy other guns from a long list of guns that are fine.

00:11:19.400 And then, of course, there was Justin Trudeau telling you to get a vaccine to stop the spread of COVID.

00:11:24.820 If you can stand to watch Freeland in the background of this clip having some sort of seizure while she wears a mask outside for some reason.

00:11:32.840 There are a lot of different reasons people are deciding to get vaccinated after having been unsure for a number of months.

00:11:39.580 And I'm just so pleased that they're doing that.

00:11:42.460 It was a combination of I need it for work.

00:11:44.980 I'm doing it for my kids.

00:11:46.520 I want to get back to the things I care about.

00:11:49.540 These are all good reasons.

00:11:51.480 And we need people who still haven't been vaccinated to choose to get vaccinated.

00:11:55.980 We have, as of a few months ago, received enough vaccines for everyone who's eligible in this country.

00:12:01.780 So please step up and do what you need to do to keep yourself, your family, your community, and indeed our country safe.

00:12:10.500 We know that getting vaccination rates up is the way to ensure not only we're keeping our loved ones safe,

00:12:16.660 but we're keeping our health systems from getting overloaded.

00:12:19.540 We're keeping away from having to do further lockdowns in our communities and we're allowing our economy and normal life to get back as quickly as possible.

00:12:29.420 But here is Justin Trudeau triple boosted getting COVID allegedly for the second time, perhaps to avoid dealing with the convoy for freedom.

00:12:37.940 So misinformation isn't untrue things.

00:12:40.680 Misinformation is information that's inconvenient to the Liberals.

00:12:44.940 Justin Trudeau wants to ban hateful rhetoric along with his friend Jagmeet Singh from the internet, but he doesn't mean hateful rhetoric directed at you.

00:12:53.780 Remember this clip when Justin Trudeau was saying hateful things about you?

00:12:59.100 You deserve a government that's going to continue to say, get vaccinated.

00:13:03.080 And you know what?

00:13:04.560 If you don't want to get vaccinated, that's your choice.

00:13:07.880 But don't think you can get on a plane or a train besides vaccinated people and put them at risk.

00:13:13.800 Oh, no.

00:13:15.280 Justin Trudeau wants to ban hateful rhetoric directed at him, like those F. Trudeau flags that populated the Freedom Convoy and became an avatar of the anti-lockdown resistance.

00:13:26.440 Those flags might foment detestation, according to the NDP.

00:13:30.860 I have attended protests and rallies in the past when I agreed with the goals,

00:13:37.080 when I supported the people expressing their concerns and their issues.

00:13:41.780 Black Lives Matter is an excellent example of that. 0.93

00:13:44.880 But I have also chosen to not go anywhere near protests that have expressed hateful rhetoric,

00:13:51.840 violence towards fellow citizens and a disrespect, not just of science, but of the frontline health workers and, quite frankly,

00:14:02.520 the 90 percent of truckers who have been doing the right thing to keep Canadians safe, to put food on our tables.

00:14:11.260 Canadians know where I stand.

00:14:13.040 This is a moment for responsible leaders to think carefully about where they stand and who they stand with.

00:14:20.240 Now, let me be clear.

00:14:21.560 I don't think saying untrue things on the Internet should ever be a matter for the government to intervene upon anyway.

00:14:28.440 You know, there are laws that already exist around hate speech, incitement of violence, death threats, threats of violence, and, of course, libel.

00:14:39.020 Those are all already on the books.

00:14:40.660 You don't need new laws for that.

00:14:42.900 Justin Trudeau's new censorship laws are proposed to shut up his political enemies,

00:14:48.800 either by forcing Internet companies to shadow ban them to make them undiscoverable,

00:14:54.340 or, if the NDP get their way, to fine and censor the users of social media platforms for the crime of not liking the government.

00:15:02.940 And the NDP, if they ever morph back into a real party, one I disagree with, again, let me be clear,

00:15:09.180 they need to know that they would be voting for a law to outlaw their own criticism of Justin Trudeau, too,

00:15:17.000 if they ever become critics of him again, like they once were. 0.95

00:15:21.300 Canadians aren't stupid, although some of them keep voting for Justin Trudeau.

00:15:26.260 I think more information is always better than less. 0.98

00:15:29.580 And I think people are smart.

00:15:31.600 They can weed through things.

00:15:33.640 They can make up their own minds.

00:15:35.740 And if your ideas are good, then they can withstand scrutiny, disagreement, examination, and debate,

00:15:41.680 and you wouldn't seek legal compulsion to shut people up.

00:15:46.040 And I think the peek behind the curtain at Twitter, now that Elon Musk is in charge, reveals a lot.

00:15:52.800 We know that governments have colluded with big tech all along to censor citizens and political opposition.

00:16:00.260 But governments no longer have control of Twitter.

00:16:03.120 And thus, there is this rush to codify censorship elsewhere.

00:16:06.680 They have to mandate it before all is exposed, and they finally lose control.

00:16:11.360 Stay with us, Rebel News journalist and Elon Musk Twitter friend Ian Miles Chong joins us after the break

00:16:17.280 to discuss the recent Twitter files leaks.

00:16:32.000 I think as big tech loses its monopoly on information,

00:16:37.200 particularly I'm talking about Twitter no longer being held by the hands of liberals,

00:16:42.460 but perhaps maybe a more free-thinking billionaire named Elon Musk,

00:16:47.580 I think the calls for censorship are going to get more intense from the left.

00:16:53.260 And I think the Canadian government is going to be happy to oblige.

00:16:57.360 But in the meantime, the leaks coming out of Twitter are telling us some pretty, frankly, unsurprising things.

00:17:05.380 I don't think that there's anything that I've seen in the Twitter leaks that have actually surprised me.

00:17:11.740 It's just interesting to see them confirmed in action.

00:17:16.080 And one of the memes that was on Twitter for the longest time was sort of that

00:17:21.180 everything I don't like is Russian misinformation.

00:17:24.720 And it sounds as though that was an official policy at Twitter.

00:17:28.440 Sure. So joining me now to discuss the latest installment of the Twitter leaks is our friend Ian Miles Chong.

00:17:36.240 He's a journalist here at Rebel News, and he's also a bit of a Twitter friend with Elon Musk himself.

00:17:43.080 Ian, please tell us, what is the latest installment of the Twitter files?

00:17:48.560 What's the most important information that was dumped in all of that?

00:17:53.020 Because, you know, for the longest time, like I said, if you said something that sort of cut against the narrative

00:17:59.100 of the liberal mainstream media, you were a Russian agent.

00:18:05.740 But that actually seemed to be the censorship policy down at Twitter.

00:18:09.900 Absolutely. And that is the subject of this.

00:18:13.460 Well, the latest two Twitter drops, Twitter files drops.

00:18:17.380 So according to and this is not something that Twitter came up with at first.

00:18:21.920 This is actually the result of pressure from the U.S. State Department and a number of other agencies.

00:18:29.000 They were building off the narrative, the Russia disinformation hoax, the Russia collusion hoax, I should say.

00:18:35.540 You know, the one that claimed Trump was installed by Putin himself.

00:18:40.340 They were building off of that.

00:18:42.140 And Twitter, in fact, could not find any evidence of Russian bots or Russian disinformation campaigns.

00:18:50.700 In fact, they had trouble finding such, you know, accounts.

00:18:55.880 The only account that they found which purchased ads from Russia in any significant amount, meaning more than $10,000 a month, was RT.

00:19:05.000 And that's a legitimate organization, right?

00:19:07.480 It's out there in the open and it's buying ads for RT.com.

00:19:11.020 So that was all they could find.

00:19:13.760 And they were pressured by the State Department to start looking for more Russians.

00:19:19.100 And the State Department, what it would do, and this is all in those files, is they would collude with journalists in the AFP, in Vice, in NBC, right?

00:19:30.980 NBC News, the so-called disinformation experts.

00:19:34.280 And they would publish a piece that was damning for Facebook, Twitter, Google, using their own, quote-unquote, research, which claimed that there were Russian disinformation bots out there.

00:19:45.740 And so Twitter was compelled to act or face the wrath of Congress because Democrats in Congress, in particular, were keen on seeing results.

00:19:55.880 And given that there were no results, they had to manufacture them.

00:19:58.960 So tens of thousands of users, in fact, over 250,000 users were flagged for removal on Twitter by the State Department.

00:20:07.140 And among them were the Canadian Armed Services, in fact, because they were following two accounts or more that were Russian accounts, Russian diplomatic accounts.

00:20:17.620 And that was enough to flag them as a Russian disinformation bot.

00:20:21.240 That is fascinating.

00:20:24.200 Like white supremacy, the supply never quite meets the demand when it comes to Russian bots, does it?

00:20:29.860 So we have journalists, or I guess we have the government, asking Twitter to be an investigative tool of the state.

00:20:41.560 So we have this sort of confluence of this private company acting as a tool of the government.

00:20:47.620 I believe there's a term for that.

00:20:49.820 And then you've got, so they're getting pressure from the government.

00:20:53.220 They can't find what the government insists they must find.

00:20:56.760 So journalists now become tools of the state.

00:21:00.840 Again, I think there's a term for that.

00:21:02.720 And they create, you know, the Russia hoax, really. 0.88

00:21:07.800 And then Twitter now has to produce evidence of a hoax they know is a hoax and start purging innocent people because of the red scare that completely doesn't exist.

00:21:20.860 Am I understanding this?

00:21:22.460 That is correct.

00:21:23.040 Yeah, it's a feedback loop because the State Department, using whatever analytical tools they have, which is perhaps non-existent because it's probably just some guy in an office, an analyst, providing his opinion on what is a bot, sends it to Twitter.

00:21:37.260 Twitter says no.

00:21:38.280 So he leaks it, right?

00:21:39.920 The State Department leaks it to a journalist, which then publishes that information, claiming that they found evidence of Russian disinformation bots.

00:21:48.540 Now, none of the characters are named, no accounts are named in those reports, but then Twitter gets bad press.

00:21:55.140 And then congressmen call up Twitter saying, hey, why don't you act on it?

00:21:59.520 If you don't act on it, we'll take away your Section 230 free speech rights, your ability to remain immune from liability, right?

00:22:08.600 And that's a big deal.

00:22:10.300 If you're a social media company, you don't want to get sued for what users post on their website.

00:22:15.420 So they're compelled to act.

00:22:17.140 And if they don't act, then they lose their immunity.

00:22:19.720 They're at risk of essentially losing their freedoms.

00:22:22.580 So they feel compelled to act.

00:22:24.820 And then the government's happy.

00:22:26.280 And bit by bit, and this was revealed in the files, it showed how many different government agencies started to get in on it.

00:22:33.060 First, it was the FBI.

00:22:34.180 Then it was the State Department.

00:22:35.520 And then literally every state was demanding that they take action against various accounts.

00:22:40.760 And now while some of these requests are certainly legitimate, like taking down terrorists or actual criminals who are using Twitter to facilitate their crimes, I understand that.

00:22:51.480 But for the most part, when they send them large Excel files, sheets of tens of thousands of users and tell them to delete it and they don't, then there's a problem.

00:23:01.640 The government demands immediate action.

00:23:03.900 And so eventually Twitter became a sort of a hand of censorship.

00:23:07.760 This was, you know, the foundation for the so-called disinformation governance board, where they decided, you know, the government, the DHS, decided to expand its censorship of social media because it wasn't enough for them to just get rid of Russian disinformation bots.

00:23:23.440 They had to start getting rid of anyone who spoke out against the narrative.

00:23:26.440 Now, fortunately, it was shut down thanks to the efforts of a journalist like Jack Posobiec last year.

00:23:32.920 But before it was, I mean, they were starting to target people who were critical of the vaccine narrative, the, you know, the origins of COVID-19.

00:23:44.560 If you said it was from China, that got you censored, right?

00:23:47.360 That was actually part of the State Department where they started to censor anyone who talked about how the virus may have come from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

00:23:57.800 And now it's, you know, it's anyone's guess as to why they would do that.

00:24:01.620 But that is certainly what happened.

00:24:04.080 It's quite frightening, actually, how quickly Twitter allowed itself to become the Ministry of Truth for the American federal government, because that's really what happened here.

00:24:15.240 Because of the First Amendment, the government cannot censor you directly.

00:24:19.260 But it's a neat little trick they did by doing it once removed through a social media company that they were pressuring.

00:24:24.660 And the social media company being a left-leaning or at least left-managed company, they were pretty happy to do it because they had the same political enemies.

00:24:33.560 Also, as you were talking there, I thought, how quickly they moved to remove innocent people who were alleged to be imaginary Russian bots.

00:24:44.120 But Twitter, for the longest time, had the absolute most evil proliferation of child and revenge porn for a very long time.

00:24:55.240 And the platform said that there's nothing they could do about it.

00:24:58.240 There's no way that they could manage it.

00:24:59.680 But they could, after pressure from journalists and the government, wipe innocent people right off the platform for doing nothing except following a Russian account.

00:25:11.480 Yep.

00:25:12.420 Because that's where they wanted to focus their resources.

00:25:15.680 They always had the means to do these things.

00:25:17.720 But they would allow content that was created through child abuse to remain on their site while censoring a grandma who followed a Matryoshka account.

00:25:31.040 That's right.

00:25:31.980 I mean, and this is largely in part due to the FBI itself because there were so many agents, well, maybe not agents, but analysts working for the FBI who were positioned inside of Twitter.

00:25:43.240 They were in these internal Slack channels.

00:25:45.740 They had an onboarding process.

00:25:47.140 There were so many agents to the point where they had an onboarding process at Twitter.

00:25:51.040 Now, we can only imagine how big their presence was at Google, at Facebook, at Instagram, at TikTok.

00:25:59.120 I mean, we have no idea, right, because we don't have those files.

00:26:01.400 But at Twitter was 80-plus people working for the federal government deciding who to censor.

00:26:07.320 And they were flagging accounts that told jokes.

00:26:10.480 There were celebrities who were even flagged for telling jokes.

00:26:13.440 So it was one of the Baldwin brothers.

00:26:14.820 He told a joke about the elections, and he was flagged for disinformation.

00:26:20.180 Now, granted, he's a celebrity, so he kind of got away with it, and that's fine.

00:26:24.220 But so many other people were banned for telling the same jokes.

00:26:27.540 They would say, hey, go and vote on next week instead of on November 8th.

00:26:32.280 They would make jokes like that, and that would get them flagged for disinformation, and so it's sequently terminated from the service.

00:26:38.700 This is happening everywhere, and it still happens on YouTube and on Facebook.

00:26:42.420 If you make jokes like that, you'll still get flagged.

00:26:44.620 You'll still get banned for disinformation, of course.

00:26:47.680 But here's the thing.

00:26:48.580 So you mentioned that there was a lot of child sexual exploitation on the site, and that's true.

00:26:54.300 And what's, I guess, maybe not amusing, but what is interesting is that the FBI, instead of focusing its resources on catching child pornographers or busting all these people up, all these rings, these pedophile rings,

00:27:09.400 it instead chose to focus all of its energies on Russian disinformation and on election misinformation, whatever you want to call these things.

00:27:17.740 So they had the manpower for it, but they were told from, you know, higher up to only focus on the issues that were important to the political class in the United States and not to the issues that were actually, you know, victimizing children or women, right?

00:27:32.180 They didn't care about any of that.

00:27:33.900 Yeah, they were focused on protecting Hillary Clinton and then Joe Biden after her instead of victimized children.

00:27:41.500 Interesting set of priorities they have here.

00:27:43.580 I wonder, when Elon Musk downsized Twitter, did he just fire all the feds, you know?

00:27:52.120 Yes, yes, he did.

00:27:53.340 He fired Jim Baker.

00:27:55.100 Yeah, Jim Baker was one of the lead counsels for Twitter, and he was responsible for much of the censorship.

00:28:02.440 He, you know, if you're not familiar with this guy, he's responsible for the so-called Russian disinformation, I mean, Russian collusion hoax.

00:28:09.820 He was the one who brought it to the interests of the FBI way back in Hillary's days, and he ended up working for Twitter for some reason.

00:28:17.480 And, you know, it's anyone's guess as to whether he was planted there by the feds, but he was certainly, you know, amenable to what they wanted.

00:28:24.640 And so when Elon found out that he was still working there, he fired him on the spot.

00:28:28.380 And that was after the drops of one of the Twitter files very recently, like three weeks or two weeks ago.

00:28:34.920 So, yeah, there were lots of feds there. 0.98

00:28:37.100 And it's interesting how, you know, after firing about 3,000, 4,000 people, Twitter is better than ever.

00:28:43.600 It has, you know, it still manages to function despite all of the doom and gloom that was in the media saying that Twitter would be dead by the weekend,

00:28:51.980 that it wouldn't be able to handle any of the burdens because all the people's expertise were fired.

00:28:58.280 And it turns out that most of the people who got fired were, you know, diversity commissars.

00:29:03.080 That's who they were, right?

00:29:04.120 Their only job was to keep everybody else in line politically, not to actually contribute to the development of Twitter as an app.

00:29:12.300 And now with, you know, Elon in charge, Twitter's faster than ever.

00:29:15.800 It's unveiling or releasing a lot of new features in the coming weeks and months.

00:29:19.900 And we've seen a lot of these features already added.

00:29:22.660 The spaces, for instance, works a lot better than it used to.

00:29:25.880 So it's really fascinating to see where Twitter will go in the future.

00:29:29.900 I mean, he only recently re-enabled political advertising.

00:29:33.240 So now if you're a right-wing organization like Judicial Watch, you can actually buy ads on Twitter, whereas before they didn't let you.

00:29:40.920 So it was very one-sided as to who got to have a voice versus now who has a voice on Twitter.

00:29:47.140 Yeah, when Elon Musk first took control of Twitter, I was of two minds and I didn't really care what the outcome was.

00:29:54.080 I thought, okay, if he buys it and makes it better, great.

00:29:59.240 And if he buys it and it ceases to exist in a week from now, also fine.

00:30:03.500 I didn't really know what I was cheering for there.

00:30:07.280 Now, how does this most recent Twitter leak, this Twitter files leak, thread back through some of the previous ones?

00:30:15.720 So what is sort of the overarching theme that is coming together the more Twitter leaks we get?

00:30:22.500 Okay, so I think we have to look at the first leak, right?

00:30:25.320 The first leak showed how Twitter very slowly became a vehicle for censorship and how it censored Donald Trump, right?

00:30:33.620 That was what the first Twitter files drops was about and how they ceased to follow their own terms of services and decided willy-nilly to start banning people.

00:30:43.560 So we had a snapshot of Twitter from, say, 2019 to 2020 where this happened.

00:30:50.700 But now we're getting to understand the government's involvement in all of the censorship.

00:30:55.840 So Twitter wasn't always like this.

00:30:57.980 It wasn't always a place to censor people's political speech.

00:31:01.320 It was something that happened gradually over a period of time where, you know, at first, Joel Roth, you know, the former head of trust and safety at Twitter, was willing to offer pushback against the federal government when they demanded that he censor things.

00:31:15.620 But eventually they had come to, you know, become subservient to the federal government because they had been giving in bit by bit by bit to the point where they started to feel special.

00:31:25.220 I mean, Twitter was paid $3.5 million to perform these acts of censorship because at one point in the latest drops, they showed how Twitter executives were complaining about how their inbox was completely full,

00:31:37.860 just full of requests from various state and federal government agencies demanding that they censor hundreds of thousands of people.

00:31:46.680 So they couldn't cope with it anymore.

00:31:48.740 So they just had to, you know, they just offloaded it to a bunch of moderators, you know, in places like the Philippines to have them deal with it.

00:31:55.460 And the algorithm was tweaked to make it automated.

00:31:58.540 So, you know, the instant you said anything about election fraud, even if you were having a discussion about it, you got flagged and subsequently removed.

00:32:05.440 And if they wanted to reinstate you, well, you know, it's a crapshoot, right?

00:32:08.780 Maybe you got reinstated, maybe you didn't.

00:32:10.660 And many people were not.

00:32:13.180 So are we expecting more Twitter leaks?

00:32:16.300 Yes.

00:32:17.040 Yeah.

00:32:17.220 The next one will be about Fauci and how all of that was covered up.

00:32:21.840 Oh, I'm sure you're going to be all over that one, aren't you?

00:32:24.320 Oh, yeah.

00:32:25.380 Absolutely.

00:32:26.220 Absolutely.

00:32:27.540 Well, Ian, I have no idea what time it is where you are, but I feel like it's probably either late at night or very, very early in the morning.

00:32:35.480 So I want to thank you for taking the time to come on the show with me today.

00:32:38.920 And I want to thank you for your hard work covering the Twitter files, but everything else that you cover for us here at Rebel News.

00:32:45.020 Absolutely.

00:32:45.740 Thank you.

00:32:47.420 Well, friends, stay with us.

00:32:48.960 Your letters to Ezra read by me up after the break.

00:32:52.120 We've come to the portion of the show where we open it up to you.

00:33:07.800 You become the star of the last segment of Ezra's show, but also of my show, too.

00:33:12.740 We actually care about what you think about the work that we do here at Rebel News.

00:33:16.000 Unlike the mainstream media, we don't have a sugar daddy named Justin Trudeau who can just give us somebody else's money to create content that you don't care about.

00:33:24.840 That's why we like to take the temperature of our audience.

00:33:28.160 So today's letters are on David's monologue about the trans criminal Amber McLaughlin.

00:33:34.700 Now, Amber McLaughlin stalked, terrorized, raped, strangled, and stabbed a woman 19 years ago.

00:33:47.400 Three years ago, while on death row, the good taxpayers of the state of Missouri paid for him to transition into his true self.

00:33:57.880 He was like a caterpillar just emerging from a chrysalis as a butterfly, a murdering butterfly.

00:34:04.960 But nonetheless, his execution will go down as a female killer being executed at the hands of the state and a big victory for diversity in that he is also apparently the first transgender person executed for murdering a woman. 0.61

00:34:28.720 I suppose in his final act of misogyny, he's counted as a female. 0.94

00:34:33.740 Previous to murdering his victim, he was incarcerated for raping a 14-year-old girl. 0.95

00:34:40.500 Anyway, SlimUnique84 writes, 0.86

00:34:45.400 Raped and stabbed a woman, then transitioned into a woman to avoid being prosecuted. 1.00

00:34:49.940 Let the shit show begin, folks. 1.00

00:34:51.540 You know, the good news is the governor of Missouri didn't fall for it. 1.00

00:34:55.680 And he met his death.

00:34:59.000 And I guess my great umbrage with all of this is that it took 19 years for him to get the needle in his arm he so rightly deserved.

00:35:09.520 Lousy Fives writes, 0.98

00:35:11.840 Yep, I think anyone who premeditates a murder of any kind should be executed. 0.99

00:35:15.700 It's not that anyone wants him executed because he's transgender. 0.99

00:35:19.440 It's the left that doesn't want him executed because he is a transgender. 1.00

00:35:23.540 I don't care who you are or what you identify as. 0.99

00:35:27.800 You commit a premeditated murder in a state with a death penalty, you get exactly what you deserve.

00:35:32.740 Justice be done.

00:35:34.500 Yeah, exactly.

00:35:36.640 Exactly.

00:35:37.120 I don't think I could have said it any better than Lousy Seven. 1.00

00:35:39.720 I don't care how your hair was done when you went into the death chamber.

00:35:46.400 I don't care what was surgically attached to your chest or otherwise altered on your body.

00:35:53.980 I don't care about the hormones surging through your body, whether they were estrogen or testosterone, synthetic or natural.

00:36:03.280 I mostly only cared that your body was teeming with adrenaline because of the fear you felt as you were being executed for the crimes that you did commit.

00:36:15.180 On David's interview with Jesse Johnson.

00:36:17.640 Now, Jesse Johnson is the man behind Without Papers Pizza.

00:36:21.860 He lost his business because he refused to discriminate against his customers by checking their vax pass.

00:36:29.420 He refused to be a part of a system that forced him to discriminate against his unvaccinated customers.

00:36:36.660 And for that, his business was destroyed by the Alberta government and the Calgary municipal government.

00:36:45.120 Gord Tron writes,

00:36:46.660 Thanks for standing for the thinkers, pizza man.

00:36:49.820 There's no excuse for the people who participated in this disgusting segregation of society.

00:36:54.320 It's true.

00:36:55.580 And people like Jesse paid the ultimate price of their business, their dream.

00:37:02.860 He lost it all, but he lost it all with dignity because he did not violate his conscience to do it.

00:37:10.280 He did not go along to get along.

00:37:12.420 And he stood with his friends and his neighbors and treated them all the same.

00:37:17.420 And for that, Jesse is a very, very good man.

00:37:20.040 Well, friends, that's the show for tonight.

00:37:21.760 Thank you so much for tuning in.

00:37:23.280 And I am also hosting the show tomorrow night for Ezra as he takes a little bit of an extended break.

00:37:29.980 Thanks to everybody behind the scenes in the studio in Toronto for putting the show together.

00:37:34.140 And as Ezra always says, keep fighting for freedom.

00:37:39.540 The College of Psychologists job is to make sure that psychologists practice psychology in an ethical way.

00:37:46.340 For example, if a psychologist were to take advantage of a patient, but they've been hijacked by activists,

00:37:52.940 by people making complaints against Dr. Peterson, not for anything Peterson's done to them as patients because none of them are patients.

00:38:00.860 The complaints are about Dr. Peterson's political comments on Twitter.

00:38:05.340 Seriously, let's go through some of the offending tweets.

00:38:09.780 When one Twitter user claimed that the planet was overpopulated by human beings, Jordan Peterson tweeted,

00:38:19.920 You're free to leave at any point.

00:38:22.680 When the Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell threatened parents participating in the Freedom Convoy with having their children removed from the area prior to the start of any police action.

00:38:36.560 In response to a New York Post article about Sports Illustrated putting an arguably obese model on their cover,

00:39:03.320 Jordan Peterson tweeted,

00:39:07.320 What on earth does the College of Psychologists have to do with Peterson debating public political issues of the day?

00:39:17.680 Now, you can agree or disagree with any of Peterson's political views,

00:39:21.560 but where does a group of censors with the power to end someone's career get off telling them what they can and can't say about non-psychology things?

00:39:31.620 Of course, they would never dare to do this to a left-wing psychologist.

00:39:36.620 And of course, we wouldn't want them to do that either.

00:39:39.620 Not only are they censoring Dr. Peterson, or at least they're trying,

00:39:43.620 they've demanded that he submit to a coaching, a re-education about what to say in public politically.

00:39:49.620 Some unknown censor now gets to tell a leading public intellectual what he can and can't say,

00:39:54.620 and if he doesn't comply, he'll be banned from treating patients?

00:39:57.620 That's just wrong.

00:39:59.620 So pick up the phone and call this group, the College of Psychologists of Ontario at 416-961-8817.

00:40:07.620 Now remember, please do not be mean.

00:40:09.620 The person who answers the phone is likely just the receptionist and not the people demanding Peterson be censored.

00:40:16.620 Be firm, but please be polite.

00:40:18.620 Let them know that this is a witch hunt against Canadian values like freedom of speech and the right for people to hold a variety of opinions,

00:40:26.620 including opinions that the establishment doesn't like.

00:40:30.620 That's really the whole point of free speech, isn't it?

00:40:34.620 To be able to criticize power, not just obey it.

00:40:38.620 Tell these people to drop their case against Jordan Peterson.

00:40:41.620 That number again is 416-961-8817 or go to SavePeterson.com where you can see it again.

00:40:48.620 At SavePeterson.com we'll also have a one-click button that you can press to send an email to every single one of the 19 people on that censorship committee.

00:40:58.620 So you can put your disagreement to them in writing too.

00:41:02.620 Dr. Jordan Peterson has changed lives.

00:41:05.620 He's even saved lives.

00:41:07.620 His books and lectures and videos have inspired millions of people, especially young men looking for meaning in life.

00:41:15.620 That's why the left hates him.

00:41:17.620 And that's why they're trying to censor him now.

00:41:19.620 It has nothing to do with how he treats patients and everything to do with his politics.

00:41:26.620 So go to SavePeterson.com.

00:41:28.620 Call the number there during business hours to talk directly to the College of Psychologists of Ontario.

00:41:34.620 I bet we can get more than a thousand people to call that number.

00:41:38.620 More than they've probably ever had in their history.

00:41:41.620 And at SavePeterson.com you can also click one button.

00:41:44.620 It's very easy to send an email to all 19 censors over there to let them know that you're on to them and that you see exactly what they're doing.

00:41:52.620 So what are you waiting for?

00:41:54.620 Go fight back for freedom of speech.

00:41:56.620 Visit SavePeterson.com to help.

00:41:59.620 For Rebel News, I'm Sheila Gunn-Reed.

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Rebel News Podcast - January 05, 2023

SHEILA GUNN REID ｜ Singh signs on to Trudeau's censorship plan

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