Rebel News Podcast - The Liberals make their move against Canadians who dare to speak out on Facebook

00:00:00.000 Hello, my Rebels. Today, I show you how the censorship we saw in the United Kingdom

00:00:03.860 is coming to Canada a lot faster than I thought. It's from Karina Gould, who's just as extreme

00:00:11.240 as Catherine McKenna, but less irritating, so she's more effective. I show you the, quote,

00:00:16.840 digital election charter she's brought in. It's actually a terrifying document.

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00:00:58.460 Tonight, the liberals make their move against Canadian citizens who dare to speak out on Facebook.

00:01:03.640 It's May 28th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.

00:01:08.320 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:12.040 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:15.680 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I publish it is because it's my bloody right to do so.

00:01:24.240 The last piece of the censorship machine fell into place in Canada yesterday.

00:01:31.960 Karina Gould is Justin Trudeau's point man on the file.

00:01:35.120 Her official title is Minister of Democratic Institutions, but that's quite Orwellian,

00:01:39.640 since the bulk of her work seems to be to weaken Democratic institutions and make them subject to political meddling.

00:01:45.180 Yesterday, she announced that she managed to persuade high-tech companies to censor the Internet in the upcoming federal election.

00:01:52.680 She announced this Declaration of Electoral Integrity, but of course it has nothing to do with electoral integrity.

00:02:00.160 There's nothing in there, for example, about demanding proof for voters that they're Canadian citizens.

00:02:05.220 You don't even have to show ID anymore to vote in Canada.

00:02:08.020 There's nothing in there about stopping third-party interest groups from meddling,

00:02:12.760 as more than 100 did in the last election, including foreign-based Soros front group Avaz.org.

00:02:20.300 There's nothing in there about Unifor, the conservative-hating union being in charge of doling out $600 million to Canadian reporters in the bailout.

00:02:27.880 No, it's all about cracking down on what they call disinformation and fake news,

00:02:32.420 but of course that's a matter of political opinion.

00:02:34.740 That's the essence of political opinion, actually.

00:02:37.040 Two people can look at the same fact and disagree about it.

00:02:39.920 It's called politics. Two people can hear the same speech, and one is convinced, but the other is unconvinced.

00:02:45.540 Convinced he heard a liar.

00:02:47.160 An election is when each of us are given the power to choose who's fake and who's real.

00:02:52.580 It's not for one of the politicians in a contest to make that decision for us, but that's just exactly what happened.

00:02:58.780 Gould is just as extremist as Catherine McKenna is. 0.75

00:03:02.380 Here's a tweet from her, for example, that she recently deleted, where she calls for British Columbia to illegally block Alberta's oil sands pipeline,

00:03:12.720 saying it should be landlocked and left in the ground.

00:03:15.520 That's just as kooky as Catherine McKenna, but it's a rare stylistic departure for Karina Gould.

00:03:21.760 See, Catherine McKenna is shouting all the time, and she has this childish affectation. 1.00

00:03:26.120 She talks like a Kardashian for some reason. I don't know. It's not an accent.

00:03:30.640 It's like a version of baby talk. You ever meet people who talk like that?

00:03:34.040 That's Catherine McKenna.

00:03:35.920 And McKenna just really shows bad personal judgment all the time. 1.00

00:03:40.660 I don't know if you saw this over the weekend.

00:03:42.740 Catherine McKenna went to a pub in Newfoundland. Good idea.

00:03:45.880 I mean, you go to Newfoundland, you've got to do that, right?

00:03:47.480 But she brought her own camera crew with her, and she got a little drunk. 0.75

00:03:54.320 And she thought, as a drinker in a bar, she'd record a little bit of a speech on video.

00:04:01.620 And her staff actually went along with this and published it.

00:04:06.740 I want to show you just a short excerpt from her drunken speech in St. John's Pub.

00:04:12.420 But, you know, I actually gave them some real advice.

00:04:15.320 I said that if you actually say it louder, we've learned in the House of Commons,

00:04:18.880 if you repeat it, if you say it louder, if that is your talking point, people will totally believe it.

00:04:25.180 Yeah, friends don't let friends record videos drunk.

00:04:30.360 McKenna has 24 communication staff who work on her tweets.

00:04:34.780 Apparently not one of them had the courage to tell the boss

00:04:37.060 that maybe drunk tweeting from a bar is a little bit unseemly.

00:04:41.460 Anyways, Karina Gould is an extremist like McKenna, 0.99

00:04:45.200 but she's much more quiet about it and seems to drink less.

00:04:49.160 She's smarter in that way than McKenna.

00:04:51.560 And another thing about Gould is that she's managed to co-opt her Conservative Party critic,

00:04:55.880 a Calgary Conservative MP named Stephanie Cousy.

00:04:58.540 I think Catherine McKenna's shouting and her shallow juvenile talking points 1.00

00:05:03.480 and insulting people, calling them deniers,

00:05:05.840 just generally being a female version of shallow Justin Trudeau,

00:05:09.520 but without the charm to be candid.

00:05:11.680 I think it put Conservatives on the back foot.

00:05:13.560 So I think Conservatives naturally don't like old yeller, as I call Catherine McKenna.

00:05:18.200 But Karina Gould, she's managed to turn her Conservative critic into a fangirl. 1.00

00:05:25.280 I showed you this clip from a few months ago.

00:05:27.060 You know, Gould had just announced a five-person secret internet censorship panel.

00:05:32.300 And the Conservative Party's Stephanie Cousy,

00:05:34.440 her only complaint was that it didn't go far enough, fast enough,

00:05:37.900 but that Gould was looking just fabulous.

00:05:40.060 Remember this?

00:05:41.220 Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

00:05:43.100 And Minister, always lovely to see you.

00:05:44.720 I love that necklace, by the way.

00:05:45.800 That's just beautiful.

00:05:47.140 Also, I want to say that I really enjoyed your speech yesterday at the AI.

00:05:51.920 And you know what?

00:05:52.320 It was very informal.

00:05:53.220 And I really, I think you should go with that format more when you come even to committees,

00:05:57.320 because you just, you do it so well.

00:05:58.560 So I just, I wanted to compliment you on that.

00:06:02.040 Yeah.

00:06:02.480 When do we get the opposition part of the opposition?

00:06:06.400 So anyways, yesterday was the Declaration of Electoral Integrity by Karina Gould.

00:06:11.660 But a few months ago, when that panel was there, they were talking about censorship.

00:06:16.980 Just a reminder, when Gould was asked what sort of things her five-man secret panel would censor,

00:06:22.000 she gave the example of something called Macron leaks.

00:06:25.100 That was when embarrassing campaign documents from Emmanuel Macron were leaked to the public

00:06:32.000 about a week or two before the election.

00:06:33.960 Now, they were extremely embarrassing.

00:06:36.140 They were real documents.

00:06:37.520 They weren't fake.

00:06:38.260 But the media was somehow barred from reporting on them.

00:06:43.860 That's unfree.

00:06:45.100 I guess, I guess that's how they roll in France.

00:06:47.460 But that's specifically the example that Gould used of what she would censor here.

00:06:52.480 We looked at allied countries and like-minded countries around the world to see what mechanisms

00:06:59.540 they had and have in place.

00:07:02.640 And what stuck out for me was the French example of the Conseil d'État that weighed in when there

00:07:12.240 was the leak from the Macron campaign to basically say this is, you know, a threat against our democracy,

00:07:19.980 and they advised the media not to report on it.

00:07:24.360 That's a step further than what this is anticipating.

00:07:27.400 We tried to come up with something that would fit within the Canadian context.

00:07:30.440 The Conseil d'État in France has been around for a very long time.

00:07:33.560 But she came back to that example again when she was asked again about it.

00:07:39.720 So which is it?

00:07:41.920 If something was ever leaked embarrassing about Justin Trudeau, it sounds like that's exactly

00:07:49.420 what this five-man committee of Karina Gould would censor.

00:07:53.020 She pretty much just said so.

00:07:54.660 That was her analogy.

00:07:56.040 And she came back to that analogy again.

00:07:57.740 We showed you, and I showed you this before, but no one else ever shows it to you, 18 months

00:08:02.460 ago, how Justin Trudeau started to threaten Facebook to silence his critics for him, specifically

00:08:07.880 mentioning the election campaign.

00:08:09.720 He said it was all about stopping fake news, he said.

00:08:11.640 But of course, one man's fake news is the other man's truth.

00:08:13.820 What starts out as a conspiracy theory may in fact be proven to be a conspiracy fact.

00:08:19.080 I could think of a hundred examples, but the most obvious is how Justin Trudeau called the

00:08:23.280 report of his firing of Jody Wilson-Raybould to be fake news, when in fact it was

00:08:27.580 just the truth that he didn't like to hear.

00:08:31.800 The allegations in the Globe story this morning are false.

00:08:36.320 Neither the current nor the previous attorney general was ever directed by me or by anyone

00:08:43.140 in my office.

00:08:45.140 Yeah, that's a lie, as we later learned.

00:08:46.940 It's amazing what we learned from the Jody Wilson-Raybould SNC-11, I matter.

00:08:50.460 First, once the first string was pulled out of the tapestry, so much unraveled, we later learned

00:08:56.220 that Trudeau was also pushing to have an innocent man sent to prison, Vice Admiral Mark Norman.

00:09:01.440 It would have looked insane to say that a few months ago.

00:09:04.320 It was just a theory at first that Mark Norman was framed, but now that's exactly what we

00:09:09.800 know happened.

00:09:11.000 My point is, that's exactly what Karina Gould and Justin Trudeau will now censor, what

00:09:14.960 they call fake news, which is simply news they don't like.

00:09:18.120 This has been percolating for a while, but it's starting to move very quickly now.

00:09:21.980 Those committee hearings were a few months ago, the ones I showed you, and earlier this

00:09:25.940 month, Trudeau met in Paris with Emmanuel Macron and the shell-shocked New Zealand PM, Jacinda

00:09:30.540 Ardern, and signed on to her internet censorship manifesto.

00:09:33.880 It's so unnatural.

00:09:35.160 Her calls to punish people for saying things she doesn't like.

00:09:38.300 She's prosecuting people. 0.73

00:09:39.500 Did you know this?

00:09:39.980 For simply uploading a copy of the video of the shooting in New Zealand.

00:09:43.640 Now, that was a terrible terrorist attack, but she's prosecuting people and seeking

00:09:48.680 14-year prison terms just for uploading the video of it?

00:09:53.020 I wonder if it has anything to do with news reports that she is deeply compromised with

00:09:59.100 ties to China's Communist Party.

00:10:02.580 I know that sounds crazy.

00:10:04.080 That's fake news, you might say.

00:10:05.700 Or you could note that it was actually published in the leading newspaper in New Zealand.

00:10:09.060 I wonder how long it'll be before that is unpublishable, too.

00:10:12.300 That's fake news.

00:10:13.240 Today, all the big tech companies were paraded through Parliament, and all of them were bashed

00:10:17.800 by MPs, but they were being bashed for not censoring enough.

00:10:22.480 No one was there pressing for them to censor less, certainly not the conservatives, not

00:10:26.700 that I saw, at least.

00:10:28.160 Here's an example from Parliament.

00:10:30.020 And just for your information, Donald Trump recently tweeted this video, Pelosi stammers

00:10:36.500 through news conference.

00:10:37.740 It's actually a great tweet.

00:10:39.160 But the left want to censor him from doing that.

00:10:42.160 So they say the video was altered, but it's not actually.

00:10:45.420 It's just edited, as all videos are, including the one I'm recording right now.

00:10:48.700 But get this.

00:10:49.760 Here you have Canadians, and there were some Brits in our House of Commons for some reason,

00:10:53.500 too, lusting to censor the U.S. president.

00:10:56.780 Imagine what they would do to you, mere you.

00:10:59.780 Take a look.

00:11:00.240 Facebook, deceptive information, deliberately and maliciously spread through the tools created

00:11:05.920 by social media companies, are a harm to democracy, and that these deceptions, this disinformation

00:11:12.780 is used to undermine senior politicians and public figures, public institutions, and to

00:11:18.000 undermine the political process.

00:11:19.240 With that in mind, could Facebook explain why it's decided not to remove the video of Nancy

00:11:27.800 Pelosi that prevents a distorted impression of her in order to undermine her public reputation?

00:11:34.380 First, I want to be clear that we are taking action against that video.

00:11:36.940 I want you to answer the question as to why you, unlike YouTube, are not taking this film

00:11:41.180 down.

00:11:41.680 It is our policy to inform people when we have information that may be false on the platform

00:11:46.380 so that they can make their own decisions about that content.

00:11:49.160 Yet the video is allowed to remain, and that video being there is far more powerful than

00:11:53.760 any legal disclaimer that may be written underneath it or over it.

00:11:57.780 And why won't you say that films that are clearly fake and are independently verified as being

00:12:02.860 fake, that are there to deceive people about some of the most senior politicians in your

00:12:07.480 country, why wouldn't you take them down?

00:12:09.480 We have taken the approach to inform people that it is fake so that they can actually understand

00:12:13.120 why that video is on the platform and what other independent parties have considered

00:12:18.480 this to be.

00:12:18.960 They have considered it to be false.

00:12:20.340 And now they see this as on our platform if they go to share it.

00:12:23.940 So all these questions, I think they're very fair questions, but it allows people to make

00:12:28.380 their own decision and allows them to tell others that it is false.

00:12:32.100 The issue here is to say if someone is making a film or slowing down a film or manipulating

00:12:35.620 a film to try and create the false impression that a senior public figure is not fit for

00:12:39.520 office, then that is an attempt to undermine them and the office that they hold.

00:12:42.600 Now, I think this is not a question of opinion.

00:12:44.740 This is not a question of free speech.

00:12:46.300 This is a question of people manipulating content in order to undermine public figures.

00:12:50.640 And my concern is, is that to leave that sort of content up there where it's undisputably

00:12:55.040 fake, undisputably false and distorted, to allow permission for this content to be shared

00:12:59.860 and promoted to other users is irresponsible.

00:13:03.580 And YouTube have removed this content.

00:13:05.160 And I don't understand why Facebook don't do the same.

00:13:06.960 First of all, I think it's really gross that a censor from the United Kingdom is allowed

00:13:12.420 to sit in Canada's parliament like that, don't you?

00:13:15.040 I mean, we know how bad the UK is. 1.00

00:13:17.020 Keep your crap on that side of the Atlantic, please. 1.00

00:13:19.820 The second thing is, he's a liar. 1.00

00:13:23.560 That footage is not manipulated. 0.94

00:13:25.820 It was edited, which was visibly apparent.

00:13:29.620 It had all of her speech impediments and slurs and misspeaking put together in what we call

00:13:35.420 a supercut.

00:13:36.060 But it was not fake. 1.00

00:13:38.240 He's a liar. 0.98

00:13:40.460 And that's my view. 1.00

00:13:41.800 Now, someone else who hates Donald Trump might say, no, it was fake.

00:13:46.100 Well, we're allowed to have a difference of opinion. 0.66

00:13:47.680 Just because some pompous prat flies over here from the UK and says it's not true, and it's 1.00

00:13:53.600 resolutely not true, yeah, no, you're a politician and a liar, too. 0.99

00:13:57.580 And I, as a citizen, can make the choice. 0.96

00:14:00.200 And you know what?

00:14:00.700 Even if it is fake, I'm allowed to see fake things.

00:14:03.420 I'm allowed to see satire.

00:14:04.940 I'm allowed to see pranks or impersonations.

00:14:07.280 That's half of comedy and satire.

00:14:10.000 There was not one voice for free speech today.

00:14:13.840 Because these are all powerful people.

00:14:15.740 Liberals, conservatives, and whatever these Brits are doing in our parliament. 0.87

00:14:21.140 See, the liberals have the people they want to shut up. 0.79

00:14:24.880 But I guess so do the conservatives, and certainly the New Democrats.

00:14:28.160 They love shutting people up.

00:14:31.340 Conservatives want to shut up people who like to talk about things that are too conservative for them.

00:14:36.760 For example, they don't like criticism of immigration.

00:14:39.560 They don't like criticism of political Islam.

00:14:41.880 They don't like talking about how trans rights have gone nuts.

00:14:44.740 They don't like talking about abortion.

00:14:47.280 So, yeah, there's a lot of things conservatives don't want to talk about.

00:14:49.940 They have censorship in their blood, too.

00:14:51.800 All politicians do of every stripe.

00:14:54.380 It's part of being a politician, I think.

00:14:57.020 Is that why Andrew Scheer's conservatives and Stephanie Cousy haven't pushed back on this whole fake news censorship thing?

00:15:02.240 Is that why that prat from the UK was allowed to come over here and abuse our parliament? 0.94

00:15:05.960 Like having a Brit tell an American to censor in Canada. 0.99

00:15:11.560 How gross is that?

00:15:13.100 I noticed that Andrew Scheer no longer seems to object to the $600 million media bailout.

00:15:17.980 He just objects to one of the people doling it out, Jerry Diaz of Uniform.

00:15:21.560 I noticed that Andrew Scheer no longer proposes to privatize the CBC.

00:15:26.360 He actually wants them to do more Canadian coverage.

00:15:30.480 So, yeah, no one seems to be an advocate for mere citizens and their freedoms.

00:15:36.100 Not even the Conservative Party.

00:15:37.620 So, look at Gould's announcement.

00:15:39.100 This was her announcement yesterday.

00:15:41.380 Let me read.

00:15:41.820 However, these platforms have also been used to spread disinformation in an attempt to undermine free and fair elections and core democratic institutions and aggravate existing societal tensions.

00:15:55.980 So, the government is now telling Facebook and Google that they have to eliminate fake news, even though sometimes they're calling something fake news is fake.

00:16:04.640 And they're not allowed to publish anything that might cause societal tension, which is just another way of saying a vigorous debate in which we're all allowed to vigorously disagree.

00:16:15.480 Now, an election is how we resolve tensions.

00:16:18.260 We vote on things, and that's how we resolve disputes.

00:16:21.040 But Karina Gould is worried about that.

00:16:23.540 She doesn't want there to be any tensions out there, any fake news out there, especially about her boss.

00:16:28.560 There's too much tension about her boss.

00:16:30.300 Best to silence it and call it fake.

00:16:32.000 Or this, let me quote.

00:16:32.900 Well, platforms, that's what they call the social media companies, and the government of Canada will work with civil society, educational institutions, and or other institutions to support efforts aimed at improving critical thinking, digital literacy, and cybersecurity practices to promote digital resilience across society.

00:16:51.020 Do you think that Justin Trudeau and his partisan government will actually help you improve your critical thinking?

00:16:57.700 I highly doubt it.

00:16:59.260 I highly doubt it.

00:17:29.240 No one can win if they're silenced by big tech these days.

00:17:33.060 Tommy used to have one of the biggest Facebook pages in the whole of the UK next only to Theresa May, the disgraced prime minister, and Jeremy Corbyn, the disgraced leader of the opposition and the head of the Labour Party.

00:17:43.560 So they just turned him off.

00:17:45.200 They just deleted him.

00:17:46.080 They didn't have a trial to do that.

00:17:48.060 There was no appeal.

00:17:49.220 They just turned him off.

00:17:50.360 Same with Twitter.

00:17:51.420 YouTube didn't completely delete him.

00:17:53.180 They just made it so when you search for his name on YouTube or any videos, they don't show up in the search engine.

00:17:58.680 Imagine that.

00:17:59.400 They just made him disappear like he was a rumor, like he never existed.

00:18:02.400 I don't think this was done by the big tech companies on their own. 0.92

00:18:05.640 I think this was specifically done at the demand of the British political class, including that nitwit you just saw earlier.

00:18:11.060 Here's the deputy leader of the Labour Party in the UK, Tom Watson, specifically writing a letter to YouTube demanding that Tommy Robinson be silenced.

00:18:22.080 It couldn't be more clear than that.

00:18:23.480 It wasn't just the Labour Party, by the way, though they led the charge.

00:18:26.360 The Conservatives hate Tommy Robinson, too, because he talks about uncomfortable subjects that they'd rather leave alone.

00:18:31.800 Just watch for a couple of minutes this parliamentary committee in the UK where MPs of every party take terms screeching at YouTube for not banning him

00:18:40.380 and, spoiler alert, not too long after this, they did, in fact, ban him in the manner I described above.

00:18:46.500 Despite the fact that videos of Tommy Robinson were cited as part of the online radicalization of Darren Osborne in the Finsbury Park Court case,

00:18:56.840 YouTube continues to promote them videos.

00:19:00.000 What have you got to say about that?

00:19:01.640 We are working to make sure that videos that promote hate or promote violence, if they violate our policies, are removed from the platform.

00:19:08.680 If they walk right up to the line, we have also, at the encouragement of this committee, developed a new enforcement mechanism to limit the features that these have.

00:19:18.200 They should not be appearing in our recommendation engine.

00:19:21.200 If they are, I will take this back to our team and see what the problem is.

00:19:25.460 Okay, but they are.

00:19:26.600 I mean, they are appearing.

00:19:27.760 They are in my recommended timeline at the moment.

00:19:30.500 So, because I've been searching on my iPad for national action videos, I, as a result, have the first two videos recommended to me by YouTube.

00:19:41.920 When I just click on, as I've just done with this afternoon, I click on to YouTube, the first two recommendations are Tommy Robinson videos.

00:19:50.500 So, the Tommy Robinson that was identified as part of the Finsbury Park online radicalization process, that's what YouTube's recommended.

00:19:58.660 I've not searched for it.

00:20:00.220 YouTube has recommended that to me.

00:20:03.060 Doesn't that cause you some serious alarm? 0.99

00:20:06.060 See, they're stupid because they're saying censor him, censor him, censor him in public. 1.00

00:20:11.040 Karina Gould, like I say, is slightly less stupid than Trudeau or Catherine McKenna. 1.00

00:20:15.000 So, she does her censor him, censor him, censor him when the cameras aren't running. 0.98

00:20:20.800 So, yeah, imagine a political candidate like Tommy Robinson who's banned from Twitter and Facebook and YouTube and Google and financial instruments, too, like PayPal and Stripe.

00:20:28.660 How could he possibly campaign?

00:20:30.840 By going door to door, I guess.

00:20:32.600 And he did get 40,000 votes that way.

00:20:34.380 But you can't win.

00:20:35.540 Not in 2019.

00:20:36.600 Not when you're silenced.

00:20:37.900 And your opponents spend relentless against you.

00:20:40.200 As Tommy pointed out yesterday, it's not just that he couldn't speak positively about himself.

00:20:45.060 He couldn't reply to the wall of hate directed against him.

00:20:49.200 Hope Not Hate, which is a Soros-backed campaign group, smeared him with a massive campaign.

00:20:53.520 And they boasted about it in the Manchester Guardian today.

00:20:56.620 I'm not against rough-and-tumble politics like that, by the way.

00:20:59.420 But is it a fair election when one candidate cannot reply?

00:21:03.040 The Soros campaign was mainly done through brochures and Facebook ads.

00:21:06.440 But like I say, Facebook banned Tommy and the Royal Mail, the British Post Office, refused to deliver his brochures.

00:21:12.140 I suppose Tommy could have simply spoken to the mainstream media and hoped they would pass on his side of the story.

00:21:16.680 But, of course, they're deeply against him, too.

00:21:18.620 And so it's no surprise that when our student reporter, Jessica, went to the streets of Manchester just to ask random people about Tommy,

00:21:24.980 most of them just regurgitated their hatred for him, even though not one of them could actually say what he had done wrong.

00:21:30.680 Here's a sample.

00:21:32.240 Yeah, I've heard about him.

00:21:33.880 I won't be voting for him, that's for sure.

00:21:35.600 And why won't you be voting for him?

00:21:37.820 I don't believe in his politics, that particular party at all.

00:21:41.900 In fact, quite the opposite.

00:21:42.820 I'm a strong Remainer.

00:21:44.240 I'm a liberal by nature.

00:21:45.760 So I'll be voting for someone like that.

00:21:48.800 Do you think it's racist to criticise Islam? 0.97

00:21:51.320 He's very racist. 0.99

00:21:53.420 He's very racist. 0.91

00:21:54.460 Should it not be allowed in the UK? 0.82

00:21:56.580 No, he's not allowed.

00:21:57.980 He needs to fix himself.

00:21:59.560 He needs to become as a human.

00:22:01.060 That's what it is about.

00:22:02.540 What have you heard about him?

00:22:03.580 About his this election, I haven't heard a lot, but I'm not a big fan of his or his policies.

00:22:09.040 I think he's a bit of a bigot, to be honest.

00:22:11.260 And what makes him a bigot? 0.93

00:22:13.000 He's just incredibly racist, isn't he? 0.53

00:22:14.860 His policies are very far right. 0.75

00:22:18.600 They're not in line with the way that I think.

00:22:20.200 I like to think about things from a much more liberal point of view.

00:22:24.660 And can you give me an example of something like a racist policy or something that he said?

00:22:30.400 No, not on these current ones, no.

00:22:33.100 Yeah, that goes on for quite a while in that vein.

00:22:35.700 I mean, look, if someone is unpersoned and there's a wall of denigration of him, how can you possibly win?

00:22:42.000 This whole move, exactly, is now coming to Canada.

00:22:48.340 I always say, we'll be five years behind.

00:22:52.120 Yeah, I think maybe it's more like five months.

00:22:55.360 Stay with us for more.

00:22:56.280 Thank you, Donald.

00:23:16.600 And good evening, everyone.

00:23:17.560 Well, the last time I was here was on the 11th of April.

00:23:20.420 I'm sorry, it's been a long time.

00:23:22.060 And the reason is that on the 12th of April, I launched a brand new political party.

00:23:27.000 It was called the Brexit Party.

00:23:28.220 And you may have noticed that last night it managed to take 32% of the national vote across the country and be the leading party.

00:23:35.180 In fact, the biggest party in terms of MEPs from across the whole of the European Union.

00:23:40.440 So, yeah, I'm in a pretty jolly mood.

00:23:43.020 But what I want to debate today is what have we learned from those European election results?

00:23:48.840 And I'll perhaps kick this off by saying the first thing I've learned is that in the modern world, politics can change incredibly quickly.

00:23:57.540 Well, there you have it, Nigel Farage.

00:23:59.580 He's an interesting character, like so many British politicians are.

00:24:03.460 He's not just the leader of a political party.

00:24:05.580 He's got a radio talk show gig.

00:24:08.560 And he is the clear victor of the election results.

00:24:12.140 I was over there in Manchester, as you know.

00:24:13.720 Well, my focus was primarily on our personal friend, Tommy Robinson, who is also a free speech advocate and a warner of the risks of Islamification. 1.00

00:24:23.520 But there are other points of view as well, including, well, what does this possibly mean for the United States?

00:24:29.800 And in particular, for Nigel Farage's personal friend, Donald Trump, joining us now from the Los Angeles area,

00:24:36.680 is our friend Joel Pollack, senior editor at large at Breitbart.com.

00:24:40.820 Joel, great to see you.

00:24:41.620 You've got a very interesting article.

00:24:43.960 It's the American perspective on Trump.

00:24:48.480 Brexit party win, also a victory for Trump.

00:24:51.100 You make four persuasive arguments.

00:24:53.180 Tell our readers why you think Donald Trump won on Sunday night, too.

00:25:00.100 Well, first of all, Trump is a close ally of Nigel Farage, who you heard there on that audio from his radio show.

00:25:09.400 And the two of them campaigned together in 2016.

00:25:14.060 Farage actually spoke to a Trump campaign rally.

00:25:17.460 Farage, of course, was the driving force behind the original Brexit referendum.

00:25:22.620 His UK independence party, which he's no longer a part of, had pushed for a separation from the European Union for many years.

00:25:30.160 And when Brexit happened, Trump said his election would be like Brexit, essentially a vote for American national sovereignty.

00:25:36.340 So Farage and Trump are allies.

00:25:39.840 More than that, the foreign policy of the United States is pro-Brexit in the sense that the Trump administration welcomes Britain's separation from the European Union, arguing that EU trade rules are unfair.

00:25:53.500 And Trump has essentially promised Britain that once it leaves the European Union, the United States will seek a free trade deal with Britain.

00:26:02.680 So it's a win in that sense.

00:26:05.000 But it's also a win because the revolt of the British electorate in the elections last week shows that there's a political price to be paid by parties that don't fulfill the mandates of their voters.

00:26:18.200 And Trump was elected on specific policies that Republicans continue to oppose.

00:26:23.480 That's that is to say, Republicans in Washington, Republican establishment leaders in Washington, the wall on the southern border with Mexico and trade improvement in trade through diplomatic means, through pressure, through trade tariffs and things like that.

00:26:41.240 But essentially a reworking of America's trade relations with the rest of the world.

00:26:44.700 So these two issues, trade and immigration, have fueled Trump's political rise.

00:26:49.980 And yet the Republican establishment in Washington is very reluctant to implement those policies, particularly on immigration.

00:26:55.700 And the Brexit vote is a reminder that even a party as strong as the conservatives in Britain can be laid low, essentially, if they fail to implement the populist agenda that they are charged with carrying out.

00:27:10.600 So Theresa May saw her party fall to fifth place, its worst result in almost 200 years, because she basically tried everything she could do not to implement Brexit. 0.71

00:27:21.200 In much the same way that Senate leaders and before them, the House Republican leaders who have now been ousted, they tried everything they could do not to implement Trump's policies.

00:27:32.440 Now, some policies they agreed with, like tax cuts, that's come along very nicely.

00:27:36.320 But on enforcing immigration law and building a border wall and reworking American trade policy, they have not been very enthusiastic.

00:27:46.880 And some of the Trump supporters argued that's why Republicans lost Congress in 2018.

00:27:51.360 So it's a reminder that the Trump agenda is the agenda that the American electorate wants to see implemented.

00:28:00.760 Now, there's the other half of the electorate who doesn't want to see that implemented.

00:28:04.520 They're also frustrated with standard Democratic Party politics.

00:28:07.860 That's why they're moving so far to the left and embracing democratic socialism, essentially, in much the same way that the Remain position has become the opposition in the UK, so much so that the second place party in the European parliamentary elections was the Liberal Democratic Party, which is a small, fringe third party.

00:28:27.020 Now the second biggest party in Britain, at least on the strength of its result last week.

00:28:31.640 And they had a platform that was focused on the Remain position in the EU.

00:28:37.940 It was beaten by the Brexit position, but essentially they told Remain voters, we are the party that will represent your interests.

00:28:44.160 So you're seeing a polarization, not so much because Americans are becoming more radical in one direction or another, but because the political establishment on both sides is reluctant to implement the will of the people.

00:28:54.580 There's a rebellion in both countries against the establishment.

00:28:57.400 That's what Trump represents, and that's why the Brexit victory in the UK a few days ago is a big plus for Trump going into 2020.

00:29:06.900 He can say, this is the agenda I'm running on because this is what I was elected to do.

00:29:11.420 I've done as much of it as I can do.

00:29:13.200 You need to elect more leaders who will come with me to Washington and finish the job.

00:29:16.640 Yeah. You make one other point in your article that I thought was good, is that in all of these populist, nationalists versus the elites battles, the conventional wisdom seems to get it wrong.

00:29:29.140 Got it wrong with Brexit three years ago. Got it wrong with Trump three years ago.

00:29:33.240 Got it wrong just in recent weeks with Netanyahu in Israel, with Scott Morrison in Australia.

00:29:37.740 I think I'm probably missing an election in there somewhere, but, well, even in the UK on Brexit, I think that here in Canada, people say, oh, we're immune to this kind of national populism.

00:29:52.020 But no, I think that people are sick of these elites revising what we're allowed to talk about.

00:29:58.000 And in the UK, they went further than that. They defied the will of voters.

00:30:03.920 It was one thing to legitimately argue to remain in the UK and not Brexit. Fine.

00:30:10.740 But when you lose an election, as they did in the referendum 2016, to then play games with it and delay and find ways to not live out the mandate given to you by the people.

00:30:23.120 That's that feels like the analogy in America, Joel, is to impeach Trump.

00:30:28.200 Look, you lost the election. That's fine. But if you want to try and deligenize Trump and impeach Trump and have a Mueller investigation into Trump, you're really not going after Trump.

00:30:37.020 You're going after the democracy itself. And I think that's what happened in the UK last week is a voter smacked back fake leavers who were obfuscating and smacked back remainers as undemocratic.

00:30:49.640 I think there was an anger there because elites were trying to undo the will of the people.

00:30:56.160 Right. I think that's true. You see the never Trump faction represented by formerly respected, widely respected commentators like Bill Kristol saying they prefer the deep state to democracy.

00:31:07.960 And that's exactly right. They're basically doing the same as Theresa May's faction of the conservatives was doing.

00:31:14.740 That is to say, trying to stay in power without implementing the agenda that brought conservatives to power.

00:31:19.500 They want power for themselves. They don't necessarily want it for the people.

00:31:23.620 And look, the same exists on the left. I think labor voters are fed up with Jeremy Corbyn and labor.

00:31:29.500 However, the ongoing scandal of Jeremy Corbyn's anti-Semitism is something that makes Labor Party voters feel dirty when it comes to election time.

00:31:40.560 They would prefer a cleaner version of left wing politics.

00:31:45.480 And the liberal Democrats are giving that to them because they're not as tainted by sort of anti-Israel hatred becoming anti-Semitism as you've seen with Jeremy Corbyn and some of his allies.

00:31:55.520 So there's really a search for parties that will be responsive to people.

00:32:02.100 I'm not sure that the Democrats in the United States have come up with that yet because they're still pitching their ideas to, if you want to call them this, the liberal gentry. 0.96

00:32:12.520 In other words, kind of elite progressive opinion that has actually hurt working class Americans.

00:32:18.760 There was a great article recently in National Review which pointed out that Seattle's new progressive policies basically defend the privileged and largely white elite of the city at the expense of the working class and black parts of the city.

00:32:34.920 But these same Democrats who favor these policies think of themselves as such great non-racists and such great progressive crusaders for racial justice.

00:32:43.520 They might have a Black Lives Matter sign on their front lawn, for example, but they've made charter schools more difficult for black people to gain access to.

00:32:51.780 And they've made the cost of buying property almost impossible for working class black residents to achieve. 0.98

00:32:57.240 So there's this pattern still of Democrats pitching themselves to an elite.

00:33:02.300 Now, some people say they might as well embrace that.

00:33:04.020 I mean, if you're going to defend some of these elitist policies, then go for it.

00:33:09.220 That was one of the conclusions after the Brexit vote last week.

00:33:12.880 One of the strategists for Remain said, Labour may as well become a Remain party.

00:33:17.260 You know, forget about trying to appeal to the working class voters who like Brexit.

00:33:21.620 Just go for Remain.

00:33:22.640 Just be a party of Washington.

00:33:24.140 Be a party of, you know, London, which voted for the liberal Democrats.

00:33:28.160 Be a party for the elite.

00:33:29.300 Push these policies.

00:33:30.160 They're better.

00:33:31.100 And that's where the Democrats still are in terms of where their candidates are.

00:33:34.200 Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, they're out there talking about how the economy doesn't work for working class Americans.

00:33:39.220 But it actually does.

00:33:40.560 And the policies they're implementing might make them feel better about themselves, but would actually halt the economic growth, stop the job creation and stop the upward mobility of Americans who benefited from Trump's economy.

00:33:51.160 So there's a realignment starting to happen, not yet as fully on the Democratic side in the United States.

00:33:57.880 But we'll see.

00:33:58.420 The one thing we do know is that voters continue to rebel against these progressive elites in the media and in politics.

00:34:06.420 And the elites refuse to give up.

00:34:08.740 So that remains the political fault line right now.

00:34:12.420 And Trump is on the wrong side of that line as far as the media is concerned.

00:34:16.160 They're obviously going after him.

00:34:17.640 They are on the side of the Democrats and the left.

00:34:19.600 We'll see where the electorate lies next year.

00:34:21.840 One last question for you, Joel.

00:34:23.280 Joel, I agree with your analysis of the EU, of the election and the different parties over there.

00:34:29.800 But one of the things that I focused on, because we were interested in the candidacy of one of our former employees, Tommy Robinson, and he was attacked with milkshakes.

00:34:38.680 That became a thing.

00:34:40.060 Just like in the U.S., hard left, punch a Nazi became a thing in 2017.

00:34:46.060 In this election, milkshake a Nazi. 0.64

00:34:48.480 But of course, they call Nazis anyone they don't like.

00:34:50.700 So they milkshaked.

00:34:51.880 They threw a milkshake on Tommy Robinson.

00:34:53.780 They threw a milkshake on Nigel Farage.

00:34:55.580 So you had this, and that's not a deadly violence, but there could be a rock in a milkshake.

00:35:01.780 They could be acid.

00:35:03.380 It is still an assault.

00:35:05.360 So the normalization and the celebration of the milkshake assaults by the media party was a real phenomenon in this election.

00:35:13.780 And then, especially in the case of our friend Tommy, the censorship.

00:35:17.940 Facebook and Twitter deleted Tommy's platform of a million followers.

00:35:22.320 Halfway through the campaign, Tommy Robinson's credit card processor of his campaign announced that they were cutting him off in the middle of the campaign.

00:35:34.420 These kind of deplatforming of social media and the normalization of violence, I see them in the U.K. targeting the nationalist populist parties.

00:35:44.660 Do you see any worry about that coming to America in the 2020 election?

00:35:50.740 Sure.

00:35:51.260 I mean, the deplatforming going on at social media companies, the way that big tech companies are changing their algorithms to suppress conservative news or suppress articles shared by conservatives, it could end up being the decisive factor in 2020.

00:36:06.920 And it's something of massive concern.

00:36:10.080 For example, the Charlottesville controversy over the president's comments in 2017, the false version of his comments is everywhere and everybody believes it and you can share it and complain about it, talk about it on social media.

00:36:25.160 If you try to correct the fake news in the media, your post won't be shared.

00:36:31.520 It'll be demonetized.

00:36:32.680 It'll be suppressed. 0.92

00:36:34.120 There's definitely an uneven playing field on social media because the social media companies were blamed for Trump winning in the first place, which is ridiculous.

00:36:40.740 But they've been blamed for allowing fake news and Russian bots and whatever.

00:36:44.400 And so they're determined to make sure he doesn't win.

00:36:47.160 Also, many of their employees are hardcore left wing, as we saw from the leaked Google videos, where basically senior executives of this publicly traded company were consoling their employees on Trump's win.

00:36:57.000 They are determined to see a Democrat take the White House for personal ideological reasons, and they are going to make sure that their work assists in that effort.

00:37:07.800 I think it's impossible to trust these companies, and there are many signs that what they're doing is essentially rigging the election for Democrats in 2020.

00:37:16.460 Now, that could be stopped, perhaps, and it's worth noting that despite the ongoing efforts to do this, conservative parties have continued to win around the world.

00:37:27.320 So maybe they're not that powerful, but in the United States, certainly they have a big role to play in our politics.

00:37:33.080 And we see that happening, and we see this sort of legitimation of assaults on conservatives.

00:37:38.960 I think some CBS News anchors were laughing about the milkshake phenomenon you described.

00:37:43.040 So we definitely have a lot of work to do in this country before we understand what fair journalism is about, what a level playing field is about, and what the role of social media companies really ought to be.

00:37:53.900 Joel, let me close with this.

00:37:55.600 My monologue today was about a new censorship plan announced just yesterday by Canada's Minister of Democratic Institutions.

00:38:04.540 Of course, that's her title, but she's undermining those democratic institutions. 1.00

00:38:11.600 She has twisted the arm of social media companies to delete what she calls fake news, and the idea that government, a party, would direct Facebook on what to delete and whatnot is deeply worrying.

00:38:25.860 I believe that in English Canada, in Quebec, they have a bit of a different phenomenon.

00:38:29.740 But I believe, Joel, that in English Canada, the rebel is who they have in mind.

00:38:33.960 We're really the only conservative outlet.

00:38:36.360 We're online only.

00:38:37.540 So that's clearly who they're talking about.

00:38:40.020 They've taken a run at us before.

00:38:41.720 The prime minister himself, Justin Trudeau, has named and attacked us in parliaments, as have other of his cabinet ministers.

00:38:48.960 I guess my point is, Joel, if they knock us off the Internet with some fake, trumped-up, deplatforming excuse,

00:38:57.160 will you get your friends down there to help raise a ruckus to save us?

00:39:01.140 Because what I've observed with Tommy is once you've been unpersoned, you can't even get the word out.

00:39:07.580 So I guess this is my request in advance.

00:39:11.060 For when they come to silence us, please light a candle for us, because I don't know if anyone in this country will.

00:39:18.200 Well, of course, the fakest news of all, there are no consequences for the fake news of the Russia scandal,

00:39:24.060 the Russia hoax, or the fake news that Trump had no chance of winning, or any number of other things.

00:39:28.660 I mean, there's a great example today.

00:39:31.300 Some journalists applied for a Freedom of Information Act release of government documents

00:39:37.960 about President Donald Trump's trip to Europe a couple of years ago.

00:39:40.800 Remember, he was supposed to visit a cemetery to commemorate the dead in the First World War.

00:39:48.240 So he was going to, I think it was on Veterans Day or Memorial Day or something,

00:39:51.840 he was going to be part of a World War I commemoration.

00:39:55.220 And he did not go because his helicopter, we were told, could not fly in the heavy rain.

00:40:03.040 Well, the left and the media went to town.

00:40:05.660 Trump is unpatriotic, dereliction of duty, he has no respect for the troops, blah, blah, blah.

00:40:09.960 So the documents came out today, and in fact, they proved that the Navy ordered Trump's helicopter grounded

00:40:16.560 because of the weather conditions.

00:40:17.820 You can't have the president of the United States at risk of a crash.

00:40:22.100 Remember what happened to the president of Poland a few years ago

00:40:24.920 when they were visiting a military or war crime memorial in Russia?

00:40:30.440 He crashed, and his entire government essentially died on a plane because they flew in bad weather.

00:40:36.220 So Trump was grounded by the Navy, and that turns out to be 100% true.

00:40:40.520 What the Trump administration said was 100% true.

00:40:42.780 And everything the media said and all the pundits, nobody's apologizing today, withdrawing, retracting.

00:40:47.700 Nobody's doing any of that.

00:40:49.060 They are fake news because they are committed to a narrative that is fake,

00:40:52.900 which is that the country never really elected Trump and that he doesn't love the country.

00:40:56.260 That's basically what they believe.

00:40:57.580 It's a political narrative.

00:40:59.260 They are essentially propagandists for the Democratic Party.

00:41:01.440 They're never deplatformed.

00:41:02.540 They're never taken offline.

00:41:03.540 And, you know, how do you start policing fake news when the essence of the mainstream is fake?

00:41:09.260 So, yes, we'll definitely be in your corner for that one.

00:41:11.560 Well, thank you, because I know I'm sounding apocalyptic, but I have this phrase,

00:41:16.600 and maybe I'm using it too much, Joel.

00:41:17.880 Whenever I visit the UK, I call it my personal dystopian time machine

00:41:21.800 because I feel like I see what's coming to us in five years.

00:41:25.360 And I realize that the most frustrating place in the world to be is someone who can see a future

00:41:30.360 that he believes will be dark, but cannot raise the alarm because no one will listen.

00:41:36.000 I think that's the greatest frustration in the world.

00:41:40.880 I feel like we are going towards that censored future.

00:41:45.180 And perhaps it's because I myself am worried that we will be targeted by it.

00:41:49.540 But I find it very difficult to raise the alarm because of the nature of censorship.

00:41:54.460 When a voice is gone, it cannot protest for itself.

00:41:57.320 Perhaps I'm too dark on this.

00:41:58.460 Do you think they're coming for you and Breitbart.com?

00:42:03.100 Of course they are.

00:42:04.320 I mean, all of these people would love to see us out of business.

00:42:08.200 They make it their top priority to try to harass us and frame us in various ways.

00:42:13.000 I mean, BuzzFeed, a couple of days ago, blamed us and Ben Shapiro for an anti-Semitic attack on a synagogue

00:42:20.140 because in the anti-Semite neo-Nazis defense lawyer's submission to the court,

00:42:28.180 they blamed his 17-year-old wife who said that she had been reading conservative news on the Internet.

00:42:33.480 And that somehow made him paint a swastika on a synagogue and set something on fire in the courtyard. 0.99

00:42:38.220 I mean, it's so ridiculous. 0.96

00:42:39.800 I'm sitting here, you know, with my Jewish head covering here, my kippah, my yarmulke on my head. 0.94

00:42:44.660 I write about how Jews should arm themselves and take advantage of the Second Amendment. 0.79

00:42:48.900 I write articles about shooting targets of Hitler. 0.99

00:42:51.900 And somehow I'm supposed to be inspiring anti-Semitism by essentially encouraging Jews to make sure that the next anti-Semitic who enters a synagogue has his head blown off. 0.98

00:43:02.140 I'm supposedly encouraging anti-Semitism. 1.00

00:43:04.220 I mean, it's ridiculous.

00:43:05.060 But that's what BuzzFeed is doing.

00:43:06.900 And BuzzFeed is still treated as a mainstream news organization because they have a lot of traffic.

00:43:10.800 Even though they got the Russia collusion story wrong, they've got so many other stories wrong.

00:43:14.740 They're not going after Tony Robbins over something that, you know, happened 30 or 40 years ago and some ridiculous allegations.

00:43:21.220 They're a tabloid news site that exists to bring down other people. 0.94

00:43:25.120 And they're making this ridiculous claim.

00:43:27.120 But they're never demonetized or taken off of platforms. 0.97

00:43:29.700 I mean, it's totally ridiculous.

00:43:31.480 It is an ongoing problem here. 0.77

00:43:33.880 And, you know, look, we deal with it just by keeping on, you know, we do what we do.

00:43:38.540 We also have to be careful.

00:43:39.760 I mean, that's the reality.

00:43:40.600 We are living in an unfree environment at the moment.

00:43:43.600 You have to police what you say.

00:43:45.920 And it's not because the government is coming after you.

00:43:47.880 But it is because these large tech companies and the large mainstream media organizations essentially function like governments in how they can control the flow of information.

00:43:58.160 They have massive power that government really has never had before.

00:44:02.080 And you have to be careful.

00:44:04.540 We haven't figured out a way yet to hold them accountable.

00:44:07.080 So until we do, you have to be subtle in what you say.

00:44:10.880 I mean, I've learned from others.

00:44:12.560 You notice when I talked about Charlottesville, I didn't mention certain words because my worry is that if I say certain words on this broadcast, your broadcast will be demonetized on YouTube because that's what they're doing now.

00:44:23.840 Now, friends who've discussed this particular Charlottesville incident have found that once they say certain words, the video is demonetized.

00:44:32.260 So you have to be careful.

00:44:33.400 I don't say political things on Facebook anymore.

00:44:36.000 That's partly because I don't want to offend my friends and relatives, not all of whom agree with me on politics, but also because Facebook does try to suppress conservative political speech.

00:44:44.880 So I say my political views on Twitter.

00:44:46.520 But when I do say them on Twitter, I don't swear.

00:44:48.760 That's just to be polite.

00:44:49.660 I like to be polite.

00:44:50.400 I think it's better.

00:44:50.920 But if I were as strident in my views, if I were as openly strident in public as sometimes I feel privately, I'd get kicked off of Twitter, no problem, very quickly, because they are suppressing even ordinary views that are scientific.

00:45:05.080 I mean, there was a leading psychologist who'd done research into transgenderism.

00:45:09.500 He was kicked off of Twitter for reporting some scientific conclusions he had made.

00:45:13.500 On Instagram, I just follow people who post beautiful images, and I post images of flowers and food and things like that.

00:45:20.100 You have to almost specialize in terms of your social media output.

00:45:23.680 You really can't be political on all these platforms because they do suppress political speech in some ways.

00:45:28.320 And so you have to be careful.

00:45:30.300 And that's the reality.

00:45:31.900 So it is something we'll struggle with.

00:45:35.000 But in the meantime, we have to be careful so that we don't get demonetized or silenced in advance of the, I suppose, coming battle, which hopefully will decide the future of this media.

00:45:44.020 You know, just give me 30 seconds to give you this anecdote.

00:45:48.120 We've published over 12,000 videos since we started four and a half years ago.

00:45:52.280 And the four words that I detect demonetize our videos in various combinations are Trudeau, feminist, ISIS or terrorist, and transgender.

00:46:06.640 Those four concepts.

00:46:09.980 You're not going to make any money off this video.

00:46:12.100 Yeah.

00:46:12.800 I mean, so if you could, if there was a story about Trudeau saying he's a feminist in the face of a transsexual ISIS terrorist, you're not going to make a penny off that. 0.62

00:46:23.240 It'll probably be deleted.

00:46:24.160 So no stories about transgender ISIS feminists and Trudeau, please. 0.98

00:46:28.960 I'm joking around, but only a little bit.

00:46:31.760 Joel, it's great to see you.

00:46:32.560 Thanks for your point of view.

00:46:33.400 Nice to see you again.

00:46:34.840 Take care.

00:46:35.200 All right, there you have it.

00:46:36.200 Joel Pollack, the senior editor-at-large for Breitbart.com.

00:46:41.300 Stay with us.

00:46:41.960 My final thoughts are next.

00:46:53.440 Hey, welcome back.

00:46:54.360 On my show yesterday about Tommy Robinson and the European parliamentary elections, Liza writes,

00:46:59.120 how can we expect fair elections anywhere anymore with social media and corrupt politicians calling the shots?

00:47:06.060 Yeah, well, we just saw the test run, the prototype in the UK.

00:47:11.240 I think it's coming to Canada now.

00:47:13.260 Lou writes a letter.

00:47:14.600 It's lengthy.

00:47:15.100 I'm going to read as much of it as I can.

00:47:16.420 What happened to Tommy Robinson getting deleted from Facebook, Instagram, and financial services on the Internet is bad enough.

00:47:21.960 This is censorship.

00:47:22.620 The election was undemocratic with the police and government taking sides, but it's much worse.

00:47:27.160 The deplatforming of Robinson on social media is a way of canceling the very existence and meaning of the person.

00:47:33.180 It strikes at the heart of who we are and what it means to exist.

00:47:35.960 It's like getting murdered by social media.

00:47:38.280 The individual is dead and out of the way.

00:47:40.620 One ceases to be.

00:47:42.360 This is wrong, unjust, and inhumane.

00:47:44.940 It's time to regulate a level playing field for all social media.

00:47:49.640 You know, I think there's some truth there.

00:47:51.440 It's hard to believe that in a few short years, less than a decade, so much of our lives are connected that way, and to simply erase a person's entire history.

00:48:04.260 Like I say, if you type Tommy Robinson into the YouTube search engine, he's there, but you will not find it unless you know the exact precise URL.

00:48:14.140 You can search for videos.

00:48:15.580 You will not find it.

00:48:16.460 It is as if he has been removed from history.

00:48:20.480 Isn't that incredible?

00:48:21.980 It's in the U.K., and I think it's here now.

00:48:26.240 That's our show for today.

00:48:27.380 Until tomorrow, keep fighting for freedom.

00:48:29.920 Thank you.

Rebel News Podcast - May 29, 2019

The Liberals make their move against Canadians who dare to speak out on Facebook

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