00:02:32.920And John Kerry is saying the same thing in this clip you're going to hear
00:02:36.340because he thinks there's misinformation out there
00:02:40.500and disinformation out there, blatant lies.
00:02:43.820people are being influenced by other people on social media and they're being influenced in
00:02:51.700ideology that isn't John Kerry's so it must be wrong and it needs to be stopped that's what
00:03:00.360always gets me about these people they can't see that they their opinion is just that just another
00:03:09.260opinion they could think it is the the most righteous opinion ever but other people that
00:03:16.320disagree with it and want to voice that opinion they would rather have them silenced they do it
00:03:22.740all the time so here's john carrey talking about uh the first amendment being a little bit of a
00:03:30.880little bit of an obstacle in their goal. And I think the the dislike of and anguish over social
00:03:40.220media is just growing and growing and growing. And it's part of our problem, particularly in
00:03:46.240democracies, in terms of building consensus around any issue. It's really hard to govern today.
00:03:54.280You can't, you know, you know, there's no the referees we used to have to determine what's a
00:03:59.280fact and what isn't a fact that kind of you know been eviscerated to a certain degree and um people
00:04:05.920go and that people self-select where they go for their news or for their information and then you
00:04:11.960just get into a vicious cycle so it's really really hard much harder to build consensus today
00:04:17.480than at any time in the 45 50 years i've been involved in this and and i you know there's a lot
00:04:24.300of discussion now about how you curb those entities uh in order to guarantee that you're
00:04:31.040going to have you know some accountability on facts etc but look if people go to only one source
00:04:37.600and the source they go to is sick and uh you know has an agenda and they're putting out disinformation
00:04:44.740our first amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able to just you know hammer
00:04:52.060it out of existence so what you need what we need is to is to win the ground win the right to
00:04:59.540govern by hopefully having uh you know winning enough votes that you're free to be able to
00:05:05.460to uh implement change uh now obviously there are some people in our country who are prepared
00:05:11.780to implement change in other ways and that's really really if democracy can survive unregulated
00:05:19.540I think democracies are very challenged right now and have not proven they can move fast enough or big enough to deal with the challenges that we are facing.
00:05:33.180And to me, that is part of what this race, this election is all about.
00:05:37.840Will we break the fever in the United States?
00:05:48.160in in in in governing this is what he's saying they need to win the right to govern so you can
00:06:00.680make these changes what changes he said it he said it curbing the entities that's what he says
00:06:10.240he wants to curb the entities out there because why those entities don't agree with you
00:06:19.280how about the fact that when he brings up one source what is the one source there are thousands
00:06:26.620of sources out there you know when we had one source when all the people had was mainstream
00:06:33.780media with a single agenda a left-wing agenda they don't like that people can go elsewhere
00:06:41.080and see other ideas other opinions voice their own opinions
00:06:46.900we're self-selecting oh what a crime these are all the words he used in that statement
00:06:55.420in that little speech there people tend to self-select yeah yeah i don't agree with that
00:07:04.700so let me see if there's other people with an opinion like i have i'll select a news source
00:07:13.280that i have seen and experienced that seems to be honest and not agenda driven as much
00:07:22.520he needs um he used the word they need to have a referee who who could that be who would be the
00:07:35.200person that gets to decide what is disinformation or misinformation because i'll tell you during
00:07:42.800covid there was a lot of legitimate information that was labeled disinformation and misinformation
00:07:50.340People lost their accounts. They got canceled. And they weren't allowed to voice anything that was against the company line on COVID. And we found out that a lot of that information that was called disinformation and misinformation was indeed true and right.
00:08:15.180so who would be this amazing wonderful knowledgeable person or or entity that could
00:08:26.780decide what is true and what is false without being agenda driven all the little catchphrases
00:08:35.220and words he used there and then just saying the first amendment is a major block a major block