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00:00:25.000It's an almost endless series of foolish statements by people who really should know better, but have decided that the most important thing for them is to centralize power of policymaking, power of government, power of money to themselves.
00:00:38.000And so the only way that the elitists at Davos at the World Economic Forum can actually justify the kind of power grabs that they want to make here, the power grab that suggests that they get to restructure the entire world economy, or they get to restructure energy markets, they get to regulate how you live your life.
00:00:53.000The only way they can justify that is with absolute crisis mongering.
00:00:56.000And so half of Davos is about trying to explain to the rest of the world that we are on the precipice of the global end, that essentially They are like Jor-El at the beginning of Superman the movie, explaining that Krypton is about to be eaten by the red sun over here.
00:01:11.000And so we really need to do something about that.
00:01:40.000In any case, she shows up at the World Economic Forum and she proceeds to explain that right now, one quarter of global deaths are from preventable environmental causes.
00:01:59.000When you think about what most people's main assets are, it's their ability to work.
00:02:03.000And if you're sick, you can't work, you can't participate in markets, GDPs don't grow.
00:02:09.000And so we have a real opportunity to address this.
00:02:13.000A quarter of the world's deaths currently are from preventable environmental causes.
00:02:18.000So we're just, if we don't tackle this issue in this nexus, we're really setting ourselves up for a much harder pathway.
00:02:24.000A quarter of the world's deaths are from preventable environmental causes?
00:02:27.000I'm pretty sure that, like, virtually all deaths are from health issues in the West.
00:02:34.000They're generally from health issues of old age.
00:02:38.000I mean, I'm not sure exactly what she's trying to say here.
00:02:40.000Maybe she's trying to say that a quarter of the world's preventable deaths are from preventable environmental causes.
00:02:45.000I'm pretty sure the vast majority of people who are dying in the West in an old age home at the age of 87 are not dying from a preventable environmental cause.
00:02:54.000OK, but but even if we correct her statement, we say what she really means is that a quarter of preventable deaths are from preventable environmental causes.
00:03:02.000That's not really even true because here is the thing.
00:03:06.000She's assuming that a preventable environmental cause would be, for example, global warming, right?
00:03:11.000If we could stop global warming, then the amount of preventable death would decline.
00:03:15.000There's only one problem with that, which is that way more people die on a yearly basis because things are cold and because things are hot.
00:03:22.000Bjorn Lomberg over at the Copenhagen Institute, he put out a graphic recently showing this, demonstrating how this works.
00:03:29.000The number of cold deaths has actually decreased since 2000 by 0.51 percent.
00:03:36.000The number of heat deaths has increased by 0.21 percent.
00:03:41.000The problem is that if you look at that on an absolute death level, what you see is that higher temperatures have actually decreased the amount of cold death by 283,000 cold deaths over that course of time.
00:03:56.000And higher temperatures have increased heat deaths by about 116,000 deaths, which means that the net amount of death avoided is actually higher because of global warming.
00:04:06.000If you're talking about the directly impacted people from global warming, a few more people have died because of heat, but a lot less people, a lot fewer people have died because it's cold because it's warm now, right?
00:04:17.000So what she's saying is actively untrue.
00:04:21.000But the crisis mongering has to continue.
00:04:23.000And this is why you will hear people say there are billions of people homeless, billions of people crossing borders.
00:04:28.000What you're going to say is mass death, catastrophe, cats and dogs living together, the end of the world.
00:04:35.000Because if you claim that this is the shtick, this allows you to grab and wield unseemly power.
00:04:40.000Another Davos speaker at the World Economic Forum, Professor Joyita Gupta, says that by 2070, 3 billion people will live in uninhabitable zones.
00:04:49.000A forbidden zone from Planet of the Apes or something.
00:04:53.000This uninhabitable zone is increasing.
00:04:57.000If we continue with our greenhouse gas emissions, then by 2070, as many as 3 billion people will live in uninhabitable zones.
00:05:08.000Well, I mean, the truth is that people right now live in heretofore uninhabitable zones.
00:05:14.000As technology gets better, people are very, very good at adapting.
00:05:17.000People are living in areas that are way too hot to really sustain human life, but we have air conditioning, for example.
00:05:23.000We're able to move water to places where there is no water.
00:05:26.000It used to be, if you go back 10,000 years, that people tended to live by rivers and lakes because this is where the water supply was.
00:05:31.000They at least tended to live where the water table was relatively low because this meant that you were able to dig a well.
00:05:37.000Now, because of the extraordinary technology that we've been able to bring to bear, you can build a city in the middle of the desert in Las Vegas, for example.
00:05:45.000Do you really think that all those people are just going to sit there while it gets really hot and not move?
00:05:50.000Do you think that's what's going to happen over the course of the next 50 years?
00:05:53.000This is a point that I've made before and people have Have intentionally misconstrued it because this is what we do on the internet is we tend to take people's arguments and then we pretend that they don't know exactly what they're saying or we take them in the stupidest possible way.
00:06:06.000What I've said is that over the course of the century, people adapt, people move.
00:06:10.000As the water levels rise, nobody is going to stand there as the water level approaches their ankles and then their knees and then their chest and then their nose and then they drown.
00:06:21.000But if you can promote the notion that crisis is right at our doorstep, and it's a preventable crisis, we can do something about it, this allows you to grab ultimate power.
00:06:32.000The UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell over at Davos did the same thing.
00:06:36.000She says the climate crisis is a child health crisis.
00:06:39.000Why can't you just say it's getting warmer and we have to adapt?
00:06:42.000Or it's getting warmer and we might be able to stop or lower the amount of warming that is happening and that the costs of doing so are outweighed by the benefits.
00:07:00.000You know, we're seeing so many children who have no idea where their next meal is coming from.
00:07:06.000I saw it again in Yemen, you know, where children are just literally so vulnerable and all of these climate threats, everything that happens in the world, every bad thing that happens is a little bit worse for children.
00:07:18.000So we see the climate crisis as really a child health crisis.
00:07:21.000Okay, I'm sorry, but this notion that kids are dying en masse because of starvation because of global warming is rebutted by the simple fact that there has been a massive decline in hunger in the developing world since essentially 1990.
00:07:36.000There's been a decline of about 20% of people in the developing world who are starving to A little bit over 12% by say 2014.
00:07:48.000And that decline has continued to pace.
00:07:50.000Because it turns out that people are really good at shipping things places.
00:08:15.000What I need you doing is making sure that I get the cheap energy that is necessary to power my life and develop my economy.
00:08:20.000What I need from you is a stable set of governance rules that can be implemented by my government so that I can own my own property.
00:08:29.000So that all of the locked up capital in the land that I'm sitting on, but it's not legally owned by me because of this bad property system, can be unlocked.
00:08:37.000This is Hernando de Soto, the Latin American economist who won the Nobel Prize.
00:08:40.000He has suggested that one of the big problems in the developing world, in the underdeveloped world, is that they don't have actual regulatory consistency.
00:08:48.000So you don't know if you own a piece of land when you sit on that land for 20 years, for example.
00:08:52.000There are a bunch of things we can do for the developing world.
00:08:54.000Stable governance is one of those things.
00:08:56.000Cheap energy is another one of those things.
00:08:58.000The problem is that cheap energy comes in the form of carbon-based fossil fuels because that is the cheapest and most effective form of energy currently known to man.
00:09:07.000And so this creates a problem for the elitists because they say, we're doing this on behalf of the poor, don't you see?
00:09:11.000We're doing all, we need power so we can help the poor people, which sounds great.
00:09:15.000We need power to help the people who are the most, the most hurt by climate change.
00:09:20.000We need the power to help the people who are starving because there's only one problem.
00:09:23.000If you ask those people, would you like cheap gas or these morons over here flying private jets and talking about solar panels, they're going to say, give us the cheap gas.
00:10:08.000You need to give us the power to help the poor people and the poor people don't want us to have that power.
00:10:10.000Well, we need to convince those poor people that they should give us the power as well, because of course they're stupid.
00:10:16.000I mean, they're stupid and they're poor.
00:10:17.000So if we just explain to them that we need to put the solar power on their iron shacks, then probably that'll solve the problem.
00:10:26.000So here is climate negotiator Nam Gage Hoden explaining just that.
00:10:29.000I heard this amazing phrase yesterday where a friend of mine said that there are doors that we can walk through, but it's important that you hold that door so that someone less privileged than you can walk through it.
00:10:46.000So something that you can think about is what are you doing in your position of privilege to make the conversation on climate more accessible to somebody who may not know about it or for someone who lives in a different part of the world where this conversation is not a possibility.
00:11:07.000Maybe the reason that the conversation isn't a possibility is not because of government crackdowns.
00:11:11.000Maybe the conversation isn't the possibility because people are too busy worrying about being able to eat and have enough heat to survive cold.
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00:13:25.000But all of this is the predicate to the power grab.
00:13:28.000So the UN Secretary General, he says it's time to move beyond fossil fuels.
00:13:36.000We have this climate crisis, and if we don't actively act on the crisis, then we're all going to die.
00:13:41.000Now, whenever somebody declares a world-ending crisis, Without the evidence to actually show it, you can typically guarantee that it's about the power.
00:13:50.000Whether you're talking about people who were claiming that they should have ultimate power to decide literally everything in your life based on COVID, or whether you're talking about the UN Secretary General saying that climate change, the change of the climate over the course of a hundred years, and now you have to give me ultimate power.
00:14:06.000Maybe they just want the ultimate power.
00:14:08.000So here is the UN Secretary General saying it's time to move beyond fossil fuels.
00:14:11.000This is not a decision that you get to make.
00:14:26.000The UN is making a number of proposals.
00:14:30.000Our proposal is to have a global stimulus.
00:14:33.000A global stimulus able to redress the economies and a global stimulus able to address the challenges of the poorest in the world.
00:14:42.000And at the same time, to create the funds that are necessary for a just transition in relation to climate change.
00:14:48.000We need to move from a dominance of fossil fuels to a dominance of renewables, but we need to do that in a just way.
00:14:57.000Okay, I love that they're talking about global redistributionism and a giant global stimulus, which means taxing you to have the governments of the world blow out their monetary supply, which is how we got an inflation spiral that we are currently in and trying to escape.
00:15:11.000I love that they're doing this against the backdrop of beautiful mountains in Switzerland where rich people are skiing.
00:15:33.000I have to say, God's casting process lately is just, it's broken.
00:15:37.000God as casting director, as a big believer in the Almighty, I have to say that the Almighty casting process, it used to be a lot more subtle.
00:15:47.000Now the Almighty is just typecasting at this point.
00:15:50.000He's trotting out global supervillains like Klaus Schwab, who speaks in a German accent while explaining that you must give up your power.
00:15:59.000Or you have this guy, the UN Secretary General, sitting there all fat-catted wearing a nice overcoat and a scarf at a ski chalet explaining why he needs more power.
00:16:17.000You know, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Chancellor of Germany, he says, the fundamental task of our century is the transformation to a climate-neutral economy.
00:16:25.000I feel like there are more fundamental tasks, actually, and that what you're actually talking about is we need innovation.
00:17:24.000Or maybe that's not how innovation works.
00:17:26.000Maybe you have posited no solutions that are actually sufficient to the problem you claim exists.
00:17:32.000But at least you got people to cheer for you at the World Economic Forum, I suppose.
00:17:37.000Our transformation toward a climate-neutral economy, the fundamental task of our century, is currently taking on an entirely new dynamic.
00:17:49.000Not in spite of, but because of the Russian war and the resulting pressure on us Europeans to change.
00:17:57.000Whether you are a business leader or a climate activist, a security policy specialist or an investor, it is now crystal clear to each and every one of us that the future belongs solely to renewables.
00:18:13.000Wow, the future belongs solely to renewables.
00:18:15.000Oh, I don't even know what that means.
00:18:17.000The future belongs to, who decides this?
00:18:20.000Doesn't the market typically decide who wins in the market?
00:18:23.000And isn't all of Europe now essentially freezing because Russia turned off the oil and natural gas and now they're dependent on America shipping in a lot of that stuff?
00:18:33.000But again, the predicate is for a global redistributionist scheme.
00:18:38.000Give us power for a global redistributionist scheme.
00:18:40.000The person who makes this clearest is the Colombian president Gustavo Petro, who is in fact a socialist.
00:18:45.000All of Latin America is undergoing right now a pink wave or large swaths of Latin America are undergoing a pink wave in which quasi socialists or open socialists take over countries and or attempt to overthrow Actual democracies, which is what's happening in Peru right now, but the media doesn't care about that, right?
00:19:01.000The media only cares when Bolsonarists attack government buildings in Brazil.
00:19:04.000They don't care when dozens of people are being killed in the middle of an actual conflict in Peru because the people who are protesting and committing acts of violence against the government, those are left-wingers.
00:19:12.000In any case, here is Colombian President Gustavo Petro saying that what needs to end, if you want to fight climate change, what really needs to end is capitalism.
00:19:20.000This is the underlying message of the World Economic Forum.
00:19:22.000They like to claim that they're in favor of liberalized economies, but the minute that the liberalized economy runs up against their particular mode of morality, which is top down control corporatism, then they immediately throw that out the window. So here's Gustavo Petro.
00:19:37.000The capitalism that we know nowadays has a driving force and logic.
00:19:44.000And that is to increase our profits in such a way. And that's how we talk about history to regulate everything without political or social boundaries.
00:20:15.000Al Gore is making his big reappearance.
00:20:17.000This is a dude who's earned tens of millions of dollars with climate alarmism that has largely been proved false over the course of the last 20 years or so.
00:20:24.000Remember all the polar bears were going to be dead at this point and the ice caps are going to be completely melted?
00:20:28.000Al Gore is still here talking about man, bear, pig.
00:20:33.000So, Al Gore over at the World Economic Forum.
00:20:36.000Again, God's casting process is broken.
00:20:39.000He says, you know, one of the big problems is the head of the World Bank.
00:20:42.000Because the head of the World Bank is not actively giving loans to useless projects that are unlikely to be successful.
00:20:48.000And the reason for that is because he's a climate denier.
00:21:13.000Not only that, says Al Gore, if we don't stop this climate, if we don't stop this climate crisis, we're going to see billions of climate refugees.
00:21:24.000Creating the droughts and melting the ice and raising the sea level and causing these waves of climate refugees predicted to reach 1 billion in this century.
00:21:33.000Look at the xenophobia and political authoritarian trends that have come from just a few million refugees.
00:22:02.000Whether you're talking about Peru, or whether you're talking about Brazil, or whether you're talking about the United States, or whether you're talking about Israel, anytime the left loses, their immediate move is democracy is under threat.
00:22:11.000See, when Joe Biden wins the presidency, I don't think democracy is under threat.
00:22:15.000I think something terrible has happened in the country and he shouldn't be the president of the United States.
00:22:19.000And the American body of politics should reject that and move forward to kick him out of office as soon as humanly possible.
00:22:24.000But that's not the same thing as democracy.
00:22:26.000But all of these people who want global control, they're constantly suggesting that if they don't get global control, then somehow democracy has been defeated.
00:22:33.000It seems to me that you just mean, by democracy, stuff I like.
00:22:39.000So if you don't get the stuff you like, then democracy is in danger.
00:23:16.000The left actually loves the morality of war and the ethic of war.
00:23:21.000They just want to direct it at a bunch of other causes.
00:23:24.000And they want to be able to essentially draft your bank account for their needs.
00:23:29.000They want to be able to control your life in these ways.
00:23:33.000Here's John Kerry said, we don't, the crisis is so large that we don't have time for business as usual.
00:23:37.000Remember business as usual just means freedom.
00:23:41.000Red tape, the amount of paperwork, the amount of numbers, hiring that we have to do in a slowdown, an economic slowdown kind of environment.
00:23:50.000How do we get above that concern for the private sector that this is going to represent a huge burden that, quite frankly, I don't have time for?
00:25:30.000Meanwhile, Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock, who's been using the extraordinary power of BlackRock.
00:25:34.000BlackRock, of course, is an investment firm that has a trillion dollars under management.
00:25:39.000He was speaking also at the World Economic Forum, and he's angry that people are saying that the corporations who are now seeking stakeholder capitalism, meaning doing the work of this sort of globalized elite, he says that you're not really supposed to attack him.
00:25:52.000During an interview on Tuesday in Davos, he said, quote, I'm taking it very seriously, the criticism.
00:25:57.000We're trying to address the misconceptions.
00:25:58.000It's hard because it's not business anymore.
00:26:18.000The problem, he says, is that Elon Musk has been attacking the ESG movement, the Environmental Social Governance movement, which suggests that corporations should be working in line with major government in order to pursue some of these nefarious ends.
00:26:31.000The desire for control is extraordinarily strong.
00:27:36.000And he said, I'm not doing it because I'm a Russian Orthodox observer, and therefore, I don't believe in same-sex marriage, and I also don't believe in homosexual activity, in line with virtually all traditional religion.
00:27:48.000This means, of course, that he has committed a grave sin, and he must be punished.
00:27:57.000So here's a Canadian host named Sid Seixero ripping Properov in rather colorful terms because you're not allowed to disagree with the alphabet people.
00:28:08.000You're not allowed to say, listen, you can do what you want in the privacy of your own bedroom, whatever, it's your life, but you can't force me to agree with you.
00:28:16.000You're not allowed to do that anymore.
00:29:13.000Guys, that's the best kind of inclusivity, says this moron Canadian host.
00:29:17.000But unfortunately, this is large swaths of the sports media.
00:29:20.000This is just one reason why you should, instead of subscribing to left-wing sports media companies that hate your guts, you should go check out Crane & Co, which actually covers sports from a perspective of people who actually like sports and don't hate you.
00:29:32.000Mark Lazarus, a senior writer for The Athletic, he tweeted out, quote, I have no time for people who openly hate and hide behind religion.
00:29:39.000If your religion preaches hate, your religion is bulls**t. I'm disappointed in Tortorella, who famously said that's the coach, who famously said he'd bench a player for protesting peacefully during the anthem in the wake of Colin Kaepernick.
00:29:49.000Oh, you mean because we are all supposed to be unified in support for the United States of America?
00:29:55.000I'm sorry if your vision of social justice elevates the Pride Progress flag to the place of the United States flag in the American pantheon, but that is not true for a vast bevy of Americans.
00:30:06.000Lazarus says, he has a quote, Ivan Prokhorov made a decision not to participate in an event that was important to our team and to our fans.
00:30:12.000As a result, we as a team made a decision not to play him out of respect to the LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign community and all our fans.
00:30:25.000Um, that is vile and disgusting, but unfortunately, a huge swath of the sports media that, again, hates traditional values, agrees with this.
00:30:33.000Adam Protu, who is a writer for the Hockey News and Full Press NHL, he says, Ivan Provorov has the right to any opinion he chooses, and we have the right to have any opinion on Ivan Provorov we choose.
00:30:44.000Like this, he's a shameful human being whose homophobia is only going to get more shameful over the years.
00:30:49.000It's shameful, you see, to oppose the agenda.
00:30:52.000Again, he didn't call for anybody to be punished.
00:30:54.000He didn't call for anything to happen to people who were wearing pride flags.
00:31:31.000He essentially did the Sir Thomas More thing.
00:31:36.000He said, I'm just going to be silent here and not do that.
00:31:38.000And like, nope, nope, you must be punished.
00:31:43.000Pierre Lebrun, who is the official Twitter page of TSN and RDS Hockey Insider and a columnist for The Athletic, he says, Pravrov obviously does not respect everyone.
00:31:52.000If he did respect everyone, he would have taken part in a warmup and worn the Pride Night jersey.
00:32:28.000I don't respect all the things that they are doing every day.
00:32:31.000But the left refuses to acknowledge these possibilities because in the end, the left believes that they must rule and you must, you must obey.
00:32:41.000To the point, by the way, where even if the left agrees with you, if you are of the wrong skin color or you're of the wrong group, you're not allowed to talk about it.
00:32:50.000So Leslie Jones, who for some odd reason is considered funny by some people.
00:32:53.000I don't know whether they, I don't know whether they're like Phineas Gage and they were hit by some sort of mind, mind crankshaft, like through the, through the skull, went through the eye and like out the back of the head.
00:33:02.000And so now they find Leslie Jones funny.
00:33:04.000There must be some group of people who finds Leslie Jones funny.
00:33:07.000I don't know who they are or where they live or why they exist, but in any case, Leslie Jones was guest hosting The Daily Show, and she was talking about this garbage statue, this MLK statue in Boston, the Embrace.
00:33:19.000We talked about it on the show because it's hideous.
00:33:21.000It's just a terrible piece of garbage statue.
00:33:23.000I mean, there are lots of great statues of MLK.
00:33:25.000There's a great one in Washington, D.C.
00:34:40.000It's disembodied arms holding each other.
00:34:45.000Also, I'd just like to follow this logic down to its extreme, okay?
00:34:49.000So basically, she's now saying that if you associate complete garbage with a topic that is sacrosanct, then certain groups are not allowed to criticize the garbage for being garbage.
00:35:06.000But if I declare that this pile of human feces has some sort of political ramifications, that means you can't say anything.
00:35:13.000You can't notice that it's stinking and steaming in the middle of the street.
00:35:17.000She hates the statue too, but you're not allowed to talk about it because you're a white person.
00:35:20.000This is, by the way, and she's doing this in the name of MLK, the man who is most famous for suggesting that people should be judged by the character Rather than the color of their skin.
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00:39:27.000So Joy Reid on MSNBC doing that sort of work with Nikole Hannah-Jones yesterday.
00:39:31.000So Nikole Hannah-Jones is the most overpaid and overestimated intellect of our time.
00:39:36.000She was on with Joy Reid, another overpaid intellect.
00:39:39.000And Joy Reid said, what's it like to be a truth teller?
00:39:44.000If by truth teller you mean a repeatedly debunked falsifier of history, sure.
00:39:49.000But Nikole Hannah-Jones is one of the specials, so she gets to say whatever the hell she wants.
00:39:54.000There has been a resistance to what you have brought to the table, which is truth and telling the truth about this country, which for a lot of people is more than they can bear.
00:40:02.000So I want you to just talk a little bit about what it's been like to experience being a truth teller in the way you've been with the 1619 Project and what you've received in return.
00:40:13.000I am a truth teller and you are a truth teller and together we are truth tellers who lie all the time.
00:40:17.000This is the problem with people who claim that they have an absolute monopoly on truth.
00:40:21.000especially when they're lying, is they then seek to set standards for everybody else.
00:40:25.000Which is why, over at Davos, back to the World Economic Forum, the UN Secretary General is now claiming that social media has to be held accountable for false information. And again, this is an element of control. If you're a member of a particular group, you can say whatever you want. Or if you have a message that is approved by the global elitist, then you can say whatever you want. Otherwise, you know, we're going to hold you accountable. In social media, there is no responsibility. And I can understand the argument of social media platforms saying,
00:40:52.000well, this is put by people, so it's not our responsibility.
00:40:56.000But the truth is that the algorithms are made in such a way that they amplify, in a preferential way, a certain number of things.
00:41:07.000And when the algorithm amplifies Then there is, in my opinion, a responsibility and there should be accountability, including through the legal system.
00:41:43.000There's a whole Twitter thread about this that's kind of fascinating.
00:41:45.000So safety by design might be the biggest tech threat you've never heard of.
00:41:47.000The World Economic Forum, the Australian government and a radical bureaucrat named Julie Inman Grant are using it to impose their woke ideology onto the internet for everyone worldwide.
00:41:55.000You might remember Julie Grant, the Australian e-safety commissioner from this viral World Economic Forum clip last year in which she proposed a recalibration of free speech.
00:42:04.000We have increasing polarization everywhere.
00:42:07.000And everything feels binary when it doesn't need to be.
00:42:10.000So I think we're going to have to think about a recalibration of a whole range of human rights that are playing out online, you know, from freedom of speech to the freedom to, you know, to be free from online violence.
00:42:22.000So, you know, we're going to recalibrate free speech.
00:42:24.000So she tried that by going up against Microsoft and Adobe and Twitter before Elon Musk took over.
00:42:30.000And as Michael points out, that went flat.
00:42:31.000But then she moved over to the Australian government and the World Economic Forum.
00:42:36.000We have something called the Basic Online Safety Expectations that looks at safety by design and basically says to companies, these are the basic safety standards we expect you to live by.
00:42:44.000whatever it deems quote unquote harmful.
00:42:46.000So what exactly does it mean for things to be quote unquote harmful?
00:42:52.000We have something called the basic online safety expectations that looks at safety by design and basically says to companies, these are the basic safety standards we expect you to live by.
00:43:01.000And if you don't, or if we cannot tell that you are enforcing your own, you know, terms of service and standards consistently and fairly, then I can compel transparency reports.
00:43:11.000So for the first time anywhere in the world, if a person is at a very high threshold because we need to balance freedom of expression and freedom of opinion, you know, it's not just going to be about name calling or even character assassination.
00:43:22.000This is serious cyber abuse with the intent to harm.
00:43:26.000You see a lot of companies saying, well, how do you even tell what's harmful?
00:43:28.000Well, we have to investigate every report that comes into us and and look at all the facts.
00:43:33.000And is it menacing, harassing and offensive in every case?
00:43:36.000And is there serious intent to cause harm?
00:43:38.000OK, but how do you evaluate all of that?
00:43:40.000So as Michael points out, safety by design is the notion that government regulators cannot possibly keep up with innovation.
00:43:45.000So left wing regulatory preferences need to be built into the tech.
00:43:48.000In order to operate in Australia and many more countries soon, if the WEF has its way, a company would have to abide by these basic online safety expectations and lean into the safety pushed by the eSafety Commissioner and the WEF.
00:44:00.000So what exactly does the eSafety website say would fall under banned speech, quote-unquote hate speech, individual identity attacks, disinformation and misinformation, and conspiracy content?
00:44:10.000This is the stuff that they want these companies to suppress.
00:44:13.000So again, the idea is that anything they deem to be bad information must be suppressed.
00:44:19.000Reason.com has a fascinating piece today, going through a bunch of emails that they have now uncovered via the CDC, and how the CDC was essentially controlling what you could see on Facebook during the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:44:32.000Quote, according to a trove of confidential documents obtained by Reason, health advisors at the CDC had significant input on pandemic era social media policies at Facebook.
00:44:40.000They were consulted frequently, at times daily.
00:44:42.000They were actively involved in the affairs of content moderators, providing constant and ever-evolving guidance.
00:44:47.000They requested frequent updates about which topics were trending on the platforms.
00:44:50.000They recommended what kinds of content should be deemed false or misleading.
00:44:53.000Here are two issues we are seeing a great deal of misinfo on.
00:44:56.000We wanted to flag for you all, reads one note from a CDC official.
00:44:58.000Another email with sample Facebook posts attached begins, be on the lookout for a small but growing area of misinformation.
00:45:04.000The Facebook files show the platform responded with incredible deference.
00:45:07.000Facebook routinely asked the government to vet specific claims, including whether the virus was quote, man-made rather than zoonotic in origin.
00:45:14.000In other emails, Facebook asked the government, for each of the following claims, which we've recently identified on the platform, can you tell us if the claim is false?
00:45:20.000And if believed, could it contribute to vaccine refusal?
00:45:23.000The platforms may have thought they had little choice but to please the CDC, which of course is exactly right.
00:45:29.000Again, the idea here is what is called jawboning.
00:45:31.000This is where the government essentially tries to push private entities into doing their dirty work.
00:45:37.000And that's what happened over at Facebook during the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:45:43.000So, as Robbie Sov writes, this has been the case throughout the pandemic.
00:45:47.000With encouragement from government health advisors, congressional leaders, and White House officials, including Joe Biden, multiple social media companies have suppressed content that clashes with the administration's preferred narratives.
00:46:18.000Okay, meanwhile, I would just like to take a moment, speaking of big tech and its suppression of free speech, take one moment to comment on a controversy that has broken out because my friend, Steven Crowder, I've been friends with Steven for a long time, like well over a decade.
00:46:34.000I was his lawyer when he first signed a contract with Fox and I've been friendly for a very long time.
00:46:38.000He put out a video essentially accusing Daily Wire of being in league with big tech.
00:46:43.000He's accusing us of being in league with big tech because of a term sheet, a negotiable term sheet that we submitted to him that offered to pay him $50 million over four years.
00:46:52.000And, um, and included provisions that said that if he got booted from arenas that would lose him ad dollars, since we would also lose the ad dollars, then he would lose money as well.
00:47:06.000If his show were to start losing money, this is true of my show, if I, if my show loses money and it loses the daily wire money, I lose money.
00:47:12.000So if Stephen had come to work at Daily Wire Plus, it would have been precisely the same thing.
00:47:16.000That if he had lost money in the ad space, and his show had lost money, then he also would have lost money because that's how a joint venture works.
00:47:23.000Stephen interpreted that as somehow, misinterpreted, I'll give it the best possible gloss, he somehow misinterpreted that as us attempting to quote-unquote do the work of YouTube.
00:47:36.000If you want more on that, then you should check out my friend and co-founder Jeremy Boring's 55-minute video going through every single word of the term sheet that Stephen selectively read on his own YouTube channel.
00:47:57.000We should all be on the same side of this thing.
00:47:59.000I'm encouraging you that you should go subscribe to Stephen's Mug Club.
00:48:02.000I hope that he's very successful in whatever endeavor he chooses to pursue.
00:48:06.000That does not mean that he happens to be correct about the term sheet we submitted to him, and there is something rather nasty about attacking people who have been friends for over a decade, colleagues, defenders, for over a decade, on the basis of your own misinterpretation of a document that offers you $50 million over the course of four years.
00:48:25.000Alrighty guys, the rest of the show is continuing right now.