00:00:52.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:12.000They are working to introduce a brand new character for the series, for the franchise, because Harrison Ford is getting a little old, 80 years old, by the way.
00:01:23.000Apparently he was hurt during a lot of the filming.
00:01:25.000And Kathleen Kennedy, the same mastermind that gave you the incredible Disney Star Wars.
00:01:31.000Hey, kids, if you like Disney Star Wars, you'll love, you'll absolutely love Disney Indiana Jones, because what we're going to do is we're going to replace Indiana with a sassy and crazy female, female goddaughter who she's going to get the hat.
00:01:54.000She's going to get the whip at the very end of it all.
00:01:57.000And so when I look at stuff like this, it's amazing to me because it's like, this is exactly what you did with Luke Skywalker.
00:02:06.000You essentially replaced him with this girl that no one's ever heard of who popped up and suddenly, oh, we all have to love her.
00:02:16.000And Kathleen Kennedy is the same person who's involved in all of this.
00:02:20.000You find some institution or franchise that everybody loves.
00:02:24.000You come in and you say, by the way, it's not enough.
00:02:28.000It's not enough that we, you know, you're going to say like, oh, well, Americans, you know, these, you know, the masculine patriarchy would never allow, never, ever allow for a female explorer, a strong female explorer character.
00:02:43.000Oh, wait, you know, we have the entire Laura Croft franchise.
00:03:53.000So speaking of, of all things, not just transgender, but also transhuman, we do have finally the great Libby Emmons, the editor-in-chief of the post-millennial, sort of a sort of a co-host for me now on Human Events Daily, which is pretty cool.
00:04:11.000Libby Emmons, thank you so much for joining the program.
00:04:24.000I think it's actually insulting to women that writers and showrunners and whoever else think that the best way to create a woman character is to take a male character and just give her a female body.
00:04:37.000That's not how we create organic women characters.
00:04:40.000It's just a completely useless way to do it.
00:04:44.000The way you write characters is you listen to your characters, you build your characters from the ground up, you dig into their own personal experiences.
00:04:51.000And I say this as someone who came out of the world of theater and has written dozens of female lead characters.
00:05:06.000And these movies fail over and over again.
00:05:08.000By the way, even beyond that, the CGI is trash.
00:05:14.000I wasn't a fan, by the way, of Avatar because I thought it was a stupid movie, but the CGI, it looks disgusting.
00:05:20.000He's riding a horse through the subway and it just looks fake.
00:05:24.000The whole thing looks fake and plastic and dumb.
00:05:27.000It's like, this is really what, and it's just sad.
00:05:30.000It's just very sad to, you know, Harrison, to the character, to the fans.
00:05:36.000And honestly, even for my kids, right?
00:05:38.000You know, and that being said, you know, I suppose it shouldn't matter because thanks to Spermageddon, we're not having, you know, men or men are, we're losing our foothold.
00:06:21.000But Libby, you had a piece years ago talking about the transhumanism revolution over in Quillette that got you in a little bit of trouble with that theater group that you were just talking about.
00:07:02.000What I mean by transhumanism is the intentional evolution of human beings with the help of technology towards longevity and towards a transhuman humanity, as you would say.
00:07:18.000So that's what transhumanism essentially is.
00:07:21.000These three undercurrents that I was looking at were AI-human interface, as in Neuralink, as well as body hacking, where you could put things like RFID chips in your hands to open your garage door opener, things like that.
00:07:38.000Of course, it was transgender ideology coming from an indie theater background that got me into trouble with all of my non-binary feminist lesbian theater friends who were saying to me that I had essentially posited that transgender people were weird futuristic robot people and then I needed to apologize to everyone.
00:08:00.000I hadn't said that at all in Quillette, but there it is.
00:08:04.000But actually, that being said, and I'm so sorry that happened, but at the same time, it's sort of, you know, we all have this sort of story about how we got jumped in right to the gang.
00:08:23.000I was saying that all of these things essentially answer the Cartesian question of the mind-body split and say that objectively, mind and body are two separate things, that what you do to the body has nothing to do with the mind and the reverse being true as well, I would say, for these technologies.
00:09:36.000Libby, we're going to stick with you because we have to talk more about how this effective altruism of SBF and humanism of Elon Musk is leading us down this path of trying to put chips in our brains, removing a small part of your skull, a quarter-sized hole, and replacing it with a Fitbit.
00:10:14.000Elon Musk telling us that, and it's similar to what you said before, that there's that we're just not enough on our own.
00:10:22.000You know, we're basically cyborgs, his words, we're basically cyborgs already because of our cell phones and our, you know, our smart devices, the internet of things.
00:10:32.000So this is really just all it's doing is just taking another step.
00:10:36.000And, you know, it's just your garage door opener, you know, that's going to be implanted in your hand now.
00:10:42.000It's just a Fitbit, but it's going to be in your skull.
00:10:44.000It's just a new interface for the internet, but it's going to be inside your eyelids, you know, et cetera, et cetera.
00:10:49.000And so inside your, you know, maybe your optic nerve.
00:10:54.000What are we losing by going down this path?
00:10:59.000What's really happening is we are losing what it means to be human and we are also losing in many ways the ability to be independent and autonomous beings.
00:11:11.000Part of what Elon Musk has talked about with Neuralink and many others in the technology space have talked about it.
00:11:19.000There's other companies who are undertaking this as well.
00:11:23.000Of course, Musk is really quite an entrepreneur.
00:11:26.000So he's at the forefront of this, as with so many things.
00:11:29.000But part of the goal is not just to, You know, have your own data port in your brain that can be fed from the data stream that is out there, but to connect human beings to one another via these data ports, via this stream, so that you would have each individual literally in a hive mind.
00:11:53.000And we would not necessarily know where our thoughts stop, where the data stream begins, where the thoughts of other human beings are.
00:12:01.000When you think about how easy it is to, when you're not paying attention, to take in advertising, right?
00:12:09.000Anytime you watch a little kid watching TV in the lead up to Christmas, and the next thing you know, he's watching ads for Legos.
00:12:15.000And then the next thing you know, Mom, I want this Lego set.
00:12:21.000Oh, well, you should have heard what Jack Jack said.
00:12:23.000You know, actually, funny enough, because he's been super into Legos lately, but then he goes up to Santa last night and, you know, what would you like, you know, little boy?
00:13:14.000And the potential to lose things is actually even greater.
00:13:18.000If you think about authoritarian countries and really oppressive societies, what does it mean for a dissident to have thoughts about how to stage a protest when they are connected to a hive mind?
00:13:30.000And those thoughts, the data is going both ways.
00:14:19.000I, you know, that is the thing that keeps bringing me back to theology as an adult, looking at that and realizing that God wanted God wanted people to really love him, to not be told to love him, but to actually come to them, come to him of their own free will and to seek out God's guidance on their own, which I think is just such a beautiful concept for mankind and for Christianity.
00:14:46.000I think we lose a sense of free will 100% when we start talking about being interconnected with data streams.
00:14:54.000And we don't know who the puppet masters are who are controlling that.
00:14:59.000Certainly it has nothing to do with our souls or with meaning.
00:15:03.000And it deprives us of our ability to think for ourselves, to think critically, to form our own perspectives, and to interact organically with the world around us.
00:15:16.000She's been co-hosting, will be co-hosting with me again on Human Events Daily tonight.
00:15:20.000Make sure you read this piece, humanevents.com, and the post-millennial editor-in-chief just fantastic, fantastic work.
00:15:25.000Thank you very much, Libby, and God bless you for all of this.
00:15:29.000And we need to understand we're doing away with our spirituality and committing blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
00:15:38.000A Twitter POW who's released from the gulags, someone who is a veteran of the great meme war of 2015 and 16 himself, ladies and gentlemen, the great ALX joins us, graces us with his presence.
00:15:56.000ALX, thank you so much for joining us here at Charlie Kirk Show.
00:16:22.000You had a lot to say about it at the time.
00:16:23.000We've been asking people to email us, freedom at charliekirk.com about it.
00:16:28.000But walk us through your tweet thread that you sent to Elon just prior to the ban and this system of a quote timeout period for repeat multiple violations that I think is a very interesting issue.
00:16:49.000So ideally, I wouldn't like to see any suspensions or any bans for lawful speech.
00:16:55.000But as a middle ground, because I know there's a lot of pressure from advertisers and just in general online for people who like intentionally violate the terms of service and abuse the fact that Elon wants to make it a free speech platform.
00:17:10.000I think until the terms of service can be properly modified, I think the best course of action is to institute what I proposed of being a temporary suspension period.
00:17:23.000Twitter already has sort of this, but it's kind of arbitrary.
00:17:28.000They have like 12 hour suspensions, week suspensions, three day suspensions.
00:17:32.000But what I outlined is sort of the first strike is kind of like a warning.
00:18:32.000And due to his comments yesterday as well, that's why everyone's interpreting it the other way.
00:18:37.000But it needs to be more, the terms of service need to be more specific in terms of what violates their policies.
00:18:45.000Cause I don't think that was an insight into violence.
00:18:48.000Well, and so, you know, and I just had Derry Beattie on ahead of you a couple of segments ago talking about this.
00:18:54.000And it's this sort of idea that I think people have gotten into this theory that when it comes to, so let's take it the two highest profile.
00:19:04.000Well, the one is that he refused to unban Alex Jones, right?
00:19:08.000But then unbans Donald Trump and you on the same day.
00:19:14.000But also has said that he's banning Kanye West.
00:19:18.000And he posted that tweet last night, you know, mess around and find out.
00:19:22.000And so the question that I had for Darren, and we were sort of teasing this out, was does this because if you remember, his reasoning for the Alex Jones ban was a personal reason, right?
00:20:09.000And this is from Christopher, but not illegal.
00:20:13.000And I haven't gotten a single email yet.
00:20:15.000We haven't gotten an email yet today saying that they agree with, again, a permanent ban.
00:20:20.000We're not talking about the tweet itself, but to your point as well, when we're talking about terms of service, and I also asked, you know, asked Aaron, the timing, I think, matters as well, because Elon has just taken over Twitter.
00:20:32.000And so there isn't really a system in place yet for something like this.
00:20:36.000Kanye, of course, goes out, pushes the envelope, tests the limits, and gets a response.
00:20:41.000And so I get, and but my point is, though, he's posting direct text messages with Elon Musk.
00:20:49.000And then he's posting them on True Social and they're going back and forth.
00:20:52.000And so again, it seems like it's another thing that's in this category of something that's personal to Elon.
00:20:58.000And so, you know, I'm okay with that, I guess, as long as it's transparent, right?
00:21:02.000As long as we know what's going on, that's certainly better than what we had before if we look at it in the aggregate sense.
00:21:08.000But do you think that I'm not asking you to reveal anything, but do you think that there might be an opening for the kind of thing you're outlining about this, you know, period of timeouts that could expand, contract, that would reset itself?
00:21:25.000It's, you know, almost like a video game, really, you know, where you get a hit counter and then you're and then you're off the battlefield and you have to wait for your respawn.
00:21:37.000Sorry to folks who aren't gamers out there.
00:21:38.000I have no idea what I'm talking about either.
00:21:40.000But, you know, it's this idea that you would be able to come back, right?
00:21:44.000The idea that you would regenerate your ability to come back.
00:21:48.000Again, as long as you complied with whatever the terms of service are.
00:21:52.000Yeah, I think there's a possibility for it.
00:21:54.000And not to give like Google any credit, but YouTube has a similar system with their three strike system.
00:21:59.000But the only thing I disagree with is that like the after the third strike, it's permanent.
00:22:04.000I like the idea of a 90-day period to have a hard reset as like a better system.
00:22:10.000And then also something that Twitter has always lacked is there's nothing on your profile where you can go and look at your account status.
00:22:16.000Like, do I have any like outstanding warnings like in the past?
00:23:07.000It's like if you have one violation and you're walked out, I don't, I don't think you should be able to have another tweet actioned like previous tweets because that's right.
00:23:17.000That's exactly what I think happened though, because I think the initial tweet triggered the 12-hour suspension through the whatever system they have that's currently set up.
00:23:27.000But then I think Elon himself personally got involved and said, no, ban, ban the account.
00:23:33.000That's and then he posts, because remember, Elon posted his tweet.
00:23:37.000Elon posted his tweet, mess around and find out.
00:23:40.000And then Kanye West was banned completely.
00:23:44.000And interestingly enough, just for the backstory of this, we wouldn't even know that he had had the initial 12-hour ban had he not posted it himself on social.
00:23:58.000We're through several looking glasses on this, but it's interesting to see it all play out in real time.
00:24:05.000And again, it's more transparent than what we had in the past.
00:24:09.000And at least there's some sort of reasoning given, like being given.
00:24:12.000But again, I don't agree that was an insight into violence at all.
00:24:17.000But again, like in my case, I got like zero, zero discourse from Twitter and they just shut me off for two and a half years without any sort of reasoning at all and not pointing to a single tweet or anything.
00:24:33.000And again, I think their terms of service need to be completely updated because this is just like not tenable.
00:24:57.000I think it's better to have a king than have a faceless oligarchy like we had in the past at Twitter.
00:25:04.000And I say that as a Twitter user, a prominent Twitter user, that I'd rather at least know and respect someone for their personal decisions, even if they are personal decisions, even if they are idiosyncratic, than this sort of nameless, faceless, oh, it's the trust and safety board, the ministry of trust, the ministry of integrity.
00:25:49.000In terms of that's that is obviously the point of freedom of speech in the first place.
00:25:53.000It's not about freedom of speech is not about speech that you agree with.
00:25:57.000It's about speech that you disagree with.
00:25:58.000You don't have to say that you, if someone, you agree with someone, you don't have to say, well, I respect their right to freedom of speech, right?
00:26:05.000It's about speech that you do disagree with.
00:26:06.000It's about speech that you don't want.
00:26:08.000But I want to get into this also idea of potentially a Twitter safe mode that people would be able to opt into, or maybe it's even the default feature and you opt out of it to say, no, you know, it's, it's, you know, going back to video games, it's all right, you know, my, am I playing Twitter on easy mode or hard mode?
00:26:24.000You know, do I want savage mode, you know, safe mode or savage mode?
00:26:28.000You, you can get one or the other when you initially signed into Twitter.
00:26:31.000And I, I do think that it's interesting, at least that so much is open, but I would agree with you that, that Kanye definitely, and yay, excuse me, I don't mean dead name folks, that he was definitely, he was definitely testing things too quickly.
00:26:47.000Obviously, goes as far as he possibly could, just ODs on red pills, and then gets us into a situation, gets himself into a situation where Elon said, look, I just banned the account.
00:26:57.000But, you know, and last slide on this real quick, and we'll hold you over the break.
00:27:02.000But do you think, do you think, do you think it's actually permanent or would Elon let him back?
00:27:06.000Yeah, I don't think it's going to be permanent.
00:27:08.000Honestly, well, first of all, he has his phone number.
00:27:10.000He's going to be texting him about it.
00:27:11.000Second of all, people are lobbying him behind the scenes who are close with both of them.
00:27:18.000And third, you've already seen Kathy Griffin, who she violated the terms of service overtly and was doing it on purpose, and she's been brought back.
00:27:26.000So it was sort of more a sign to them, a signal to them that, hey, this type of behavior will result in a permanent ban, but you're getting one warning, and now we're going to enforce it.
00:27:45.000Because at the same time, we're talking about post facto rulings here that he legitimately thought he could do this and he wouldn't be banned, right?
00:27:55.000Well, and again, who's to say it's inciting to violence or not?
00:28:10.000What do you think is going to happen six months from now?
00:28:13.000Do you think that there's going to be any more mass reinstatements?
00:28:19.000We're going to see more of a system in place.
00:28:22.000Or do you think it's going to be more of this, which does feel a little bit, I'm just going to say it, it feels a little chaotic?
00:28:27.000I think part of the chaos is on purpose.
00:28:31.000Because so if you notice at the start of this week, so he, like last week, he held the poll about reinstatements and said it would start this week.
00:28:40.000And then he had a whole whole different thing at the beginning of this week.
00:28:44.000He picked a fight with Apple and then that got resolved pretty quickly.
00:28:47.000So I think, so before he would want to reinstate all of these accounts, which would scare advertisers and scare platforms like Apple and Google, I think he wanted to pick the fight and get it solved before at a time because he knew it was coming down the line if he reinstated all these accounts.
00:29:05.000I do think reinstatements are coming, but the only thing is they can't flip a switch and reinstate everyone at once because he does want to keep off the people that were legitimately banned for illegal content or for like spam and bot forms.
00:29:23.000But what it looks like they're doing, and I read a report on this, is that they're reinstating the bigger accounts that they can vet thoroughly, more thoroughly, easily, because like bigger name accounts, like over a million and then over 10,000.
00:29:38.000And they're going to bring those back first.
00:29:41.000And they're kind of going to do it in waves.
00:29:44.000I do think in the meantime, before like Twitter Blue and everything is fully operational, it's going to be kind of more chaotic because he has to keep that balance of pleasing the advertisers that are leaving before another revenue stream starts generating in because Twitter Blue is currently paused and they're making like only, I think it's 90% of their money off of advertisers.
00:30:09.000So that's currently the only real revenue that they're generating other than people who are already subscribed.
00:30:15.000I think it's supposed to relaunch today, but who knows?
00:30:19.000But yeah, until they have a broader base of Twitter Blue users and other sources of revenue, I think it's going to be more kind of chaotic, unfortunately.
00:30:29.000And by the way, you know, huge attack on Elon today from the New York Times.
00:31:40.000And so I've said, look, I've said before, when it comes to Elon, all right, praise him when he does well, but call him out when he does something we don't like, permanent bans.
00:32:13.000I'm pushing get back against Elon as much as I can in things like this.
00:32:17.000And my idea for the hate speech thing would be take their list that they currently have because they've been publishing reports of hate speech engagements and let users opt in or out to seeing hate speech or not.
00:32:30.000So instead of, because he's currently saying that freedom of reach is not freedom of reach.
00:32:36.000Hey, ALX, we're totally out of time, man.
00:32:38.000But I completely agree with you, right?
00:32:44.000Make sure to catch me on Human Events Daily tonight.
00:32:46.000We've got a huge Sunday special coming up at 10 a.m. on Sunday with Matt Tiermond all about the uprising in Brazil and the fact that the CCP is trying to take over Brazil.
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