The Golden One - January 10, 2022


Will I Join GETTR？ A Note on Freedom of Speech


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

163.59279

Word Count

819

Sentence Count

50

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Greetings, my esteemed Laddingtons. Will I join Getter? Absolutely not. I will absolutely not join Getter.
00:00:12.340 There are a few different reasons for this. First and foremost, we do already have Gab,
00:00:16.720 and the CEO of Gab, Andrew Torba, he has shown himself to be truly committed to the radical
00:00:24.020 principle of freedom of speech. And I say radical because it's truly a radical position in this
00:00:29.500 day and age of increasing censorship. Back in the day, during my school years, freedom of speech
00:00:37.440 was always upheld as something of utmost sacredness. Not so anymore, unfortunately. But anyway, that
00:00:45.800 being said, we already have a freedom of speech platform which has shown itself to be true to
00:00:51.980 those ideals. Now, Getter, on the other hand, they have already started banning people not for what
00:00:58.160 they've said, but for who they are. And that is, you know, that sort of high school drama mentality
00:01:04.260 that this guy, he can't come on here because he said this somewhere else, or he is, you know,
00:01:10.760 generally controversial. It's not something I can respect in the least. You know, grown men acting
00:01:15.700 like teenagers, truly embarrassing. And of course, not something I want to be associated with in the
00:01:23.620 least. And I see this in Getter already. And now actually, if we're talking about freedom of speech,
00:01:28.880 which of course, it's an important principle for me, but there are certain exceptions here,
00:01:34.360 which I do definitely respect. So if you have a platform, if Andrew Torba, who is a Christian,
00:01:42.220 by the way, sometimes a bit over the top, as I've mentioned before, but if he had said, you know what,
00:01:48.060 we have freedom of speech on this platform, but you can't insult the name of Jesus Christ. Now,
00:01:55.520 I wouldn't have any issues with this at all, first and foremost, because I would never insult the name
00:01:59.600 of Christ, because he's an important figure for many of my supporters and has been so for many of
00:02:05.960 my ancestors. So I wouldn't have an issue for that reason. I also wouldn't have an issue if the rules
00:02:13.060 are clear. If I know exactly what I can say and what I cannot say, the issue is when you don't
00:02:19.300 know what you can say. So you have this mainstream media platforms, you don't really know what you
00:02:23.860 can say, and you get banned for, yeah, something that someone has thought was insensitive or not
00:02:30.780 even that. In my case, I get banned for who I am, not what I've said. I've never seen anyone point to
00:02:35.640 anything extreme I've ever said. It's only about, you know, this guy is a controversial figure, so he
00:02:42.880 deserves to get banned, but never about anything I've said. So that's actually something that is,
00:02:48.240 I would be okay with a platform saying these are the exact rules. So if you have a platform saying
00:02:54.120 you can't use racial slurs, that's completely fine. I don't use racial slurs. Anyway, first and foremost,
00:03:00.220 out of respect for my non-European supporters, secondly, because I don't use racial slurs,
00:03:04.900 because I think it sounds bad and it's not something I use in my language. The point being
00:03:10.500 that there needs to be clear guidelines so people know what they can say and what they can't say.
00:03:17.540 Now, take another example. We can take the glorious nation of Thailand. In Thailand, at least a few
00:03:24.420 years back, when their beloved king was still alive, may he rest in peace. Now, you could get away
00:03:31.640 with a lot in Thailand, as I'm sure y'all know, quite degenerate in many places, Thailand, but something
00:03:37.960 you couldn't do, you couldn't disparage or say anything disrespectful about their king. Then you
00:03:44.400 got into a world of trouble. Now, I can definitely respect that. I do believe that no one should come
00:03:50.620 to anyone else's country and start disrespecting their sacred figures, in this case, the Thai king.
00:03:58.700 So, I always respected that in regards to the Thai people, that they had a sacred thing. In their case,
00:04:04.860 it was the king. So, everyone who, well, with a modicum of intellect when they went to Thailand,
00:04:11.660 they knew, okay, we can do a lot of things, but we can't do this.
00:04:15.020 Clear rules. So, when I see these very unclear and ambiguous rules in various platforms, yeah,
00:04:21.260 that's not good at all. So, anyway, that is the long answer why I won't get on Getter. We already
00:04:26.620 have Gab. Then, of course, we do have Telegram, which is my main platform, which is also dedicated
00:04:31.580 to freedom of speech. So, I don't really see why we would need another alternative to Twitter, which
00:04:37.820 doesn't have the benefit of actually promoting freedom of speech. So, anyway, be sure to follow me on
00:04:42.940 Telegram and Gab. All links in the description box below. Thank you for watching. XOXO BOOM!