BREAKING： John-Henry Westen PERMANENTLY BANNED from YouTube
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Summary
The John Henry Weston Show has been deleted from YouTube, but not just for "hateful" reasons. They deleted my entire channel, and now they are trying to get their hands on my personal information. What does that mean for liberty, freedom, and the pursuit of truth? We talk to reporter Ashley Sadler to find out.
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You have a totalitarian state that controls not only systems of government, but can reach into
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your personal social media accounts and your personal bank accounts. And that if you are
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not conforming with what you are supposed to be doing, that this can affect your life in
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Well, YouTube has done it again. This time, actually, they've gone after my channel specifically.
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Now, it's very odd. You remember in 2021, YouTube canceled LifeSite completely from our YouTube
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channel there. Over the next two years, we built up my own personal page channel, the John
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Henry Weston Show channel, to about half the number of subscribers that we had back then.
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It was a lot of work over two years. We got to about 157,000 subscribers on the new channel,
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the John Henry Weston Show channel. This time, they did something very strange. They changed
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it up rather than canceling us for medical misinformation, all of which now is true, by
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the way, because COVID has evolved and now everybody seems to know now as fact, which
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we said back then, which was then medical misinformation. But lo and behold, nonetheless,
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but now they've changed it up and they canceled us for hate. Now they have a new hate policy.
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We're going to get into that. We've got with us today, Ashley Sadler, a LifeSite News reporter
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who is covering this at LifeSiteNews.com. And we're going to explore the details of this case.
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And it's incredible. It has a lot of ramifications, not only for, you know, finding the information
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you need on LifeSite or on the LifeSite YouTube channel, but also for you personally. This is
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Hey there, friends. I just wanted to tell you about something in case you didn't already know
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it. LifeSite is in partnership with a group called St. Joseph's Partners, because in today's
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day and age where things are getting more and more strange out there, we want to be sure
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that, you know, we have some reserves of gold and silver so that if debanking happens, which
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has happened before and seems to have gone on with the truckers and everything else, that
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we at least have some backup. And so there's been a lot of investing in gold and silver.
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We wanted to find a company, though, that we could trust with our investments like that.
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And St. Joseph's Partners is such a company. Obviously, by their name, you know that they're
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Catholics and we know that they're very, very faithful. Indeed, you can go check out the
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shows I did with Drew Mason, who is the founder of St. Joseph's Partners. But also, I wanted
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to tell you about a neat little project we did. And this is really for both support of LifeSite
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News, but also for gifts for those people who sort of have everything and you wonder what
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you can get for them. Well, we minted a coin, a silver coin, and it's a one ounce silver round,
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they call it. It has LifeSite on the front for our 25 year anniversary that we're celebrating.
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But also on the back, it commemorates the overturning of Roe v. Wade with the Dobbs decision. So it's
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a collector item coin and encourage you to grab one for yourself. Grab one as a gift for that
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person who seems to have everything else. They might like it very much. And please support us
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at LifeSite News by getting our coin. We've just printed under 10,000 of them. So it's a collector
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item, a limited edition. God bless you and thank you. Ashley Sadler, thanks for being with us.
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Let's begin as we always do with the Son of the Cross. In the name of the Father,
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Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. So let me start by wishing you and all of our
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guests or all of our viewers a very happy and holy Easter.
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So over Holy Week, over the weekend, in fact, right over Easter weekend,
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happened this unbelievable thing. It was Holy Thursday night, believe it or not.
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YouTube deleted LifeSite. It deleted the John Henry Weston show channel. And you know,
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something's very strange. They actually deleted my own personal YouTube access as well. I can't go
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onto YouTube and watch videos because it says, you know, there's a problem. If I go incognito or if I
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go under a different name, oh, then it's all fine. This is crazy. Obviously, this is something that
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LifeSite has seen in the past. We've dealt with this on numerous social media platforms like many
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conservative outlets have. But to see this taken in a more targeted, more personal way is I think
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something that's not necessarily entirely unique. This is something that's part of a trend that's
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happening, but it's definitely concerning for us and for anybody else who has views and opinions that
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run afoul of the prevailing narrative of big tech and the rest of the establishment.
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It's an amazing thing. My concern is that it's very, very personal. It reminds me of the debanking.
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Now, in the U.S., yes, Trump was debanked. But some of the January 6 folks, just like in Canada,
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with the frozen accounts of some of the folks who were involved with the truckers and the movement
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for freedom here in Canada, accounts were frozen. Individual banking accounts were frozen. Oh, no,
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we didn't take any money from you. We're just frozen your account. You have no access to your
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money, but oh, well, whatever. This kind of very personal targeting is happening. And it's very,
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It is. And it makes me so grateful that we live in such a free country, unlike the Chinese Communist
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Party that does this sort of thing. And that is, I think, where a lot of people see this heading,
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where you have a totalitarian state that controls not only systems of government, but can reach into
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your personal social media accounts and your personal bank accounts. And that if you are not
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conforming with what you are supposed to be doing, that this can affect your life in very, very minute
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ways and across the board. And the more that we head toward more uniform, more centralized systems
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where everything is connected from your phone, from your internet profiles, I think the more
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dangerous that obviously becomes. Let's get to some specifics here. This is a new thing for YouTube.
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It's no longer the medical misinformation, which they, you know, that's what they canceled us before in
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2021. There's a new charge this time of hate. What's that all about?
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We seem to be living in a world where words mean the opposite of what they actually mean. And so when
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you express a view that I think what LifeSite does very well is that we're expressing views about what
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the church teaches and has always taught and teaches for the good and the flourishing of individual
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people. And so when the church teaches that certain behaviors or certain ideologies are wrong,
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it's doing that because it's leading people toward the fullness of the truth. And only there will we
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find true peace and joy. And so when you express a view, and I think you can go into more detail about
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what this particular charge was about. And it was talking about a movie and the certain ideology that
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it was promoting. And we were pointing that YouTube has decided, no, that's hateful to teach people the truth.
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That's hateful to, you know, tell people what's going to be, you know, for their betterment and
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It's amazing. The YouTube policy itself, I encourage people to go look it up because it very specifically
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says that their policy determines that hatred and violence toward these certain groups is not
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permitted. And then it gives you the list. And on that list, you'll see sexual orientation
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and then gender expression, I believe it is. But it's very, very interesting that they're banning
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this based on hatred and violence. Well, first of all, obviously, there was nothing to do with
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violence. I encourage you to go watch the video. You can find it still at LifeSite News's own video
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server. If you go to LifeSiteNews.com slash video, you will find all of our videos uncensored. In fact,
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even the older ones, we're working on getting up there right now. And that's an arduous task,
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let me tell you. But LifeSiteNews.com slash video, all LifeSite News videos, John Henry Weston show,
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Faith and Reason, the Jonathan Van Maron show, LSN TV with Jim Hale, all of that is there. It won't be
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taken off, God willing. And we have our own video server, which we built. But it's all there to go look
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at. And the one video in question, the one we were given the first strike for, was this video on the
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movie, the very now famous movie, unfortunately, Everything Everywhere All at Once. And it's a, you
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know, it looked to me like a martial arts film, which I happen to like. But it was when you watched
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it, first of all, it was disgustingly filthy. But it was an attack on the Catholic Church in a very
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severe way, going even for the Eucharist. But part of it, and I guess the main push of the film,
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was to show the need for an acceptance of same-sex relationships. And so I took this up on the show
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in exactly the same way we always take it up. It's the approach of the Catholic Church. It's to
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love the sinner and hate the sin. It was all about, in fact, I said specifically and explicitly,
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how, you know, our approach at LifeSite is about loving these individuals enough to tell them that
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these behaviors that they're involved in, in these relationships, they're harmful. They're harmful
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to their bodies because, you know, you can go and look up all the studies that show how, you know,
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these kinds of sexual relations are harmful. But then ultimately, they're harmful for the soul.
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And we as Catholics, as Christians, want to see everyone with God in heaven. And so it's a very loving
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approach. Yet that is specifically what YouTube, YouTube deems as hatred and or violence. I don't
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know which. Apparently all of the above, I think. And it also seems like many times words are given
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the weight of physical action, of violence per se, when actual actions are maybe overlooked. And I think
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we saw that very clearly just recently in an instance where a few days before Easter, you have
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a transgender identifying person who goes in and in an attack that the police said was targeted. They
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haven't released the manifesto, but they have given some hints that this person's ideology and their
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identification had something to do with their decision to go into a private Christian elementary
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school and commit horrifying act of violence against Christians, three children, nine years
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old, and three staff members. And I think the world and the United States watched in, you know,
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kind of horror at the way that the establishment treated this or didn't, the way that they ignored
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it, the way that the mainstream media stumbled all over themselves to make sure they got the killer's
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pronouns correct. And, and completely ignored the fact that this is something where a violent
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ideology with aggressive rhetoric that, that appears to firmly believe that anyone that does not agree
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with them is somehow committing genocide against them by their words and beliefs. And they're therefore
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justified to commit actual violence, actual murder. And the response from our leadership,
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the response from the White House was, we stand with transgender people. And they did not want to,
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they did not want to speak about the fact whatsoever about who was targeted in this attack. And so you have
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this complete imbalance in what do you mean when you say hate? What do you mean when you say violence? And more
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often than not, what they're talking about is, you know, hatred is loving language directed to people who we want to
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see on the path to salvation. And violence is speaking about this. And, and real hatred and violence are
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swept under the rug. It's, it's pretty astonishing.
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It is indeed. We've seen this so much of late. And it almost seems surreal. I think back to the news videos
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with the BLM protests and the Indiva protests saying, looks pretty peaceful while there's burning buildings
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in the background. It truly seems like we're living in a dystopian reality.
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One of my favorite anonymous accounts on Twitter is clown world. And just pointing out all the instances
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in which we appear to be living in a world of funhouse mirrors, where everything that's true is
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considered false and everything is up is down. And this is another example of this, but I think
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to your point as well, that, that this is targeted, that this is personal. And this seems to be really
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where we're seeing things head politically. And it is pretty disturbing to see, you know, we broke the
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story about Mark Houck, the pro-life dad who was raided by the FBI at his home in front of his children.
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And it was a minor, it was a minor incident that this was all a trumped up charge. And this was
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thrown out of court. Nobody wanted to prosecute this. And, and yet you see an individual targeted
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and made an example of, and the message was pretty clear. Don't go outside abortion clinics. Don't
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protest because we're watching you. We'll come after you. We'll come after your family. We'll ruin your
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life. And that's something that I think we have to take seriously as conservatives and push back.
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Because if we, if we accept it, or if we try to ignore it, it's just going to keep going this way.
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But I think we have the political might, we have the, we have the numbers on our side. We're not
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crazy, even as much as they like to convince us that we are just for being normal. And that it's
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important to make an example of them when they try to make an example of us and, and really push
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back and, and assert, no, these are our right. This is our right to say these sorts of things. And, and it's
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good to say these sorts of things. We need to do this. We need to fight right now for all the rights
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that we've enjoyed for so very long without really thinking much about the sacrifices that went into
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garnering those rights for us, but also without having to defend them very much, even as they've
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been slowly eroded. But now we see that erosion, uh, that's just basically being eliminated. And so it's,
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the rights are being taken from us and we've got to stand up and fight now.
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Let me encourage people, lifestatenews.com has its own video server. If you've got videos that
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you're putting out, you've got to do something similar so that you are protected. If you go to
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lifestatenews.com slash video, all our videos are there. We need to get onto certain social media
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channels and start using them. The ones that aren't going to cancel us because I know
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so many people are reliant on YouTube are reliant on Facebook are reliant on Twitter. Well,
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Twitter maybe is the exception right now, but Facebook and YouTube and Google, they are canceling
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you. They've canceled LifeSite already for years, but they're coming after you specifically. And they
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know everything about you because they're watching you as you're watching them. So it really is time
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to divest ourselves of these things. But sure, you can continue to use them knowing that you're
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being tracked and knowing that at any moment you can be deleted from there. So make yourself a place
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where you still have access. Make sure you go to lifestatenews.com slash video and bookmark that
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page. Come see us there. If you're seeing us elsewhere, you're not doing it right. You've got to go direct
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and you've got to make for yourself a sustainable plan so that when they come after you specifically,
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you have backup for yourself. That's why we've been talking about, you know, even in your banking
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system, we alluded earlier to this debanking that's been going on. That's very, very personal.
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And, you know, that's why we've suggested to people that they have diversified their own,
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you know, funds. They have some food protection. They have some investments in gold, not the kind
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that you invest in IRS or something, in the kind that you actually hold. So these are trying times.
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We need to stand up and we need to protect ourselves.
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Absolutely. And I think that it's important and good to use the social media platforms
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that are out there for as long as you can. And maybe the fact that just like with us that we
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get canceled, but we've been able to reach people through those platforms and they can follow us.
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They can come to our site and they can see what we're doing here and also recognize what's been
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happening on these social media platforms that they're not on our side. But I think it's important
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to use the public square and try to reach out to people in that way for as long as we can.
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But like you said, we need to have a contingency plan as well. And a little bit of that, you know,
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as Rod Dreyer put it with the Benedict option, we need to be able to have our own communities that we
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can bring people into and have like-minded people where we have some numbers. We have some people who
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see what's going on the way we do and that we can build up our own resources so that when we get
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canceled by the big tech corporations, by the banks, by whatever is going on, that that doesn't mean
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you're just canceled from everything because you have your community. And I think that's very,
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very important to make sure to do. In fact, I would encourage everyone,
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if you can please assist us by sharing LifeSiteNews.com and LifeSiteNews.com slash video,
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where you will have all of our information, all of our news stories, all of our videos,
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always there. Please go direct LifeSiteNews.com and LifeSiteNews.com slash video.
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And avail yourself of what's there because it's all an effort to assist you to change the culture.
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We want to change the culture into one which embraces truth, ultimately the fullness of the
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truth, that truth which we celebrate this Easter season. Any final thoughts for us, Ashley?
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Just to jump onto that, I also encourage everybody to subscribe to our LifeSite emails so they get
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our stories every day on all of our different topics that we cover. We cover a lot about big tech
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censorship, about big government, all these sorts of things. We're going to be doing some written
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stories on this latest development with YouTube as well. And so we just encourage people to continue
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reading up on that and informing themselves and stay informed. Stay informed and stay and stay
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prayerful because that's the most important thing you can do. Ashley Sadler, thank you so much for
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being with us. Thank you so much. It was a pleasure. God bless you and God bless all of you.
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We'll see you next time on the John Hunter Rustin Show right here at LifeSiteNews.com slash video.
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Hi, everyone. This is John Henry Westin. We hope you enjoyed this program. To see more like it,
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