The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - Woke Canadian loves censorship and echo chambers!

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here. Without a doubt, the most common disease in politics is that of

00:00:06.340 being massively out of touch, and its most common cause is spending too much time in a political

00:00:12.240 echo chamber. It stands to reason, if every single person you talk to on a daily basis

00:00:18.060 mostly agrees with you, it becomes very difficult to comprehend that people in general society

00:00:23.920 think that you're a complete whack job, and this is what has befallen the woke left in Canada.

00:00:30.300 They do not interact with people who disagree with them. In fact, if you disagree with them,

00:00:34.780 they label you as a fringe bigot and block you out of their lives, and then they end up looking at

00:00:40.880 the polling and wondering why so many Canadians are turning against the progressive left.

00:00:45.820 Obviously, this has been happening all over the West these days. The left becomes extremely

00:00:50.300 politically arrogant, gets very aggressive passing left-wing policy, and then wonders why all of

00:00:55.840 society rejects them because all of my friends agree with what I say. Well, maybe it's because

00:01:01.780 you only ever talk to your friends. So in today's video, I want to talk about this video that Steve

00:01:08.080 Boots put up. He is a woke left-wing Canadian video creator who is defending the concept of echo chambers.

00:01:15.760 Yes, the video might be labeled echo chambers question mark, or just not listening to jerks question mark.

00:01:21.480 Well, it's an echo chamber. He is describing an echo chamber in this video, and he doesn't know it

00:01:27.480 because he himself is so out of touch.

00:01:30.780 I, like many others, have migrated from Twitter to Blue Sky, and it is a much more positive place.

00:01:35.460 It's got a much more aggressive set of moderation tools and a much more aggressive culture when it

00:01:39.300 comes to things like blocking and muting.

00:01:40.680 So just remember that, in the first 10 seconds, he is already praising the app Blue Sky, which is

00:01:46.980 like a lefty alternative to Twitter, because it has aggressive moderation tools and it has

00:01:52.980 aggressive blocking and muting features. Now, listen to him make the case for why Blue Sky is

00:01:58.380 totally not an echo chamber.

00:01:59.680 And a lot of that has to do with the nature of the platform. Like on Twitter, you'd often quote tweet

00:02:03.640 somebody you wanted to dunk on, and on Blue Sky, you can too, but if you quote tweet somebody,

00:02:07.660 they can just detach their tweet from yours. And while that seems like a very minor change,

00:02:11.520 it's created a very different culture on the site. Having different moderation tools and having

00:02:15.800 tools to give people the ways to protect themselves makes a huge difference. Like we've all seen Twitter

00:02:21.140 pylons in the past, and that seems to not work on Blue Sky, but it's not all sunshine and roses.

00:02:27.000 What he's describing here by saying, well, there are often pylons on Twitter, and I know what he's

00:02:32.320 talking about. Like you say something, and there's like 100 people quote tweeting you and attacking you,

00:02:37.560 and whatnot, and you can even just mute your own post so you don't get any notifications from it if you

00:02:42.220 don't want. But he's saying that because people don't ever actually hear massive criticism on Blue Sky,

00:02:48.220 that makes the platform more positive and good. I would disagree. That sounds like you never really

00:02:55.620 hear that you're way off base with specific ideas you have. You're only ever reinforced that whatever you

00:03:01.420 believe is at least somewhat normal, because you never get attacked for it. But I'll let him keep

00:03:06.960 making his case.

00:03:08.620 ...over in the world of Blue Skies. At least the Globe and Mail doesn't think so.

00:03:11.840 They want you to worry. They want you deeply concerned about the echo chamber that's emerging,

00:03:16.180 emerging, emerging. You see, they ran this op-ed from Phoebe Maltz-Bovey, who suggested...

00:03:21.620 If you are having someone from the Globe and Mail say that you are becoming out of touch

00:03:26.240 because the platform you are on is an echo chamber, you know you're in an echo chamber.

00:03:31.720 When someone from the Globe and Mail will tell you that, that's a good wake-up call that you

00:03:36.240 probably shouldn't be trying to sequester yourself away from the general public.

00:03:41.760 The problem with Blue Sky is that it won't broaden our horizons, that it's going to create

00:03:46.120 an echo chamber. And it appears that this author is deeply offended that they were added to a

00:03:50.320 problematic people starter pack. Can't imagine why anybody would find this person problematic.

00:03:54.980 And some of the stuff is really just telling on themselves.

00:03:57.500 I've actually seen this video already, and I read that text on screen. There was nothing

00:04:02.500 there that indicated why she would be considered problematic. And isn't that kind of telling?

00:04:09.140 That Blue Sky has a filtration system where you can be labeled a problematic account preemptively.

00:04:15.820 People don't get to decide that for themselves. The platform itself will tell you that you're

00:04:20.080 problematic. And there are like, it recommends who you should follow. That's standard

00:04:24.460 like, social media platforms tend to recommend people to you that you might be interested in.

00:04:29.360 The difference on Blue Sky is it tends to recommend politically correct people only.

00:04:35.240 Like, quote,

00:04:36.580 The account of a British barrister, who I take it has the bad views on gender identity, has been flagged with an

00:04:43.040 intolerance tag for discrimination against protected groups. Okay, so he was discriminating against protected

00:04:48.500 groups, and your concern is that he was stopped? Like, what's the problem with muting trans folks? 1.00

00:04:53.800 Why should that person's terrible views be shared? Why should I have to listen to them?

00:04:57.800 But why are we flagging them? And here's where, like, Steve Boots is not only massively out of touch,

00:05:04.440 but massively politically arrogant. He just assumes that if someone's been labeled as such,

00:05:10.560 that means it's true. Of course, that's true. They've been labeled a transphobe,

00:05:15.060 ergo, we should be trying to mute this person and not let them speak.

00:05:18.420 Has he ever thought of the fact that the vast majority of people don't think of the person that

00:05:22.740 he is taking part in smearing is not actually transphobic or wrong in their views, that they,

00:05:29.080 in fact, are correct, that maybe boys are boys and girls are girls? It's never crossed Steve

00:05:34.880 Boots' mind because he's living in a bubble. This really isn't about policing bad views. There

00:05:39.900 are people on Blue Sky with bad views already. That's not what's getting banned. It's people with

00:05:44.960 hurtful views, people with dangerous views. Sorry, but what's the difference between bad views

00:05:50.720 and dangerous views? I can, I can admit that obviously if somebody is calling for the deaths

00:05:56.200 of people, that's a dangerous view, but that's already against the law. But where does the line

00:06:01.560 get drawn between bad views and dangerous views? I guarantee you the difference in his mind between

00:06:06.800 bad views and dangerous views is people that he mostly agrees with, but thinks they're a little too

00:06:12.140 aggressive on certain, like, on certain issues. And dangerous views are like conservatives.

00:06:16.980 People with views that put other people's lives and safety at risk. Those aren't acceptable. It's

00:06:22.280 called Popper's paradox of tolerance. If you tolerate the intolerant, then tolerance doesn't

00:06:29.260 really exist. In order for... That's left-wing claptrap nonsense. That, well, if you tolerate someone

00:06:36.860 who's intolerant, that means that we are just letting intolerance flourish. No, this is the whole

00:06:43.520 punch-a-Nazi type stuff. Oh, there is a Nazi over there? Well, he's intolerant of other people. So we

00:06:48.740 must physically aggress him because of his disgusting views. No, that is not how actual 0.84

00:06:55.940 tolerance works. You only do not tolerate people who violate other people's rights or call for

00:07:01.800 violence. If a Nazi is doing that, yeah, they should be punished. But Steve Boots considers danger,

00:07:07.720 like, again, the idea that you say that men are men and women are women, and that there is no

00:07:12.820 gender spectrum that people can be on. Tolerant spaces to function, we cannot tolerate intolerance.

00:07:19.280 That's the one thing. It means getting the most hurtful, vile people out of there. Like, Andrew

00:07:24.120 Tate didn't even last a day on Blue Sky, and that's for the better. Remember, he's saying that bad people

00:07:28.960 are not being kicked off. It's only dangerous people. And I would consider Andrew Tate a pretty awful

00:07:34.740 human being. I think he probably is guilty of being a human trafficker. Let's see where that trial goes.

00:07:40.040 But he's literally celebrating people being immediately booted off at the same time that

00:07:46.460 he is then saying, well, people aren't just being kicked off for being bad. It's for being dangerous.

00:07:51.120 Well, what does dangerous mean? Well, being kind of a jerk like Andrew Tate is. Like, minus all of the

00:07:56.320 potential criminal things, but that hasn't been actually adjudicated properly yet. And I don't think

00:08:01.700 that Steve Boots is even exactly thinking about those things. I think he's probably thinking that Andrew Tate

00:08:07.000 is, like, you know, sexist and transphobic and anti-Semitic. And he is anti-Semitic.

00:08:13.340 But that's what he wants kicked off. He doesn't want you to have, like, bad opinions, even though

00:08:18.600 there was literally a scandal a day or two ago where Blue Sky was full of people celebrating

00:08:23.880 that CEO's death from global health. He was assassinated, and they were celebrating it.

00:08:29.460 That's not bad. That's not dangerous in the eyes of Steve Boots. That's normal political discourse

00:08:35.360 because he agrees with it.

00:08:36.680 You see, kicking people out of there isn't about creating an echo chamber. I get accused of the

00:08:41.240 same thing every time I block or mute people on my page or whatever it may be. But it's not really

00:08:45.120 about that. It's creating a community and cultivating it. You see, guys, you see, if we change the name

00:08:50.480 echo chamber to community, that means it's a good thing. Now, he's not living in an echo chamber.

00:08:55.740 He's just living in a community that nobody but people he mostly agrees with can be in.

00:09:00.300 See, I slightly disagree with that person. That means we have a diversity of thought.

00:09:04.620 There are tons of people I vehemently disagree with on Twitter X. And that's a good thing.

00:09:10.060 I push back on people I disagree with. I'm not one of these guys who thinks that, well,

00:09:14.260 don't disagree with people. That's intolerant. Disagree with people as aggressively as you want.

00:09:19.340 But the idea that somehow that it's no, it's just a community. It's not echo chamber when only

00:09:24.980 certain people can speak is very telling about his perspective. Again, it's called being massively

00:09:29.920 out of touch.

00:09:31.220 Blue sky is a community. Social media is a community. My comment section is a community.

00:09:35.460 It's all a community. And communities need community standards. Like I talked to my class.

00:09:40.220 By the way, too, Steve Boots does not consider there to be a difference between an online platform

00:09:45.860 and real life. I guarantee he considers society a community where we should have censorship and

00:09:51.680 moderation to prevent the dangerous people from speaking.

00:09:55.220 It's all a community. And communities need community standards. Like I talk to my classes

00:10:00.020 sometimes about rules versus community standards. What are the expectations we have as a member of

00:10:04.500 our community? I don't mean what the law forces you to do. I'm talking about the actual standards

00:10:09.200 we have for how we talk to one another, how we treat one another, how we act towards one another.

00:10:13.660 Because as a society, those have heavily eroded. And it's a serious issue.

00:10:17.880 How is he even drawing a comparison between community standards and rules? Rules are stuff

00:10:24.680 you have to do. Community standards are just how you have to treat people. But then he's saying

00:10:28.780 that the community standards that he wants and that he approves of in blue sky removes people

00:10:33.980 and kicks them out because they aren't doing certain things or they're doing things that

00:10:37.800 they're not supposed to do. This is wacky.

00:10:41.100 I want to create a new community with intentional community standards where people are expected to

00:10:46.300 uphold a certain standard of behavior and respect for everybody. And if they don't,

00:10:50.360 they're sent backing. There's a breathless panic about. Out of curiosity, where did the same echo

00:10:55.440 chamber panics get raised about truth social or rumble? Or are we just going to freak out when

00:10:59.920 the echo chamber skews a little bit to the left?

00:11:02.380 A little bit to the left. Blue sky is very left. There are people who are getting kicked off

00:11:07.220 for not being sufficiently left on certain issues. They had to come back to Twitter after they said,

00:11:12.420 I'm leaving Twitter forever to places with bluer skies. And then they were quickly kicked off because

00:11:18.440 they said something that was against lefty orthodoxy. Rumble and truth social and places

00:11:24.660 like Parler and Gab and BitChute, yes, they are more conservative. But those were set up back when

00:11:32.200 there was censorship on places like Twitter and YouTube. They are not echo chambers in the same

00:11:39.140 way that blue sky is. Yes, you will mostly only be talking to conservative people. But that isn't

00:11:44.060 something that was like a predestined thing that the platform wanted. That was just because that was

00:11:50.880 the people migrating over. The thing is, if you are conservative on blue sky, there's a very good

00:11:55.340 chance you're going to be getting kicked out unless you say the most milquetoast things on the planet.

00:12:00.220 That's the thing. This is where people like Steve Boots are so obviously dishonest. He knows he's lying.

00:12:05.380 Imagine that this guy used to be a school teacher with this amount of illogic.

00:12:10.600 You really are comparing Rumble and truth social where anyone can get an account. You can be a

00:12:15.540 lefty on those places and talk all day long and no one's going to kick you off. But if you go onto

00:12:20.040 blue sky and get kicked off, just because those two tend to be a little bit echo chambery, and I would

00:12:24.660 still say that Rumble is kind of an echo chamber, a place like BitChute and like truth social are,

00:12:31.220 but it's not baked into the design. It's just the it's just based on who selected to be on those

00:12:36.700 platforms. But it's not even really an echo chamber. You are welcome to participate even if

00:12:42.760 you disagree, but you can't disagree with somebody's fundamental right to exist. You can't.

00:12:46.980 What does he mean by that, though? That's him saying that if you deny gender theory,

00:12:51.720 you are denying someone's right to exist, ergo you're going to get kicked off. It's word games with

00:12:56.900 the left constantly, and they think that this is clever. Steve thinks he's being very clever

00:13:01.640 with how he is presenting this. The average person listening to him thinks this guy is psychotic,

00:13:06.880 thinks that this person is a like cry bully authoritarian, which he absolutely is. And then

00:13:12.760 he will wonder why like parties like the NDP get absolutely wrecked in the Saskatchewan provincial

00:13:19.220 election. He was he assumed that it could happen, but I think he was legitimately taken off guard with

00:13:24.600 how much the Saskatchewan party won by because it's a party that is not the woke left. Yes,

00:13:30.900 the NDP got back in back in British Columbia, but barely against an upstart party with way less

00:13:37.660 money. Yes, Blaine Higgs lost in New Brunswick. That had way more to do with a poorly run campaign

00:13:43.000 than people like rejecting his social conservative policies. Those were popular, popular to the point

00:13:48.600 that Susan Holt had to keep pretending that she didn't have the socially progressive opinions that she 1.00

00:13:53.620 does. Disagree with somebody's right to live safely and not be harassed. What's the problem with that?

00:13:59.840 But more than that, if a collective of people decide to create a space where your opinions aren't welcome

00:14:04.500 because they are harmful and dangerous, the problem isn't the space. The problem is you and your

00:14:10.680 opinions. You want to join in? Follow the rules. It's not hard.

00:14:14.420 It's not hard. Just be left wing. Just be an out of touch lefty. Just be a leech on society. Just

00:14:22.000 be the person who demands everything from everybody else and never actually acts like an adult. Just be

00:14:29.140 a child all the time. Just demand everything. And if you don't agree with us, you have to follow those

00:14:34.840 demands. Are you kicked out? What is this? It's he's he was rewarding special categories of people.

00:14:41.020 And what he was alluding to there about harassment was Kareem aside going to or Kareem said going to

00:14:48.040 Rachel Gilmore in a public space and videoing her asking her questions that was considered harassment

00:14:54.420 that would have been worthy of kicking Kareem aside off blue sky. They're very easy to follow. You don't

00:15:00.480 like accidentally do transphobia. So the real question you have to ask here is why do the

00:15:04.740 most obnoxious people in the world feel entitled to our attention? As soon as there's a space where

00:15:09.160 they don't get it, people aren't entitled to your attention. People don't feel entitled to your

00:15:12.760 attention. They're mocking you for going and putting yourself in an echo chamber. That's what's

00:15:18.340 happening. They're offended. As soon as the people move away from them and they no longer hold the

00:15:22.800 control of the attention economy, they throw a tantrum because they aren't driving the bus anymore.

00:15:27.000 They can't own the lives. Frankly, I think it's for the best. So if you need me, I'll be over on

00:15:31.820 blue sky instead of wandering amongst the ghosts and Nazis on Twitter. Oh, the ghosts and Nazis on

00:15:37.200 Twitter. Oh, yeah. Everyone on Twitter is a Nazi. Everyone who everyone who I disagree with is just

00:15:42.180 they're just like a bigot and extremist. Who could guess why these people are losing elections? Who

00:15:48.020 could guess why Donald Trump was elected in the US or why pure poly is almost guaranteed to become the

00:15:53.260 next prime minister of Canada? It's almost like people got tired of people who talked to them

00:15:57.640 like, oh, maybe you just don't have it. Maybe if you're a little less transphobic, you can be on

00:16:02.500 this site. Maybe if you play along with the other kids, you can be on this site. This is why people

00:16:07.420 don't like Chrystia Freeland or Jenna Suds or Justin Trudeau or Mark Gerritsen. Talking down to people

00:16:13.320 like this, maybe if you were just not such a bigot, you could interact with, you could be on our

00:16:19.800 platform, but you can't. You think you're entitled to my attention. Nobody thinks they're entitled to

00:16:24.580 his attention. What? When did that? Where did that come from? It's like actually insane. But

00:16:31.180 whatever. Why doesn't he go on to a more lefty social media, like a more lefty, like a video

00:16:37.600 platform? There's transphobia all over YouTube. Why doesn't he take himself off of YouTube? Because

00:16:42.780 people are profiting off of transphobia. And why doesn't he go to a different platform? It's almost like

00:16:47.860 he actually does want to interact with a massive amount of people. But because YouTube doesn't

00:16:52.160 require him to interact with people, he likes it. As soon as you actually have to see posts from other

00:16:58.580 people that you dislike, that's when it becomes problematic. Anyways, that's it for me today,

00:17:04.380 guys. This is just a really basic video wanting to talk about what Steve Boots was up to. I know some

00:17:09.780 people tell me, well, don't talk about him because it gives him attention. It's not good attention.

00:17:14.380 It's not like his channel is going to start growing because of any of this. He's been like

00:17:18.580 spamming out videos every day. Like I know I put up a video every day or put up two videos a day.

00:17:23.940 The guy puts up like three videos in a day and then also uploads like three or four YouTube shorts.

00:17:29.120 So like you'll go on to his like social blade account because I like to keep tabs on other

00:17:33.280 people's channels. It interests me. And he has like 15,000 views in a day, but his actual standalone

00:17:39.120 videos only have like a few thousand views. And so he's just spamming out shorts in order to try and

00:17:43.940 gain viewership since he's, you know, stopped teaching and becoming an influencer. I don't

00:17:48.420 think it's exactly a good idea. So if I was ever to give Steve Boots advice, have a separate channel

00:17:52.680 for shorts. Putting shorts on the main channel means that you're going to have an audience who

00:17:56.260 only wants to watch shorts and then another audience who only wants the long form content.

00:18:01.020 And both of those audiences are not going to watch the other's content, which means that you're

00:18:05.640 going to have very bad click-through rates and very bad retention. Anyways, that's it for me today,

00:18:11.160 guys. See you around.

The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - December 07, 2024

Woke Canadian loves censorship and echo chambers!

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