00:00:00.080Hey, it's Tucker Carlson. Charlie Kirk was assassinated two weeks ago today in an event that clearly is going to change American history, changed a lot of people inside.
00:00:11.500And there was a moment in the first week where you thought to yourself, this is going to have effects. A lot of them are going to be bad, but some of them are probably going to be good because Charlie's life was itself so good.
00:00:23.180Charlie Kirk spent his life above all trying to live the Christian gospel and trying to live the principle of free speech, which is to say he talked and he also listened.
00:00:34.040He was most famous for traveling from college campus to college campus and asking people who disagreed with him to confront him.
00:00:41.000Ask me anything, he said, and he sat there patiently as they did, and they often attacked him.
00:00:45.860They almost always expressed views he found repugnant, and almost always he took those views seriously and answered the questions put to him.
00:00:52.580as crisply and honestly as he could. That's what he spent his life doing, and in fact, he was assassinated while doing that.
00:01:00.220So if there's any lesson from Charlie Kirk's life, well, the first lesson would probably be sincere Christians tend to be really decent people.
00:02:12.220He's a nasty little censor, talentless, a person who has many times on camera over the years chuckled and applauded as other people, his political enemies, have been silenced.
00:02:22.660A guy who has so little influence in American society and so little audience, he was on his way out anyway, has the job only as a result of some kind of weird political affirmative action where people who agree with studio heads get to have late night jobs.
00:02:35.700He is hardly the person who should be taking up the cause of free speech or become a symbol of it because, of course, he's the symbol of censorship and has been for most of his career.
00:02:45.900And the other thing that we saw, maybe even more distressing than that, was politicians turn not only against free speech, but actively and openly announced efforts to censor the American population and use the memory of Charlie Kirk to do it as their justification.
00:03:06.640There are many examples we could pick.
00:03:43.720Talking about how the what's been released as far as the dialogue between the perpetrator and his roommate is manufactured by the FBI, manufactured by the administration.
00:03:55.580It is totally rampant, allowing foreign governments to just perpetrate these platforms, all of these bots, all of the time to weaponize Americans.
00:04:06.640And so if we want to do something, then we should talk about Section 230.
00:04:11.060We should talk about how we're going to make sure that we don't let foreign governments poison our children's mind.
00:04:19.060And so I will work with you on that, director.
00:04:45.820Conspiracy theories about everybody and everybody's personal life.
00:04:48.200If you're in public, people are theorizing about you on the Internet, kind of the nature of the Internet and kind of the nature of having authority.
00:04:53.800But you'll notice that the congressman thinks this will be a compelling argument for the FBI director.
00:04:59.600He basically just says, they're criticizing you and me, and they're not allowed to do that.
00:05:03.840But he's not even pretending that the purpose of censoring speech, and that's what he's saying, we need to censor the speech, that the purpose of that would be protect any vulnerable group.
00:05:36.060But the idea that we need to censor what you say because the people who run everything don't want to be called out or have their personal lives misdescribed to the subject of conspiracy theories, well, that's not really reform as much as it's just kind of classic old-fashioned tyranny, isn't it?
00:05:58.720So you may remember that last week the attorney general came out right after Charlie Kirk's death and said there is a distinction between speech, constitutionally protected, famously in the First Amendment and the Bill of Rights, and something called hate speech, a category that doesn't, strictly speaking, exist under the law but which a lot of people seem to believe exists.
00:06:18.620And hate speech is never defined, like most of the most powerful words that we use to punish people, terrorism, for example, racism.
00:06:30.720And most people who understand the American story, who understand our government, who understand our culture, who care about continuing all of those things, reacted with outrage when the attorney general said that you can't pass a law that will strip from us our God-given right to say what we think is true.
00:06:58.140She addressed it in such a ham-handed way that it was obvious to everybody exactly what she was talking about, and they reacted.
00:07:06.640But in real life, that will not happen.
00:07:09.780There will not be, I can say confidently, in my lifetime, a law in the Congress that says, explicitly, any American who says something our leaders don't like, anybody who traffics into conspiracy theory about our personal lives will be shut down, fined, imprisoned.
00:07:26.760An open, transparent censorship law will not pass through the House of Representatives or the United States Senate.
00:07:34.800It will not be signed by the president.
00:07:39.380So instead, because censorship is coming, if these people can help it, instead, they will invoke something called Section 230.
00:07:48.560And you're going to hear a lot more about this without question.
00:07:51.300It's never, again, explained very well.
00:07:53.800And the reason it's not explained is because they don't want you to know exactly what they're doing.
00:07:56.860So let me just give you the Cliff Notes version of what Section 230 is.
00:07:59.720Section 230 is a section, 230, within the 1996 Communications Decency Act, and it is the piece of legislation often credited for creating the Internet.
00:08:10.580It's the framework that Congress came up with at the dawn of the Internet to put parameters around what this is, to protect companies as they grew, to set laws around this new technology.
00:08:22.940And one of the laws that they made, Section 230, shields Internet providers' platforms from lawsuits.
00:08:32.300It gives them legal liability from lawsuits on the basis of slander, obscenity, things that are on their platforms that they didn't create.
00:08:44.580In other words, it creates a distinction between a publisher, like a newspaper, a magazine, a television network, and a platform, Google, Facebook, X.
00:08:55.620And the distinction allows the platforms to let other people post whatever they want without getting sued for it.
00:09:05.740These big companies cannot be held liable for slander, hate speech, anything, really, on their platforms.
00:09:14.860And as a result of this law, those platforms have come to dominate news and information globally.
00:09:21.640In fact, when we talk about censorship, nobody's talking about censoring the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC News, because nobody cares.
00:09:27.460All meaningful information and all meaningful social movements are influenced by social media.
00:09:34.260So if you want to get people whipped into a frenzy, if you want to change your government, for example, you're not going to take out an ad in the New York Times.
00:10:44.060But what's interesting about the 230 debate is that both parties have been on both sides of it at various times.
00:10:52.120The Republicans, for years, were mad at the big platforms because they were censoring conservatives, which they were.
00:10:58.280And so they often muttered about revoking 230 shield protection unless they opened their platforms to all points of view.
00:11:05.940In other words, they wanted to use Section 230 to end censorship.
00:11:10.320There's no reason you should get a special carve out from the U.S. government, from the Congress, if you don't treat people equally, if there's not fairness and neutrality in the way you allow opinions to be broadcast on your platform.
00:11:21.640That seemed like a fairly reasonable position.
00:11:25.520Now you're seeing Republicans invoke Section 230, pick up the cudgel that they hold over these huge tech companies and say, unless you censor, we will revoke Section 230.
00:11:42.380And by the way, they are following in the footsteps of the leftward edge of the Democratic Party in doing this.
00:11:49.160In 2020, Beto O'Rourke of Texas ran one of his many doomed campaigns for office.
00:12:24.900But then Joe Biden, that same year, 2020, said, actually, yes, we should use this threat to force the big tech platforms to censor in ways that we like.
00:12:36.440And by the way, they did, they did throughout the Biden presidency, Facebook, then Twitter, Google, all censored opinions the Biden administration didn't like.
00:12:47.440And they did this ultimately because they feared having their legal protection revoked.
00:20:15.680Listen to Congressman Don Bacon of Nebraska, a former Air Force general, describe who he's been talking to about censorship.
00:20:23.780And I appreciate, John, the agreement, what hit him and his ADL stands for.
00:20:29.060I know you made us better with your feedback and ideas and recommendations, and it's been a trick to get to know you.
00:20:35.080We want to be in a country that makes clear that anti-salatism or any kind of racism is repugnant, unacceptable, not allowed in my space, and with a zero tolerance for it.
00:20:48.000So we need to hold these companies accountable and work with them to take it up the airwaves.
00:20:53.400It's hard to believe that's a real clip we actually checked.
00:21:16.540And make no mistake, the ADL is not an anti-defamation organization.
00:21:22.060The ADL practices defamation and slander and bullying and not in service of protecting a marginalized group, but in accruing power and by forwarding its goals, which are ideological.
00:21:36.560And if you don't believe that, go on the ADL's website and take a look at what the ADL considers hate speech.
00:21:43.080Hate speech, another one of those terms never quite defined, but the ADL has actually taken the time to define it.
00:22:38.940You know what else is hate speech, by the way?
00:22:40.660Reading the gospels of Matthew or Mark or Luke or John, the gospel itself, Christianity itself is hate speech.
00:22:46.180I know that because three nights ago, I recounted the Christian story in its essence over like five minutes and was immediately denounced by the ADL as someone who was dangerous and inspiring murder.
00:23:01.780The ADL has actively attacked the Christian gospel for years, has gotten behind a definition of hate speech that includes the Christian story.
00:23:20.280That's the guy, Jonathan Greenblatt, the most aggressively left-wing, democratic-aligned, but much more important than that, lunatic, anti-human, anti-American group, the ADL, completely corrupt.
00:23:34.380He's consulting that guy to decide how much speech you should have because there are ugly opinions on the internet?
00:26:16.500They come from living in a country where the government will never explain anything and lies constantly.
00:26:21.400So the next time you see someone in power complain about malicious conspiracy theories, stop him in mid-sentence and say they exist because of you.
00:26:28.040If you just tell the truth, if you would live like Charlie Kirk and answer the question politely, reasonably, fully, there wouldn't be a vacuum into which lunatics would rush.
00:26:42.060We would have a plausible answer to basic questions like, what the hell is going on?
00:26:47.420But because you haven't provided that, what do you think is going to happen?
00:26:52.440People are going to have some pretty far out explanations.
00:26:55.160And maybe some of them are true, by the way.
00:27:04.260And you're spending your time talking to Jonathan Greenblatt, one of the darkest, most corrupt people in our society, truly a divisive figure.
00:27:13.680Speaking of divisive, how many Americans have made fellow Americans hate each other more consistently over the years than Jonathan Greenblatt?
00:27:25.420So if this sounds like a paranoid rant, like, oh, that could never happen, well, you should know that it is happening right now in the state of California.
00:27:36.680The state of California, like, two weeks ago, ten days ago, eight days ago, something like that, has passed a law in the state legislature, both chambers of the state legislature.
00:27:49.580It awaits a signature from Gavin Newsom that would ban hate speech on the Internet in California.
00:28:02.060I actually wrote it down because I was so shocked by it that this is happening.
00:28:05.720The state of California, if Gavin Newsom signs this law, and he has until October 13th to do it,
00:28:10.980people will be fined if the censors determine that speech constitutes, and we're quoting now, violence, intimidation, or coercion.
00:28:21.340What's intimidation or coercion, right?
00:28:24.080Or coercion based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or other protected characteristics.
00:28:32.040Obviously, white Christian men are not covered under that, and so the society becomes ever more hierarchical with a Brahmin class and untouchables at the bottom,
00:28:43.960the opposite of the country all of us over 50 grew up in that had an egalitarian spirit where some were rich, some were poor, some were smart, some were dumb, some had good jobs, others were unemployed,
00:28:52.980but all of us were considered equal under the law and equal in the eyes of God.
00:28:58.000And that concept is the basis of a stable society, any stable society, and it was the basis of stability in this country.
00:29:04.980And laws like this and the attitudes that give birth to them, to laws like this, have made it wildly unstable.
00:29:21.260Now, they'll say, no, no, no, we're just, we're actually getting the platforms to censor.
00:29:24.320Well, right, you're getting someone else to do the job for you, but if you hire a hitman and he carries out the hit, you're the murderer.
00:29:33.320He participated in it, but you hired him.
00:29:35.660And that's exactly what's going on here.
00:29:37.280The state of California, under Gavin Newsom, is about to, we think, censor the opinions of Americans.
00:29:45.220Not to protect anybody, but to shield themselves from criticism so they can continue to do what they want to do in secret.
00:29:51.800Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of the ADL, applauds this.
00:30:04.080And in case you're not familiar with Jonathan Greenblatt, and in case you want a sense of what he's like and what he considers hate speech,
00:30:10.480let's just go right to the tape so you know that we're not exaggerating.
01:45:30.700Um, you know, I, I, I'm, I'm shocked by how little curiosity there is at a society wide level.
01:45:38.240I think that, you know, the intellectual life of this country, uh, by which I mean, not just the universities, but also the newspapers and the big media companies, that is how censorship was done over the last 80 years.
01:45:51.180The internet is almost a return to a pre radio pre broadcast period, um, when people were really free to just print whatever they wanted, uh, the internet is not there, but it's, it's a lot closer to it.
01:46:03.200We finally get to kind of learn that actually there's all these anomalies around human evolution, around human history, around, you know, archeological sites where things don't seem to add up.
01:46:17.860And you start to get, um, people that were called, you know, pseudo archeologists starting to kind of win some arguments publicly.
01:46:26.660I mean, there's one happening right now around, uh, Gobekli Tepe with this guy, Jimmy Corsetti, where he's just shown that the people that are supposed to be excavating the site are destroying it, planting trees whose roots will destroy these ancient sites.
01:46:41.920And also building these really grotesque roofing structures in ways that destroy the site.
01:46:49.780Um, there's just a lot of, you know, we know that a lot of the Tesla information was missing, uh, that, you know, should have shown some very interesting things.
01:46:58.820And then, yeah, I mean, I think that the relationship with nuclear is one of the most interesting parts of this because these UAPs, they show up around nuclear sites.
01:47:09.240I used to work on nuclear a lot and there would be nuclear, there would be these drones, um, these unidentified, uh, uh, they've seemed like objects, but unidentified phenomenon around nuclear power sites.
01:47:23.320Uh, the nuclear, the people working at them, um, were often very concerned around public perception of danger.
01:47:29.100And so they often didn't talk about them, but they, they'd certainly been over Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in California.
01:47:36.440Um, but when the drones happened in New Jersey, well, we caught them in an open lie.
01:47:40.880I mean, they just said, uh, John Kirby at one point said something like they had evaluated like 3000 cases of drone sightings in like 48 hours, which is like absurd.
01:47:51.320And then we started looking, a set of people started looking and you discover that in fact, there's been these drone swarms around U S military bases.
01:48:02.160I mean, I think it was somewhere around two or three dozen military bases.
01:48:05.900And there's a lot of evidence that those, those drones, um, are circling around those moments when there's nuclear weapons, uh, in the area.
01:48:15.040So, um, you know, if it's, I'm skeptical that it's Chinese and Russian because the drones are engaged in behaviors that I think are very difficult, uh, for anybody to do.
01:48:26.000But I mean, if these objects are behaving in ways that, you know, do appear to be using a different kind of propulsion or anti-gravity, I mean, I'm very skeptical that that that's ours in the sense that it takes a lot.
01:48:38.860It took a huge effort to create the Manhattan project and to create nuclear weapons.
01:48:44.720And so to somehow easily get, or to be able to easily hide reverse engineering, I don't know how you do that.
01:48:52.080Um, I'm really skeptical that we have it, but it's absurd that we have to just sit around and speculate about it.
01:48:58.580Like, like, like we need, there's basically no transparency instead we have a DOD organization called Arrow, which as far as I can tell is part of a deception operation consistent with the CIA's recommendations through the Robertson panel in the 1950s.
01:49:15.740That the main thing the US government should do is supposedly debunk the UFOs and to D and to ridicule the people that see them and, and research them.
01:49:26.900And worse, um, there's a lot of threats made to people in this field.
01:49:31.400I personally find it one of the scariest issues, um, trans and UAPs are the two, uh, paradoxically the, the scariest issues.
01:49:42.400Um, and because it just seems like a lot of people really don't want us to know what's going on with it.
01:49:48.960And, uh, president Trump's sound made noises like he was going to reveal something and Tulsi Gabbard just made some noises that she wanted to get to the bottom of it.
01:49:57.720But otherwise, Tucker, they're just, they just seem like they really, they, it seems like they want to, they want to Jeffrey Epstein, the UAP files.
01:50:07.980I don't think there's any, and if you're wondering if there's a spiritual component to the whole thing, if it's, if it's, if it's about technology and, you know, other, you know, I don't know, Martians.
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