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Facebook is Finally Going to Stop Censoring People

#bidenadministration#facebook#freespeech#trump#pivot
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0:00 [Music] all right so we're actually pretty uh on the news on this one so Mark Zuckerberg came on Joe Rogan's podcast today oh and said that the Biden Administration will call Meta to scream and curse at them to censor true information on their platforms they will or they did before oh they did oh yeah so here here's the clip we're going to watch this and react to this yo this is crazy it's heavy the Biden Administration would call up our team and like scream at them and curse and it's like these documents are it's all kind of out there do you record any of those phone calls I don't no I don't think I don't think we but but I think I want to listen I mean there are emails the emails are published it's all it's all kind of out there and um and they're like and

0:51 basically it just got to this point where we were like no we're not going to we're not going to take down things that are true that's ridiculous um they wanted us to take down this meme of Leonardo DiCaprio looking at a TV talking about how 10 years from now or something um you know you're going to see an ad that says okay if you took a covid vaccine you're um eligible you you know like uh for for this kind of payment like this sort of like class action lawsuit type Meme and they're like no you have to take that down we said no we're not we're not going to take down humor and satire we're not going to take down things that are you did that are true and then at some point um I guess uh I don't it flipped a bit I mean Biden when he was he gave some statement at some point I don't know if it press conference or to some journalist where he basically was like these guys are killing people and and um

1:43 and I don't know then like all these different agencies and branches of government basically just like started investigating and coming after our company it was it was brutal it was brutal wow so at the beginning it kind of seemed like okay we should give a little bit of deference to the Govern and the health authorities on how we should play this but when it went from you know two weeks to flatten the curve to um you know in like in the beginning it was like okay there aren't enough masks masks aren't that important to then it's like oh no you have to wear a mask and you know all the like everything was shifting around I it become very difficult to kind of follow and and this really hit the most extreme I'd say during it was during the Biden Administration when they were trying to roll out um the vaccine program and I'm generally

2:35 like pretty Pro rolling out vaccines I think on balance the vaccines are more positive than negative but I think that while they're trying to push that program they also tried to censor anyone who was basically arguing against it and they pushed us super hard um to take down things that were honestly were true right I mean they they basically pushed us and and said you know you know anything that um says that vaccines might have side effects you basically need to take down wow and I was just like we're not going to do that like we're clearly not going to do that I mean that that that that is kind of in arguably was they who's telling you to take down things that it talk about vaccine side effects it was people in the um in the Biden Administration so they're actively

3:26 talking it's so clear but why is it that we had so much push back during the time when it was like we got this information and then we talked about it and just talking about it people were so ████ pissed and saying you guys are can't question anything you're killing people and it and what blew my mind is like it came from a lot of longtime fans that liked that we openly talked about everything yeah exactly so what made them out of nowhere such a ████ like I don't know like question everything until you get into their religious thing you know what I mean and then they're like well not that not that I also feel like what happened is it was such a period of uncertainty right like no one knows if it was the leak from the lab or like

4:18 what like what is this thing like how many people are actually dying and then there's people that say like I vercon works and say that doesn't work like no one knew anything so it's so much chaos so much uncertainty so people try to like view they want to like everyone wants to be righteous and morally correct somehow so I think that anything that appears as like Superman they just latch on not to know not not realizing that the appeared Superman is actually the Devil in Disguise and I think that's why like if you if you question and it's such a time where everyone needed a savior you're like wait I don't know if the Savior actually has our best interest in mind everyone's like you shut the ████ up are you kidding look at all these people die why wouldn't you listen to them obviously this guy's trying to save us but everyone is just just having one extra layer of scrutiny

5:08 um and I think it's because of that time I like two years ago if you asked Mark Zuckerberg I think he was on the senate or something and he's like like sir why are you censoring information he'd say we don't do that at Facebook and now he's out here saying oops yes we did do that at Facebook so why do you guys think he's doing this so I have Facebook insiders and during lockdown remember when they were going ████ overboard with a censorship and we would do jokes and those jokes would be flagged by Bots or sensitive people satire always Flags human reviews it and then they go actually after we reviewed it we believe that it's wrong or whatever so I know people that are in Facebook and Instagram and I asked them like what's going on like and what why why is it being like policing like why is everyone why is everybody in the team policing

5:59 this way and he said to be honest you know how he's on trial right now so Zuck is on trial and you know how he said like how Biden was like these guys are killing people they're responsible for all these things right it wasn't just Biden either it was hella Democrats saying the same ████ have you seen social dilemma no okay so they're linking Facebook for Trump's uh win okay and Hillary's loss right and and then they're they're saying Facebook allowed Russian Bots and foreign agents to come in and man ulate the the American people and for voting Trump in and all this all this stuff and they're saying Facebook is dangerous Facebook Instagram is out of control right I think they ended up finding out it was like $40,000 worth of ads that that were bought about Pro Trump that's what they turned into a huge headline Facebook and Instagram what they were facing was the government is basically

6:51 taking the position of you guys can't control your own platform so you need us to take it over mhm so that's what was being under threat and so my buddies over at Facebook was like okay now what we want to do is show the government that we are responsible at Facebook we'll play ball with you we have our house in order and by doing that just a general rule of thumb if it's risky let's just not even deal with it let's not deal with it it's risky let's just play ball right so I think he was in a position where that thing was being so jeopardized and they didn't know what was going to happen happened and then we all saw what happened with Twitter and uh what's his name the dude that that that that got pushed out of it the the the former owner yeah Jack Jack dorsy

7:42 right so Twitter was made an example of um he basically lost control of his like everything right it's not the same vision of what he had before um so during that time they had to make a move of let's just take the safe route and not even give them an opportunity to say yeah that's what saying here but why do you think he's coming out about this now cuz he's feel safer with it cuz Biden's going to be out right now you have Trump who's already shown that he was a victim of censorship that right so and clearly if he's teaming up with Elon I don't think this is a moral Jud I think this is a pivot a business pivot I think he was playing ball with the Biden Administration cuz they were empowered now Trump is about to come in so now he

8:33 has to Pivot to that culture yeah so it's a business to me it's a it's a survival movie also been Mr America if you haven't noticed since Trump got shot like he was like remember on a boogie board like drinking a beer with an just like Uncle Sam like during July 4th yeah I think it's the MMA dude MMA made him way cooler the martial arts Sav his life dude he's way he's way chill he's a man now out of there I actually that makes sense think these guys at that level they're not playing a moral game they're playing aall completely different game right like people think what like most normal people right what they say like if they're in front of the camera or whatever they'll be like okay this is how I represent this is how I feel this is what I'm doing I think at that point everything is constructed for a certain perception you want of people to

9:25 see you I got to say I'm jealous of the people who could just go along to get along like this cuz like I don't think that's what some of us in this room are made of dude cuz I I couldn't sit there and just Echo all the same talking points as all the ████ news people was saying I think it's also helpful that like uh in the last few years he's gotten the example of like what Twitter has gone through turning into X and being a platform for free speech who's who's to say that he wasn't in the same boat when Elon took it over and was like that s███'s going to ████ Crash and Burn he did ████ all over that's what I'm saying and then it didn't and then it worked out to be a certain type of thing that was like people over to because they couldn't trust mainstream media and all Li started blaming Facebook for all this stuff too and then it's like okay well that does work and it's convenient as a business employ to Pivot at this time with Trump going into the administration so it's like you know that's got to be a part of it as well but we were talking about this during

10:16 the break like it's one thing to have like mainstream media and then every other social media platform that the majority of people in America use to be a certain way and then you look at X as an outlier you know you can call it like the free speech platform but if you don't like that you're looking at it just like on its own Island doomed to fail like as an outlier you bring Facebook over there which also owns Instagram into that same kind of free speech world the entire platform is going to shift I think like like the the the narrative for everything in America for the next few years at least is going to be completely different cuz now it's not just X it's Facebook Instagram all on this free speech train where people can be uncensored to say they what they feel and stuff like that especially you already know how extremely sensitive things like Instagram got and it's like now like the whole world's just going to open up to like say what they feel and

11:07 not be necessar it's going to be back to pre2 ████ 20 Internet it's kind of what we were talking about during 2020 when we were like the pendulum has to swing the other way eventually this cuz it was an over correction A lot of people were afraid that this is going to be the new normal and I was like nah dude like it's always going to go back to yeah just how long is it going to take in your opinion good thing or where you at with that how do you guys well I think timing wise we were getting in trouble for being too early like now it's safe to say these things we were talking about lab League when it was happening yeah and then look at how much people ████ hated me for that oh God it was insane but these guys are good at timing mhm cuz even if they personally felt this way they waited for the right moment broadcas to do it Zucker B isn't going to get canceled for saying this now cuz they have a good

11:57 grasp on how people will react react at certain things and how they can maneuver with that right so like they have a whole team is what I'm saying we don't have that so we passionately feel something that we go oh that is a lab League okay let's talk about it and everyone goes you ████ conspiracy theorists you're killing people and also if you're not a public company cuz if you're a public company you have to care about what you say all time that's true yeah that is true that's true think private like some people don't know about it that's why I think it's it's beside the point if Mark even wants to be like anything I'm sure he has an Advisory board or like main shareholders that tell him it's his responsibilities as a figure out of you don't think he wants to run for president one day or some ████ like that he might maybe I don't know I think Trump started a new president though I do too cuz he's the first entrepreneurial president for him to get in there like that never did did anything politics just gets in the

12:47 presidency and now got reelected crazy the only one closest to that was Ross per Ross Pro is the only if you remember after January 6th he got banned from everything he was completely shut off off and like thrown in the dark basically and came back and won and then won the popular vote Facebook it's insane that's a mad comeback story it's the craziest comeback story people like I can't believe they just elected a criminal America's crazy yeah the criminal Grapist all that ████ it's crazy grabing by the ████ we can say that again finally you just made a clip for yourself said grab him by the ████ oh okay that's what all over Tik Tok all over Tik Tok please Tik tok's going to be dead oh yeah do it now do it now it does feel good though

13:37 that all the things that we were talking about here was legitimate like it's everyone is coming out talking about it ahead of your time it doesn't matter it doesn't matter it's too too early like disappeared like nobody's going to come back and be like hey sorry I nobody does that ever you no that's the part that sucks where you you like you're the guy that like let's say started like Cola and was disgusting and then the third guy that comes with Coca-Cola dude that's so bomb he like that was my recipe we made it what the ████ you know people are going to be like oh but back when you said it you didn't explain it like he did there there's people that are owning these companies confirming the details and people are still in disbelief yeah

14:27 so I don't get it what is it going to take I don't know

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