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[00:00.960 --> 00:06.160]  Welcome to the vodcast. After three years of un-American censorship on social media platforms,
[00:06.160 --> 00:10.320]  which are in the digital age, what the town square was in the days of the founding fathers,
[00:10.320 --> 00:14.320]  and Elon Musk purchasing Twitter and making it a free speech platform,
[00:14.880 --> 00:21.680]  free speech has rarely been as discussed and debated as it has recently. Oddly,
[00:21.680 --> 00:28.240]  there is today a divide in America on what free speech actually is. I thought we might
[00:28.240 --> 00:37.440]  explore that today. The Doctor Reality Vodcast with Dave Champion.
[00:45.840 --> 00:50.480]  Let's start with this. Free speech in the era of the founding fathers was predominantly
[00:50.480 --> 00:54.960]  political in nature. The reason it was predominantly political is that was the only
[00:54.960 --> 01:00.080]  form of speech the Crown had any interest in punishing. It was the British government
[01:00.080 --> 01:04.640]  punishing subjects of the Crown who lived in the colonies that was the impetus for the founders
[01:04.640 --> 01:08.640]  to include the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights, and that is why the First Amendment
[01:08.640 --> 01:14.960]  only prohibits the government from silencing the American people. But let's move away from
[01:14.960 --> 01:20.800]  the First Amendment and discuss whether free speech is something Americans actually want.
[01:20.880 --> 01:26.080]  In other words, is free speech a part of who we are as Americans or is it something we only care
[01:26.080 --> 01:32.880]  about if government attempts to silence us? If others attempt to silence us, do we as Americans
[01:32.880 --> 01:39.360]  shrug our shoulders and say that's acceptable? One of the reasons I'm nonpartisan is I've noticed
[01:39.360 --> 01:44.400]  over the years that political parties and those who invest themselves in parties often claim to
[01:44.400 --> 01:49.840]  respect unalienable rights, but in reality are all too happy to violate your rights if they perceive
[01:49.840 --> 01:54.000]  in doing so there's a political advantage to their party or their belief system.
[01:54.640 --> 02:01.520]  The political divide concerning free speech has perhaps never been apparent as it has since Musk
[02:01.520 --> 02:07.920]  bought Twitter. For the last three years, the political right has been saying Twitter used
[02:07.920 --> 02:15.200]  its power to silence users with significant bias against those on the right, and it appears from
[02:15.200 --> 02:20.960]  the first two releases of what are being called the Twitter files that the right was right.
[02:20.960 --> 02:26.560]  Twitter's censorship employees were doing exactly that, disproportionately silencing those on the
[02:26.560 --> 02:32.080]  right. Musk has said he wants Twitter to be a place where everyone of any political persuasion
[02:32.080 --> 02:40.800]  or no political persuasion can say their piece. This has infuriated the left, and I suppose I can
[02:40.800 --> 02:45.840]  understand. If your side has been suppressing the speech of your political adversaries,
[02:45.840 --> 02:49.920]  you loved that and thought that's how it was going to be in America moving forward,
[02:50.720 --> 02:57.280]  and then the censorship of opposing views came to an end, I can see how it would be upsetting to have
[02:57.280 --> 03:03.040]  to return to a level playing field and engage in the open competition of ideas in which everyone
[03:03.040 --> 03:10.160]  has a voice. So where are we now? At this point, at least in terms of Twitter, we have the political
[03:10.160 --> 03:15.120]  right that is cautiously optimistic about free speech on Twitter, and we have the left that is
[03:15.120 --> 03:20.480]  beside themselves that one of America's three major social media platforms is going to allow
[03:20.480 --> 03:25.840]  everyone to have a voice. But there is a third group. That group is people who assert that
[03:25.840 --> 03:32.240]  because Twitter still has rules about content, it's not really free speech. These folks take
[03:32.240 --> 03:37.440]  an absolutist view. Their perspective is if Twitter disallows any speech at all,
[03:37.440 --> 03:43.440]  Twitter is then not a free speech platform. Let's examine that position. We'll start by looking at
[03:43.440 --> 03:48.160]  what Twitter disallows. I'm not going to read the list word for word because it would make this
[03:48.160 --> 03:53.200]  presentation boring and far longer than it needs to be, but I will put the link to Twitter's rules
[03:53.200 --> 03:58.080]  page in the notes so you can read them for yourself. Before I get started, as a side note,
[03:58.080 --> 04:03.360]  under Musk, Twitter's explanation of prohibited conduct and the steps Twitter may take when
[04:03.360 --> 04:10.000]  prohibited conduct occurs is considerably more clear and transparent than either Facebook or
[04:10.000 --> 04:15.200]  YouTube, both of which continue to engage in communist-style suppression of speech.
[04:15.200 --> 04:22.560]  So Twitter's rules disallow the following. Planning or coordinating criminal activities,
[04:23.360 --> 04:29.680]  threatening violence against any individual or group, engaging in child sexual exploitation,
[04:30.400 --> 04:35.120]  targeting an individual with harassment, encouraging a person to commit suicide,
[04:35.760 --> 04:40.960]  sharing excessively violent material or pornography, revealing a person's private
[04:40.960 --> 04:46.000]  contact information without the person's consent, sharing intimate images of another
[04:46.000 --> 04:52.240]  without that person's consent, spamming other users, interfering in elections by misleading
[04:52.240 --> 04:57.520]  people about when, where, or how to vote, impersonating individuals, groups, or organizations,
[04:58.000 --> 05:03.120]  posting images that have been altered to make them look like they're from real news outlets
[05:03.120 --> 05:09.200]  when they're not, and lastly, posting items that violate federal copyright or trademark laws.
[05:09.840 --> 05:15.680]  So let me ask you, did you hear anything in that list that would prohibit
[05:16.880 --> 05:21.760]  intellectual thought? Nothing in Twitter's rules could remotely be construed as prohibiting
[05:21.760 --> 05:28.000]  intellectual thought. If we distill Twitter's restrictions down to their core, the rules say
[05:28.560 --> 05:34.560]  you can't act like a douchebag. And because acting like a douche is the only way to get suspended
[05:34.560 --> 05:40.480]  on Twitter since Musk took over, I laugh when I see a person, it's always men, claim they were
[05:40.480 --> 05:45.120]  just suspended from Twitter. In short, when guys say they were just suspended from Twitter, they
[05:45.120 --> 05:49.760]  aren't saying anything bad or problematic about Twitter. They're admitting they're douchebags.
[05:50.720 --> 05:56.880]  But what of concerns about misinformation? First and foremost, let me point out that in terms of
[05:56.880 --> 06:03.040]  SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, and the vaccines, the top purveyors of disinformation have been and continue
[06:03.040 --> 06:08.960]  to be the very agencies and institutions, platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and pre-Musk Twitter held
[06:08.960 --> 06:16.080]  to be the arbiters of truth. Worse yet, Facebook and YouTube are still doing it. As long as platforms
[06:16.080 --> 06:21.920]  like Facebook and YouTube engage in communist-style censorship using the most prolific liars as their
[06:21.920 --> 06:26.000]  touchstone of truth, there is no way to have a credible or meaningful discussion concerning
[06:26.000 --> 06:32.160]  disinformation. In short, when platforms point to prolific liars as the source of all truth
[06:32.160 --> 06:37.760]  and claim the truth-tellers are the liars, the game is rigged and there's no reason to waste a second
[06:37.760 --> 06:43.200]  of your time discussing it. That said, we can discuss the matter on a personal level without
[06:43.200 --> 06:48.560]  making it about platforms. In other words, instead of having platforms suppress speech,
[06:48.560 --> 06:55.040]  how might we address posts we find problematic or users we see as not incredible? The broad strokes
[06:55.040 --> 07:01.360]  are these options. We can choose to take our time to counter someone's non-factual content.
[07:02.480 --> 07:07.040]  We can ignore a person's non-factual content because it's not worth our time to engage.
[07:07.600 --> 07:13.440]  Or we can disassociate ourselves from that person by no longer following them or blocking them.
[07:14.000 --> 07:20.960]  Pretty simple, streamlined stuff. It's called being an adult. But some folks, particularly those
[07:20.960 --> 07:28.560]  on the left, don't want to be adults. Instead, they want to run to mommy and have mommy make
[07:28.560 --> 07:35.120]  the bad people stop doing the bad things. Aside from the childishness of that mentality,
[07:35.120 --> 07:44.000]  the practical problem is who is a bad person or what constitutes bad things is subjective.
[07:45.200 --> 07:49.760]  You can imagine how different the public's perception would have been during 2020 and 2021
[07:49.760 --> 07:55.840]  if thousands of eminent professionals hadn't been silenced by platforms because those professionals
[07:55.840 --> 08:01.600]  were disputing the disinformation put out by the establishment. Scientific studies today
[08:01.600 --> 08:06.320]  inform us that virtually everything the public was told by the establishment concerning SARS-CoV-2,
[08:06.320 --> 08:13.680]  COVID-19, and the vaccines was false. And yet that false narrative was protected by platforms
[08:13.680 --> 08:19.520]  like YouTube, Facebook, and pre-Musk Twitter using communist-style censorship. Phrased another way,
[08:19.520 --> 08:26.480]  those platforms made sure all reasonable debate was blocked. It makes a person wonder how many
[08:26.480 --> 08:32.240]  deaths those platforms are responsible for by blocking users from getting the truth.
[08:32.240 --> 08:38.640]  And I remind you, Facebook and YouTube still engage in communist-style censorship to ensure
[08:38.640 --> 08:43.520]  only one voice can be heard—the voice of those spreading disinformation.
[08:44.560 --> 08:49.600]  Is it worth your time to argue with a person on social media who claims SARS-CoV-2 was caused by
[08:49.600 --> 08:56.240]  5G cellular towers? It certainly isn't worth my time, nor is there any reason for me to associate
[08:56.240 --> 09:03.040]  further with such a person. That said, I admit I spend way too much time correcting people on
[09:03.040 --> 09:08.000]  social media concerning their non-factual statements. Most of their non-factual assertions
[09:08.000 --> 09:12.880]  are the result of the person being highly partisan and repeating stupid shit they've heard from
[09:12.880 --> 09:20.960]  another partisan moron. Non-factual statements are a lot more rare when emotion isn't involved,
[09:20.960 --> 09:27.280]  and of course partisanship is highly emotional. In the final analysis, Americans do not need
[09:27.280 --> 09:33.440]  and should not want to run to mommy when they hear or read something with which they disagree,
[09:33.440 --> 09:38.800]  even vehemently. The idea that anyone who is unhappy with something someone said
[09:39.520 --> 09:47.600]  needs a mommy to go make the bad words go away is repulsive. You may be aware that some celebrities
[09:47.600 --> 09:52.480]  have tweeted they're leaving Twitter because under Musk, Twitter will no longer act as their
[09:52.480 --> 10:00.480]  mommy. To that I can only say, good, leave. Those celebrities leaving will only make Twitter a
[10:00.480 --> 10:06.400]  healthier, more robust community. The end of censorship at Twitter will be a breath of fresh
[10:06.400 --> 10:12.320]  air to presenters on YouTube when Musk initiates monetization, which will occur when he completes
[10:12.320 --> 10:18.160]  building out the infrastructure to natively host long videos. In other words, video presenters will
[10:18.160 --> 10:23.040]  be able to make money sharing content just as they do now, but on a platform where they don't have to
[10:23.040 --> 10:29.920]  fear being demonetized or removed for speaking their conscience. When Musk ends the 280 character
[10:29.920 --> 10:35.360]  limit, Facebook users can move to Twitter where they will have the same experience they had
[10:35.360 --> 10:42.160]  using Facebook, but the platform won't be a place where mommy and daddy will send you to your room
[10:42.160 --> 10:49.200]  for being bad. And when it comes to Facebook being bad, it generally means speaking the truth
[10:49.200 --> 10:52.960]  about a subject concerning which Facebook is a co-conspirator in protecting the lie.
[10:54.240 --> 11:00.480]  Who is it among us that is wise enough to decide who gets to be heard and who does not? The answer,
[11:00.480 --> 11:05.680]  of course, is no one is that wise, which is why free speech is so critical to a nation of
[11:05.680 --> 11:11.360]  free men and women. That said, even if there was someone wise enough to make that determination,
[11:11.360 --> 11:17.440]  it certainly would not be the politically biased virtue signaling twits employed for that purpose
[11:17.440 --> 11:23.200]  by Facebook and YouTube. Censorship at the institutional level, such as Facebook, YouTube,
[11:23.200 --> 11:30.000]  and pre-Musk Twitter, is really about exercising political power. At the level of the individual,
[11:30.000 --> 11:36.320]  it's all about arrogance. Those who run to mommy to silence the words of others believe they are
[11:36.320 --> 11:43.120]  made of a finer cloth than the rest of us. They believe they are so much more intelligent, aware,
[11:43.120 --> 11:49.040]  compassionate, prescient than our others that the very act of publicly disagreeing with them
[11:49.040 --> 11:55.440]  justifies your voice being silenced. I don't believe that people really grasp, yet. What a
[11:55.440 --> 12:00.800]  profound shift occurred when Musk purchased Twitter and made it a free speech platform, a true digital
[12:00.800 --> 12:06.160]  age town square. As Musk dramatically alters Twitter into his vision of what he calls
[12:06.160 --> 12:12.320]  Twitter 2.0 and people see how that diminishes the annual revenue and future earnings potential
[12:12.320 --> 12:18.000]  of communist censorship platforms like Facebook and YouTube, people will then understand how
[12:18.000 --> 12:24.880]  momentous Musk's actions have been in the fight to preserve free speech. I've always kept a wary
[12:24.880 --> 12:30.560]  eye on those who would silence the truth that conflicts with lies told by the establishment,
[12:30.560 --> 12:35.520]  because I've authored two books that do exactly that. They reveal the truth about the most
[12:35.520 --> 12:41.120]  pernicious disinformation campaigns taking place in America. One robs you of your wealth,
[12:41.920 --> 12:47.120]  the other of your health. I'm the author of Income Tax Shattering the Mist and Body Science. I'm
[12:47.120 --> 12:50.640]  going to give you a brief description of both of those, and then I'm going to tell you about
[12:50.640 --> 12:53.920]  the special I'm running for the holiday season, so bear with me for just a moment. First of all,
[12:53.920 --> 13:00.000]  Income Tax Shattering the Mist. It explains in a super easy to understand manner. It takes the
[13:00.000 --> 13:07.600]  law all the way from 1895 forward to, as we're talking right now, laid out in a super easy to
[13:07.600 --> 13:13.920]  understand way and shows you conclusively without anyone even being able to argue against it.
[13:13.920 --> 13:20.800]  Conclusively, the Congress has never imposed the income tax on the ordinary average working
[13:20.800 --> 13:24.400]  American. Never. The guy who or the gal who gets up in the morning, has a cup of coffee,
[13:24.400 --> 13:28.160]  makes a little breakfast, gets the kids off to school, goes to work, does whatever they do
[13:28.160 --> 13:33.440]  for a living and earns money. Congress has never imposed the income tax on you, and the only reason
[13:33.440 --> 13:41.280]  you believe it's true is because you are the victim of the almost certainly the largest
[13:41.280 --> 13:46.800]  disinformation campaign in far scale is concerned in the history of the United States government,
[13:46.800 --> 13:51.920]  and I think arguably very much so the most successful disinformation campaign. Because of
[13:51.920 --> 13:57.680]  that disinformation campaign and how successful it is, you believe that the income tax applies to the
[13:57.680 --> 14:01.760]  ordinary Americans, and the only reason you believe that is you've listened to them. Let me ask you this.
[14:02.560 --> 14:08.880]  How many words of actual tax law have you read? Right, the answer is none, but somehow you convinced
[14:08.880 --> 14:15.040]  yourself that the government's disinformation is true. So income tax shattering the mist gives you
[14:15.040 --> 14:22.560]  an opportunity to look for yourself to see the lots. What, 400 pages? A super easy? I don't want to say it's
[14:22.560 --> 14:26.880]  a quick read. That would probably be an exaggeration, but it's not as challenging as I think some people
[14:26.880 --> 14:31.680]  imagine it would be. There's not a single American in the country who cannot fully understand exactly
[14:31.680 --> 14:36.960]  what it says, how it's laid out, what all the information is. As a matter of fact, in the 12 years
[14:36.960 --> 14:42.720]  it's been out now, it's got nothing less as far as reviews are concerned, four out of five stars,
[14:42.720 --> 14:46.480]  and most of the reviews are five star. So that should give you an idea how your fellow Americans
[14:46.480 --> 14:51.200]  feel about it when they read it. Body science. Again, I'm going to give you the special in just
[14:51.200 --> 14:55.200]  a moment, so bear with me. Body science, the same thing. You probably heard me say this before.
[14:55.200 --> 15:02.480]  America is the most chronically ill society in all of mankind's history. Despite our medical prowess,
[15:02.480 --> 15:10.080]  despite our wealth, our technology, our science, Americans, America as a society remains the most
[15:10.080 --> 15:16.160]  chronically ill people in all of human history. Why? Is it because you're an idiot? No! Just like
[15:16.160 --> 15:22.000]  the income tax. You've not looked at the science, you've not seen how physiology truly works, but
[15:22.080 --> 15:25.440]  you believe all the stuff you see in the media and have for the last 60 years. And I don't mean any
[15:25.440 --> 15:31.760]  offense by that because you're not seeing the real information. You're just seeing the disinformation
[15:31.760 --> 15:37.840]  that has led America to be the most chronically ill society in history. So you read body science.
[15:37.840 --> 15:44.640]  It lays out the history of the disinformation curve, how it began, how it grew, who the players
[15:44.640 --> 15:51.360]  were, how they amplified the message. And you can literally see after the government got involved
[15:51.440 --> 15:58.240]  how chronic disease in America exploded because it was a disinformation campaign.
[15:58.960 --> 16:05.120]  Then body science goes on to explain how human physiology really works. And again, just like
[16:05.120 --> 16:10.160]  income tax, shattering the mess with the law, it lays out the science in a way that every single
[16:10.160 --> 16:15.040]  person can understand. When it comes to body science and those reviews, is it four out of five
[16:15.040 --> 16:19.280]  stars? No! Every single review has been five out of five stars. That should give you some confidence
[16:19.280 --> 16:26.000]  in how your fellow Americans feel about body science. Now, the special. Through midnight on
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[16:45.520 --> 16:51.040]  I will inscribe and autograph them. Who is that rock star who just got caught using an auto pen?
[16:51.040 --> 16:55.360]  Something that's signed that inscribes and autographs the book without you even being in
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[17:24.880 --> 17:28.800]  I want to know these things. As a human being, I want to know the information in some body science.
[17:28.800 --> 17:31.840]  Oh, what are we, eight billion people now? All eight billion people on the planet should be
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[17:53.920 --> 17:59.040]  book or books and I will autograph them for you as well. Have a fabulous holiday season. Thanks
[17:59.040 --> 18:08.880]  for hanging with me. Take care. I'll talk to you soon.