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E4: Social Media Censorship · The Lila Rose Show

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Hello everyone, welcome to the Lila Rose Show.
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I'm Lila Rose. And in this episode today we are
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going to be talking about something that's really current.
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It's something that's happening, just happening this week, but
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it's also something that's been happening for a long time.
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And that is big tech company suppression or censorship of
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information that they don't like because of their ideology or
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their political persuasion. And so they ultimately try to
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silence it or to suppress it amongst the users on their
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platform. So I'm going to be sharing about
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Pinterest, which some of you guys may already know about and
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what live actions been facing there, what I've been facing
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there. And then just walk through some
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of the history with not just Pinterest, but some other big
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tech companies and some of the suppression that we've seen and
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that is out there. And then what we can do about
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it. Because I think a lot of the
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times there, a lot of the time there is a sense that we, those
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that possess conservative, more conservative values or maybe
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more libertarian values, those that are Christians or those
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that are Catholics that are viewpoints, we're pro-life.
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Our viewpoints are in the Super minority and we are extremely
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radical. And then there's everybody else.
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But that's actually not the case.
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So let's start with Pinterest. So I don't know if any of you
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guys are pinners, honestly. I tried to open a Pinterest
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account a few years ago and I got more interested in doing it
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when my then boyfriend and I were talking about getting
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married. So I was like, oh, maybe I
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should think about my future wedding.
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I actually wasn't one of those girls who had their whole
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wedding planned out. I didn't have anything planned
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out. And so I thought maybe I should
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start thinking about it. And so I wanted to try to use
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Pinterest because I'd heard all these great things about it.
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And when I tried to open an account, I was immediately
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suspended. So this was a, this was probably
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three years ago now, maybe 2 1/2 years ago.
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And so I kept trying to see what was wrong, trying to like appeal
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it or find out how to make an account on Pinterest personally,
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privately, and I was never able to use it.
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I mean, I actually had an account before that that I had
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used like a year or two prior for something.
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But when I tried to use it again, ultimately it got
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suspended. So that was kind of interesting
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to me, but I thought it was, maybe it's like a glitch in the
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matrix. There was just some issue.
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And so I didn't think too much of it and I just didn't use
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Pinterest for any. I have my wedding planning.
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My husband and I just got married last fall.
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Nor did I use it for anything else.
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I just didn't use it. But Live Action has been using
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Pinterest over the years. But we've always noticed that
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for some reason it's been really hard to get our content out on
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the platform, which is really surprising for us because our
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content is really popular. Our pro-life content is really
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popular on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and other places.
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So we actually just found out recently why that is.
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So we found out, and some of you might know already, that
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Pinterest has actually been blocking live action content.
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So we've had an account on the platform, but it's been blocking
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live actions pro-life content from being posted from our
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website, liveaction.org. And we create graphics and
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sometimes memes. And we have different web pages
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that could have been pinned that talk about the risks of
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abortion, fetal development development, the arguments
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against abortion. I mean, all kinds of great
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information. And we found out that Pinterest
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had been blocking any pins or any posts on the website, on
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pinterestfromtheliveaction.org website.
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And this is, we found this out through a whistleblower, an
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insider that was actually an employee at Pinterest who came
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out with documentation of this, this this blocking of live
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action and some other serious issues at Pinterest.
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And he shared it with Project there, a task which is run by
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James O'Keefe. And we were alerted to this.
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So we found out from this whistleblower that this very
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brave employee at Pinterest, which is, you know,
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headquartered in San Francisco, it's one of, it has 300 million
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users. It's not as big as Facebook or
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YouTube or I think it's maybe on par with Twitter, but its user
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base is not as maybe active in in ways as Twitter.
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I mean not as active at least in the political space.
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It's a lot of pinning of inspirational quotes, products,
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decor, but also messages. And these messages include
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things about abortion or can include things about pro-life or
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other political or cultural issues.
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So anyways, the whistleblower told us that actually live
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action had been placed on a porn block list by an employee.
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And it was, you know, a high-ranking employee who had
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the power to do that. And that when another employee
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said, hey, does live action, is this correct?
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But we shouldn't but also said that they shouldn't change it.
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And so we remain on the porn block list.
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So we saw from documentations, internal documentations from
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Slack used by Pinterest, that this was done, that live action
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was put on the porn block list so that we could not pin any
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content from liveaction.org to to Pinterest and neither could
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anybody else. And we would get sometimes
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complaints about this from emails from people that follow
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us, but we weren't sure. You know, we're actually really
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conservative at live action about how we approach censorship
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issues. So we don't jump to a conclusion
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anytime we reach to reach a issue with a platform like a
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something that seems off. You know, I think sometimes
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there's a tendency because there is real suppression that you
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think anytime there's a glitch or anytime that, you know, an
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algorithm changes and your contents not getting as much
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view or traction and maybe you're being suppressed or
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you're being discriminated against.
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Well, live action takes a really conservative view.
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And so we actually really, unless there's more evidence
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that we're actually being banned or suppressed, like there's
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clear cut evidence of it, then we don't go around complaining
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about it. You know, we're very
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conservative about when we report on what is suppression
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and what isn't of live action content.
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So we weren't making a big hullabaloo, you know,
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complaining about Pinterest blocking live actions website
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because it was hard to know exactly what was happening
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because we had didn't have evidence on the back end.
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So now we do. And the end this very brave
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insider revealed that he also revealed some other really
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troubling things. He revealed that not only was
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live action placed in the porn block list, but that but
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Pinterest was also. Employees at Pinterest had also
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labeled Ben Shapiro a white supremacist in the on the back
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end on Pinterest, that they had made it so that if you tried to
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type the word Christian or Bible, typically there's
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autofill for very popular Pinterest searches.
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So if you type in Muslim or Jewish, it autofills for
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holidays or for other things related to those religious
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traditions. But when you type in Christian,
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there's no, you know, auto fill and instead it actually auto
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fills to something that is kind of nonsensical Christian
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inspiration as one word instead of allowing it to auto fill for
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the different kinds of maybe Christian content that you could
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find on Pinterest. And similarly, when you type in
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Bible verses, instead of auto filling for Bible verses, it
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auto fills for Bible verse SUS. So it misspells the word verses
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to be nonsensical. So it's VERSUS like I'm versus
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you. I'm against you.
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You know, me versus you as opposed to Bible verses, which
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is VERSES. Anyways, the point being that it
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was basically suppressing searches for Christian content
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and it was not doing that for other religions.
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So this Pinterest insider put out that information that came
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out yesterday, Tuesday, Tuesday, January or June 11th, 2019 for
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those who are listening to this podcast later.
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And all that to say, there was quite the uproar.
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So Project Veritas had reached out to Pinterest the day before
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asking them for comment before they made the whistleblowers
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report public. We found out basically midnight
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on Monday, June 10th of that we were removed from the porn block
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list. The insider let us know, showed
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us a screenshot and actually we all of a sudden were able to
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post pro-life content to from our website to Pinterest.
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So we were like, wow, it looks like Pinterest is kind of
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covering their tracks because this reports about to be made
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public and we're off the porn block list.
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Well, guess what? Several hours later, right
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before the report became public live action, this account was
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totally completely permanently suspended.
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And we get this e-mail from Pinterest, which I mean, I, I
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kind of want to share, share some of it because I mean,
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we've, we've reported this at Live Action News.
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So you can actually see this on our website, liveaction.org or
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Live Action News if you would like to.
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But it was almost kind of comical because it was so
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ridiculous. And I'm just going to share with
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you some of what this e-mail said.
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So it says, hello, your account was permanently suspended
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because its contents were against our policies on
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misinformation. It in your, your content
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includes medical misinformation and conspiracies.
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And it says our principles maintain a safe, useful and
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positive experience for users. We don't allow advice on
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Pinterest that has immediate and detrimental effects on a
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Pinner's health or public safety.
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So basically saying that live action is spreading
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misinformation without telling us any of what that supposedly
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is. And we absolutely don't.
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Everything we do, especially when it comes to the abortion
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procedure, we work with a group of doctors, OBGY, NS, former
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abortionists to document what actually an abortion procedure
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does. It's risks, what happens during
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the procedure. So that is very clear.
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There's no other complaints from any kind of legitimate critical
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source about it. It's just the facts about
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abortion. That's our job.
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So for Pinterest to say this is really concerning and also
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really inaccurate of them. But then for them to say that
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we, our content has, could have immediate and detrimental
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effects on Pinners health or public safety is just, I mean,
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it's, it would be laughable if it wasn't also heartbreaking.
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I mean, the reality is we're defending life.
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We're fighting to protect, to share the facts about life in
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the womb, to provide empowering positive messages to women, to
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promote other options like adoption.
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And here they are saying that that is going to hurt health and
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public safety of basically the Pinterest community, which is
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ridiculous. If anybody's hurting the health
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or public safety of others, it is the abortion industry, which,
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by the way, is very active on Twitter, in fact, are very
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active on Pinterest. I'm sorry.
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In fact, Pinterest allows abortion clinics to post their
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ads for abortion on Pinterest freely.
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And Planned Parenthood has dozens of accounts on Pinterest.
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And some of these abortion clinics are actually posting ads
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on Pinterest for mail order abortion.
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So you can order the chemical abortion pill online, which is
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very dangerous. There's multiple reasons for
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that. I mean, if you have an ectopic
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pregnancy, which means your baby is not in the womb, the baby's
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in the fallopian tube and you take are you 46, then you could
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still be in a life threatening situation even if you take the
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abortion pill because you can't. When you when the part of the
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pill that induces labor happens, you can't just have that.
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That baby can't just come out of you the way that it would if the
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baby was in your uterus where it belongs instead of the fallopian
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tube. So anyways, I digress, but the
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point is it's ridiculous. So after that happened, to make
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this brief, there is a fair amount of reporting on this
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yesterday, which is good. There needs to be a lot more of
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it. And then Twitter respond,
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Pinterest, I keep mixing them up.
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I'm going to get to Twitter in a second.
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And then Pinterest responds again.
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And Pinterest says through a spokesperson, another reason
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that live action was supposedly banned.
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So they say that live action was actioned for misinformation
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related to conspiracies and anti vaccination advice and not porn.
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Sometimes our internal tools have legacy names for the
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technology that enforces our policies.
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This technology was named years ago to combat porn, but it's
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since expanded to a variety of content, blah blah blah.
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OK, so it's saying yeah, yeah, you're right, we shouldn't have
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blocked them because of porn. I mean, obviously live actions
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on a porn group. We're a pro-life organization,
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but then they're also saying that we are being banned for
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misinformation around anti vaccination advice, which we do
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not take a position on vaccines. I understand the debate to some
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degree. You know, I, I'm Privy to it a
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little bit on both sides when it comes to vaccines.
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But live action absolutely is not giving medical advice on
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vaccines nor taking a position on vaccines.
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The only times that we've ever reported on vaccines is when it
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has to do what is when it what it has had to do with aborted
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baby cell lines that some vaccines are made from to report
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on that for people to be aware of because they deserve to know
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that. But that's it.
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So this is just goes from more crazy to crazy to even more
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crazy from Pinterest. It goes from where porn to where
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misinformation that's hurting the community to we are anti
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vaxxers. These are the reasons that
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Pinterest is claiming that we are banned.
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So later in the day yesterday, the brave insider from Pinterest
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was fired. He was escorted from the
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building. He's going to come be coming out
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soon with more of his story. This guy is so brave.
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And by the way, if anybody listening, you work in big tech
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companies or you know somebody who does and you have, you have
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values and believes convictions, you, you have you see certain
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realities that maybe those on the far left refuse to see.
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I just encourage you that if you do see stuff that is censorship
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and suppression and deception and lies coming from these
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companies to, to look at this, this example of this
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whistleblower and hopefully take courage from him because he just
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shows the amount of impact you can make by sharing your story
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and sharing what you know to be true, even though it also brings
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the heat. So I'll be talking more about
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the heat in a minute, but before I get to that, I do want to
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mention Twitter. I do want to mention the fact
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that both Twitter and YouTube and Facebook to some degree, but
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mostly Twitter and YouTube, there have been censorship and
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suppression issues with them, other things that live action
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has faced. So for Twitter, you guys may be
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aware. So I'm pretty active on Twitter.
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Live action is as well, but we've been banned for over 3-4
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years now. I think it's been 4 years.
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We've been completely banned from all advertising.
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So we're not allowed to promote any of our tweets to people
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beyond our immediate followers or even to our our followers.
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And why is this problematic? Well, we were banned because we
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were told by Twitter that we after a long time, we kept
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asking why is our account not able to run ads?
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And it took us I think over a year to finally get an answer
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from Twitter. We did not go public with it.
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We waited. We waited.
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We tried to work with them, and then finally they said it was
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because we had violated their hate and sensitive topics
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policy. Yeah, we're very hateful at live
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action. No, we love everyone.
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We love everyone. We want everyone to have the
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right to live. We believe in that passionately.
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All that to say then they specifically said that the only
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way that we could run ads on Twitter, whether it's my
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account, Lila Grace Rose or live actions account, would be if we
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remove all tweets that included ultrasound images.
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Yep, ultrasound images. Those violate the hate and
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sensitive topics policy at Twitter.
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Any tweets that criticize Planned Parenthood, Yep, not
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allowed to criticize Planned Parenthood and advertise on
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Twitter. Any tweets that talk about
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abortion, like you can't just talk about abortion period, or
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explain what it is. Nope, can't do that.
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And they gave us this, gave us this list of what we were not
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allowed to talk about on Twitter if we wanted to advertise.
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And this isn't just for the ads themselves.
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This is for any tweets we do whatsoever from our accounts.
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And then Twitter said that we would have to delete any content
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related to criticism of Planned Parenthood.
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Ultrasound images, pro-life quotes, abortion facts.
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We'd have to also delete that from our websites in order for
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us to promote tweets on Twitter. So this was such an egregious
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response from Twitter, especially because Planned
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Parenthood has spent and continues to spend hundreds of
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thousands of dollars to promote their tweets on Twitter.
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Planned Parenthood, the biggest abortion chain and other groups
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like repro action, a very pro abortion militant group is also
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running ads on Twitter and their ads that they're actually paying
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Twitter to run are telling are include petitions demanding that
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groups like ours pro-life groups are banned from Twitter.
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So the irony here is so crazy, but the reality is Twitter is a
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pro abortion platform. And this is despite the fact
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that Jack Dorsey, their their, their, their CEO testified
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before Congress about censorship, claiming claimed
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that he said yes, Most of our staff at Twitter, it's
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headquartered in San Francisco, most of our staff at Twitter is,
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you know, on the left or liberal, he said.
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But we do not discriminate based on political viewpoint.
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We on our ideological viewpoint, he said.
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We do not discriminate, but the discrimination, at least when it
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comes to pro-life content, is crystal clear.
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So just to this morning, Wednesday, June 12th, Twitter
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actually suspended parts of Project Veritas's Twitter
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account for tweeting the insider information of the Pinterest
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whistleblower who was exposing Pinterest blocking of pro-life
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content. So I mean, Twitter is so clearly
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motivated ideologically for abortion.
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They are left on the hard left. They don't like freedom of
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speech. I think they're upset that so
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many people that oppose their ideologies are on their platform
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to begin with. YouTube lately has been
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demonetizing, which means that for YouTube users who build an
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audience and a following, it's the way that they can help make
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money is to run ads on their videos.
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Well recently they demonetized Steven Crowders YouTube channel
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completely and he's this very popular conservative kind of
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like bro type figure who is very kind of rough and comedic in
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what he says. I don't agree with everything he
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says, but I think he says some smart things.
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But he was basically making fun of journalists, which
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journalists do to each other all day long.
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And they've not just make fun of each other.
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They say some really horrible snarky things.
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I've received them on Twitter from blue check mark accounts,
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meaning these are like legit accounts at Twitter honors with
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a blue check mark of public figures or journalists or other
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people working in media. And anyways, in retaliation,
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Steven Crowder for him basically insulting a journalist on his
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YouTube channel and the journalist complained and went
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on this outrage against Steven Crowder.
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He got completely demonetized. And I think he has, I want to
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say 1,000,000 or over 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers.
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So this was a big deal. And then YouTube rolled out
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their hate, their hate speech policy, which basically includes
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things that say you can't even, you know, you can't say your
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religion is better than another religion.
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I mean, all of these, all of these standards for what is
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supposedly hate speech and that if you don't abide by these
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standards at YouTube, then your account could be compromised.
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You can't necessarily. Your account might be
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demonetized or you can't make money on the platform.
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So really concerning, but the thing I wanted to say about
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YouTube with relation to live action is we've had our abortion
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procedure videos on YouTube for now, I think it's been 4 years.
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And these were created with doctors, with OBGYN's.
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It's narrated by a former abortionist doctor, Anthony
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Lovettino. So these are videos of the
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medical animations of the abortion procedures that are
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most prevalent. They're not gory, but they're
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medical animations. And we've had them up on YouTube
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and on Facebook. They've received these four
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videos have received over I think 100.
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Million views now it is over. Well over 100 million views now
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O it's just incredible to see the response.
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I mean mostly positive including from RO choice people saying wow
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thanks for the information. I didn't know this made me
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rethink my opinion, but these videos were so well watched, so,
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so hot. He had so many views and so many
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comments that they were ranked high on the YouTube search.
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So when you type in on YouTube abortion or abortion procedure,
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our videos would come up. At least one of them would come
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up. Well, a journalist over at Slate
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complained about this in an article last December, saying
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that she was upset that we were spreading misinformation.
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That was her claim, which again, this misinformation word,
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there's no misinformation there. Information has become the term
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that people on the far left use when they hear something or see
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something that they don't agree with or they don't like.
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So they just call it misinformation to try to shut it
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down and to make the person look less credible.
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It is nothing to do with reality.
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There is no backing to it. So this reporter Glazier her
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name was wrote in us in a Slate article that YouTube was
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allowing, you know, our live actions content and higher in
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the search search results as well.
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Ben Shapiro also said it about Ben Shapiro saying that some of
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his pro-life speeches were included high in the search
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results because if they had millions of views.
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And so guess what happened within, I think it was a few
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days, YouTube changed the search results and all the search
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results that they included were pro abortion content, videos
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that we're saying I had an abortion and it was great or
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videos that made abortion look try attempted to make abortion
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look positive anyways. And then the reporter Glazier
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said YouTube changed the results after I asked and she said now
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anti abortion content meant to enrage or provoke viewers is no
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longer purely dominating the results.
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So anyways, all that to say, YouTube has buried live action
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videos in the search results on purpose because a leftist
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reporter said that she wanted it so that that's how serious this
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is. That's how serious this has
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become. Anyways, I say all this to say,
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you know what? What is the bigger picture here?
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The bigger picture here has very much to do with our response and
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the with the reality that we are on Instagram, we are on
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Facebook, we are on YouTube, some of us are on Twitter.
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Many of you listening to this right now are on these social
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media platforms at least once a day, if not maybe too much time
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during the day. We all, you know, sometimes it's
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that that old issue of too much social media.
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It's just it's taken up all of our time.
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It's eating our time. But what we see on social media
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is often not reflective of reality.
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These companies, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest,
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their leadership is far left. Their executives are far left.
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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg donated $1 million publicly.
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She's the COO of Facebook. This was just a couple years
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ago. Very publicly donated $1 million
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to the biggest abortion chain to Planned Parenthood.
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They are far left and many of them pro abortion ideologues.
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So the so for us to think that what we see when we're using
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these platforms is necessarily what actually is out there, the
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beliefs of people, the posts of people, we need to take it all
23:30
with a big grain of salt. What we're consuming from the
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media, and it's not just this doesn't just go for social
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media, this goes for reporters, this goes for Slate and BuzzFeed
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and Washington Post and New York Times.
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This goes for all of them. What we are consuming isn't real
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life and we have to be really critical when reviewing this
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stuff. We have to be really critical
23:52
about what's showing up in our feed and why.
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Now maybe, you know, we're just following really positive
23:57
accounts and that's all we see and that's great.
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But we just have to be very discerning because the reality
24:03
is there is an agenda out there and it's becoming more and more
24:07
clear. There is an agenda out there to
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silence disagreement, to silence diversity of views, and
24:14
especially to target conservative pro-life, more
24:18
Christian, more libertarian ideals and values.
24:23
And some of these are could even be considered classically
24:25
liberal ideals and values that have to do with free speech.
24:28
This has become in many ways the new book, the new book burning.
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Call things you disagree with misinformation.
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Label it as such and then try to ban it forever from the places
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that people go on the Internet. There was a article recently
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from the New York Times. I don't know if any of you guys
24:48
saw this, but it was a big story and they came out and they
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basically said the name of the article was The Making of a
24:56
YouTube Radical. And it said that there was.
25:00
It says Caleb Kane was a college dropout.
25:02
Looking for direction, he turned to YouTube and there's a collage
25:06
on the back of this article and this was like front page
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newyorktimes.com. And the collage includes
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pictures of Dave Rubin, who is he considers himself a classical
25:16
liberal. This guy isn't even doesn't even
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say he's a conservative. It includes and I've been on his
25:21
show. He's a very thoughtful,
25:23
reasonable person. This includes Ben Shapiro, it
25:26
includes Jordan Peterson, who is fantastic.
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I don't know anything he said that you can prove to be false.
25:32
I mean, he's extremely thoughtful, a psychiatrist from
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Canada. So it includes these, these
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folks who are not alt right, who are not far, even far right.
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I mean, these are people that are very thoughtful people that
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we all have a lot to learn from. And then the articles next sub
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header was soon Caleb Kane was pulled into a far right universe
25:55
watching thousands of videos filled with conspiracy theories,
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misogyny, and racism. Let me just flag something for
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you. When you hear somebody on the
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left accusing somebody like Ben Shapiro or Jordan Peterson or
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live action or whatever, like whether it's Pinterest calling
26:11
live action conspiracy theorists or it's The New York Times
26:15
insinuating that someone like Dave Rubin could be a conspiracy
26:18
theorist and always think twice, that is a dead giveaway that
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they are probably lying to try to attempt to convince people
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not to pay attention to what the person's actually saying.
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Or if they accuse you of misogyny or racism or
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misinformation, also think twice Now, I think it's really
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important that we take racism extremely seriously, that we
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take misogyny extremely seriously.
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These are real. That's the thing.
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They're using real issues as fig leaves to attack conservatives,
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to attack people that are respectful, that they disagree
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with. And This is why it's so shameful
26:56
what The New York Times did. And you know, then it goes on to
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talk about this kid who's watching YouTube videos, and it
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basically conflates all these people on YouTube as the same,
27:08
whether it's Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro or it's somebody
27:11
like Alex Jones who has shared conspiracy theories.
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I don't think just because you share a conspiracy theory
27:17
theory, by the way, you should be banned.
27:18
I think that the reality is let people be discerning.
27:22
Let them be thoughtful, let them take the time to do their
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research. I've err on the side of less
27:26
bans, not more. But the reality is conflating
27:29
people like Ben Shapiro with a white supremacist, whoever that
27:33
might be, is insanity. Ben Shapiro's Jewish and his
27:36
community has been viciously attacked by white supremacists,
27:39
and he is very vocal against it, as are as is really anyone else
27:44
in the conservative movement. So this is something that just
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shows the New York Times. I mean, they put us on the front
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page. They're trying to paint
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everybody with a broad brush who opposes leftist ideology
27:56
basically as white supremacists, as hanging out with misogynists
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and racists and conspiracy theorists.
28:03
This is what they try to do. So people who oppose your
28:07
viewpoint, whether you're pro-life, whether you're
28:10
conservative, whether you're libertarian, whatever you are,
28:14
those in high places of power, whether you're a New York Times
28:17
editor, you're a big tech boss over at Facebook or Pinterest or
28:22
Twitter, those people who oppose your viewpoint are going to try
28:27
to make you look extreme, to make you look radical, to make
28:31
you look fringe. And they're going to try to
28:32
isolate you and they're going to use all the tricks they have in
28:35
their toolbox to do that. And that's why these platforms,
28:38
we have to take them very carefully.
28:41
We have to approach them with with a lot of distrust.
28:44
We have to consume media content really critically.
28:48
So I'm going to leave you with just a few things here on what I
28:51
think our response should be. As I was saying, number one, it
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could be very difficult, I understand to do this.
28:56
But whenever we read articles, whenever we look at what shows
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up on our newsfeed, you know, why does Facebook choose to put
29:02
certain things on our newsfeed versus others?
29:05
And why do you know groups like Now This News or Miley Cyrus's
29:10
account when she posts a pro abortion cake that she's
29:13
licking? Why do all the pro-life comments
29:15
get deleted? So it looks like there's just
29:17
pro-choice people in the world. I mean, I, I posted a pro-life
29:21
comment on Miley Cyrus's Instagram account in response to
29:25
her picture where she encouraged people to support Planned
29:28
Parenthood. And she's licking a cake that
29:30
says abortion is healthcare. And I commented saying Miley,
29:34
Miley abortions, not healthcare. You know, you're pro animal.
29:37
Why can't you be pro human basically?
29:39
And you know, I hope you're only did this because you got paid.
29:42
I mean, Planned Parenthood has shown out the big bucks right
29:44
now to Instagram influencers to try to get them to promote
29:47
abortion. But if we don't consume
29:50
critically, we might think that just because we don't
29:52
immediately see pro-life comments on Miley's picture that
29:56
they don't exist, that pro-life people don't exist.
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So it's so important they do exist.
30:02
We exist. Nearly half the country
30:04
identifies as pro-life. Nearly half the country and most
30:08
Americans want abortion restrictions.
30:10
They want at least some abortion bans.
30:12
So number one, we have to consume critically and realize
30:16
that what the tech companies are giving us, what the media is
30:19
giving us are not an accurate picture of what other people
30:23
actually believe and what our community, our state, our
30:26
nation, our world actually thinks.
30:29
So we have to consume critically.
30:30
And I really encourage you to find a lot of diverse news
30:33
sources. Like when you're reading the
30:34
news, don't just get it from social media.
30:37
Don't definitely don't get it from the New York Times, but go
30:39
to I mean, check out live Action News, check out life news, check
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out life site news, check out pro-life blogs.
30:45
Check out a lot of different news sources, whether it's
30:48
National Review, check out Christian news, surf sources or
30:51
other conservative news sources. Yes, you can check out the New
30:54
York Times, check out Washington Post, but look at a swath of
30:57
news sources instead of just going to 1 because you will
31:01
quickly see the discrepancies in how the reporting is done and
31:05
then you can draw your own conclusions.
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And I would also say keep in mind that you are not alone.
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You are not fringe, You are not radical in your beliefs.
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Actually, many of your beliefs are very mainstream.
31:17
Many of your positions are very mainstream.
31:19
But you would never think that or know that in a million years,
31:22
if all you got information from was now this news, or from Vox
31:27
Media or from BuzzFeed or from the New York Times, you would
31:29
think, wow, nobody agrees with me.
31:32
I'm so out of touch. I'm weird.
31:34
No, you're not. Most people agree with you when
31:35
it comes to pro-life. Most people want abortions, some
31:39
abortions at least to be restricted.
31:41
The vast majority of Americans and almost half the country
31:44
identifies as pro-life. And the voting bloc, by the way,
31:48
that is pro-life that wants to make abortion their number one
31:52
issue versus the voting bloc that is pro-choice, that wants
31:55
to make a pro abortion their number one issue in the voting
31:58
booth. It's actually the pro lifers
32:00
that beat it out by a few percentage points, meaning more
32:03
people are so passionately pro-life in this country that
32:06
they will make it their number one issue versus people who are
32:09
pro abortion. So we are actually like our, the
32:11
strength of our passion of our movement is actually stronger
32:14
than the pro abortion movement. Remember that we might not have,
32:19
you know, Planned Parenthood's $1.4 billion budget behind us.
32:23
We might not have best besties and at the New York Times and
32:26
the Washington Post and at Facebook and Twitter and
32:28
Pinterest and all these places. But we have the truth and we
32:31
also have the ear of of a lot of people.
32:33
A lot of people agree with this. It actually amazes me how many
32:37
people are still pro-life and and conservative and libertarian
32:41
and Christian and Catholic people strongly stand for these
32:45
stands for stands for these truths.
32:47
Despite the fact that so many on social media that rule these
32:51
companies and that rule the mainstream media are pro
32:54
abortion, including a lot of celebrities from Hollywood are
32:56
pro abortion and against these values.
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All right, Number 2, so #1 consume critically #2 really
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important that all of us are brave and that we speak up.
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I, you know, the worst thing we can do is say stay silent.
33:12
The worst thing that we can do is feel the heat, feel people
33:14
attacking you or mocking you or making fun of you or saying
33:18
you're a fringe or radical or whatever they call you.
33:21
And so we're silenced. That's the worst thing that we
33:24
can do. But sometimes it just takes one
33:28
person to speak up to create a chain reaction of so many others
33:32
speaking up as well. We have to be that person who's
33:35
willing to speak, whether it's online respectfully or whether
33:40
it's just with a friend. It's raising our hand in class
33:43
when a professor says something crazy and asking a question.
33:47
It's with our family members, it's with our community members.
33:50
It's having respectful conversations, you know, trying
33:53
to remain calm as best we can, but being respectful and
33:57
speaking up against the, the lies that we hear, the
34:00
misinformation that we hear against the leftist ideologies
34:04
that are presented to us as if they're fact without any room
34:06
for disagreement. So we have to be unafraid.
34:09
I mean, we might feel afraid, but we have to recognize that,
34:13
look, when we speak up, we will empower others that might want
34:18
to speak up next. We will be an example.
34:20
And other people, they might be silent still, but they'll be
34:23
secretly, secretly agreeing with us.
34:25
And we might give them courage down the line to then speak up.
34:29
The guy from Pinterest, the gentleman that was fired
34:32
recently, I mean, he's so brave. He is so brave.
34:35
He stood up against this, his own company.
34:37
I mean, it's like his livelihood.
34:39
And he exposed the the crazy bias going on at Pinterest that
34:43
was secretive behind the scenes. And he was fired for it.
34:46
So not everybody can do that. Not everybody is in the position
34:50
that he was in to even expose what he exposed.
34:53
And, you know, to take that incredible act of courage.
34:56
But let's look to examples like the whistleblower from Pinterest
34:59
and, and hopefully get inspiration from that.
35:02
The reality is, is that we have to be willing to express our
35:06
beliefs respectfully, honestly, courageously.
35:10
We have to be willing to build relationships with those close
35:13
to us. And it will have an effect.
35:15
It might not be an overnight effect.
35:17
You know, it might take, it might even take years.
35:20
I mean, it might take years to persuade someone in our personal
35:22
life, or maybe we just give them food for thought, but at least
35:25
we're the person giving them that food for thought that maybe
35:28
they would otherwise never hear in that way.
35:32
So it might not be the overnight effect, but it will help.
35:34
And if we are unwilling to be silenced, and if we are willing
35:38
to get to know other people, to be friends with them, to be
35:40
respectful, but to continue to share our views, other people's
35:43
attitudes and positions will change.
35:47
And part of that is because they will see us as consistent.
35:50
They'll see us as respectful, they'll see us as integrity.
35:53
And it will also happen through our friendships.
35:55
That's why we have to be people that respect others.
35:57
We care about others, that we that we love people.
36:00
And you know, maybe we'll get pushback.
36:03
We actually will get pushback. But even how we deal with that
36:06
pushback in our respect and in our kindness, that also will be
36:11
a sign that we are not these extreme radicals that are full
36:14
of hate that the left paints us out to be, but that we are
36:17
actually people that are loving, that actually care about others,
36:21
and that we view our fellow human beings as made in the
36:24
image of God. We view them with profound
36:26
respect because they are also children of God.
36:29
So when you look at your timeline, when you look at
36:32
Facebook, Twitter, etcetera, look at it critically.
36:36
Don't, don't buy the don't buy what they're selling when they
36:40
hate your beliefs as a Christian or as a pro-life, as extremists.
36:43
Understand the agenda that is rooted here and that is at work
36:48
here and don't buy it. Do not buy it because look, we
36:54
have the truth on our side. We, we are.
36:56
And we're willing to keep learning.
36:57
We're willing to keep growing. And the truth is a very powerful
37:01
thing. You know, there have been entire
37:02
regimes. I mean, when you look at human
37:04
history, there have been regimes that have ultimately imprisoned,
37:08
enslaved, I mean, literally killed millions of people.
37:11
You look at the last century, the Soviet Union, you look at
37:14
the gulag, you look at what happened during the Holocaust
37:17
and the lies that were being told about human dignity and
37:20
freedom and all of these things that we hold dear.
37:22
But the truth ultimately did win out because brave people were
37:27
willing to still stand up and fight back.
37:29
And the best way we can do that right now is by being critical
37:32
of what we consume and what we look at and being unafraid to
37:35
speak, continuing to speak the truth whenever we have the
37:39
opportunity. Thank you guys so much for
37:41
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37:43
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