July 9, 2019 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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Trump Threatens Twitter
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Big tech censorship might actually be coming to an end very soon for conservatives because Donald Trump actually suggested that companies such as Twitter and Facebook be broken up and or regulated by U.S. regulatory agencies.
Welcome back to another episode of Daily Dose with your favorite gay black woman, me, Elijah Schaefer.
Some of you have asked, am I really a doctor?
I'm just about as qualified to be a physician as I am to be a lesbian.
Either way, just take it as the humor that I meant it to be.
And let's look at this article for today.
Okay, so this article is from Axios.
Who even knew that that company still existed?
I, for one, didn't.
But they basically left a bombshell saying that Trump is suggesting that these big tech companies should be regulated.
And before I get into the article, I want to state that unless you are somebody who has been hiding out from the general public, you would know that there's been a lot of controversy about big tech companies, specifically social media companies and information powerhouses like Google, targeting people that they disagree with and sort of suppressing ideas, which often tend to either be non-mainstream left-wing ideas or the entirety of conservative or right-wing ideas.
This idea is really debated, but of course, thanks to the good work of James O'Keefe at Project Veritas, we found a lot of evidence from this because of whistleblowers coming out from these companies saying, yes, indeed, these companies are censoring conservatives.
But recently, Twitter came out and said, hey, we're even going to suppress tweets of world leaders that we don't like.
And of course, Donald Trump isn't one to be picked on.
So let's take a look at this article.
It says here, after fueling allegations that Twitter and other social platforms censor conservatives, President Trump is now calling on Congress to pass legislation that would target some of the world's largest social media companies and has suggested that those companies be sued for illegal activity.
Okay, so basically what's being suggested here is that Trump is looking at the censorship of conservatives as sort of being illegal.
And why is that a big deal?
It says here why it matters.
Let's see why Axios thinks why it matters.
They say this is a departure from Trump's attitude after he was elected.
Trump told Axios he would be reluctant to regulate social platforms because they made it easier for him to reach Americans in an unfiltered way.
Now, of course, this is why you're wondering, why is Donald Trump targeting social media platforms?
It's because I think Donald Trump and the rest of Americans are tired of what we'd call gatekeepers of information keeping a stranglehold on what we're allowed to hear about.
I know as an American, I'm not into just complaining.
I'm like, look, I think Americans are smart.
If we want to know something, we should be allowed to access it.
If we want to say something, we should be allowed to say it.
Now, people say, wait a second.
Why would you want a private company to be told what to say or to do?
And I don't want private companies to be sold what to say or to do.
What I do have a problem with is these tech companies being held up as what are called platforms, which means they have to not regulate necessarily what people say unless it breaks the law, to being companies that not only regulate ideas, they've become publishers, which means that they've decided which ideas are okay for us to hear.
Now, I don't even have a problem with a company having guidelines that you have to follow.
The issue with these companies is they're not even following their own guidelines.
I've been told by YouTube specifically that my channel is borderline content and that my channel is in violation of YouTube's guidelines.
When I asked YouTube, what guidelines did I violate, they sent me a list of five.
When I responded back, I don't violate these guidelines.
And here's why.
They said, well, maybe you don't violate the guidelines.
But hey, at the same time, we don't like your channel.
And so we just decided we're not going to make you eligible for creator awards and you're in bad standing, even though I have no strikes and I've broken nothing.
And welcome to that idea.
They don't like the ideas on my channel, so I don't get to play with the in-crowd.
But why is that important?
Is it because I'm upset about it?
No, it's actually because people are tired of Americans being restricted from the ideas they want to hear.
And it says that Trump told Fox business Maria that you may need legislation in order to create competition for Twitter.
Trump told her that Twitter should be sued because what's happening with the bias?
He repeated that in an interview with Fox News, Tucker Carlson, and Twitter had engaged in possible illegal activity.
He also suggested that US regulators should be the ones to sue Google and Facebook, not European regulators.
Between the lines here, despite increasing his Twitter follower count by nearly five times since he was elected, Trump now says that he sees Twitter as a threat to his ability to communicate.
So that's the point.
The big picture here, they said, is the president has gone from bullying the press to targeting a variety of information gatekeepers.
But at least Axios admits it.
We don't have a problem with private companies, and especially companies like this, Axios, being a publisher because they're open about it.
What we're tired of is information gatekeepers.
Yes, in America, Americans are tired of being withheld from information that they want to access.
These companies are given special privileges and they are becoming more powerful than the government itself.
And they are not actually under the control of the people.
Now, before you start saying, but hey, do you want to regulate this company?
Okay, that's like me asking you, okay, cool.
Should Verizon Wireless be allowed to kick you off their platform and cancel your cell service because you started talking about something they didn't like?
No.
But we're starting to see payment processors, banking companies simply targeting people for discrimination.
And in America, I think that's not good, especially when half the country is conservative.
We could be headed towards a civil war if we don't allow people to express their ideas freely.
This is a fundamental American idea, which is the free exchange of information.
And if you say, well, why doesn't someone create a new platform?
I'll reiterate this in future episodes.
But the problem with this whole idea of just create a new platform comes down to examples like Parlor, which is a competitor for Twitter.
You know, Apple's trying to get Parlor, which is a competitor, taken out of their app store.
And Google actually and Apple don't allow companies like BitShoot or Gab to really freely flow in their app stores.
And so the problem is that with Apple and Google with owning the majority of phones in America, if you can't get into an app store, you can't really get onto a phone, which is where most people are accessing their information today.
So it's like basically, even if you start a new platform, you can't actually distribute it properly to people because they're not going to be able to access it through their phones or download it.
And then you end up with this fringe platform on the outside that is good and has a good network, but is not able to actually be accessed.
And so the problem with this is that these big tech companies are not only policing the social platforms, but they're actually also policing what apps we can see, what things we can access.
And it's not even because anyone's breaking the law.
It's just because they think that our ideas are hate speech, which is really terrible because what's going to become hate speech after this?
Is it speaking out against companies that's hate speech now?
Speaking out in favor of freedom is hate speech now.
Then it's going to be speaking out against the government.
I don't like where the slippery slope goes.
But, you know, we realize that Axios is saying, hey, cool, he's bullying against gatekeepers.
Thank you for admitting that.
And it's their article.
It's called Trump Bullies the Refs.
President Trump has a penchant for ganging up on the mainstream media, but lately his attacks have spread to ganging up on any information gatekeeper from big tech platforms to newscasters on his favorite network.
And why does it matter, they say?
Trump has spent years shooting the messenger, but as his presidency rolls on, so do his grievances against any information platforms that may at some point work against his interests.
The problem with this is, is they kind of try to make it always the media.
Like the media is this unbiased, you know, group of people in the country that are just trying to spread the truth.
And Trump is this, you know, insane dictator who hates the media and wants to implement some weird pseudo-fascist techniques into the country.
But it's not true because not only are they censoring Trump, but they're censoring average commentators, normal people, just average citizens who are just trying to share things like a picture of Donald Trump, which of course was brought up by Dan Crenshaw in the recent hearings of big tech companies on the congressional hearing, that they're censoring just basic fundamental freedoms of people.
And that's a problem.
We're not mad at companies having freedom.
We're mad that there's political targeting and they're trying to fix elections.
They think they know better than the American people.
And I'm really glad to say this that Donald Trump is actually doing something about it.
He's having a social media summit, which is this week, actually.
I think it's on Thursday.
A lot of my friends got invited.
I didn't get invited because who cares about me?
But I'm just glad some people did get invited.
And that's really cool.
I just got back from DC this weekend.
And so I have no intention of going back anytime soon to that god-awful place.
Anyways, when you come down to this, I want to summarize it like this.
Donald Trump has turned on Twitter and he's turned on the social media platforms for summary because the social media platforms have turned on the American people.
These companies are now working against the best interest of the state of the union, which means that if people cannot express their ideas, they're going to be tempted to try to get their ideas out in other ways, which I hate to say it, but it's true.
It's violence.
And that's been the history of people before.
Oftentimes, people who can't communicate or don't think well resort to violence in order to get their ideas across.
Now, I don't think American people want to head towards a civil war.
I don't think they're not going to cry well, say, just this is what is going to cause a civil war.
But eventually, if you tie in a big government, high taxes, and also a restriction of freedoms, you get the perfect powder keg for what our previous revolutionaries thought of was a great way to secede from Britain.
Now, today, the government needs to act on behalf of the people because they're a government by the people of the people and for the people.
And so it's in our best interest as the American people to make sure that no private company, including like the oil companies back in the days and the railroad companies, are working against the growth, expansion, and unity of our country in a way that could cause another war.
If you think that I'm wrong, if you think that I'm crazy, that's okay.
You're allowed to disagree.
I don't have a problem with that.
But I do want to say that this problem is serious enough that Trump has taken the initiative.
We'll see where this goes.
This is a very sketchy thing to develop.
But, you know, the companies, the media, they're looking out for themselves and the global elites and not for the populace.
And we're not having it.
I'm Elijah Schaefer here with another episode of The Daily Dose on Slightly Offensive.
And I want to remind you that we are continually demonetized always, and we really do rely on your support.
A lot of us conservative and right-wing and centrist creators do rely on you.
I consider myself to be more center-right.
I do hold some liberal ideas, you know, but it's like that's how we should be as Americans.
We shouldn't just be one way.
We need to actually look in what's best for the country, not just what's best for our party.
But of course, I tend to lean conservative on most fundamental ideas because they tend to be the most logical.
