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Jan. 8, 2025 - Lionel Nation
18:55
Zuckerberg Hostage Video Appearance: Claims Meta Is Now About Free Speech (Hilarity Ensues)
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Mark Zuckerberg is not a psychopath or a sociopath or deranged or psychotic or anything like that.
He is a businessman who lives in a world That stands by the premise that all you have to do is merely say something.
Irrespective of whether it's true or not.
And you're in the clear.
Just say it.
It doesn't matter whether it's true.
It's not really important.
It's not important.
It's not critical.
Just say it.
It's business.
Our pizza is the best.
You've tried the rest.
I've tried the best.
Number one.
It doesn't mean anything.
Let's look at this.
And I'm not going to imply anything even remotely involving this thing called body language, because body language is for people who don't know how to analyze what's actually being said.
But we'll take a little look at it right now.
And let's be the jury in this, shall we?
Let's be, dare I say, the jury.
Now, first of all, we're going to look at this, and I'll give you more of a straight up...
Let's look at this.
Now, first of all, he's sitting there.
What do you notice a couple of things?
Or what do you notice differently?
First of all, his hair is different.
He doesn't have that cyborg look.
He's trying to look more buff, more muscular.
He's got a very expensive watch.
I don't know what it is.
And also, there's something to be said about people who wear jewelry, or jewelry, as people say, outside or inside.
When you wear any kind of a necklace or a pendant or...
It's something that means a lot to you.
You wear it for your own benefit.
When you wear it outside, you want the world, obviously, to see.
Your cross, your Mogan David, your Sarve David, your whatever it is.
So that's right off the bat.
He can do anything he wants to strip down.
He wants to be this whole Silicon Valley cool.
But, notice the way he looks.
More He looks...
The hair is interesting.
He's a good...
He reads great prompter.
Very, very good.
But let's go through the specifics of what he's saying.
And let's analyze it correctly.
And not being just critical for the sake of being critical.
But let's really evaluate this like we were a jury.
I want to talk about something important today.
Because it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram.
Now, let me stop right there.
Believe it or not, there was a time years ago when the real forefathers, the forebears of Silicon Valley were actually these kind of ideological, or idealistic, I should say, kind of whiz kid types who kind of really sort of, you know, wanted to do something for the world.
They really did.
They thought, you know.
Remember Google the first, hurt no one or do no harm?
It's kind of a Hippocratic version.
So that is, believe it or not, that is the story behind this.
Keep in mind also that the notion of Zuckerberg, this whiz kid at Harvard who sits around with his dorm maid or dorm room buddy, he says, you know what?
We should come up with something in which we can put together a kind of a worldview to tell people to communicate.
Nonsense.
He was DARPA.
This is In-Q-Tel.
He was picked from central casting.
He and others said, you're going to be just like Gates.
You're going to be our man.
We will make you a gazillionaire.
But remember whom you work for.
You work for us, for the deep state, the police state, the intel state, the shadow government.
You work for us, bucko.
Don't think you're some entrepreneur on your own.
You do what we say.
And that, believe it or not, is one of the reasons why he feels almost, dare I say, exonerated by virtue of this.
what he's doing is not at his own behest, but frankly, pursuant to orders.
I started building social media to give people a voice.
Oh, really?
I gave a speech at Georgetown five years ago about the importance of protecting free expression.
And I still believe this today.
But a lot has happened over the last several years.
There's been widespread debate about potential harms from online content.
Remember, there's a lot that's been going on.
Not me.
Not me, but the world.
You know, the world and misinformation.
It's not me.
I'm just, I build social media.
You, megalomaniaco.
Rube.
But notice, that's happened.
So I'm kind of easing into this.
Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more.
Legacy media.
Ooh.
Legacy or heritage or mainstream media.
That's a jab.
That means archaic, oseos, concretized.
Anachronistic, you know, ossified, you know, this thing called legacy media.
They've been trying, bless their hearts.
A lot of this is clearly political, but there's also a lot of legitimately bad stuff out there.
Now, what does that mean, legitimately bad stuff?
But there's a lot of bad stuff, a lot of bad music, a lot of bad literature, bad food, bad people, bad sounds, bad smells, bad...
That's just the way of the world, my friend.
Randomness and societal entropy permit such.
Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation.
Child exploitation.
You must be sitting down because of the size of the cojones because one of the dark secrets of all aspects...
Social media has been child predation and the commercialization of the trade.
These are things that we take very seriously, and I want to make sure that we handle responsibly.
So we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content.
We built to moderate content.
And who ordered you to do that?
The government, the deep state, the police state, the shadow government.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, right, right, right.
Well, you did it all right.
You sure did.
But the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes.
Not us.
Even if they accidentally censor just 1% of posts.
Accidentally.
Oops.
Not out of the order.
Not because we're ordered.
Not because they're demanded.
Not because we're instructed to do that.
Oh, no, no, no.
It happens.
That's millions of people.
That's right.
And we've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship.
And we have...
Donald Trump, who's involved with this.
And you didn't seem to care when the FBI colluded with you to suppress and make Hunter Biden's laptop story disappear.
And you didn't care about the mistakes when Fauci, when he conspired with him, with Tony, to restrict and shape the ordered and prescribed narrative around COVID mania, the efficiency of the vaccine and the mask.
And when you funded and fueled and pipelined $419 million through left-wing progressive radical left groups to influence the 2020 vote in swing stakes, was that a mistake too?
Was that an oops?
How'd that happen there, Marco?
The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.
So we're going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms.
More specifically, What are you going to do?
First, we're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to X, starting in the U.S. Okay.
After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote non-stop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy.
Yeah?
We tried in good faith to address those concerns without...
Well, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Not misinformation.
Information that was contrary.
To the official accepted edict and doctrine of the radical left.
Yeah, yeah, that was the problem.
Not misinformation.
Certain.
And that was, by the way, that was code word for truth that did not comport, coincide, and that was not consonant with the message of Big pharma and radical left deep state folks.
...becoming the arbiters of truth.
But the fact checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created.
Well, you started the fact checkers.
You fell into that politifact and Snopes and that other kind of nonsense.
Wikipedia, you did this.
Don't act surprised.
Especially in the U.S. So over the next couple of months, we're going to phase in a more comprehensive community note system.
What the hell does that mean?
Why do you have to have any community notes?
Why don't you just let me read it and decide on my own?
Just like if you let me hear when we had radio.
This song sucks.
You don't have to have a little message.
That song was written by...
I don't care.
I don't care whether it's good or true or whatever.
Why the compulsion to provide everything with fact-checking?
Get rid of that.
Second.
We're going to simplify our content policies and get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse.
What does that mean?
See, I don't like that.
Who's mainstream?
You mean mainstream now?
You mean our mainstream?
Okay, that's okay.
You mean our mainstream?
What if the mainstream goes the other way?
What if it's a new mainstream?
What do you do about that?
What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people You did it!
You should have done it!
We're changing how we enforce our policies to reduce the mistakes that account for the vast majority of censorship on our platforms.
We used to have filters that scanned for any policy violations.
Now, we're going to focus those filters on tackling illegal and high severity violations.
And for lower severity violations...
We're going to rely on someone reporting an issue before we take action.
The problem is that the filters make mistakes and they take down a lot of content that they shouldn't.
So by dialing them back, we're going to dramatically reduce the amount of censorship on our platforms.
We're also going to tune our content filters to require much higher confidence before taking down content.
The reality is that this is a trade-off.
It means we're going to catch less bad stuff.
We'll also reduce the number of innocent people's posts and accounts that we accidentally take down.
He acts like he just figured this out.
Isn't it amazing?
You know, it might be a good idea to have an actual platform in which people were able to explicate, expatiate, and to opine where it was unfettered, unlimited, and unobstructed by arbitrary lunacy.
Yeah, that'd be a good idea.
Thanks for coming up with that, babe.
Fourth.
What does that mean?
Fifth, we're going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California...
And our U.S.-based content review is going to be based in Texas.
As we work to promote free expression, I think that it will help us build trust to do this work in...
Get out of California!
There's the same people!
We're just not going to be in California.
You know, where Gavin Newsom is?
F you, buddy!
...places where there is less concern about the bias of our teams.
Texas.
Finally, we're going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world.
And I'm going to kiss his ass, pucker up.
Oh, I'm going to be an all for, I'm going to extend a friendship.
Be my friend.
I'm going to get knee pads.
I'm going to grovel.
I'm going to grovel because he's in charge and I was wrong.
And believe it or not, I've always wanted to work with him.
And I didn't like Joe Biden and Kamala Harris scared me, even though I gave $419 million.
Going after American companies and pushing to censor more.
The U.S. has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world.
Gee!
But only when you and members of society, or excuse me, employment society, corporate society, decide not to act as...
decide not to act as...
Gatekeepers and people who are involved in this utter lunacy.
Yeah, that's it.
Because what happens is you were acting as proxies.
You were the ones who said, don't look at us, we're just corporations.
We're not the government.
The First Amendment prohibits the government from limiting free speech.
We're not assigned with the government when in fact you were created by the government and you basically were acting as proxies and as enforcers.
To hide behind the First Amendment.
It wasn't the government limiting us.
It was you, the most popular forum known to mankind.
Europe has an ever-increasing number of laws, institutionalizing censorship, and making it difficult to build anything innovative there.
Yeah, that's a F-U, Starburn.
F-U, Europe.
See where that's going to?
Very smart.
Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down.
Secret courts, star chambers.
Oh, we don't?
Oh, we don't?
Can you say Guantanamo?
China.
Be careful.
The only way...
Let me say one thing about China.
He wants to compete directly with TikTok, which is his main competitor.
He'll do everything in his power to shut TikTok down because that's the number one platform there is.
And if there was no ticky, no washy, and he wins.
Don't fool yourself.
He doesn't give a goddamn about China and limitation of free speech when it comes to TikTok.
He wants that market.
That we can push back on this global trend is with the support of the US government.
And that's why it's been so difficult over the past four years when even the US government has pushed for censorship.
But it was Biden!
Say it!
Biden and Kamala!
That's why!
Say it!
By going after us and other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go even further.
Who went after you?
I mean, seriously, did I miss something here?
They didn't go after you enough.
But specifically regarding child predation, that's the thing we care about.
This other stuff, nobody was asking you to take down misinformation about mask efficacy.
Come on, man.
But now we have the opportunity to restore free expression, and I am excited to take it.
Because Trump's president, and there's a new sheriff in town, and I'm scared shitless.
It'll take time to get this right.
We'll make them perfect.
we still need to work very hard to remove.
Like what?
But the bottom line is that after years of having our content moderation work focus primarily on removing content, it is time to focus on reducing mistakes, Simplifying our systems and getting back to our roots about giving people voice.
I'm looking forward to this next chapter.
Stay good out there, and more to come soon.
Alright, don't get your hopes up or your heart misplaced.
This dude is doing this for no other reason than to comply, to comport, and to figure to work with a new government, specifically the Trump MAGA movement.
There's a new sheriff in town.
So that's good.
So I'm happy.
Okay?
I'm happy.
But remember, he's doing this not because he loves you, not because he loves free speech, not because he cares about to provide a forum for the explication of free thought and new ideas.
No, it's because there's a new sheriff and he's being told specifically, if you don't do this, you are dead meat.
Now what do you think?
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