Lights Out (Internet Censorship)

Some thoughts on yesterday's congressional hearings targeting dissident speech and what the future looks like.

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okay so we’re live I just want to talk a
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little bit about the the hearings it
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took place yesterday the the sort of
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Star Chamber / performance art that you
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saw yesterday in Congress where there
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were was a panel of extensible hate
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speech experts people drug in from the
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AC ADL I I’m not sure if the SPLC was
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there I don’t I don’t believe so but the
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ADL there was a Muslim who was a victim
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of Fanta the family of a Muslim who’s
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one of the very few victims of an an
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allegedly anti-muslim hate crime and a
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bunch of overtly sympathetic props that
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the Democrats were using to demand more
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censorship and more suppression of
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viewpoints that they disagree with that
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was the gist of the hearing and the most
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the most notable moment of course was
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when ted Lieu one of the imbeciles
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that’s been trying to railroad donald
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trump for the past two years and trying
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to gin up hysteria on a completely
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discredited media and government created
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hoaxes ie
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Russia collusion when this when this
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genius tried to demonstrate that Candace
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Owens was a supporter of Adolf Hitler
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those who you don’t know Candace Owens
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is an African American woman who works
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for turning-point and Prager you and
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severe
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normal I’m conservative whose big issue
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is trying to steer black people away
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from the Democratic Party and from
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left-wing policies so of course that is
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a that is synonymous with Nazism or neo
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Nazism today and that was the the big
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moment of course loo embarrass himself
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and there were a lot of clips shared on
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social media ironically about him of him
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just been clowning himself and that was
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it that was basically the theme the
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theme of the hearing was these people
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want to make social media platforms even
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less conducive to critical thought and
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argument than they are already which is
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saying something because the room for
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discourse has narrowed to an almost
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inconceivable degree it coincided with
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the banning of faiths goalie who’s never
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advocated violence of any kind her
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banning from from Facebook patreon which
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has been cracking down on on dissenting
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viewpoints and has been suspending
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accounts arbitrarily from patreon for
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basically virtually every social media
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platform
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except for YouTube to the best of my
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knowledge YouTube she still allow that
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even YouTube is cracking down they’ve
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limited Tommy Robinson they haven’t
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outright banned him but they made it
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impossible for you for regular people to
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find his video sort of search or through
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any other normal means they’ve basically
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blacklisted and shadow banned him from
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YouTube and they’ve done this to anyone
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who’s an effective voice against Islam
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they did to the apostate prophet I don’t
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know if you can see it but I’ll just
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show you this is
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the lovely character of the other
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prophet that that’s that’s the apostate
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prophets work that’s a t-shirt from his
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his merch catalog but they bent him
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repeatedly from Instagram he can’t even
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make an Instagram account now he’s been
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banned one of his accounts has been
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banned from Twitter and I think the
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other has been suspended just like David
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would is effectively banned from from
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Twitter now for peacefully critiquing
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one of the world’s worst ideas ie Islam
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and suggesting that maybe promoting
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Islam is not a good thing and it doesn’t
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lead to social cohesion but he’s been
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banned and this is how it’s gonna go
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they they started with a very us they
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started with a very convenient target
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saying oh we’re just going after the all
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tried and neo-nazis and white
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nationalists but as we progressed along
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we realized it’s not just them it’s the
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all right but what’s the all right is
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gone the next target the farthest it’s
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the old light and then just Magus
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reporters just people who support Donald
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Trump anyone critical of Islam or
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immigration generally is going to be
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banned is going to be expelled from the
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internet social media space and I know a
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lot of conservatives think that this is
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a that this is that this is sorry that
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this is a some sort of plan to simply
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allow them to win the next election you
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remember that that infamous Google video
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where all of the Google executives
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expressed shock that Donald Trump had
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one and this is merely and
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after the fact realization that they
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need to do more to control social media
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and prevent Donald Trump from being
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reelected or in the case of Canada
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ensure that Trudeau is re-elected in
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that conservatives hence they’re tying
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conservatives into faith Goldie and
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other critics of other critics of
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mainstream conservatism which in Canada
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is more like milquetoast liberalism but
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I think it’s a bit broader than that of
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course it is a convenience particularly
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for Canada right now Trudeau’s involved
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in scandal which is too complicated to
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get into in in this video but basically
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he fired women and minorities who were
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investigating his rampant corruption and
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and a quid pro quo he exchanged forum
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for votes and there this is a huge
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scandal in Canada and this is a
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convenient diversion focusing on evil
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right-wing anti-muslim anti diversity
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advocates like faith Bodi and to certain
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extent yes this is useful from a
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tactical standpoint but I also think
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there’s a bigger strategic strategic
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strategic issue here in the sense that
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this is a long-term plan I mean there
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are moments that they’re exploiting like
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the New Zealand mosque shooting - it
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serves as a useful pretext to implement
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plans that were already in place the
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idea that these governments do not want
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to restrict freedom and suppress
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dissenting views is simply
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an illusion the only difference between
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the government in China and Red China
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the the communist government in the PRC
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and the government in the UK or any
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peace Mormon News in New Zealand it’s
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quittin creasing lis impossible to
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notice the difference there therefore
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they’re becoming identical but for other
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countries the only difference between
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the government of China which makes no
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bones about allowing dissent and
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ostensibly free Western governments is
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that those governments haven’t figured
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out how to emulate China I mean there’s
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a great
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there was a great point made by Dave
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Smith in his podcast part of the problem
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when he said the only reason the Bundys
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the clive in bundy family and the people
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who were who were we’re at that nature
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preserved the only reason the government
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didn’t come in and Massacre them the
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same way they did at Waco or Ruby Ridge
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is because they were hundreds and
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hundreds of people with cell phone
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cameras was being filmed everything was
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on film and it was it was being reported
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on by social media and that’s the one
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useful thing we have to combat the
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legacy media and the government it is
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the internet and global communication
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and that’s why they’re trying to figure
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out a way to end this and it has nothing
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to do with preventing a shooting at a
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mosque or a white supremacist engaging
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in mass murder of preventing any of
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these horrible incidents that
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periodically occur you know that
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happened every couple of years or every
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decade or so to prevent those from
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happening I mean obviously these
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countries are not concerned about
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massacres and engendered by by Muslims
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otherwise they would do some
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thing to stop staunch the flow of Muslim
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immigration but that’s nothing to do
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with preventing violence because cutting
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off avenues of discourse and David would
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make this point if you I’m sorry if you
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ban people if you prevent them from
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trying to effect change peacefully from
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trying to engage and just say you’re not
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allowed they’ll resort unfortunately
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you’ll have fresh cases of people
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resorting to violence in order to make
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their viewpoint made and this was
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actually cited by the shooter the shoot
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impressed church the mosque shooter he
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said you know it’s really pointless to
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even engage because they’ll destroy you
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the media will destroy you they’ll
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prevent you from from from having an
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outlet so if anything these people
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arguing for more censorship for more
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tightly controlled speech they’re
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encouraging this type of the this type
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of maladjusted horrific behavior from
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the populace so they don’t really care
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about preventing a mass shooting at a
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mosque or these aberrant manifestations
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of violence if they did they would
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actually encourage debate and try to
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understand where people who might be
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might be thick contemplating this where
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they’re coming from the same way where
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the media constantly reminds us that we
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have to understand where jihadists are
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coming from or why a Somali who’s been
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living in the United States 20 years
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would wanna Massacre Americans would
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want to join al-shabaab but no that’s
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not what they’re doing what they’re
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doing is saying let’s restrict this
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space even more let’s push people who
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are on the fringe
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is already and leave them with no
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alternative in their minds than to
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attack and and commit violent behavior
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it’s a counterintuitive strategy unless
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you realize that they’re not really
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concerned about violence mass violence
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or or these aberrant
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attacks on minorities what they really
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want to do is just suppress speech and
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exercise a stranglehold over public
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discourse and if more people are killed
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because of that so be it that’s their
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attitude and unfortunately that’s what’s
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happening right now

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