WEBVTT - The Fight for Free Speech and the Decentralized Revolution 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.680 Hello, and welcome to another episode of The Mark Mass Show, 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:06.840 where we talk about the decentralized revolution each and every week, 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:10.080 the way the world is changing from a centralized world 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:13.080 to a decentralized world. And it is not, unfortunately, not 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:16.440 going to be a smooth transition, but I'm hopeful. There's 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:20.440 massive hope and prosperity. On the other side. Things might 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:23.759 be getting worse before they get better, but there is hope. 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.520 But we look at it through the lens of politics, finance, 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:29.960 and technology, so you can understand what is going on 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:34.159 the context of the world. And today I got a 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:37.640 big topic. It's a topic that I talk about somewhat frequently, 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.320 and in my opinion, it might be the most important 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:47.680 topic of our day right now. If this goes down 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.199 the way, they and who are they? They being the 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.080 leaders of the world, all the governments of the world, 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.440 let's call it that. To put a name on the 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.960 faces there, the leaders, the governs of the world, and 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.399 the NGOs. We'll talk about who they are. If they 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.440 have their way, Oh boy, things are gonna get bad. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.240 This is the fight. This is the fight right here. 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:13.560 And so this is a big episode I want to 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.600 talk about. We're gonna talk about censorship. We're gonna talk 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.600 about the end of free speech, and I'm gonna break 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.199 down exactly what's going on all around the world. There's 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:29.279 massive amounts of movements, laws, regulations going into place right 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.959 now to change the freedom of speech that we have 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.080 in the United States and all around the world. And 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.560 if that goes away, everything that we know goes away. 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.280 The ability to even change things goes away. If we 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:45.880 don't if we can't talk about things, And so we're 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:47.560 gonna talk about that. Like I said, this is gonna 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:49.640 be one of the most important shows that I've done 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.040 because this is the most important topic of our lifetime. 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.520 And I guess we're seeing this authoritarian push everywhere, from 0:01:59.200 --> 0:02:03.560 pushing fer mental medicines into our bodies. If we don't 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:05.920 even control our own body, what do we control. But 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:10.480 controlling speech isn't just controlling speech. If they limit what 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.119 I can say, it's not just limiting what I can say. 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:17.320 It's also limiting what you can hear. More importantly, if 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:19.520 it limits what you hear, then it limits what you know. 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.280 And then if it limits what you know, it limits 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.480 what your ideas and creativity are. If it limits me 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:27.720 from what I can say. Then it limits my thoughts 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.119 because I have to start thinking about censoring myself, which 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.440 I find myself doing on YouTube all the time. I 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.520 still remember the time that at first happened to me. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:38.000 I was horrified to think that I was actually in 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:42.760 that situation. But yet here we are in that place now. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:48.040 I had an interview recently with an author, Martin Gurry. 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:49.919 He's the author of a book called The Revolt of 0:02:49.960 --> 0:02:52.720 the Public. It's on my main YouTube channel. Just search 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:56.040 Mark Moss on YouTube Mark Moss, Martin Gurry if you want. 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:59.119 It's an amazing book. I read through the comments, and 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.400 you know, him and I didn't read on everything. I 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:04.280 have a little bit different viewpoints on some of the 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:08.600 history that he kind of was riffing off of. And 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:10.280 I read through a lot of comments on YouTube video 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:11.320 and a lot of people were like, you know, why 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:12.840 would you have this guy on. It doesn't agree with 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.880 anything that you say. That's not the case. A lot 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.120 of people thought he paid me to get on as 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.080 an interview. Obviously that's not the case. No one's ever 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:24.280 paid me for an interview. I read the book. I 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.639 really liked the book. I think I would encourage you 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.080 to read the book. It had a lot of question 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:31.799 I had a lot of questions after reading the book, 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:32.960 and I wanted to bring the author on to talk 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:35.000 about it. It's okay, we didn't agree on everything. That's 0:03:35.000 --> 0:03:36.600 the way it's supposed to be. That's the point of 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:41.200 freedom of speech. We're supposed to have open and honest debate. 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:42.720 That's how the truth is found out. The truth is 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:45.200 found through open ons debate, and so in the book, 0:03:45.240 --> 0:03:47.000 he basically talks about the revolt of the public, and 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:50.080 he talks about how in order for governments to stay 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:53.120 in control, they have to have the ability to control 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:56.760 the narrative, meaning they have to be the source of truth, 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:58.280 the arbitr of truth. They have to tell you what 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:00.800 they want. Now we know this. We've seen this many 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.040 times throughout history. We can go back five hundred years 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.160 to the Protestant Reformation, when the church and the state 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:08.560 had control over the people and they told the people 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.800 what was in the Bible. Once the printing press changed 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:15.320 that once technology was always think to change. As technology changed, 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.800 that we got the books out to everybody and people 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:19.799 could read the Bible for themselves. They said, hey, Church 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:23.800 and state, you're lying to us, you're manipulating. What you're 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.400 telling us is wrong. We have this information now and 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:30.120 the whole world changed. They always need to control the narrative. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:35.240 Now as the governments of the world continue to become 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:40.360 more corrupt the people and now they're no longer able 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:42.440 to control the narrative. That people see this and the 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:44.880 people want to push back. And basically what the book 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:46.599 frames up as the revolt of the public is that 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.000 the Internet has changed everything. In two thousand and one, 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:54.120 the year after the dot com boom, so that was 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.880 twenty two years ago. Martin Gurry was, I believe, working 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:01.240 at the CIA at the time. He said that that's 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.880 when things change from when he saw that in two 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:08.159 thousand and one more information was created that one year 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:13.000 than all of history before that. And then two thousand 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:16.080 and two more information was made than two thousand and one. 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:18.719 And we've had this, We've had this explosion of information, 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:24.720 and as we are now able to have this crowdsourced information, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:29.160 we don't need this arbiter of truth anymore. Now. Part 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.200 of the argument, well it's not even an argument in 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:34.760 my opinion, but the reason why centralization always fails, and 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:39.440 specifically central planning so central planned governments think socialism, communism, 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:43.279 et cetera is because one guy or a dozen, a 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.479 dozen people or two dozen. However, many two hundred lawmakers 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:50.320 don't have enough knowledge and information to coordinate an entire economy. 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:52.320 So in the United States, you know three hundred and 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:56.240 thirty million people. Globally eight billion people, and this global economy, 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.600 eight billion people are constantly changing their once needs and desires, 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:05.480 and we constantly want different products, and somehow the exact 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.560 product I want shows up on the shelf at the 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.800 exactly the time that I want that. Take an iPhone 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.119 for example, The parts of this iPhone come from over 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:16.719 six continents. How is it that all these people and 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:18.880 all these different continents, from the people in Africa that 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:20.560 dig the coal balt out of the ground, to the 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.600 people that make the glass, to the people that assemble 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:24.279 it in China, all the way to the Apple store 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:25.760 here in the United States where I could pick it up. 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.240 Somehow all of those people across all those continents, get 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.599 all the parts, assemble them all. There's a market, there's 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:33.359 a price, and it all shows up when I needed. 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:38.239 How does that get coordinated? Well, it gets coordinated through 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:42.720 a market, through the people, the collective power. The crowd 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:46.120 is way more powerful. It has way more knowledge than 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.360 a group of central planners will ever have. And now 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:51.960 we do that with information. So we crowdsource this information. 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.440 And so now I talk about this all the time. 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.680 You've heard me. If I see something on Twitter, for example, 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.520 I might think, oh my gosh, that's such a good point. 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.360 I hadn't thought about that. But then when I start 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.480 to read the comments, people just start picking it apart, right, 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.440 And so that is the revolt of the public. They 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:13.360 can no longer control the narrative. Now we've seen mainstream media, 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:18.880 you know, CNN, CNBC, ABC, CBS, etc. They just continue 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:23.520 to get demolished, continue to be eroded, continue to lose 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.760 their grip on this narrative. Now, there's a couple of 0:07:25.760 --> 0:07:28.640 reasons why this has happened, one of which is that 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:33.400 the world's changed. No longer do I want to tune 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.720 in at seven pm on Monday night to watch this 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.520 show just not the way the world works anymore. Now. 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:40.560 The world's on demand, so when I click on a link, 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.480 I just want to watch the show. So to try 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.040 to coordinate everybody to be at this slot, the entire 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.880 idea of a news network like CNN is just outdated. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.640 It's obsolete, Like we don't need a network to have 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.000 a lineup of shows working literally where I have one 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:55.520 show after the next show, after the next show, after 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:56.880 the next show, after the show, and have to watch 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.520 it in that slot. Those days are over. Once we 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:02.280 had TEA. If you remember that, TVO was what changed 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.240 the world for me. We could, of course record shows 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:05.800 with the VCR before that, but no one could ever 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:07.880 figure that out. Then we had TVO, I could start 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:09.640 recording it. Now we have video and demand, so I 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.600 don't need a TV network to give me linear shows. 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:14.560 I'm not gonna line up at seven pm to watch 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:18.520 that show. So that's the Model's outdated, But it's also lost. 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.040 It's relevant in the last couple of years because we 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.600 constantly find out we're being lied to over and over 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.360 and over and over. We constantly are losing trust in that, 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.840 and so we have the rise of alternative media like 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.680 my show, My show is small Potatoes, but you have 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.160 Joe Rogan's of the World, et cetera that are blowing 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:40.040 it up and changing the narrative. And so what happens 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.319 if they start to lose their grip on controlling the 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.520 narrative because people are starting to go to these decentialized 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.920 choices like Tucker Carlson who just got fired and we'll 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:53.120 talk about that. Unfortunately, what their opportunities are to control 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:55.920 the narrative are very dark and very scary. And it's 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:57.320 like I said, I'm gonna talk to you about what's 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.320 happening right now. I'm gonna give you some hope at 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:01.280 the end. Don't worry abou Now, if you're just tuning in, 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:05.400 you're listening to the Markmas Show talking about the decentralized revolution, 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:07.920 the way the world is changing, and we are talking 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.960 about what I believe is the most important topic of 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.480 our lifetime. Right now, I'm going to be back. I'm 0:09:13.480 --> 0:09:15.520 going to lay this out. What's happening in the risk 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:17.800 and the hope that we have. Don't go away. I'll 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:20.480 bear back, all right, Welcome back. If you're just tune in, 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.040 you're listening to the Markmas Show. We talk about the 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:28.360 decentralized revolution. I'm talking about right now, this centralization of power. 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.960 The governments of the world have continued to consolidate and 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:33.960 get more and more and more and more power. You know, 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.040 just for example, the United States was a decentralized government 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:41.800 fifty independent states, a republic, not a democracy or republic. 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:44.840 And now we have the federal government that's centralized the 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.760 power over that right. And we have the European Union 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.640 has centralized the power over Europe and all those different countries. 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.160 And then we have NGOs above that. We have the 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.040 World Health Organization, World Trade Organization, the UN, etc. That 0:09:57.040 --> 0:09:59.480 have centralized control over all those countries. So this massive 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:04.400 central is but we're witnessing a decentralized revolution. So now 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.200 things are starting to swing back the other way. We 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.400 no longer want the centralized new source of CNN. Now 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:15.080 I'll listen to all types of people online, independent decentralized 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.960 voices like Joe Rogan or Matt Walsh or Ben Shapiro 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:22.079 or Russell Brand or yes, Mark Moss. If you're not 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:24.920 following me on other social media, why don't you do that? 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.040 Check it out at one Mark Moss. You can find 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.160 me on Twitter and Instagram at one Mark Moss. But 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:31.760 so as they're losing the grip, people are moving to 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.959 these decentralized solutions, what can they do? How can they 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:40.360 maintain their grip? If people are leaving. If they can't control, 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.000 if they can't feed you, spoon feed you the propaganda 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:46.040 on CNN and ABC and CBS, because now you've left 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.640 those to go watch people on YouTube or read their substacks. 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:54.800 What do they do, well, censor you. That's what they do. Censorship. 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:57.839 And there's two levels of censorship that are very scary here. 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.600 So censorship number one is you're Alex Jones. You say 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:05.080 something mean, we deplatform you, so we kick you off YouTube, 0:11:05.080 --> 0:11:07.680 we kick you off Instagram, Facebook, social media, we wipe 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.240 you out. And we've done that all right. We've seen 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:15.320 recently this get blown wide open by Elon Musk buying 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.960 Twitter and then releasing the Twitter Files. I've talked about 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:21.720 this extensively, the Twitter Files, which exposed the level at 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:25.920 which the government is controlling Twitter to actively suppress accounts 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.000 they don't like, actively suppressed posts they don't want, actively 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.080 suppressed topics they don't want. Of course, during the Hunter 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:34.400 Biden laptop story, we saw this first and four foremost 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:36.920 in front of everybody's plane view to see. And the 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.640 Twitter files really expose that so they can censor. But 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.920 what happens when a billionaire like Elon must buys Twitter 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:47.600 and doesn't allow them to do that. What happens when 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:50.760 these people like Alex Jones who got wiped off the 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:54.560 face of the map, just goes onto his own website 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.920 and starts broadcasting there. What do they do then? How 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.600 do they control it? Well, let's talk about that. So 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.200 I was reading this article, a great article by the way, 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:11.400 Michael Schellenberger. He started a substack blog called public which 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.640 I'd highly recommend that you check it out. You can 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:19.000 find it at public dot substack dot com. And he 0:12:19.080 --> 0:12:23.800 was talking about how things are changing and the world 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:29.640 being on the cusp of woke totalitarianism as governments act 0:12:29.800 --> 0:12:34.880 to end freedom of speech. Now again, I've kind of 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.280 talked about this, the importance of free speech. It underpins 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.599 any free society. You can't have free society if you 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.320 don't have free speech. But it's more than that, because, 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.480 like I said, it's how we share information, it's how 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.880 we get collectively smarter, and how we progress, and how 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.640 we have creativity, how we invent new things, which is 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.199 why when you see a totalitarian country like North Korea, 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.920 they don't have any of that. So we have. Now 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.400 they're trying to end freedom of speech as a matter 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:03.000 of fact, for some crazy reason that I never could 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:08.760 have imagined. Today, even in America, freedom and freedom of 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:12.360 speech is somehow like right wing now, Like, how is 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:18.520 that even political? It's just speech. One thing that separates 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:22.800 humans from animals is our ability to speak. We should 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.559 be able to speak. But here we have a media 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:29.000 blackout as politicians in the European Union, the United States, 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.199 the United Kingdom, Brazil, Ireland, Canada, Austria, all of that 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:36.959 are now trying to jail citizens for wrong things. So 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:39.240 if we can't control you on CNN because you don't 0:13:39.240 --> 0:13:40.640 watch it anymore because you know, we just lie to 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.640 you all the time, then we try to control you 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.120 on Twitter, but then Elon must buys it and we 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.240 can't control you there, and then you like Alex Jones, 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.320 just go broadcast on your own website if we can't, 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.760 if we can't censor you, then we'll just kill you. 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.760 How's that? And that's basically what they're doing now. They 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:02.800 want to jail citizens to protect you. Of course, it's 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.520 always for your protection, to protect you from hate speech. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:08.400 Hate speech is what they call it. So, like I said, 0:14:08.440 --> 0:14:11.720 Twitter gave us this window into how this was being done. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:15.199 But now this is going to a whole nother level. 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.760 Of course, under the guise of preventing harm, right protect you. 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:23.280 It's always about protection. As Ben Franklin allegedly said, those 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.800 who were or you know, maybe Franklin, maybe Thomas Jefferson, 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.200 those who are willing to give up freedom for safety 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:32.840 deserve neither. But it seems like people are always willing 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:37.560 to give up freedom for safety. And so now we're 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:41.720 seeing that all these countries are working together to interleague 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:47.720 their systems and this censorship apparatus. Now we have politicians 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.480 in go's. These are non government organizations that are all 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:57.880 working together to protect you from disinformation. But what's disinformation? 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.320 And if we're not able to discuss this information and 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:06.200 have people collectively chime in and openly debate it, how 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:10.880 do we know it's disinformation? They give them very vague definitions, 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:15.080 specifically so they're able to arbitrarily apply these any way 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:19.400 they want. Take Ireland for example, Ireland, the Government of 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:23.960 Ireland may soon be able to imprison people for simply 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:28.680 just possessing material that they've decided is quote hateful. But 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.720 what's hateful? Now we can go to the absurds like, 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:36.200 my daughter hates vanilla ice cream, So if I talk 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.440 about vanilla ice cream to her, is that hateful? I mean, 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:42.520 that's absurd, of course, But what is hateful? Who decides? 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:45.760 In the United States I talked about a few weeks ago, 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:48.080 they're trying to pass a bill called the Restrict Act, 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.880 which would give the United States the government the ability 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:55.200 to throw you in prison for twenty years and take 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:58.760 away all your property with no due process. Which the 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:00.320 United States is built on a rule of law that 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:02.440 gives us due process, but no no due process for 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:04.640 you if you were to use one of these Internet 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:08.160 sites that we don't deem to be okay. In Canada, 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.240 now they want to filter and manipulate what Canadians can 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:15.720 see online. In Australia, they have one single government official 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.000 that can now force social media companies to take down 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.720 any posts that they don't want. We see this all 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.360 over In the United Kingdom, lawmakers are now threatening to 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:29.200 imprison again if you don't like what you say. We 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:30.760 can't control you. What's put you in jail, or we'll 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.520 kill you. They're threatened to imprison social media managers who 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:38.320 don't censor enough content. In Brazil, they've introduced severe penalties 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.480 for platforms that failed to remove what they deemed to 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:44.480 be fake news like the Hunter Biden Latov story, which 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:50.080 all proved to be real, like ivermectin, which got taken 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.600 down all across the world, and now they're starting to 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:56.680 give it back again. The European Union is seeking sweeping 0:16:56.720 --> 0:17:00.840 new powers to regulate social media companies under this new 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:05.680 EU Digital Services Act, where basically they're forcing all these 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:09.440 large tech companies to share. They're forced to share all 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.320 their data with what they consider quote vetted researchers. Who 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:22.680 are these vetted researchers, That's the problem. Who controls the ledger? Well, nonprofits, academia, NGOs, 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:27.280 non government organizations. Now we've had the Internet for over 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:30.960 thirty years, We've had free speech forever, for all of history, 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:33.960 it's never been a problem, But now it is. Why 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:38.560 Why is the censorship industrial complex rising up and coming fast? 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:40.479 I'm going to talk about that. I'm going to talk 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.600 about where this is going, why it's going there, And 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:45.359 like I said, there's hope, there's a rising group to 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:46.960 push back on this. I'm a part of it. I'm 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:48.119 going to challenge you to be a part of it. 0:17:48.160 --> 0:17:50.000 I'm going to talk about that a minute. You're listening 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:52.720 to the Mark mas Show talking about the decentralized revolution 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:56.280 and the censorship industrial complex, the most important topic of 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:58.080 our lifetime. I'll be back with more in a minute. 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.359 Don't go away, we're back, all right, Welcome act. If 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.480 you're just tuning in, you're listening to the Mark Maas Show. 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:05.000 We talk about the decentralized revolution. Of course, each and 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.480 every week, the way the world's changing, and it's changing 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:14.639 really fast. It's changing for it's scary. Unfortunately, times of 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:19.000 change are typically not smooth, and that's exactly where we're at. 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.840 We have one system that's dying and it's trying to 0:18:22.119 --> 0:18:24.360 grasp and hold on as best as it can as 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:28.400 the new system is emerging. And the old system that's 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:33.439 dying is this central, central plans, central controlled system that 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:38.640 uses lots of methods to maintain its power, including the narrative, 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:43.199 the propaganda. But now we have these decentralized applications and 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.880 technologies that are sprouted up and they've lost their ability 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:48.960 to do that, and so the rise of the censorship 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:54.359 industrial complex. And it's not just countries like North Korea 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:57.560 or other countries that you would see going into communism. 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:01.800 We're talking about this happening Indian I States, the West, 0:19:02.440 --> 0:19:04.639 which would be Canada, the US, Europe, et cetera, is 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:08.680 on the cusp of a way more powerful form of totalitarianism, 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:12.480 way more powerful than communism, way more powerful than fascism 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:17.920 ever was It's global and they're using technology to scale this. 0:19:18.840 --> 0:19:21.960 And if we are going to defeat this, then we 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:27.320 have to understand it. Why are the governments seeking to 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:33.760 crack down on freedom of speech right now? Why? New Zealand, Netherlands, Brazil, Canada, UK, EU, 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:38.760 United States? Why are they all doing this? And what 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:42.919 is the relevance of the timing and the speed of 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.480 what all this is happening. The timing of the global 0:19:46.520 --> 0:19:51.000 crackdown on free speech isn't coincidental. Now think about this. 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:55.280 Last year, the Biden administration tried to implement something called 0:19:55.320 --> 0:20:01.960 the Disinformation Governance Board. They had this idea to elect 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:07.679 this lady to be this information czar, who actually was 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:11.359 one of the largest spreaders of disinformation. We have numerous 0:20:11.359 --> 0:20:14.199 accounts of the information she was spreading was all false, 0:20:14.560 --> 0:20:16.800 but somehow she was going to run this. It was 0:20:16.840 --> 0:20:20.360 the brainchild of a former CIA, of course, former cioperative 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:26.960 Renee de Resta of the Stanford Internet Observatory, And when 0:20:27.000 --> 0:20:29.840 they tried to put this in place, it got massive 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:32.240 amounts of backlash. Of course it did. We're America, the 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:35.160 land of the free work guaranteed by our constitution, freedom 0:20:35.160 --> 0:20:37.119 of speech, and so of course we pushed back on that, 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:39.640 massive backlash on that, and so they had to pull 0:20:39.640 --> 0:20:44.880 that back. But here's the thing. When you see these 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.359 crazy bills get introduced, like the restrict Act will come 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:52.199 back to that in a minute, or like this disinformation 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:54.280 government sport they tried to put forward, and it looks 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:57.520 like we win, hoorai, congratulations, we win. We get complacent. 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:00.920 They're not done, like this is going to be put 0:21:00.920 --> 0:21:04.159 into place. They're going to bring this back, just in 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.480 a way that you maybe don't see it or recognize it. 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:10.560 And so here it is, we push back. The Biden 0:21:10.560 --> 0:21:14.359 administration had to shut that down. But now they're just regrouping. 0:21:15.000 --> 0:21:18.240 Now they're trying to get it put in another way 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:22.320 now instead of what they did, and they're changing the narrative. Right, 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.639 So they had this woke defense of what they were 0:21:25.680 --> 0:21:28.359 trying to say was they were trying to prevent harm. 0:21:28.720 --> 0:21:30.320 So what they were saying it was a matter of 0:21:30.440 --> 0:21:33.280 national security, so we need to protect you. It's a 0:21:33.280 --> 0:21:35.560 matter of national security. This is why you have to 0:21:35.600 --> 0:21:38.840 allow us to do this. But of course nobody wanted that, 0:21:39.320 --> 0:21:41.879 so now they've changed it, saying, well, it's not national 0:21:41.880 --> 0:21:46.400 security now it's for your protection because you know there's 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:49.360 all this hate. We have to protect you from hate. 0:21:49.400 --> 0:21:52.800 How we can't have you see any of this race 0:21:53.040 --> 0:22:01.320 based hate or whatever online. Even though we know statistically 0:22:01.440 --> 0:22:05.080 that the world has become much more tolerant, we're not 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:09.880 getting more hateful. We're getting more tolerant. For example, percentage 0:22:09.880 --> 0:22:11.879 of Americans who approve of marriage between a white and 0:22:11.920 --> 0:22:15.200 a black American has gone from four percent in nineteen 0:22:15.280 --> 0:22:18.399