Part Of The Problem - A Free Facebook

Episode Date: January 8, 2025

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I'm a big fan because it's just the right amount of grapefruit is it is that the thing that is appealing I think she likes the lime and the lemon ones better. We all know how much I watch my Figure and sugar intake and only three grams of sugar. Now I won't drink soda beverages because I like my calories from cake. Well I do know what you mean dude. If you're trying to be healthy, it is, that is always the first thing. I mean this is so fucking stupid

that I'm drinking this shit. And it's just literally because Lauren stocks the fridge for you guys. And then it's just like when I'm here, I'm like, well why wouldn't I do that? And now I've ended up having I'm having like four of these a week for no reason and just have another cup of coffee And I'm too lazy to walk up a flight of stairs. So instead I'll just have fuck it. Did you see um, sorry This is all off topic. We'll get into stuff in a second. Did you see there was someone who did

The simplest just like examination of the, uh, a large Dunkin donuts thing with just the amount of sugar. It is fucking wild, dude. It's like, we are just as a nation just committing suicide in the slowest fattest way possible. But he literally, it's like, first of all, the Dunkin donuts thing is just, it's gigantic. Like the cup is the size of like the old McDonald's super size cups and the grams. It was something, it was like,

it's like 78 grams of sugar or something like that. And then he just holds it up and you're like, just imagine if in the morning you were just like, I'm going to go, what do you get? I'm going gonna go eat this bowl full of sugar Anyway, sugar is not good for you. It turns out guys. That's how we started today's show. Anyway, what's up guys? I'm Dave Smith He's Robbie the fire Bernstein and we are your favorite truth-telling comedians who will be on the road together Throughout 2025 go on over to ComicDaveSmith.com and you can see when we're coming to a city near you.

Go grab tickets. We put on a fun live show. You think these podcasts are fun? You gotta come out. What's up, how are you, sir? I was up late last night. I booked travel through March. We got some exciting gigs.

We do, yeah. Cape West is a blast. And then I was also editing check out my show tomorrow Wednesday run your mouths. Oh, absolutely Looking forward to it. Yeah, I'm looking forward to a key West. Of course. There's a makeup time for me Yeah, I go well. I wasn't able to go last year. I was Unfortunately sick the only weekend I believe I've ever canceled in my life And I've been like I've been sick before I was real sick at Skang Fest This last year, but I've been sick

But it's always been like, you know, you could power through and like do it This was the only one where I was like I'm coming out of my eyeballs and you keep that to yourself Oh, that's what I did. It's gang fest But like could you know it cares anymore? Listen, first of all, no one cares anymore second. Well, it's skiing fest They didn't care in March of 2020. You know what? I mean, like none of these people care and then it was like I Don't know they're clearly Skating fest I remember I was trying to explain this to dr. Drew's wife. I think this was two years ago. So Two years ago if you could put yourself in that place in COVID time,

right? So there's way past the point of me and you being well over this. Um, but you know, it's still a thing and she had a fair argument. So he was, uh, he had like a reunion for one of his shows. What was the show? Teen mom or something like that, whatever version of that show that he was the host of, they had like a big reunion, like where are they now? You know, spoiler alert, not successful, but spoiler alert, don't have kids when you're a teenager. So it's not the best path. Um, but so anyways, he was doing that. And then he was like, I really want to go to Skank Fest. It was like two weeks before that. And she was like, look, if, if he gets COVID at Skankfest,

then we lose this like huge money gig, you know? And it's like, it was a time where it was like, if he tests positive, then they're just not going to do the reunion. And you know, I mean, she didn't tell me the number, but I imagine it's a, it's a nice chunk of change. So I was like, okay, listen, I get your point. But I was like, let me try to make this argument. And I was like, and I'm talking to Dr. Drew and his wife and I was like, let me try to make this argument. And I was like, and I'm talking to Dr. Drew and his wife and I was like, you know, he's a doctor. So back me up on whether this is

medical medically sound. These are the filthiest people in the United States of America. They have all clearly gotten COVID already. They're like, this is actually the safest place to be. These people live in germs. They're the safest. And I remember Dr. Drew goes, he was like, the science checks out. Yeah, the Ethiopian mud babies that come to Skankfest each year. So the long of the short is Dr. Drew did not come to Skankfest that year. My argument was not convincing, but he did come the following year. So something, you know, something got in there a little bit. Anyway, lots to talk about today. If you have any questions, drop them in the live chat and we will try to address as many of them as we have time for. By the way, if you want to be a part of the live chat, you have to go sign up at partoftheproblem.com.

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of the day Which is I find it totally fascinating is this stuff about Facebook or should I say about Metta? Which is what Metta is the parent company of Facebook and that's I guess it's Facebook and Instagram And that metaverse thing never seemed to take off. Yeah, and what is oculus? I don't think I it's the Things you yeah, I have it. I have it in the other room. I actually really liked that I got into the boxing game for a while. It's a good. It's a good That it's a good hack to like Get cardio in but like you just think you're playing a game and fighting someone but man, do you look ridiculous?

Someone's watching you do that boxing game is a lot of fun. Oh so much fun. So they do a really good job of making it like However, they they figured it out it is cool that like they can measure like how much you're putting into it and like if you want to knock someone out you got to really land a clean shot the thing i liked about that game was also that was very realistic about it was that it wouldn't like if you just swing wildly but with everything you have in it you're not going to knock guys out but if you if you, you could just put it like perfect placement and you can drop people

and you're like, oh, that's really what it's like. You know what I mean? Like it's more about like hitting someone right on the button than it is about just like swinging wildly. You see, you have a lot more technique than I do. You just swing wildly. I was not knocking people out in that game. I was throwing power punches, but I guess I don't.

You got the thing about the game, I think is you got to like, uh, it's, it, I'm telling you, if you go back and play it again, instead of focusing on just throwing bombs, focus on perfectly placing it on the chin and you're going to, you're going to get more knockdowns. All right. I'm going to coach you. I'm going to make a successful fighter out of you yet. Um, okay. So I guess just, uh, prefacing all of this, which I don't know why I kind of almost feel the need to like disclose this upfront, but I do also find this whole topic of like internet censorship is, it's particularly, I guess, interesting to us because we're in this world. And so it's a topic about the industry that we are in,

or it's super relevant to that. And again, with, with Facebook, I, um, you know, we, uh, we had our, our private group in the part of the old part of the problem inner circle on Facebook at which we got, which got shut down in 2020 over the COVID stuff. And I am, uh, I'm still quite resentful about that. So it's like, you know, there's just kind of like putting my biases on the table at the beginning,

like I am biased, I do have my own angle on this, and that's a big part of it. And then separate from that, as we've said many times, I do just think that internet censorship is in many ways the most important issue, because everything kind of follows from that. You know, like, okay, the corporate press has been destroyed. Okay, trust in institutions has evaporated. Now we have, you know, these alternative voices.

But if we don't, if they censor the internet We're not gonna have these voices and then we're right back in the same situation. So I'm I'm As I know you are too very strongly on the side of a free internet and and against censorship So that's I guess just in the backdrop This is also something that's been building, I guess, for a while. Zuckerberg has kind of come around. Well, I'm curious. What do you think about that?

And we can play the we'll get into the clip of him. And then there's a clip of another guy from Metta. But what do you think about this this transformation that we've seen over the last few years of Mark Zuckerberg? I think Not all these characters are inherently evil now. They might not be noble people They might not want to stand up for the greater good

But some of these people just want to run businesses and they discover along the way that they can't just run Businesses because the mob will call them into their office and tell them hey We don't care that you're just a content platform and that you want to drive as much business here by making it open and interesting. What we need you to do in here is your marching orders. And so I don't think I think for some of these people, like I think Google, you know, they might actually have tie ins with the CIA. I think they're like CNN.

I don't think they just want to run an honest news network. I think there are businesses out there that are highly tied into government initiatives or are specifically hijacking the government so that they don't have to compete in the market. And then I think there's some people that just want to run businesses. I don't know that that's for sure is, but there's something like, I think the tech people got pulled in and were told that basically you gotta pick a team and you gotta start paying somebody, because if not, you're gonna be in trouble.

I think that very specifically happened with Zuckerberg where they'll start screaming about safety, this, that, the next thing, they'll jam me up. Even Microsoft had that, all of a sudden, antitrust and instead of building your business, you're meeting with your lawyers trying to fight the government Well, it's kind of like, you know, I Don't know. It's it's a little bit of a weird situation because how much can you blame?

You know certain Businessmen who are like look this is the world I'm given and so I got to play this game Interestingly enough, you enough, he's hiring Dana White, and Dana White made the gamble during the last administration, business as usual. And a lot of people won really big by saying business as usual. Keltoni won real big.

I mean, how many shows shut down, and Keltoni's like, we're still going. Yeah. And so people place that bet the last time around of going, I'm not listening to this administration as they went full, hey, you're killing grandma unless you're playing into this COVID thing. I think Zuckerberg was playing on team Democrat

up until we've seen the shift of just, dude, the ESG score thing is gone. The woke thing is gone. The green energy thing is gone. I think they tried to push more socialism than the market would actually tolerate. And they just lost. And so people like, you know,

Zuckerpants was betting on we're going to be full scale socialism. And I got to work within the machine. And that entire thing has seemingly died. Yeah. Look, man, I look I get your point. I think that's I think that's right. And I also think there's also just like a human element of like Elon Musk kind of just became the cool kid

in that space. And I do think there, Zuckerberg is a guy who, listen, like we've talked about this a little bit on the show before but you know how sometimes like if you'll you'll see Like like a male feminist or like a like a guy a dude who's super super progressive You know, maybe like a picture like whatever you want a picture like a 25 year old guy who has he him picture like whatever you want a picture like a 25 year old guy who has he him pronouns in his Twitter bio and is like a super super progressive guy yes well but like you could be watching him and sometimes you'll be like I actually I just think the difference between us is like our level of testosterone I like

I'm not sure this has anything to do with actually political arguments or anything like that I don't think I'm gonna change your mind because you were like man That was a really compelling point that you made It's like you just need testosterone replacement and I don't know why you need it so young but something's going on I don't know what your diet is or what but like Zuckerberg is into MMA Okay, he's into MMA now. I don't know, he's an odd person. I know there's all those jokes about how he's like really a robot or something like that, but he's just a weird, he's a weird guy.

But I do think that he's at least if you're like doing jujitsu and you're a fan of the UFC, you're at least enough of a dude that there's just something about like, oh, you're the free speech guy and you're getting a lot of love for that. That's just cool That's cooler than being the I'm the one who's in you know, like I'm doing content moderation How gay does that sound even just the words content moderation doesn't just sound like what is this for a kindergartener or an adult? Man, you're moderating other people's content anyway My point is that there's just this kind of cool factor that I think played up the plays a part in this as well I'm not trying to get too into like psychoanalyzing people. I try not to do that, but

It okay, so on one hand this is kind of how I feel I'm going to put on a necklace Have curly hair going to put on a necklace and have curly hair. Yeah, something like that. Well, so, okay. So on one hand, I do feel that like I'm somewhat sympathetic to people who are, you know, in, in the world of big business. And they're like, look, I got to, uh, I got to do what I got to do to be successful.

And I can't have the federal government as an enemy. So I don't know what to tell you. They got all the guns and they're telling me I have to do this. So I'm going to do this and be real successful over here. I'm somewhat sympathetic to that. You know, it's kind of like, if you're playing a game of basketball and you're just like, okay, we're playing basketball here and you know,

we're on a team and we're like, okay, let's do a pick and roll and then like blah, blah, blah, whatever isolation on the left side. And then the guy on the other team, like punches you in the face and the ref doesn't call a foul. The ref goes, nope, that was clean. Like at a certain point, you're like, oh, well then,

like if we come back to the huddle and we're like, hey, let's run the pick and roll again. Like we're the retards, right? Like at a certain point you gotta go, oh, this is a different game than we think it Should be you know the game is now that you can punch in the face so now Forget thinking about the pick and roll so much like block your face and then punch back at this guy because that's the get We're fighting now. We're not playing basketball

It's like the government changes things when it gets into the the market And I understand that people have to do what they have to do to survive the other thing though is that it does That people have to do what they have to do to survive. The other thing though is that it does with the Mark Zuckerberg thing it just feels it feels a little bit like I Don't know Maybe like if you were a Jew in Nazi Germany and then like, you know, someone downstairs is like those Jews in the attic There's Jews up there go get them They're up there and then like the Nazi regime falls and then they're like I was crazy how they were rounding up Jews and everything right and you're just like

Yeah, bro We might have to have a conversation before we're just cool cuz like that is really fucked up what you did man And so I don't know. I guess both of those feelings are in my mind This show is sponsored by better help You know as somebody who's benefited from therapy in the past and as somebody who knows a lot of people who have benefited from Therapy I always encourage it I think all of us could use a little bit of therapy because we all have blind spots and it can help to become a little Bit more aware of those maybe you're on the fence about getting started if that's you you got to check out better help

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That's like, yeah, it's not illegal. I'm being a hypocrite. I don't know that that like that was basically the framing of the joke. Yeah, there's something along those lines. So it's like, yeah, the guy stinks. Covid was terrible. He removed freedoms.

I still can't advertise on Facebook to this day. Our platform was removed because of things that were right that were in a private group. That's insane. Then also the content moderation team turned out to be the Peter DeSac guy, who was the person who actually paid eco, was over there and literally bought the virus from China.

The whole thing was absolute nonsense. and he partook in the entire thing to try and remove freedom from the internet and To create a track record of people like us potentially being domestic terrorists. Look these people's ideas are so dangerous They had to be removed from the platform dude, and it was so I mean, I can't I can't like platform. And it was so, I mean, I can't, I can't like overstate it. It was so Orwellian, the entire process. I mean, if I, right. So we've got this group, we had this group at the time called the part of the problem inner circle.

It's a private Facebook group. It's just a group for our listeners to talk with each other and talk with us. And it was great. I really loved having that group. And so 2020 comes, right? In March, the country's in lockdowns. It is the craziest freaking thing ever. Like you can't believe it. I mean, I remember like, you know, it was a surreal time. I remember being in, in New York city at my mother's place.

I'll literally never forget this as long as I live, but it was like a few days after lockdowns were implemented. And we were at my in-laws house with our daughter, our son wasn't born yet, but we were there with our baby daughter. She's like one, a little over one. And me and my wife drove in to New York City and we drove through Times Square just to go see like what the hell Empty Times Square looks like and I mean it was like out of um, it was the Will Smith move

I am legend it was like that like seeing Times Square with not a soul it like there were like a couple cops Randall, but no one's there so bizarre and then I remember we go up to my mother's house and we're walking down the street we like parked the car and we're walking down the street in Manhattan and just uh hearing birds chirp in Manhattan was just so freaking bizarre dude there's no one on the streets the avenues I mean you look down Broadway it's empty so this is going on in the world like this crazy time and then Facebook is doing this shit Where the if you remember Rob they started they made it that I had to or you one of the moderators from the group had to Manually post every single post like we had to approve it before it would be put in the group

So we have to like kind of trying to get you on the hook like you approved this post with and like you said They're shutting down while this is all happening We're like not allowed to talk about it to question it So like and then of course as you rightly pointed out Do it turned out to be right about all of this stuff and it was all completely unnecessary and based on pseudoscience plus intense corruption. And so, yeah, it is hard to just forget about all of that. And I will say that with all of this stuff,

it, you know, by the way, on top of that, then at the end of 2020, he straight up interfered in the US presidential election. And like by at the government's behest, by his own admission. I mean, pretty much by his own admission. Natalie, see see if you could pull up you could probably find it on YouTube if you could Find actually because that maybe is the best flip. Yeah, it was uh, if you just put Zuckerberg Rogan Hunter Biden so it should probably come up The point I'm making is that yeah, he stinks. He always stunk and he's a weak dude, but look at how much the, we've cleansed out

some of the horrors of government that now this week bait a bitch of a guy who was totally afraid of the thing and was gonna ruin his product to go, oh please government, just don't, I'll do whatever you want. I'll push trans kids. No, I'm trying to take the win.

I'm struggling with with this one though. You know, well it look, I mean, I guess to me it just it feels a little bit and when we play his video, I think this will become more clear. It just feels to me a little bit like, you know, like if you were a let's say like you felt you had a buddy and you found out that like his, uh, his wife was having an affair or something like that, right?

It's like his wife had totally betrayed him, was having an affair and you talked to your buddy and you were like, Jesus, man, sorry, you're going through that. And he goes, uh, well that it's over and we're, we're working it out. And you're like, okay. Um, so like, she must like really apologize to you or something like that. And you're like, no, no, she never really apologized You know, she's just but she said she's not doing that anymore You're like, okay

But like she acknowledged like how much that hurt you how fucked up it was and she was lying to you for all these years Like no, she just kind of said going forward You know with this new now we're in a new time where I think we can go forward without cheating and you know what I'm Saying like then you kind of be like look dude. You could get back together with her You could leave her I'm not telling you what the right move is but like if you're getting back together with her that has to come with a fucking Apology that has to come with some acknowledgement of like what you did to your fellow Americans I mean look all these motherfuckers dude, and I get it. I get what happened. I'm very well aware of it

I've talked about it for many years. I know what happened Donald Trump used social media to win the White House in 2016 That was not the plan Hillary Clinton was supposed to win. Okay, and then he used this new technology He tweeted his way to the White House And so then the fucking government decided we got a crackdown on that We got a crackdown on all this shit and they you know essentially mafia tacticked the big tech companies into doing that and by the way in In plain sight like in front of everyone they hauled them in front of Congress and threatened the shit out of them on national television

You know and so okay, I get it. I get that you were just, but at the same time, it's like all these guys who started these companies, you know, if you listen to like Zuckerberg or like Jack Dorsey or all these like big tech guys, they always started with these like these lofty ambitions and like we're gonna connect the world and we're gonna change the future and we're gonna give regular people a voice and we're gonna allow People to communicate with each other and then it's like yeah, but like when it mattered the most Look what you did to your fellow Americans You know like you shut them down when they needed their voice the most and like dude I and this is part of like why I disclose that at the beginning why it's kind of personal to me in a way

But look, I can't tell you I got a lot I'm sure you get comments about this this too, but I got a lot man. I Still almost every show I do almost every time I'm like in front of a group of fans I get people who tell me that like dude you kept me sane through kovat Like the the podcast I did with malice our our show, people are always like, dude, it was the craziest time. You know, I couldn't have a funeral for my dad. I lost my job. I went through all this shit, but listening to this show, man, really. And like that Facebook group, much more so than it was for me,

for a lot of people, it was that thing. Like, even just like taking that away from people, it's like, man, there, there's something There's something so fucked up about removing people's voice from them, you know, like I'm not allowed to think I'm not allowed to communicate with other people like for the crime of being right about important stuff Anyway, yeah Let's hear let's let's go to the the Rogan click because this was such a fat one of literally the most Fascinating moments in the history of the Joe Rogan experience and I've been on there a lot So it's really saying something here it is you guys handle things when they're a big news item

That's controversial like there was a lot of attention on Twitter During the election because of the hunter Biden laptop story, the New York Post. Yeah, we had that too. Yeah, so you guys censored that as well? So we took a different path than Twitter. I mean, basically the background here is the FBI, I think, basically came to us, some folks on our team, it was like, hey, just so you know, you should be on high alert.

We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in the 2016 election we have it on notice that basically there's about to be some kind of dump of that's similar to that so just be vigilant so our protocol is different from Twitter's what Twitter did is they said you can't share this at all we didn didn't do that. What we do is we have, if something is reported to us as potentially misinformation, important misinformation, we also have this third party fact checking program because we don't want to be deciding what's true and false. And for the, I think it was five or seven days

when it was basically being determined whether it was false, the distribution on Facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed to share it. So you could still share it, you could still consume it. So when you say the distribution has decreased, how does that work? Basically the ranking in News Feed was a little bit less. So fewer people saw it than would have otherwise So it definitely by what percentage I don't know off the top my head, but it's it's it's meaningful, but I mean Okay, let's stop it there. It's good. So I mean look just to be clear. This is such a

Like he says it in a very nonchalant way that you could almost like hear that and not realize what a bombshell of a moment that was. But this was the first time that it was confirmed that, Oh, the FBI straight up interfered in the 2020 election. So, you know, like for, for whatever problem, this is part of the thing where like, um, you know, cause people, it's always like, you know, you get, you choose what you're outraged by. It's like the freaking arguments I'm having with gnome on Twitter about, um, you know, cause people, it's always like, you know, you get, you choose what you're outraged by. It's like the freaking arguments I'm having with gnome on Twitter about, well, you're not condemning anti-Semitism enough or whatever, but you know, people

would, it's very easy, um, for people to point out that like, you know, Fox news had to have that gigantic settlement with the Dominion voting machine company Then that Trump and his lawyers made claims about the 2020 election that they really couldn't even begin to prove but like Then you just have this it straight up Joe Rogan asks Zuckerberg about the hunter Biden story and he goes, well, here's what happened. The FBI came and told us that a big Russian dump

was coming. And so now he doesn't exactly say that the FBI said when the Hunter Biden laptop came out, they said, yeah, that's the Russian dump we were talking about. However, if you're Mark Zuckerberg and the FBI comes to you and says, hey, there's this big Russian dump that's coming. And then the Hunter Biden story comes out and then 51 intelligence officers all signed their name to a letter saying this was Russian misinformation. Well, what are you left to conclude other than, oh, yeah, that's what they were talking about. No, and and so you could say Okay, it's not exactly the same thing as if the FBI had come after the story and said hey

This is Russian disinformation, but it's a distinction without a difference kind of like Whether you ban a story or just make it so that nobody can see the story and what a ridiculous like there's listen man that is just such bullshit this whole like what was it they used to say like freedom of speech but not freedom of reach or something like that so it's like oh so what you won't kick me off the platform but you'll make it so that nobody can see what I'm saying there yeah that's the same thing as kicking someone off a platform And as I love when Rogan asked him by what percentage? He's all right. It was meaningful. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, it was pretty meaningful wasn't it?

But so what does that mean? It was meaningful that means there was a bombshell October surprise that Implicated a presidential candidate that you know look make what you will of the story But the son of the president was getting fucking paid off by foreign governments and foreign companies that were in bed with foreign governments. That's a scandal, you know, and that's news. And you, fuck it, you by your own admission here, like interfered in the domestic politics of a presidential election. I don't know. That's a big fucking deal That's amazing that like that moment on Rogan showed didn't trigger more than just people like me and you talking about it on a podcast

But anyway, so that's the background of all of this cut to New Zuckerberg Zuckerberg 2.0 Who is a singing a different tune? So let's go to Mark Zuckerberg's statement from today. Hey everyone. I wanna talk about something important today because it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram.

I started building social media to give people a voice. I gave a speech at Georgetown five years ago about the importance of protecting free expression. You know what this is? Do you remember when Damos did that campaign and the CEO came out and said, we know our pizza sucks? I know our pizza sucks.

That's what this is. Yeah, you're right. You're right, that's a great comparison. And they were like, okay, listen, we have built up a reputation for just having garbage pizza. So maybe we're gonna make it not garbage by the way I don't think you got any better, but I don't know I don't really actually remember reading dominoes after that But that's a very good comparison. Yeah, that is essentially what we're looking at. I just I guess it's like I

Can I break his nose back in place? I would um look I would come an extra to hook It's just amongst all the things about him that annoy me. Well, look I Would feel like Not only comfortable, but I like I'd be enthusiastic if he came out and said something like Which I understand look I know I get that I just round didn't tell the truth and that's not everybody can be that way And when you're in charge of a multi-billion dollar company, maybe that's not possible But like if he had come out and just been like, you know, I started I started this company to give people a voice Like that, you know, it's like I know that's just like a slogan, but what is this a fucking really?

It's a powerful thing to say it's like very profound in a lot of ways to give somebody a voice He goes and then I totally betrayed that, that vision. And I did it because, you know, I was shaken down and I was worried about what would happen in all this, but you know what, I'm never gonna do that again. We're a free speech platform. I'd just be like, you know, three cheers for the robot.

He got it right and he's on our side, you know, fine. But there isn't that that element to it it's just like I did this so people could have a voice and yada yada yada some things happened and I'm gonna give you a voice again I don't know just makes me a little suspicious you need a name names yeah really yeah like your Twitter files name name exactly dude that's what we should be like a commitment like that would be something amazing if he was like listen We're gonna tell you all that you know, I said the FBI came and spoke to me about this

Well, I'm gonna tell you exactly what FBI agents came in exactly what was said and all this shit. Yes, that would be fascinating Let's really open up Facebook's books and see how much government intervention there was in this We learned a lot of interesting stuff from Elon Musk doing that. That would be something that actually, like, is a demonstration, you know what I mean, that you're really, you know, had a change of heart or something. Anyway, let's keep playing. 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. Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more. A lot of this is clearly political, but there's also a lot of legitimately bad stuff out there. Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation. 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, but the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes.

Even if they accidentally censor just 1% of posts, that's millions of people. All right, so let's, let's pause it again. It's just so like, you know what I mean? It's like, it's dishonest bullshit. It's like, listen, dude, first of all, it's a hundred percent political That's all any of this is it's not fucking pretend for a second that there's any real concern about Russian Interference in our elections. It's all nonsense. It's like complete bullshit. There's still to this day is zero evidence zero evidence that the DNC or the Podesta, uh, emails were hacked by Russia.

It's just was just a nonsense fucking talking point to cover from the embarrassing shit that was in those emails. And so that they could make the story like, Oh, Russian interference in the American elections. And so you really better not even pay attention to what's on those emails because you know That's just basically doing Vladimir Putin's bidding and what was on those emails Well, it was that the DNC cheated Bernie Sanders out of the 2016 primary They're supposed to be a neutral body and they were straight-up working for Hillary Clinton including having Donna Brazil feed Hillary Clinton

The questions that were to be asked at a town hall in advance. We have that straight up. We have the email of Donna Brazil sending her the fucking questions, and then two weeks later those questions being asked at the town hall. There's also a whole bunch of language that I guess is code for pedophilia stuff, which whatever, nobody's allowed to look into, and obviously you're a kook if you ever bring that up even though Multiple pedophile rings have been busted since then that implicate a lot of the same people who are on those emails and And you know a whole bunch of other shit like that. That's what they didn't want you to say anyway

So it's all political but don't give me this shit about like oh the problem was just that there's like Anyway, so it's all political but don't give me this shit about like oh the problem was just that there's like terrorism and child Trafficking and that that's why we had to that's why we had to remove your fucking Facebook group about how fucking ventilators were killing people Right. That's why that's why we had to censor the fucking Great Barrington declaration because we're worried about terrorism Give me a fucking break, dude. So it's like I don't know. I know it's a win. It's good I hope they censor less going forward, but this is just such bullshit and I don't know it pisses me off Alright guys, let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show, which is Prolon forget everything You know about fasting Prolon by El Nutra is the only patented fasting Mimicking diet that combines the benefits of prolonged

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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, here's what we're going to do. First, we're going to get rid of fact checkers and replace them with community notes, to X starting in the US.

After Trump first got elected in 2016... It's also just hilarious how much of a bitch he is because he's like, Since the media landscape has changed in the US and we can get away with it, we'll do it here. But in Europe where I still have to contend with the government that doesn't want you to have freedom, you guys are on your own because I have no balls, right? Right? but also it's just like like my example of like your buddy's wife is cheating on him and then it's like you know, she's like well, you know, I recognize that the landscape has changed and You know

Being faithful to your spouse is now more important. It's like, no, you got caught. That's what happened. What are you talking, you mean you lost? That's the, so you lost, so now I'm for freedom of speech again? Like what? The landscape change, I mean, yes, okay. I get that, but so is the implication there

that like if Donald Trump hadn't have won the election, that then we'd still do censorship I don't know it just and and your point about the European country is exactly right it's like oh so you're just still kind of going with whatever is acceptable like I don't know I don't know how you're supposed to feel about people who were like again you, it's something I've struggled with myself because it's like, you know, during the whole COVID thing in general, which is obviously very related to the,

where it was the biggest censorship year was 2020. Um, but because it was COVID and it was a presidential election year. But I remember, you know, like at the height of COVID and, and when there were examples of countries that were even, you know, like at the height of COVID, and when there were examples of countries that were even, you know, a couple clicks more authoritarian than we were, and I'm not talking about like China, obviously, I think the expectation is that China is going to be many clicks more authoritarian than we are in all things. But I'm talking about like Australia, where, you know, the crazy shit they were doing out

there. And you'd sit there and we would talk about this often where we'd be like, hey, right now, if someone like at the height of the vaccine propaganda, if someone were to come out right now and say, hey, we're placing all unvaccinated Americans on house arrest, they're not allowed to leave their homes. Like what percentage of the people would support that?

And it wasn't zero, you know what I mean? And you're like, it wasn't, I mean, I don't know. You know, obviously we don't know. We haven't conducted a scientific poll on this, but whatever percentage it was, it was a lot, there was like at least like say 30% of the population at one point I think would have supported that. Obviously I'm just kind of guesstimating the numbers, but then you'd go like alright

Forget house arrest Camps We're rounding them all up and throwing them in camps. I mean, I think the percentage would drop wouldn't drop to zero You know what? I mean? like there were there was a percentage of people in this country who would basically have just supported any of it And that is a very difficult thing to like deal with After the things over even when they come back and you're like, yeah, but like it's the guy yelling Jews in the attic It's like yeah, but I know who you are, you know, and at the same time you're like we have to move on somehow

I can't just like hate every fucking liberal person's guts in America. I'm not that's not who I want to be but it is tough. It is a tough so like I'm not exactly sure what the right answer with any of this shit is but I do just feel like a thing with him where it's like that dude you did something really wrong and I understand listen man I understand being George Soros right rounded up Jews for the Nazis. Do you blame, obviously Soros was a little kid when this happened, but like do you blame his father for doing that? Yeah, kind of, and then also you kind of understand you're in an impossible situation and you're trying to survive yourself. But there is something, you did something horrible.

And like, okay, you did it under duress you know I'll grant you that but there's still something that you did that was really horrible and there's no reckoning with that at all it's just we're doing this going forward here let's let's keep playing the legacy media wrote non-stop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy we We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth. No, you didn't. But the fact- You didn't. It wasn't in good faith.

It was just too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the US. So over the next couple of months, we're going to phase in a more comprehensive community notes system. Second, we're gonna 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 started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions

and shut out people with different ideas, and it's gone too far. In other words, we couldn't brainwash you to trans your kids. It really is just like oh this whole thing fucking backfired. There's been a big cultural like pendulum swing back and No, now we're gonna get on board with what's popular just like we did when all this insane shit was popular turns out if The internet has free speech now that that must guy ruined all our plans and bought X

We can't brainwash you all into thinking that everyone thinks it's normal to have your kids Transgender and so we can't do this thing where we bully you and call you crazy And so gee shucks. It looks like we got to change what we were doing. Well, you know, there's um And I guess I get this from reading Mises Who really everybody should read. It's just such a beautiful thinker. But you know, he would talk about like, like demonstrated preference, you know, where like,

if you, you know, if you go, if you buy a hat for $10, okay, then it's saying I need a hat. What are you trying to say? I'm saying I'm saying I will give you the $10 Just buy that No, you're good. You're good. Let's say you get sunglasses. We'll make it a more neutral But you know, so if you like and and there's like a voluntary There's no guns being held to anyone's head here Like you go into a store and you buy a pair of sunglasses for 20 bucks or whatever

No, like we could deduce from that that you value the sunglasses more than you value the $20. And we could deduce from that, that the person who owns the store values the $20 more than they value the sunglasses. Cause otherwise you wouldn't make that trade, you know? So like you could sit outside of the store and say, I really want those sunglasses. I really like them more than the $20 in my wallet. But if you actually go and buy it, then that's kind of more concrete conclusion. You know,

this is always like been a very simple insight that I think, you know, color is a lot of my thinking. You know, it's like I, I know you've heard me talk about this before, Rob, but like it's when liberals will argue that Social Security is incredibly popular. Social Security is one of the most popular programs that we have. You'd get rid of Social Security, but 82% of people say they like Social Security or whatever. And I'd always be like, yeah, but what does that even mean? What does it mean it's popular?

You asked people, you had an opinion poll and they said it's popular. It's like, okay, it's forced. You have to pay into Social Security at the threat of violence. So like, how about just make it voluntary? Then we'll find out real quick how popular this program is, right? Let's just say that, okay, if you could snap your fingers and tomorrow There's no more social security tax you can choose to opt in or opt out Then we'll really find out how popular it is right because it's easy to say it's popular It's like but it's like if I put a gun to your head and go we're going over

To the movie theater and we're watching this movie and then I start trying to tell everybody Rob really wants to see this movie. He really wants to go to this movie You'd be like, yeah, but then why do you need the gun to the head, dude? Like, if he really wants to see this, how about put the gun down, and then we'll find out what's up. Likewise, as I listen to Zuckerberg here, it's like, the culture's changed. And now people don't view, they view these things as oppressive now, or they view these things as something that's stifling.

You were silencing people. So don't tell me you know, they view these things as oppressive now or they view these things as something that's... You were silencing people. So don't tell me that anything changed, people were already against this shit. The only thing that changed is that now they're allowed to say it. Right? Like the very fact that you had to censor people about this topic proves that everyone wasn't on board with this topic. It's like, yeah, you... Look dude, if there's a book written about the United States of America during this time, the rise of

woke ism, the response to COVID. When there's a great historian writes a book about this in 50 years, the only way to think of it is a mass psychosis. This to go like the same way when we look back at like the commies or the Nazis or like any of these like other and we go, holy shit, everyone just lost their fucking minds. The entire society lost their fucking minds. How the fuck do you get to this place where you're doing this shit? Well, it's like the same thing, dude.

I mean, I'm not saying like the crimes, the underlying crimes are exactly the same, but the fact that we were even like having a national conversation about whether you can change your gender or not, and then you had to be censored if you were on the side of like biology exists. Like that's, that's a censorable like offense to just be like, I say guys, this is like, there's chromosomes, there's genetics involved. You can't, you could just say you don't agree with that, but like it's still there, whether you agree with it or not. This was like something that had to be shut down. It's just pure madness.

And you played a leading role in that madness. And now that the storm's storms over or seems to be, you're like, Hey, so that was nuts. What happened back there guys, right? Yeah. I think, you know, these things started with good intentions, but they ended up being misused. It's like, I, I'm sorry, I just don't buy that and I don't buy it at all. I, there's just, there's no way you're going to convince me that the censorship of 2017 through, you know, Elon Musk buying Twitter, that that was that was done out of like a noble intention to crack down on misinformation. It's absolute

bullshit. And you know, if that were the case, you would have seen a correction much, much quicker. You know, like, like for example, say the correction wouldn't have come after, just to pick one example, right. And let's go with the Hunter Biden laptop because that's the biggest one and the one that we just played the clip of the correction wouldn't have come years later when Elon Musk bought Twitter says he's going to make it a free speech platform, he becomes the coolest kid in town, Donald Trump ends up winning a dominant victory, and then we have this correction.

The correction would have come as soon as we realized that that was not Russian disinformation and that that was really Hunter Biden's laptop, which was, by the way, on this show, we realized it that week. It was very easy to figure out. It was very, very easy to figure out that that was in fact Hunter Biden's laptop. And the New York Times even admitted it. They took them another year and a half, but they admitted it. Ultimately, they're usually about a year and a half behind

the show. That's the truth. Sorry, Sam Harris. That's just the way it happens to be. But you would think, okay, then the correction would come immediately. Right? Like, I mean, if you were like, if you were giving your kid the wrong medicine,

and then they started getting sicker, well, when they start getting sicker, you'd stop giving them the medicine and like, right? You wouldn't like do it for years and years until your kid finally grew up and was like, Hey, this medicine is making me sick. You know what I mean? You've kept me sick my entire childhood. And then you go, you know, there's been a cultural change ever since you grew up and realized I was poisoning you. And in this new environment,

while I always cared about your health, in this new environment, I'm going to stop poisoning you. And that would be bullshit. It's giving me major Cuomo vibes. Yeah, I, uh, yeah, that's right. Exactly right. All right, let's keep playing. That people can share their beliefs and experiences on our platforms.

Third, 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 violation. 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. You know what I hate the most about this?

Is that this just speaks to taking things down, it doesn't speak to shadow banning at all. Mm-hmm. Which is a whole nother universe of to what extent is your content not being shown to people, not being favored in the algorithms. You know, I'm even noticing this on Twitter, I don't know if you've been noticing this,

but I find I spend very little time scrolling now, I spend more time using the Gronk and the other features, but I find that in my scroll I get what used to be like chainmail type features or like what the old like AOL top 10 articles would be where it'd be like look at this new GAT and like it's a thread and it seems to be all algorithm based engagement of them sure accounts that are now monetized that are like figured out the algorithm of how to get this shit in front of me and it's stuff that I've never followed,

I have no interest in whatsoever. Anyways, the point I'm trying to make is there's a universe of just the algorithm and what it serves to people, which doesn't even speak to this more harsh thing of his nonsense about what gets pulled down or oh now we're gonna do it. So wait a second you guys didn't have enough computing software to go after just the child

defense people and so you decided to take away from that computing software? Right. I don't know, almost sounds criminal. Yeah really. So you're telling me you could have taken down more child pedophiles but you guys just chose not to? Instead you chose to just silence your fellow Americans who were speaking up about whatever it might be. And even things that are like, you know,

cause obviously also during COVID and this is really at the heart of all of it, right? And it's kind of at the heart of the whole free speech question is that, look, there were, cause I don't want to like oversimplify things. There weren't people who got it wrong, who were, you know, skeptics. There were people who had wild conspiracy. There was always dumb shit out there. I mean, I remember the one, there's a thing about, there was like one video that people actually fell for. It was so obviously fake, but it was like,

they were saying that the vaccine like made you magnetic or's something like that. And so it was like look I just got the vaccine and now this spoon is sticking to me or something like that. You were like, yeah, dude Why like what and I swear to God I I mean I'm not saying this is the case But I always kind of like in my mind I'm like I bet this is an op You know what? I mean, like I bet this is this is total like controlled opposition like oh, let's fucking make the Conspiracy there is look as bad as they possibly can, you know. But so there was bullshit, but this is why you need freedom. But then there would also be the truth out there that you could and you have to figure

out how to sift through that and have, you know, sources you can trust and good information verse bad. But there were also people who got it completely right on the internet and they got silenced with all the rest of them and so yeah look to your point it's it's like look just stop interfering with what people fucking say that's it just let it be organic let people fucking speak and that's that and and look as I said you weren on that episode, but as I said the other day, when I was talking about a bunch of these, um, accounts on Twitter who got like their blue check taken away and got demonetized.

It's like, look, I'm not saying that any social media platform has to be 100% the wild wild west. There could be things that you're like, you're not allowed to say on this platform. It's like, if you want to say you can't say the N word or you can't say, you know, whatever. Okay. Like I don't really think too many people are going to go to war over that, but just make the rule clear and then apply it

equally. You know what I mean? Like just make the rule clear, make a reasonable rule, make it clear what the rules are and then apply them across the board and I think you're gonna solve all of these problems You know, I'm not saying I'm like far from a computer genius who understands like how to actually run Facebook, but I It is obvious enough that it's just like look you kind of almost admitted it yourself Rather than being what you know you started Facebook to give everybody a voice what you ended up becoming was a tool of the regime to silence dissent okay that is the opposite of giving

everybody a voice that is there's no movie where you watch that you're not the bad guy for that. That's the bad guy. You know, if I was just telling you about a plot for a movie and I went, okay, well there's this one guy who works for the regime to censor all of the critics of the regime. There's no movie where that guy's the good guy. That guy's the bad guy. There's no scenario. I couldn't even write a story around that where you were like, no, no, no, no, but I'm telling you he's the good guy because you see the people are just so bad and the regime is just so noble.

And they're like, really, the regime's so noble, what are they in the business of? Oh, war. Mostly war. You know, war. And some Ponzi schemes like this. Yeah, they're the good guys. Anyway, look, I mean, here, let's play a... I think there's only a little bit left. So let's. So 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 gonna catch less bad stuff, but we'll also reduce the number of innocent people's posts and accounts that we accidentally take down. Fourth, we're bringing back civic content. For a while, the community asked to see less

politics because it was making people stressed. So we stopped recommending these posts. But it feels like we're in a new era now, and we're starting to get feedback that people want to see this content again. So we're going to start phasing this back into Facebook, Instagram, and threads while working to keep the communities friendly and positive. Fifth, we're gonna move our trust and safety and content moderation team out of California. I almost got to just even process what that fucking horse shit was. I'm not even sure what he like, so in other words, political content was all shadow banned. If it was divisive, which sounds like conservative, but now he's realizing that there's so many people who are conservatives that actually want to see things

that reflect their opinion. So in other words, if you were looking for information like ours, you probably weren't going to be finding it on Instagram or Facebook. And so now they're going to allow more of it through as long as it's safe and positive, which means that there's still moderation. Yeah. Elon Musk said a thing about that the other day too, about positive.

Oh God, I hated that. I hated that. And I'm, I'm a fan of Elon Musk. So I'm not trying to beat up on him. I don't have, you know, any, like I have some content. I think he's also just playing the game too. Look, you might be right about that, but I'm just saying like, I have contempt for Mark Zuckerberg and what he did.

I don't have that for Elon. I'd see him much more as kind of like a heroic figure. Um, but like even him saying the thing about like positivity versus negative, like what are we children again? It's like, I, like I already got little kids, so I don't need to like, I don't know. I don't need to like, what my tweets are supposed to be fluffy and sons. Like what, what the fuck? What if I'm pissed off? I'm not allowed to be pissed off. Isn't that part of like freedom also? I thought that was a lot I thought we were doing a free speech platform here, right?

It's like what am I exactly spoke like I don't know dude I focus on all the things I'm pissed off about my posts aren't gonna be positive most of the time like if I if you know If you got me, you know If one of you guys came upstairs later and I was just screaming at my three-year-old about all the evil things in the world Like then there might be there might be a moment you were like, hey Dave lighten up a little bit You know, like that's not being so negative. Let's be a little more positive here. He just wants to play blocks, you know Okay, they are not but when I come downstairs into our studio, it's time for me to rant and be angry. That's what I'm here for.

I'm here to rant about all the shit that I think is wrong that I don't want to be going on anymore. So like, I don't know. I just hate all of this. That's who's and you know, who's exactly to say that people want, you know, a positive experience? Like, what does that mean? People like to argue on social media arguing is good arguing is healthy. It's that's okay It's okay to get into debates about things and that's not when you get into a debate especially like a meaningful one And this isn't I don't just mean like a political debate or anything like that It's like if you if you're in a relationship any relationship romantic friendship whatever if you're in a relationship and

there's something there's like a real problem like a real problem that needs to be solved that needs to be hashed out it's all but guaranteed someone's gonna get offended someone's gonna get upset someone's gonna you're gonna have to go through that but that's part of life It's a healthy part of life like you that that's actually much better to go through that than to just avoid it And so like what does this mean? We're supposed to just like avoid Negativity

Like with how goddamn corrupt this country is I'm supposed to be positive about that No, you will not take away my my right to be angry on social media I'll be doing more of it later today. All right, guys Let's take a moment and thank our sponsor for today's show which is monetary metals an amazing company that has Revolutionized the precious metal space. I've been telling you guys about monetary metals for a long time there It's a great company run by great people. And they really have done something incredible. Many people, obviously for a long time, people have owned precious metals,

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world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more. The U.S. has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more. The US has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world. Europe has an ever-increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative there. Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down. China has censored our apps from even working in the country. The only way 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. By going after us and other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go even further. But now we have the opportunity to restore free expression, and I am excited to take it. It'll take time to get this right, and these are complex systems.

They're never going to be perfect. There's also a lot of illegal stuff that we still need to work very hard to remove. 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. Stay good out there. All right, well, I guess let me try to end this on a note of positivity. Well, look, it is a positive sign that he's making this video. You know what I mean? And so there is a win in here.

I'm not exactly accepting, you know, like this from Zuckerberg himself, but to the extent that he's gonna cut down on censoring people, that is a good thing. And look, man, it is. And don't get me wrong, because I know we still have like so many goddamn problems and we didn't even get to talk about some of the other stuff we had planned. We'll save it for tomorrow's show.

But there's a lot of problems that are still left in this country. There's the economic, you know, the fiscal cliff and the monetary situation. There's the warfare state. There's a lot of big problems left in this country, there's the economic, you know, the fiscal cliff and the monetary situation, there's the warfare state, there's a lot of big problems left in this country. But man, I will say on a note of positivity, see, this could be on Facebook. After the last, you know, let's say the last eight years of dealing with so much of this insanity,

it is nice to at least have the feeling of like, yeah, the culture has kind of shifted and is snapping back in in a different direction. So at least thank God for that. All right, listen, we do got to wrap up Robbie the fire comm run your mouth go check out Rob's other show Yes, yes. Yes. Good call. Natalie. I I. I apologize to everyone. I had to move the zoom meeting again We will be doing it Saturday this Saturday at 2 p.m For all the people who are subscribed to part of the problem at the top two tiers You guys are a part of this too. We just bullshit and talk for for an hour. It's a lot of fun

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