Navigating Social Media Censorship and the Battle for Free Speech
Show Notes
Censorship and the struggle for free speech take center stage as The Rant Network exposes their experiences with social media restrictions that challenge their ability to share unbiased perspectives. We critically analyze the political influences in media control and advocate for open dialogue amidst rising tensions over suppressed voices.
00:00:02.967 --> 00:00:05.312 You know, I kind of like this new intro music, david.
00:00:05.312 --> 00:00:11.965 For four years we finally knew something, and I'll do something right.
00:00:15.281 --> 00:00:17.588 Those are our six fans in your office.
00:00:17.588 --> 00:00:18.030 There we go.
00:00:21.881 --> 00:00:39.970 You know I got to tell you we've been having fun with this going into our fourth year and you know the toys just keep getting better and better and better.
00:00:39.970 --> 00:00:53.726 Know we, david and I, have been ranting about the fact that social media has had the censorship that has directly affected us.
00:00:53.726 --> 00:01:02.005 We've gone to battle, had to write apologies, had to say we're sorry, had to admit we won't do it again.
00:01:02.005 --> 00:01:06.754 One broadcast we had a seven day, three day and then it was a 30 day.
00:01:06.754 --> 00:01:09.343 Remember we had a 30 day, uh knockout.
00:01:10.045 --> 00:01:42.185 You know that was because fact checkers didn't like the information we were putting forward, which in the end was 100 right oh which is kind of crazy if you think about it, because david and I are two guys one in montreal, one in florida just basically looking at the news, being unbiased, unfiltered and doing independent research.
00:01:42.185 --> 00:01:51.191 It didn't take much to come up with the answers and find the truth and, I guess, the call to action of the United States.
00:01:51.191 --> 00:01:56.750 It looks like now Canada has specifically been going back to common sense.
00:01:56.750 --> 00:02:15.439 Whether it's Mark Zuckerberg taking a knee, elon Musk saying fuck you all, I am buying Twitter and I'm going to clean up what he believed was right and wrong, everything is sort of falling into line.
00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:22.033 Now, again, is Donald Trump going off the rails and saying some pretty crazy shit?
00:02:22.033 --> 00:02:27.421 I will definitely say yep, and saying some pretty crazy shit?
00:02:27.421 --> 00:02:28.084 I will definitely say yep.
00:02:28.084 --> 00:02:37.550 But the first thing out of his mouth, david and it's off the topic for today was if you don't set these hostages free, there will be hell to pay.
00:02:37.550 --> 00:02:46.181 And you know I think that's the message that he wanted to get out there there will be hell to pay if common sense doesn't prevail.
00:02:47.022 --> 00:02:48.467 Welcome everybody to the Rat Network.
00:02:48.467 --> 00:02:50.230 My name is Stuart, that is David.
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00:03:22.789 --> 00:03:46.794 This is where your voice matters, and no topics off limits, and clearly david just sort of lets me go, so I I'm really just at at a jaw-dropping moment in in this podcast where we haven't been censored yet and don't get my ideas you know, you know, you know when.
00:03:48.021 --> 00:03:59.564 Well, sorry, I I feel like I'm being censored again, uh, but you know we're not and, and that's amazing, the freedom to speak.
00:03:59.564 --> 00:04:05.835 Now there are people on the left that are now yelling from rooftops and it's kind of funny.
00:04:05.835 --> 00:04:24.295 The liberal media that was pro-Palestine, pro-from the river to the sea, are now saying that Jewish groups are going to be persecuted because of a lack of moderation on meta.
00:04:24.295 --> 00:04:31.163 Persecuted because of a lack of moderation on meta.
00:04:31.163 --> 00:04:33.449 Yep, as you know, zuckerberg took a knee wearing a nine hundred thousand dollar watch.
00:04:33.449 --> 00:04:36.899 Yep, kind of sucks to be in a liberal elite, isn't it?
00:04:36.899 --> 00:04:38.362 Nine hundred thousand dollar watch?
00:04:38.362 --> 00:04:40.605 David, you live in a house.
00:04:40.605 --> 00:04:43.310 Can you imagine a nine hundred thousand dollar watch?
00:04:43.971 --> 00:04:52.233 that's probably that's forget it because we whine about our first world problems at least you tell me about it.
00:04:52.233 --> 00:04:57.891 And and and I gotta tell you, where has the media gone?
00:04:57.891 --> 00:05:00.177 No, not going.
00:05:00.177 --> 00:05:17.466 Yeah, maybe we were a little fucked up and a little bit stupid and a little bit overzealous and a little bit too Manchurian candidate news, but no, where is the media guy not saying, hey, we made a mistake, let's sort of move on?
00:05:17.466 --> 00:05:24.170 Now they're doubling down On the narrative that this is bad.
00:05:24.170 --> 00:05:25.324 You need fact checkers.
00:05:25.324 --> 00:05:27.668 And where did fact checkers begin?
00:05:27.668 --> 00:05:35.613 When the Democrats needed another narrative to try and beat up truth and false?
00:05:35.613 --> 00:05:42.591 They only cared about the other person's false, not their own, david.
00:05:43.192 --> 00:05:43.454 All right.
00:05:43.454 --> 00:05:56.386 So, stuart, like yesterday morning morning, uh, meta put out a statement, zuckerberg had a video, uh, they did the some of the, some of the news channels and announced that, yeah, okay, we kind of realized we went overboard.
00:05:56.386 --> 00:06:07.110 We tried to censor what we they thought they determined was, uh, you know, inappropriate stuff.
00:06:07.110 --> 00:06:11.966 Um, stewart and I have been like Stuart said, it's like our rant has been going on for four years.
00:06:11.966 --> 00:06:13.651 We fact check.
00:06:13.651 --> 00:06:39.197 Now let me tell you that one of the times we got banned okay, how the fact checkers work, stuart, I don't know if you recall this, but it was, I believe it was Ismail Haniya was holding who was the head of Hamas, the terrorist folks, who was one of the masterminds of October the 7th, who Israel took out not that long ago, was holding up a child dressed in a Hamas military outfit, with the armband, and he was holding a gun.
00:06:39.197 --> 00:06:43.930 The kid was holding a gun and we got banned for hate speech.
00:06:43.930 --> 00:06:45.384 A ban for hate speech.
00:06:45.384 --> 00:07:04.990 Now, if anybody would have listened to the podcast, what we exposed was the fallacy that the media refused to show this picture, refused to show the truth about the Hamas and the terrorist desires and how they dress their children, and the propaganda and the hate speech and all that kind of stuff.
00:07:04.990 --> 00:07:07.043 They denied it and so did Meta.
00:07:07.043 --> 00:07:08.286 Meta shut us down.
00:07:08.286 --> 00:07:10.952 We were in the penalty box over that.
00:07:10.952 --> 00:07:18.519 There was no jury to talk to, there was no opportunity for us to even rebut, we were canned.
00:07:18.519 --> 00:07:26.187 The censors canceled us for a period of time, and that was Meta, and that's why we were frustrated for a period of time.
00:07:26.187 --> 00:07:27.629 And that was meta, and that's why we were frustrated.
00:07:27.629 --> 00:07:29.651 Why is anybody like you're judge, jury and executioner?
00:07:29.651 --> 00:07:40.826 And you decided at that point okay, at that point you decided it was inappropriate, it was totally appropriate, it's totally appropriate.
00:07:40.826 --> 00:07:58.800 What meta doesn't want, as Stuart is consistently flipping the screen, is exactly this End to fact check, because it was just a way to control the message.
00:08:03.180 --> 00:08:05.343 Now, by the way, the technology company Stuart admitted, if you recall, that they got pressure.
00:08:05.343 --> 00:08:13.747 They got pressure from the Biden administration to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story and then they shut down the New York Post.
00:08:13.747 --> 00:08:19.932 They got pressure to shut down, you know, any information about Russian collusion, whatever.
00:08:19.932 --> 00:08:21.562 But what do they?
00:08:21.562 --> 00:08:23.850 What is the left like to do, stuart?
00:08:23.850 --> 00:08:27.410 All right, jewish groups expect anti-Semitism to flourish online.
00:08:27.459 --> 00:08:29.829 You know, stuart, I got to tell you something about that statement?
00:08:29.829 --> 00:08:33.647 All right, this is the fear mongering, because I'm sick and tired of hearing this.
00:08:33.647 --> 00:08:37.245 Because on X, yeah, there is anti-Semitism, but it needs to come out people.
00:08:37.245 --> 00:08:39.902 What needs to come out is the let's expose.
00:08:39.902 --> 00:08:41.942 We've seen when we hide the people who are putting it out.
00:08:41.942 --> 00:08:44.325 It's We've seen when we hide the people who are putting it out.
00:08:44.325 --> 00:08:48.668 It's not about not putting out the anti-Semitism, racism, it's doing something about it.
00:08:48.668 --> 00:08:59.975 And had the media stopped complaining, maybe the idiot in New Orleans would have been caught sooner, because he posted look what he posted on social.
00:08:59.975 --> 00:09:07.591 Where were the fact-checkers and the censors to check out this guy who was professing to go and kill people?
00:09:07.591 --> 00:09:09.053 We've seen this all the time.
00:09:09.053 --> 00:09:13.148 For shit's sake, the Ayatollah in Iran gets to put out anything.
00:09:13.148 --> 00:09:15.863 I'm tired of the double speak.
00:09:19.011 --> 00:09:21.187 Let's talk about free speech for two seconds here, stuart.
00:09:21.187 --> 00:09:24.466 Free speech means I can say what I want.
00:09:24.466 --> 00:09:27.844 What I can't do is run into a movie theater and yell fire when there's no fire.
00:09:27.844 --> 00:09:28.707 That's not free speech.
00:09:30.674 --> 00:09:42.669 And if they would put down the clamps and they would do something about it, then this is a great opportunity to expose the people who should be incarcerated, who should be shut down.
00:09:43.091 --> 00:09:44.360 But let me tell you what the media does.
00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:56.592 The media calls this succumbing to Trump, just like Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, who went to Mar-a-Lago from MSNBC right after the election to talk to Donald Trump.
00:09:56.592 --> 00:09:57.741 What was the answer?
00:09:57.741 --> 00:10:01.289 They're kissing the Trump ring Again.
00:10:01.289 --> 00:10:07.943 The media can't handle the fact that they are not in control of the message, that they're not in control of our lives.
00:10:07.943 --> 00:10:10.613 Media wants to control your life.
00:10:10.613 --> 00:10:18.993 You're thinking everything about you and yet here's Mark Zuckerberg saying yeah, we've gone long enough and we screwed up.
00:10:18.993 --> 00:10:23.611 And the fact that he's even comparing himself to X and how he's going to handle things.
00:10:23.611 --> 00:10:26.187 It just shows you what people want.
00:10:26.539 --> 00:10:31.500 Yes, there's a repercussion, 100%, but there's a repercussion to everything.
00:10:31.500 --> 00:10:33.388 There's anti-Semitism in the streets.
00:10:35.427 --> 00:10:41.486 Why are you forcing Facebook to theoretically who, by the way, did not shut down anti-Semitism?
00:10:41.486 --> 00:10:42.249 Let's get real.
00:10:42.249 --> 00:10:46.092 Okay, but where is the reaction on the streets?
00:10:46.092 --> 00:10:49.464 Why is it only in social media?
00:10:49.464 --> 00:10:57.109 Because because let me finish with this and I'll I'll give this to you the reason they're upset is because they can no longer control the conservative speak.
00:10:57.109 --> 00:11:00.644 They can't control the right, they can't control shutting it down.
00:11:00.644 --> 00:11:01.988 That's what it is.
00:11:01.988 --> 00:11:04.923 They're thrilled by what the anarchy that they're seeing on the streets.
00:11:04.923 --> 00:11:07.684 They're thrilled by what they're seeing happen out there.
00:11:07.684 --> 00:11:12.628 But the moment that the right has a platform, they want to shut it down.
00:11:12.628 --> 00:11:14.664 And now they have that control.
00:11:15.206 --> 00:11:19.027 Wait, but David, but you said something and you left something out.
00:11:19.027 --> 00:11:25.750 The media shut us down because we showed a child holding a gun.
00:11:25.750 --> 00:11:28.928 Social media we said social, not media Social media, social media.
00:11:28.928 --> 00:11:33.527 Sorry, but when they were chanting from the river to the sea.
00:11:33.527 --> 00:11:35.350 Okay, that was okay.
00:11:35.350 --> 00:11:37.711 It's okay, there's no problem with that.
00:11:37.711 --> 00:11:41.142 Okay, great, so rules for me.
00:11:41.501 --> 00:11:44.884 And again, david, I love you yeah, yeah, yeah, no, but that's right, but that's what it is.
00:11:44.884 --> 00:11:46.144 But we've always said that.
00:11:46.725 --> 00:12:05.238 You know, and while you were talking and you were getting annoyed because I was putting changing the screen, I was dropping different news organizations' captions on today's paper, which I thought was very appropriate, while you were going on this little rant about what this is all about.
00:12:05.238 --> 00:12:09.068 The left is terrified of the truth.
00:12:09.068 --> 00:12:13.809 Right, the government says we're here to help you.
00:12:13.809 --> 00:12:17.980 Better go into your closet, get the gun, because they're coming for you.
00:12:18.621 --> 00:12:19.082 Oh, no, no, no.
00:12:19.082 --> 00:12:21.359 Don't get the gun, because the gun is a bad thing.
00:12:21.359 --> 00:12:24.980 You have to elect us lefties because we know what's best.
00:12:24.980 --> 00:12:26.596 Look, that's what they want.
00:12:26.596 --> 00:12:31.783 They wanted their own platform to control the message and they got it at Meta.
00:12:31.783 --> 00:12:33.434 They got it at Meta.
00:12:33.434 --> 00:12:46.614 Look, stuart, every election for the last God knows how many years when you are a, I mean just look at the following, look at the sharing, look at the algorithms.
00:12:46.614 --> 00:12:59.486 If you actually sat down with people from Google, from YouTube, from Meta, from all these, they'll tell you the algorithm is purposely done to suppress conservative talk, conservative messaging.
00:13:00.150 --> 00:13:01.535 And you're right and we're agreeing.
00:13:01.535 --> 00:13:02.720 We're saying the same thing, david.
00:13:02.720 --> 00:13:15.504 Yeah, further People make fun of Donald Trump, and I understand it.
00:13:15.504 --> 00:13:23.250 You know he gets off topic, he gets off script and he sounds kind of lunatic like but is he really doing it intentionally at this point?
00:13:23.250 --> 00:13:41.201 You know, governor Gretzky I mean you know Trudeau literally got thrown out of office, not just because he's a bumbling idiot and that he should have been thrown out of office, not just because he's a bumbling idiot and that he should have been thrown out nine years ago and never elected, but the pressure that came.
00:13:41.201 --> 00:13:43.773 You know this creaking.
00:13:44.274 --> 00:13:45.398 No, no, no.
00:13:45.398 --> 00:13:45.999 You're, you're you.
00:13:45.999 --> 00:13:49.317 I love the way you Americans think you have control.
00:13:49.317 --> 00:13:52.893 It isn't that, and let's just walk away from Trudeau for a second.
00:13:52.893 --> 00:13:54.914 It isn't that, and let's just walk away from Trudeau for a second.
00:13:54.914 --> 00:14:03.485 The reality of what's interesting about this message by Meta is the admission that they had fact checkers that were politically motivated.
00:14:03.485 --> 00:14:09.312 You're right, that was the word.
00:14:09.312 --> 00:14:10.317 And they were politically motivated.
00:14:10.317 --> 00:14:10.620 To which side?
00:14:10.620 --> 00:14:11.364 To the left.
00:14:11.364 --> 00:14:12.490 So the AOC's got a clear and loud platform.
00:14:12.490 --> 00:14:13.470 Ilhan Omar got a clear and loud platform.
00:14:13.470 --> 00:14:14.597 Rashida Tlaib got a clear and loud platform.
00:14:14.597 --> 00:14:15.807 Ilhan Omar got a clear and loud platform.
00:14:15.807 --> 00:14:22.743 Rashida Tlaib got a clear and loud platform to scream anything that they wanted, anything that they wanted, unopposed.
00:14:22.743 --> 00:14:26.296 But if you or I were to sit there and go, they're wrong.
00:14:29.061 --> 00:14:32.775 I'll agree, I'll dip the knee.
00:14:32.775 --> 00:14:42.950 Okay, I'll agree, I'll dip the knee, but I just want to let our listeners and the people that are watching us live.
00:14:42.950 --> 00:14:51.842 This has been the problem for the last eight years four years, specifically over four years but media has gone off the deep end since.
00:14:51.863 --> 00:14:53.087 Dan Rather, it's more than eight.
00:14:53.087 --> 00:14:57.159 No, please, it's before, dan.
00:14:57.159 --> 00:15:03.827 The media, the media, the media has tried to control the message, knowing and trying to wield its power.
00:15:03.827 --> 00:15:09.440 What media has lost is the power, and it still believes that it controls it.
00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:15.381 And if it's, you know, if you didn't see anything in this election, social, social media won for Obama.
00:15:15.381 --> 00:15:19.256 Social media eventually won it for Trump.
00:15:19.256 --> 00:15:20.580 It wasn't media.
00:15:20.580 --> 00:15:21.702 Media helps.
00:15:21.702 --> 00:15:23.850 Media is no longer the power.
00:15:23.850 --> 00:15:27.538 Without social media, media does not have a voice box anymore.
00:15:27.538 --> 00:15:28.640 Let's be real.
00:15:28.640 --> 00:15:47.883 Okay, and we see it in Canada, by the way, when, meta, by the way, just so you know, and again, we're sidetracking just a fraction here, meta, I can't post an article from a newspaper or a radio or any media house here, because the government of Canada said that they won't pay.
00:15:47.883 --> 00:15:49.957 They wanted money for the media houses.
00:15:49.957 --> 00:15:55.620 Meta said no, meta will not let me post anything in Canada on Facebook.
00:15:55.620 --> 00:15:58.416 If I want to have to take a picture, I can't even put the URL.
00:15:58.416 --> 00:16:00.924 That's the power of social people.
00:16:01.548 --> 00:16:10.754 Social media is really powerful and that's what scares the left now, because they just gave the platform back to the right and they did not.
00:16:10.754 --> 00:16:14.643 Now they can't control it anymore and that scares the living hell out of them.
00:16:14.643 --> 00:16:16.895 So now the Wild West is like watch.
00:16:16.895 --> 00:16:18.019 You know what's going to happen, stuart.
00:16:18.019 --> 00:16:19.972 What there's truth social.
00:16:19.972 --> 00:16:22.099 On the right, there's rumble, let's call it.
00:16:22.099 --> 00:16:24.870 On the right, watch how many more?
00:16:24.870 --> 00:16:25.591 You know?
00:16:25.591 --> 00:16:31.078 Facebook wannabes are going to come up on the left to try to be a left only social channel.
00:16:31.078 --> 00:16:33.081 That's my prediction, stuart.
00:16:33.081 --> 00:16:35.864 Let's wrap it up for another, for hump day, shall we?
00:16:35.864 --> 00:16:40.130 As he puts out the crickets, Yep.
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