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🗓️ 5 May 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | A new law recently filed in California would prohibit a social media website from removing |
0:05.5 | or manipulating content based on its political affiliation or the political viewpoint. |
0:11.2 | This is a huge step forward in the fight for censorship and may effectively end at least |
0:15.7 | a lot of it because most of these social media websites are based in California and would |
0:20.5 | be restricted under this law. |
0:22.1 | Now California isn't the only state pushing some kind of legislation to protect speech. |
0:26.6 | Florida recently introduced a law but that one appears to be effectively dead. |
0:30.3 | Texas also has a new law being filed that seeks to end political censorship. |
0:35.3 | With Donald Trump tweeting about the censorship of conservatives, naturally the fight is escalating. |
0:40.3 | But over in Europe, they're going the other direction. |
0:43.2 | They're enacting new policies and laws that actually restrict speech. |
0:47.0 | So it would seem that if these state level laws in the US pass, we might actually see some |
0:51.6 | pretty extreme political opinions appear on social media where the opposite would be true |
0:57.1 | for Europe. |
0:58.1 | Today, let's take a look at some of these laws in the US as well as the laws in the UK to |
1:03.0 | see how we may gain more speech rights in the US and see how Europe might actually be |
1:08.1 | losing theirs. |
1:09.1 | But before we get started, let me give a quick shout out to today's sponsor, all of you |
1:13.2 | guys. |
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1:19.4 | you can donate cryptocurrency or even physical stuff to my PO box. |
1:23.2 | D monetization this month has been pretty, pretty bad, so I could really use your support |
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