BUSTING CENSORSHIP
DINESH Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 51 minutes
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In this episode, Dinesh celebrates the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court decision affirming a Texas law that strikes down censorship by social media platforms. Dinesh also reveals how Facebook has been spying on conservative users and turning over their information to the FBI. Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller joins Dinesh to talk about his new book "Crisis of Command" which details what happened to him when he criticized the U.S. failure in Afghanistan.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by my friend Rebecca Walzer, a financial expert who can help you protect your wealth. |
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| 0:12.0 | Coming up, I'm going to talk about the fifth Circuit Appeals Court decision, affirming a Texas law that strikes down censorship by social media platforms. |
| 0:22.0 | I'll reveal how Facebook has been spying on conservative users and turning over their information to the FBI. |
| 0:30.0 | Marine Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller joins me. We're going to talk about his new book called Crisis of Command. |
| 0:36.0 | This is the guy who was kicked out of the military because he criticized the US failure in Afghanistan. |
| 0:42.0 | This is the Dinesh D'Souza Show. |
| 0:54.0 | America needs this voice. The times are crazy and the time of confusion, division and lies. |
| 1:02.0 | We need a brave voice of reason, understanding and truth. This is the Dinesh D'Souza Podcast. |
| 1:10.0 | I introduced yesterday a very important decision by the fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upholding the Texas law that outlaws social media censorship. |
| 1:26.0 | This is a law by the way with large implications for what other states might do. |
| 1:32.0 | It has direct implications for someone like me since Debbie and I live in Texas. |
| 1:38.0 | As a consequence of this law, if someone like me is banned by Google or Band, which is to say Google owns YouTube or Facebook, we can sue. |
| 1:50.0 | I want to put you guys, I want to put the social media platforms on notice. We will sue in the state of Texas because they're not allowed to engage in viewpoint discrimination in this state. |
| 2:04.0 | They will be forced to put the person that they banned back on and they're going to have to pay their legal fees. |
| 2:12.0 | Frankly, I anticipate that thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people will be filing these suits if this law, this Texas law stands at the Supreme Court level, which I think will. |
| 2:24.0 | The only recourse for the social media platforms is to appeal to the Supreme Court. They may not even take the case. |
| 2:30.0 | But if they take the case, I think it's likely that they will affirm the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. In part because of the just the sheer clarity and even beauty of the reasoning of this case. |
| 2:42.0 | Andrew Oldham is the judge who writes the opinion. |
| 2:48.0 | He begins by just blasting this idea that these platforms are somehow like newspapers, exercising editorial judgment over everything that they put out. |
| 3:00.0 | He says, quote, the platforms are nothing like the newspaper. He goes unlike newspapers, platforms exercise virtually no editorial content or judgment. |
| 3:09.0 | The platforms use algorithms to screen out certain types of content. Virtually everything else is posted to the platform with this in italics zero editorial content or judgment. |
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