All right, thank you Anu, I appreciate that. Thank you for that warm welcome. That's right people.

We are live on YouTube right now. That's it. We are a room full of living human beings

and there are thousands of Russian bots watching us right now. It's wild. They're all clicking

away. They're watching us right now. YouTube could actually take down this stream at any moment.

So there is a chance that this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for you guys. I'm very happy

you're here. Glad to see so many of you guys here. This issue, this issue about tech censorship

and the big tech companies and how it relates to free speech and the First Amendment and all of these

things. Of course, it's something that's close to my heart and something that in the last four or

five years, I've sort of been at the center of. I think most of you guys know I'm a big free speech guy

and obviously as someone that puts out a YouTube show and a podcast and all of these things,

that these companies have become really the the highways for us to communicate. Any one of you that

has any clue as to who I am. It's because you found me on YouTube or on Twitter or on Facebook. That's

how I'm sure many of you guys met with each other. It's how many of you find out about any of the

thinkers that you're interested in in these days or any of the members of the intellectual dark web

which sounds much scarier than it actually is. Right now, we're at a really precarious moment with

these companies because they seem to be cracking down on all dissident thought. It's not just far

right thought. It's not just scary right wing thought or all right thought or whatever any of those

things actually are. What we're realizing is that more and more, these things are coming down on

people that just sort of take any position outside of what is sort of what you could describe as

sort of mainstream kind of leftist woke progressive. I'm using a lot of buzzwords talk right.

That if you just take any position that is outside of that that you seemingly are on the outside

of what the censorship police think is okay. So before I bring up the panelists here tonight and

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