Good evening. It's Thursday, September 11th, a date which I generally find to be not worthy of much note, but I'll make an exception for tonight for reasons that you'll see.

Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern, exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.

Tonight, the ramifications from Charlie Kirk's assassination continue to unfold, even as the FBI seems to have no idea who the killer or killers were, let alone what their specific motive was.

We devoted last night's show almost entirely to laying out my views on why I think it's reprehensible to even attempt to justify Charlie Kirk's murder, let alone to celebrate his death.

We're not going to repeat those arguments very much here tonight, so those interested in my view

who didn't watch last night's show and want to hear that can do so.

But part of what we also discussed last night were the very grave dangers of exploiting the anger and rage,

the understandable anger and rage and emotions surrounding Kirk's assassination to crack down on core civil liberties,

including free speech and political organizing, as many people, principally on the American right,

were already doing last night. Today, members of the GOP House caucus are echoing that by explicitly demanding, among other things, censorship

and even threatened to legislate online censorship, doing it in Charlie Kirk's name,

even though everything Charlie Kirk ever said about such matters was vehemently opposed to such measures and the ideas that

justifies censorship of any kind. Part of what they are calling for these House members is that

Big Tech be forced, compelled by government power to ban all videos of Kirk's murder,

leading to an important question beyond the obvious censorship one, which

is, is it important for public understanding and in the public interest to see videos of even

the most violent and gruesome events that are in the public interest?

I think absolutely it is, and we'll examine the reasons why.

And then Wired Magazine recently published a fascinating story by the journalist Emmy Neatfeld

on an extremely disturbing and abusive case of paid surrogacy where an extremely wealthy woman

and her husband are now persecuting their surrogate because they're blaming her for the death of the

baby before it was born.

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