Episode 988: Inside the Battle for Free Speech on the Internet
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Newt talks with Sarah Westall, host of the Business Game Changers Podcast, about her legal battle against YouTube, Google, and the U.S. government over censorship and free speech on the internet. In 2020, Sarah Westall's YouTube channel with 130,000 subscribers was deleted overnight, along with many others. Westall believes this was due to her interviewing medical experts who disagreed with the COVID-19 narrative. After being reinstated for 3 days, Westall's channel was taken down again, and fake channels with her branding and content started appearing, which YouTube failed to remove despite Westall's requests. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was originally intended to protect online platforms and enable free speech but has been "weaponized" to allow Big Tech companies to censor content without impunity. Westall and her co-plaintiffs argue the courts have misinterpreted Section 230. Their case was filed in Washington, D.C. and is ongoing.
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| 0:13.4 | The California governor's primary is weird, as you might expect, because California has a very long, very slow count, and somehow liberals do |
| 0:24.6 | better and better the longer the count goes on. However, at the present time, because they have |
| 0:30.3 | this very strange top two get to be in the general election, doesn't matter if they're |
| 0:35.7 | Democrat or Republican Republican. The leading |
| 0:38.7 | Democrats, Xavier Pesera, is at 27.7 percent. And Steve Hilton, a Republican, is at 25.1. So there's now |
| 0:48.8 | guaranteed to be a race this fall between a Democrat and a Republican, which is very important for the growth of the |
| 0:58.0 | Republican Party in California. Now, before the primary occurred, the Cook political report said |
| 1:04.9 | the California governor's race is solidly Democratic. That's in part because the registration nowadays is so heavily |
| 1:12.3 | democratic. The amount of money will be heavily democratic. But interestingly, since California |
| 1:18.5 | became a state in 1850, it's had 18 Republican governors and 22 Democratic governors. So it's been |
| 1:27.2 | much more split than you might have thought. |
| 1:29.7 | The last Republican governor was Arnold Schwarzenegger, who served from 2003 to 2011. Before that, |
| 1:37.6 | P. Wilson served eight years, 91 to 99. George Duke Magin served from 83 to 91, and Ronald Reagan served from 67 to 75. |
| 1:50.2 | So you can see a fair amount of republicanism in the past. However, you'd have to say that Hilton is an |
| 1:56.5 | underdog. On the other hand, Californians are increasingly unhappy with everything from the Palisades |
| 2:02.3 | fire to the tax rates, to the homeless, to the crime rates. |
| 2:07.3 | So it'll be interesting to see how this campaign involves. |
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