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Timcast IRL #199 - Trump Has Been PERMANENTLY BANNED, Democrats WILL Impeach w/ Minds CEO Bill Ottman

Timcast IRL

Timcast Media

News, Society & Culture

4.57.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2021

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Summary

Tim, Ian, Luke, and Lydia host friend and Minds CEO Bill Ottman to discuss the recent censorship of President Trump, the Google suspension of Parler from the app store, fact checking, Josh Hawley, and alternative media in a time of major censorship. 

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not sure what the biggest news of the day is, but apparently

0:05.2

it is that Donald Trump has been permanently banned from Twitter.

0:09.5

They've outright removed his account.

0:11.4

All of his tweets just gone memory hold sensor out of there.

0:15.8

And the reason I say I don't know the biggest news story of the day is because the Democrats

0:19.5

also announced they are going to be impeaching the president on Monday.

0:25.5

Things are getting just very, very weird.

0:28.6

So we heard that Apple and Google were threatening Parler that if they didn't overhaul their

0:34.1

moderation or introduce heavy moderation, they would remove Parler from the app stores.

0:39.9

I don't know exactly what's going on, but I can tell you I pulled up the Google Play Store

0:43.4

and Parler ain't there.

0:45.2

So maybe it's already happened because we actually have one of the experts, not to mention

0:50.5

Ian is an expert as well, on social media censorship and moderation.

0:54.6

We've got Bill Ottman, CEO of Mines.

0:57.4

M-I-N-D-S.com, one of these other social media platforms, which has a unique approach

1:04.0

to rule breaking and censorship and stuff, the jury system, right?

1:07.4

Yep.

1:08.4

Yeah, so juries.

1:09.4

I mean, why not empower the community to help moderate and imagine if Facebook, Twitter,

1:15.7

they took their tens of thousands of moderators and actively, actually proactively engaged with

1:22.6

people who have mental issues or are extreme, like we have to realize that extreme psychology

1:29.8

is just something that exists and we have to deal with it in a way that's not banning

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