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🗓️ 3 July 2025
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Silicon Valley's close collaboration with the military reaches a new level as tech executives are now being commissioned as lieutenant colonels in the Army. Plus: FIRE's Nico Perrino breaks down Trump's lawsuit against Paramount and warns of this administration's continued attacks on media outlets and free speech.
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0:00.0 | Good evening. It's Wednesday, July 2nd. 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. And just a quick note I saw in the chat, one comment that we see fairly frequently that we say every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern, and yet, for example, last night we did not |
0:39.1 | have a show that does happen occasionally. Usually the reason is, unless there's something involving |
0:43.3 | me or my time or our staff time, when we have a guest host, it's because we just don't have a |
0:48.7 | topic that we think is worth considering. As I've said before, we're very mindful that when we |
0:53.2 | hit, go on air, that we're very mindful that when we hit go on air |
0:55.4 | that we're making a claim to your time and we want to make sure that if we're |
0:58.9 | doing that we actually have something worthwhile to say we don't want to just |
1:01.4 | cover things for the sake of covering them so when I say every Monday to Friday |
1:04.5 | that is the I think typical week that is the time that our show appears and |
1:10.2 | although of course we do miss occasionally we try and keep it to a minimum and I think typical week that is the time that our show appears and although of course we do miss occasionally we try and keep it to a minimum and I think we do all right having said that let's talk about tonight several senior executives of America's leading tech companies including major tech companies like Palantir and Facebook have recently and proudly boasted publicly that they |
1:30.5 | had just become commissioned officers in the U.S. Army. Even though they had no previous career path |
1:36.6 | in the military, they were just made like lieutenant colonels out of nowhere, the chief technology |
1:41.3 | officer of Palantir and Facebook and others of that kind. |
1:45.5 | Now strange and sudden as that is, one could write it off as symbolic if not for the fact |
1:50.7 | that it is all part of an ongoing years-long strategy to integrate what we're always told |
1:56.1 | we're just no private independent social media and tech companies that make their own decisions |
1:59.9 | to integrate them fully into the US military and therefore the federal government. This integration now is |
2:06.3 | multi-pronged and has been developed over many years and it has serious implications and we will |
2:11.3 | examine those. Then President Trump shortly before his inauguration and since has repeatedly |
2:17.2 | sued various media outlets, |
2:20.0 | not on the grounds necessarily that the reports allegedly defamed him. |
2:23.6 | Those cases, defamation when you're a public figure, especially the president, are almost impossible to win. |
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