WEBVTT 00:07.020 --> 00:13.600 Is it working now test one test two check check? I think I can be heard 00:14.200 --> 00:15.680 Not sure but I think 00:16.240 --> 00:18.640 It's a possibility could be wrong 00:23.060 --> 00:25.000 What a pain in the ass 00:25.580 --> 00:31.760 No, I'm I'm sure some minds will let me know here in a minute if he cannot hear me talking 00:33.740 --> 00:35.400 Yeah, I hope it's working 00:37.240 --> 00:38.580 Because I'm gonna talk 00:39.700 --> 00:44.020 Yeah, I like listening to music and all but 00:45.380 --> 00:47.980 You know, this is a show about 00:48.580 --> 00:53.500 Being free and all that you can listen to music all day long you want 00:57.960 --> 01:03.120 Granted it's not as good as probably as you know stuff I come up with 01:04.340 --> 01:06.040 At least in my own opinion 01:10.820 --> 01:11.260 Shit 01:13.080 --> 01:13.520 Yeah 01:14.940 --> 01:18.420 Anyways, here we go. We're just gonna get right into this because we're like 01:19.880 --> 01:24.580 40 minutes into the show and all you've heard is a bunch of music 01:25.040 --> 01:28.520 And I've got more music. I want to play some brand-new chrome crucifix 01:29.380 --> 01:32.520 And I got two more by rebel songs that I want to play 01:33.660 --> 01:34.340 So 01:35.040 --> 01:35.720 Yeah 01:36.660 --> 01:40.460 The original songs that I wanted to play on the show today 01:41.260 --> 01:43.160 not just you know 01:43.160 --> 01:44.820 Screwed around trying to 01:45.440 --> 01:46.700 Cover being live 01:48.100 --> 01:56.060 Yeah, here we go from 404 media Trump terrorists caused chaos on eBay as every hobby becomes a logistical 01:56.620 --> 02:01.880 Mindfield buying cameras retro games board game skincare flashlights 02:01.880 --> 02:09.880 Sex toys watches and anything else from overseas just got he just became far more complicated slow and 02:10.120 --> 02:10.560 expensive 02:11.620 --> 02:12.760 Imagine that 02:13.840 --> 02:21.380 The Trump administration is throwing various hobbies enjoyed by Americans into chaos and is harming small businesses 02:21.380 --> 02:28.740 Domestically in a broad with his ever-changing tariff structure that is turning the United States into a hermit kingdom 02:31.020 --> 02:39.440 It has made buying and selling things on eBay particularly annoying and is making it harder and more expensive to for example 02:39.440 --> 02:45.420 by vintage film cameras retro video games or vintage clothes from Japan 02:46.140 --> 02:48.120 Where many of the top eBay sellers? 02:48.120 --> 02:50.720 Huh our based 02:51.540 --> 02:56.560 Trying to figure out what the future of this hobby is going to look like for those of us in the USA 02:57.160 --> 02:59.080 other than insanely expensive 02:59.880 --> 03:07.160 opposed on our analog community the most popular film photography subreddit reads 03:07.900 --> 03:13.180 All of my lenses and all of my camera body came from Japan. They would have been 03:13.900 --> 03:14.900 prohibitively expensive 03:15.720 --> 03:16.360 now 03:17.760 --> 03:26.060 Paying an extra $80 per item. I feel like entry-level to the slot hobby is going to get hit especially hard 03:26.840 --> 03:32.380 Another meme posted to the community under the title shopping on eBay like this now 03:34.820 --> 03:42.520 Reads the age of the cannon meant plus plus is over the time of the Argus C3 has come 03:43.120 --> 03:52.000 Referring to a common way the Japanese eBay sellers list Japanese made cannon cameras the Argus C3 was a budget mass produced 03:53.240 --> 03:56.520 American made camera that was not popular in Japan 03:56.520 --> 04:00.400 And so most of the people selling them are in the United States 04:00.400 --> 04:08.480 Some people like them, but it has been nicknamed the brick because it could serve as a deadly weapon in a street light 04:08.480 --> 04:11.660 It remains very inexpensive to this day 04:12.520 --> 04:19.780 The photography hobby is a microcosm of what anyone who wants to buy anything from another country is currently 04:19.780 --> 04:23.640 experiencing the D. Mimmy's D. Mimmy's 04:23.640 --> 04:32.560 Excuse me, and why do I always start yawning when I start talking the D. Minimies exempt exemption 04:33.400 --> 04:39.540 Which allowed people to buy things internationally without paying tariffs if the items cost less than $800 04:40.220 --> 04:44.140 Made it very easy and less expensive to get into hobbies like film photography 04:44.140 --> 04:50.900 Retro video games and vintage fashion to name a few the Trump administration is ending that exemption Friday 04:50.900 --> 04:53.320 well that was yesterday and 04:53.320 --> 04:59.680 It will quickly become a financial and or a logistical mess for anyone who wants to buy or sell anything 04:59.680 --> 05:01.120 from another country 05:01.700 --> 05:08.160 communities and companies focused on electronics board games action figure skin care flashlights sex stories watches and 05:08.160 --> 05:17.640 General commerce general e-commerce are also freaking out stopping service to the United States or telling US customers to expect higher prices 05:17.640 --> 05:24.840 Higher fees longer shipping times more paperwork more headache and unpredictable delays 05:27.940 --> 05:28.780 So 05:30.080 --> 05:35.920 You know I want to know what happened, you know just speaking as a 05:36.600 --> 05:40.440 Yes citizen here a member of the United States 05:45.240 --> 05:47.400 Not one that is 05:48.600 --> 05:51.260 from the I 05:51.260 --> 05:52.420 Don't know what you want to say 05:53.420 --> 05:55.120 Trump camp, you know I 05:56.920 --> 05:59.580 Trump done a he's gone stupid 06:00.360 --> 06:04.060 His first term I want the I want the 2016 Trump back 06:04.740 --> 06:08.660 Because the Trump from 2025 is just fucking stupid 06:09.520 --> 06:11.580 he's gone full retard and 06:13.900 --> 06:16.400 Yeah, it's not getting any better 06:20.220 --> 06:24.680 Yeah, it's 06:25.680 --> 06:28.880 It's one thing to say, okay, we're gonna 06:30.460 --> 06:32.920 Bring up, you know the what's Macaulay 06:41.440 --> 06:45.840 We're gonna increase the of tariffs, which is his tax 06:48.000 --> 06:50.840 And that's get that gets passed on to the consumers 06:52.220 --> 06:55.040 which is the United States and 06:57.000 --> 06:57.520 The 07:00.700 --> 07:05.320 You were supposed to he said he was gonna cut taxes here 07:05.980 --> 07:09.900 So he was gonna so it would balance out, but he didn't do that 07:11.440 --> 07:18.160 And then there it's he's not going to do that because he brought in he re-hired all the 80,000 07:18.160 --> 07:19.380 IRS agents 07:20.520 --> 07:24.120 That are going to be carrying guns and badges 07:25.200 --> 07:26.840 When they come to audit 07:28.380 --> 07:29.880 Billy Joe Jim Bob 07:30.600 --> 07:34.420 Down this you know down on Woodbury Lane 07:35.340 --> 07:40.270 in the down in the holler because he didn't pay his taxes or 07:41.580 --> 07:43.180 Did his taxes wrong? 07:45.900 --> 07:47.120 They're young 07:49.580 --> 07:53.520 Y'all got played I admit I got played 07:55.300 --> 08:03.040 Because you know this this we vote in our way out of this best people we ain't it ain't happenin 08:04.640 --> 08:10.920 Mississippi's digital ID law hits a wall with mastodon a state digital ID law is now meeting the way 08:10.920 --> 08:14.780 Meeting the very structure of decentralized internet 08:16.120 --> 08:18.960 Mrs. Dismarie claim the net that word 08:20.020 --> 08:21.440 Mississippi's privacy ruining 08:22.400 --> 08:26.260 Online digital ID law is putting pressure on decentralized platform 08:26.260 --> 08:36.440 Excuse me is putting on pressure on decentralized platforms 08:39.820 --> 08:42.740 And mastodon says it simply cannot comply 08:43.880 --> 08:51.140 The organization behind the software states that it lacks the technical ability to verify users ages and 08:51.440 --> 08:51.820 refuses 08:52.640 --> 08:59.820 To implement IP based restrictions, which it argues would wrongly affect travelers and those impaired 09:00.470 --> 09:02.260 temporarily located in the state 09:03.020 --> 09:07.200 The law known as the Walker Montgomery Protection Children 09:07.960 --> 09:15.160 Online Act say that three times as fast has already led to blue sky with drawing a service from Miss 09:15.160 --> 09:16.040 Mississippi 09:16.800 --> 09:21.120 Mastodon is not following that path instead it points to the design of its platform 09:21.120 --> 09:27.220 Where individual server administrators are responsible for their own compliance with local laws 09:27.840 --> 09:34.060 Mastodon itself neither collects user data nor maintains centralized control over the network 09:34.060 --> 09:42.000 Although mastodon's nonprofit arm initially declined to comment it later provided a statement to TechCrunch 09:42.860 --> 09:48.240 The organization explained that while its own servers require users to be at least 16 09:48.240 --> 09:51.780 It does not have the means to apply age verification 09:51.780 --> 09:58.480 And that the software does not retain any data collected during sign-up a feature added in the July 09:58.480 --> 10:01.560 2025 release of mastodon 4.4 10:01.560 --> 10:06.480 Allow server administrators to set age minimums and manage legal terms 10:06.480 --> 10:12.800 But does not support storing verification data each server in the network operates independently 10:12.800 --> 10:20.100 It is up to those server owners to decide whether to integrate third-party systems to check user ages 10:20.800 --> 10:24.480 Mastodon confirmed it cannot offer direct or operational 10:24.480 --> 10:31.860 Assistance to these operators and instead points them to resources such as the I FDA's S library 10:32.720 --> 10:37.560 Which provides guidance on trust and safety practices for better rated platforms 10:37.560 --> 10:45.360 The nonprofit reiterated that it does not track user behavior or enforce policy across the wider ecosystem 10:46.300 --> 10:53.280 Responsibility for legal clients. It says belongs to those who host and manage the servers in their own jurisdictions 10:56.740 --> 10:57.280 So 10:57.280 --> 11:02.060 You see this is going to be where decentralized wins 11:04.280 --> 11:08.970 And that's what they're trying to get away from is you know 11:10.980 --> 11:21.560 Decentralization not I want to join your free newsletter 11:23.020 --> 11:25.820 Okay, this is another one from 404 media 11:26.360 --> 11:29.380 Almost every state has its own deep fakes law now 11:30.060 --> 11:35.400 Michigan just became the 48th straight state to enact a law addressing deep fakes 11:35.980 --> 11:41.600 Imposing jail time and penalties up to the felon felony level for people who make AI generated 11:41.600 --> 11:43.560 non-consensual abuse 11:44.220 --> 11:46.240 imagery of a real person 11:47.920 --> 11:54.720 It's now illegal in Michigan to make AI generated sexual imagery of someone without their written consent 11:55.540 --> 12:00.560 Michigan joins 47 other states in the u.s. That have very enacted their own deep fake flaws 12:01.440 --> 12:05.320 Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer signed the bipartisan sponsored house bills 12:06.740 --> 12:12.680 4047 and its companion bill 4048 on August 26th in a press release 12:14.500 --> 12:18.180 Whitmer's best specifically called out the sexual uses for 12:18.540 --> 12:27.160 For deep fakes these videos can ruin someone's reputation career and personal life as such these bills prohibit the creation of deep fakes 12:27.160 --> 12:34.640 They deep depict individuals and sexual situations and create sentencing guidelines for the crime the press release states 12:34.640 --> 12:39.580 That's something we've seen time and time again with the victims of deep fake harassment 12:39.580 --> 12:46.940 Who've told us over the course of the six years since consumer level deep fakes first hit the internet? 12:46.940 --> 12:52.100 That the most popular application of this technology has been carelessness and 12:52.940 --> 13:01.560 Vendictiveness against the women its users target and that sexual harassment using AI has always been its most popular use 13:02.460 --> 13:06.940 Making a deep fake or of someone is now a misdemeanor in Michigan 13:07.500 --> 13:11.680 punishable by imprisonment of up to a year and finds up to 13:11.680 --> 13:17.620 $3,000 if they knew or reasonably should have known that the creation distribution 13:17.620 --> 13:22.620 dissemination or reproduction of the deep fake would cause physical emotional 13:22.620 --> 13:30.680 reputational or economic economic harm to an individual falsely depicted and if the deep fake depicts the target 13:30.680 --> 13:33.080 engaging in a sexual act and is 13:33.860 --> 13:39.800 Identifiable by a reasonable individual viewing or listening to the deep fake the law states 13:42.040 --> 13:45.680 This is all before the deep fakes creator posts it online 13:47.220 --> 13:54.180 It escalates to a felony if the person is depicted suffers a financial loss the person making the deep fake 13:54.720 --> 13:56.320 Intended to profit from it 13:56.320 --> 14:03.640 if or if the person maintains a website or app for the purposes of creating deep fakes or 14:04.200 --> 14:11.520 If they posted it to any website at all if they intended to harass extort threaten or cause physical emotional 14:12.400 --> 14:19.140 Reputational or economic harm to the depicted individual or if they have a previous conviction 14:20.020 --> 14:26.100 The law specifically says that it this isn't to be construed to make platforms liable 14:26.100 --> 14:34.700 But the person making the deep fakes, but we already have federal law in place that makes potential liable or platforms liable 14:35.280 --> 14:37.100 the tools to address known 14:37.360 --> 14:37.740 exploitation 14:39.580 --> 14:40.240 Oh 14:41.280 --> 14:43.740 Sorry, sorry tired 14:47.320 --> 14:54.680 But we already have federal law is in place that makes platforms liable the tools to address known exploitation by immobilizing 14:55.580 --> 14:59.780 Technological deep fakes on websites and networks or take it down act 15:00.690 --> 15:03.180 introduced by Ted Cruz in June 24 15:04.060 --> 15:04.720 that's 15:05.540 --> 15:11.080 Probably no one Ted Cruz that was mainly towards protecting Israel 15:12.000 --> 15:14.040 in June 2024 and 15:14.040 --> 15:20.760 Signing the law in May this year made platforms liable for not moderating deep fakes and imposes 15:20.760 --> 15:26.780 Extremely short timelines for acting on AI generated abuse imagery reports from users 15:28.620 --> 15:29.240 Oh 15:30.980 --> 15:38.790 That was drawn out a drawing a lot of criticism from civil liberties and online speech activists for being too overbred as 15:40.120 --> 15:46.160 The Verge pointed out before it became law because the Trump administration's FTC is in charge of 15:46.160 --> 15:50.240 Enforcing it it could easily become a weapon against all sorts of speech 15:50.860 --> 15:53.940 Including constitutionally protected free speech 15:54.700 --> 15:58.540 Platforms that feel confident that they are unlikely to be targeted by the FTC 15:58.540 --> 16:03.420 For example platforms that are closely aligned with the current administration 16:04.140 --> 16:08.900 May feel emboldened to simply ignore reports of NC to 16:09.460 --> 16:14.220 The cyber civil rights initiative told the Verge in April 16:15.040 --> 16:16.840 platforms attempting to identify 16:17.520 --> 16:25.040 Authentic out complaints may encounter a sea of false reports that could overwhelm their efforts and jeopardize their ability to operate at all 16:25.740 --> 16:30.560 If you do not have the perfect technology to identify whatever it is. We're calling a deep fake 16:30.560 --> 16:32.760 You're going to get a lot of guessing 16:36.740 --> 16:43.260 Wow you're going to get a lot of guessing be done by the social media companies and you're going to get 16:44.050 --> 16:49.850 Disapportion amounts of censorship especially for marginalized groups Kate ruin an 16:50.180 --> 16:54.320 Attorney and director of the Center for Democracy and Technologies free experts 16:54.970 --> 16:57.420 Expression project told me in June 2024 16:58.560 --> 17:01.720 My god, would you guys stop? 17:02.560 --> 17:09.740 with these long-ass names for bills or laws or even 17:10.380 --> 17:11.060 some 17:13.040 --> 17:16.520 Obviously, it's got to be getting money from the government somewhere 17:17.780 --> 17:18.960 That fucking 17:19.800 --> 17:26.140 That name dude the Center for Democracy and Technologies free expression project 17:26.920 --> 17:30.080 You couldn't come up with something shorter than that 17:31.560 --> 17:32.960 God damn 17:33.660 --> 17:39.640 Anyways for a social media company is it's not rational for them to open themselves up to that risk, right? 17:39.640 --> 17:44.920 It's simply not and so my concern is that any video with an amount of editing 17:44.920 --> 17:52.300 Which is like every single tick-tock video is then banned for distribution on those social media sites 17:56.340 --> 18:05.280 Anyways on top of the take it down act at the state level deep fakes laws are either pending or enacted in every state except 18:05.280 --> 18:15.140 New Mexico and Missouri and some states like Wisconsin the law only protects minors from deep fakes by expanding the child sexual abuse imagery laws 18:15.680 --> 18:23.420 Even as deep fakes legislation deep seems to finally catch up to the nation or to the notion that AI generated 18:24.000 --> 18:26.140 Sexual abuse imagery is abusive 18:26.800 --> 18:34.500 Reporting this kind of harassment is off to authorities or pursuing civil action against one's own abuser. It's still difficult 18:35.300 --> 18:44.540 Expensive and retar traumatizing in most cases. So, yeah 18:48.540 --> 18:50.520 Dude, this is the problem 18:51.720 --> 18:54.780 This is the problem where we live in a fake world 18:57.120 --> 18:58.940 There's like nothing 19:00.920 --> 19:01.560 Real 19:02.940 --> 19:07.800 Anymore there's I mean, yeah, you can get out go outside touch grass 19:08.860 --> 19:13.400 Do things, you know see people in real life, but then you know 19:14.560 --> 19:20.060 They're not that way online because you see them in the you know 19:24.100 --> 19:26.740 You're yeah, it's fake 19:27.860 --> 19:31.260 You know, we've got all these freaking fake ass 19:32.480 --> 19:34.920 New stories there's 19:35.440 --> 19:36.520 everything is 19:37.360 --> 19:39.000 So damn 19:39.940 --> 19:40.700 fake 20:48.600 --> 24:35.280 Your business drowning in software costs tools that don't work together and privacy risks 24:35.280 --> 24:40.540 Meet federated computer a complete business suite built to simplify your tech stack 24:40.540 --> 24:46.140 Why do forward-thinking companies switch to federated? 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I played again today 25:46.040 --> 25:52.280 But that was just one of the songs and it was kind of pretty and creepy all at the same time 25:53.120 --> 25:55.160 I'll tell you a little bit about that song 25:56.920 --> 25:57.760 Real quick 26:00.200 --> 26:04.660 Wow originally wrote it the song is about the 26:06.320 --> 26:07.540 the 26:08.770 --> 26:18.800 Singing a lullaby to a little little girl and originally the the lyrics was that 26:21.820 --> 26:26.780 The robots basically euthanizing the little girl 26:28.510 --> 26:32.560 I know it's dark and creepy but 26:33.320 --> 26:38.580 The the idea behind the story was that 26:39.960 --> 26:47.900 The road, you know, it's like the matrix the movie the matrix the you know humans are basically batteries and 26:48.900 --> 26:51.040 This is when while the 26:51.780 --> 26:53.660 Matrix is taking over 26:54.240 --> 26:54.960 you know 26:55.560 --> 26:57.080 and you know is 26:58.120 --> 27:06.760 Slowly plugging everybody in to their you know virtual reality to be their battery for the machines and 27:10.820 --> 27:16.480 That's what the song was about that process and it's almost 27:17.620 --> 27:18.500 Ironically 27:19.640 --> 27:24.940 Maybe unironically ironically whatever it's almost the same thing that we have 27:25.500 --> 27:27.460 Going on in the real world today 27:27.460 --> 27:30.140 At least we think it's a real world 27:30.660 --> 27:34.340 but anyways, I ran the lyrics through 27:37.460 --> 27:38.540 grok and 27:39.720 --> 27:42.660 Grok even suggested that it was a little too dark 27:46.640 --> 27:51.580 So I lightened it up a little bit had had grok lightened it up and 27:53.660 --> 27:54.380 I 27:54.380 --> 27:57.480 Yeah, I should probably run 27:58.500 --> 28:04.620 The lyrics I wrote a song back years ago back when I was still driving truck and 28:05.820 --> 28:13.500 Me and my buddy John wrote this song called SF you and that stood for skull fuck you 28:16.200 --> 28:20.020 It wasn't a sexual song it was a a 28:21.580 --> 28:23.660 it was about a dude that 28:24.220 --> 28:25.520 was friends with a 28:26.200 --> 28:28.640 lifelong friends with a girl and 28:29.340 --> 28:33.620 She continued to be beat by her 28:36.020 --> 28:39.820 Significant other not so significant other I guess and 28:41.220 --> 28:42.740 Her friend 28:43.840 --> 28:51.400 Got tired of watching her being beat and went after goes after the other guy and 28:52.100 --> 29:00.680 Basically, you know skull fucks him into oblivion, but I should probably run those lyrics through grok. See if that one's a little dark 29:05.460 --> 29:07.780 Anyways back to iron pistol all of my 29:10.160 --> 29:16.820 I what I did was I took the lyrics and went to Gemini and had Gemini 29:17.940 --> 29:20.980 You know lighten it up a little bit and 29:22.360 --> 29:26.240 At first Jim and I refused to do it 29:27.200 --> 29:31.780 This said it was against its guidelines and and I was did I 29:32.860 --> 29:40.500 Basically asked Jim and I to write it within its guidelines and that's what it came it lightened it up quite a bit, but 29:41.900 --> 29:44.360 It doesn't so good I had it do 29:44.360 --> 29:49.800 The the artwork too for you know the image 29:52.540 --> 29:57.860 If first it argued with me that I couldn't give me the the artwork I wanted 29:58.720 --> 30:02.000 That's until I changed the little girl into a robot 30:03.540 --> 30:09.700 On the on the artwork and then it you know then it would did it then when I tried it to 30:10.420 --> 30:15.080 Get it to do with some editing of it and it said it couldn't do it because 30:15.080 --> 30:20.080 The artwork was too graphic and it was wasn't it but then it's guidelines 30:20.620 --> 30:23.900 And I'm like you're the one that created the artwork 30:24.760 --> 30:26.180 And it says I did not 30:30.680 --> 30:37.860 But anyways that was funny, but I thought that was hilarious, but yeah, so anyways 30:39.840 --> 30:43.720 Screw it. Let's start with crew grown chrome crucifix 30:44.400 --> 30:47.700 The first song is blood lines of solace 33:14.930 --> 36:57.100 Yeah, that was a chrome crucifix blood lines of solace 36:59.520 --> 37:04.340 The artwork for that is is a family of vampires 37:05.500 --> 37:06.960 cyberpunk bad buyers 37:07.860 --> 37:09.720 Which has really nothing to do 37:11.180 --> 37:14.120 The song is about but I thought it was kind of cool 37:16.180 --> 37:17.880 This the song is about 37:17.880 --> 37:29.350 You know family first thing no matter what your political differences are in your family 37:30.670 --> 37:32.710 It's hard to 37:34.930 --> 37:42.930 All be together on the same page when it comes to things but it is what it is and 37:43.870 --> 37:47.370 You have to make your choices everybody makes their own choices 37:49.550 --> 37:57.590 So that's what the song is about protect your family family first fuck the government 37:59.510 --> 38:05.270 Families where it's at Microsoft Word to save new files to the cloud by default 38:07.150 --> 38:08.310 Yes, I 38:08.310 --> 38:12.730 Always wanted an operating system that just kind of does my shit for me 38:13.470 --> 38:15.410 Makes my choices for me 38:16.150 --> 38:23.710 Local saves become legacy as Microsoft nudges word users into the cloud with every new document 38:24.490 --> 38:28.570 Microsoft is preparing to change how documents are saved in Word for Windows 38:29.210 --> 38:36.590 Shifting new file storage to the cloud by default instead of asking users to activate autosave or select a cloud location 38:36.590 --> 38:45.290 Manually word will now say restore all newly created documents directly in one drive or another designated cloud service automatically 38:46.470 --> 38:55.090 Raul Manus Manas a product manager at Microsoft's office shared services and experiences team 38:55.870 --> 38:58.190 That's you goddamn much too for a title 38:58.710 --> 39:05.170 Described the change by saying we are modernizing the way files are created and stored in Word for Windows 39:05.170 --> 39:09.010 Now you don't have to work. You're modernizing bullshit 39:10.350 --> 39:12.630 You're forcing people 39:13.270 --> 39:14.750 hoping that they will 39:14.750 --> 39:22.950 Buy and you know give you money for your stupid subscription to your online backup 39:23.830 --> 39:29.190 Or online storage because you sat and you watched 39:30.550 --> 39:32.650 Google and 39:32.650 --> 39:36.330 Apple make shit tons of money over the last 39:36.970 --> 39:38.570 15 20 years 39:39.570 --> 39:47.010 By offering this as a service and now you're nobody wants to buy your stupid fucking one drive 39:48.070 --> 39:53.290 Because it's just another stupid service that's all you're going to do is 39:54.050 --> 39:56.790 Go through and read people's shit 39:58.310 --> 40:00.650 Because that's what you do and 40:01.370 --> 40:05.290 Nobody wants to buy it. So you're forcing people to buy it now 40:06.950 --> 40:10.210 Anyways, now you don't have to worry about saving your documents 40:11.430 --> 40:14.950 Yeah, there's this whole thing and pretty much every software 40:15.690 --> 40:20.250 That that you know programmers put in there. It's called autosave 40:21.490 --> 40:26.690 And it autosaved it locally. It doesn't autosave it to some yeah anyways 40:27.770 --> 40:34.590 Anything you knew anything new you create will be saved automatically to one drive or your preferred cloud destination 40:35.550 --> 40:38.170 Currently being rolled out to microsoft 365 40:38.930 --> 40:47.770 Insiders this new setup is presented as a way to prevent lost work and provide immediate access to files across mobile platforms and browsers 40:47.770 --> 40:56.390 However for anyone working outside microsoft's cloud ecosystem, this change introduces additional steps to avoid online storage 40:57.030 --> 41:01.190 The update also comes with adjustments on to how documents are named 41:01.670 --> 41:04.830 Rather than appending sequential sequential 41:04.830 --> 41:08.150 Sequential numbers to new files 41:08.730 --> 41:15.150 Word will now assign file names based on the date of creation. Thank you for not only 41:16.150 --> 41:19.550 Forcing us to use your stupid 41:20.470 --> 41:21.670 bullshit one drive 41:21.670 --> 41:26.750 But you know now you're just going ahead and changing the way we 41:28.550 --> 41:30.070 Name our files 41:32.830 --> 41:34.190 Fucking microsoft 41:34.870 --> 41:42.050 Users will have the option to set a preferred default save location or opt out of an automatic cloud saves entirely 41:42.790 --> 41:44.250 Though during doing so 41:44.810 --> 41:47.250 Requires manual reconfiguration 41:47.800 --> 41:52.850 Microsoft has been steadily nudging its user base toward cloud reliance 41:52.850 --> 42:01.190 Autosave already defaults to cloud storage and persistent persistent prompts and windows have encouraged to or pressured 42:01.700 --> 42:04.330 Users to turn on one drive backups 42:05.380 --> 42:13.050 These reminders have drawn complaints especially from these those who feel microsoft is eroding straightforward local file access 42:13.050 --> 42:14.350 Yes, they are 42:15.210 --> 42:19.570 This latest move by microsoft reflects a broader trend among tech giants 42:20.270 --> 42:26.790 To steer users toward cloud based ecosystems often at the cost of individual choice and control 42:27.810 --> 42:30.030 It's all part of the 42:30.850 --> 42:31.610 The end game 42:32.230 --> 42:34.990 You will own nothing and be happy 42:36.930 --> 42:42.770 If if it if it's not on your local computer, you don't do you really own it 42:44.190 --> 42:49.970 If you only if you only have access to it when they allow you to have access 42:51.610 --> 42:53.550 Do you really own anything 42:58.520 --> 43:01.490 While the company already offers a fully online version of word 43:02.090 --> 43:04.650 tailored tailored for those who want cloud integration 43:04.650 --> 43:11.310 Many who rely on the desktop application do so precisely to avoid having their documents stored online 43:11.870 --> 43:15.970 By turning local storage into a secondary option that requires extra effort 43:15.970 --> 43:20.310 Microsoft is making it harder for users to keep their files on their own machines 43:21.110 --> 43:25.790 Cloud storage may promise convenience, but it also introduces new risks 43:27.730 --> 43:30.550 When documents are saved by default to servers 43:31.310 --> 43:36.290 Controlled by corporations users give up a measure of privacy and autonomy 43:37.010 --> 43:41.610 Data stored in the cloud is subject to surveillance data mining and potential breaches 43:42.210 --> 43:46.090 realities that are far less of a concern with locally stored files 43:47.670 --> 43:51.490 See, there's there's a lots of reasons why they want it 43:52.390 --> 43:52.950 online 43:53.750 --> 43:55.630 They want you to keep your data online 43:56.810 --> 43:59.970 Not only is it just you and because they can scan it 44:00.690 --> 44:03.310 And that will check there ain't nothing bad or illegal 44:04.670 --> 44:09.870 They can you know, they they control you they control your your data. They control 44:10.790 --> 44:12.430 You yourself your choices 44:13.370 --> 44:13.730 Um 44:14.470 --> 44:15.610 After that 44:16.450 --> 44:22.550 They could also scan it and use it to train their AI for free on your data 44:25.970 --> 44:29.710 Do you are are you guys getting it yet? 44:30.550 --> 44:34.070 I keep that keep asking that are you are you getting it? 44:38.850 --> 44:40.050 AI generated 44:40.830 --> 44:45.210 Boring history videos are flooding youtube and drowning out real history 44:45.870 --> 44:49.290 These AI videos are just repeating things that are on the internet 44:49.290 --> 44:53.530 So you end up with a very simple line version of the past 44:54.970 --> 44:59.310 As I do most nights I was listening to youtube videos to fall asleep 44:59.710 --> 45:07.110 The other night sometime around 3 a.m. I woke up because the video youtube was autoplaying starting going started going 45:07.780 --> 45:08.130 fee 45:08.850 --> 45:12.470 The video was called boring history for sleep 45:13.180 --> 45:17.090 How medieval peasants survived the coldest nights and more 45:17.720 --> 45:21.370 It's two hours long has two two point three million views 45:21.800 --> 45:27.150 And an hour and 15 minutes into the video the AI generated voice girl glitched 45:27.870 --> 45:33.690 In the end and boy Boyleon won a kind of immortality not through her survival 45:34.230 --> 45:37.570 But through her indelible indelible impact on history 45:38.310 --> 45:41.790 Phee the narrator says in a fake british accent 45:42.610 --> 45:46.070 By the early 1770s the american colonies 45:46.590 --> 45:50.510 Simmered like a pot left too long over a roaring fire it continued 45:53.510 --> 45:56.710 The video was from a channel I hadn't seen before 45:57.490 --> 45:59.590 Called sleepless historian 46:00.310 --> 46:03.630 I took my headphones out didn't think much of it at the time 46:04.590 --> 46:06.410 rolled over and fell back asleep 46:07.290 --> 46:13.510 The next time or the next night when I went to pick up pick a new video to fall asleep to 46:13.510 --> 46:21.610 My youtube homepage was full of videos from sleepless historian and several similar sounding channels like boring history bites 46:22.430 --> 46:24.430 history before sleep this news 46:24.430 --> 46:25.730 Newsatorian 46:26.350 --> 46:28.550 historian sleepy and dreamoria 46:29.430 --> 46:34.630 Lots of these videos nominally check boxes for what I want from something to fall asleep to 46:35.150 --> 46:41.770 Almost all of them are are more than three hours long and they are about things. I don't know much about 46:42.170 --> 46:43.710 some video titles included 46:44.750 --> 46:47.890 unusual medieval cures for common illnesses 46:48.810 --> 46:49.150 the 46:49.150 --> 46:53.230 The entire history of the american frontier 46:54.430 --> 46:57.410 What it was like to visit a brothel in pompe 46:57.410 --> 47:06.390 And what getting wasted was like in medieval times one of the channels has even been live streaming this history 47:06.930 --> 47:08.910 24 seven four weeks 47:10.290 --> 47:12.730 In the daytime when I was not 47:13.230 --> 47:14.570 groggy and half asleep 47:15.270 --> 47:21.610 It quickly became obvious to me that all of these videos are ai generated and that they are part of a 47:21.610 --> 47:26.870 Sophisticated and growing ai slop content ecosystem that is flooding youtube 47:28.410 --> 47:36.150 Is drowning out human made content created by real anthropologists and historians who spend weeks or months researching 47:36.150 --> 47:43.370 Backchecking scripting recording and editing their videos and are quite literally rewriting history with service level 47:43.370 --> 47:48.250 Automated direct that the youtube youtube algorithm delivers to people 47:48.890 --> 47:53.050 YouTube has said it will demonetize or otherwise crack down on these produced videos 47:53.590 --> 47:58.610 But it is not clear whether that has had any sort of impact on the proliferation 47:58.610 --> 48:06.210 Of ai generated videos on the platform and none of the people I spoke to for this article have noticed any change 48:06.890 --> 48:08.410 It's completely shocking to me 48:08.410 --> 48:13.350 Pete kelly who runs the popular history time youtube channel told me in a phone interview 48:13.350 --> 48:17.250 It used to be enough to spend your entire life researching 48:17.830 --> 48:21.690 Writing and narrating editing doing all of these things to make a video 48:22.230 --> 48:25.910 But now someone can come along and and they can do the same thing 48:25.910 --> 48:31.150 In a day instead of it taking six months and the videos are not accurate 48:31.870 --> 48:34.990 The visuals they use are completely inaccurate often 48:35.590 --> 48:38.590 And i'm fearful because this is everywhere 48:41.410 --> 48:42.010 I 48:45.610 --> 48:47.330 I've I've kind of 48:48.050 --> 48:49.950 talked about this before about the 48:50.870 --> 48:51.470 youtube 48:52.450 --> 48:55.550 They I was a year or two ago 48:56.550 --> 48:57.150 maybe 48:57.830 --> 49:03.270 Maybe two or three by now, but they did come out and say that they were going to 49:04.850 --> 49:05.910 Enable this 49:06.970 --> 49:09.130 So that you know because 49:09.970 --> 49:12.550 They wanted the ai 49:13.330 --> 49:14.510 Slop videos 49:15.210 --> 49:17.110 Because they wanted content 49:17.730 --> 49:19.630 They want people to constantly 49:20.350 --> 49:21.750 Create content 49:23.810 --> 49:27.970 And it's all for the almighty advertising dollar 49:29.130 --> 49:29.990 And now 49:30.830 --> 49:33.230 You know they they want to get 49:34.050 --> 49:36.190 This stuff so that they can create 49:36.850 --> 49:38.290 Their own content 49:40.030 --> 49:43.290 They can have their ai's create their own 49:44.110 --> 49:44.570 content 49:45.270 --> 49:46.850 And they don't have to 49:47.630 --> 49:49.570 They can drown out real 49:50.510 --> 49:52.610 People making real videos 49:53.550 --> 49:54.310 And 49:55.310 --> 49:57.530 They don't have to do revenue shares with them 50:00.610 --> 50:03.450 So you so you get that right? 50:05.770 --> 50:08.630 They want youtube to be 50:10.010 --> 50:12.870 Creating your entertainment 50:14.310 --> 50:15.850 Your how-to videos 50:17.150 --> 50:17.710 Whatever 50:18.770 --> 50:21.010 Because they don't want to share 50:22.430 --> 50:24.330 The advertising revenue 50:25.250 --> 50:25.810 with 50:26.320 --> 50:28.950 Real people they want it for themselves 50:30.620 --> 50:33.350 So they they encouraged the use of 50:34.040 --> 50:34.510 the 50:35.360 --> 50:39.350 ai generated slop and then they're giving lip service 50:40.630 --> 50:42.850 to people that 50:44.300 --> 50:45.190 Create a forum 50:47.540 --> 50:48.010 So 50:48.900 --> 50:50.210 There you have it 50:51.780 --> 50:53.070 There's that one 50:54.390 --> 50:59.430 Hackers threaten to submit artist data to ai models if art site doesn't pay up 51:00.510 --> 51:05.450 Artists and clients a website for connecting artists with gigs is down 51:06.350 --> 51:08.470 After a group called lunalock 51:09.230 --> 51:12.070 Threaten to feed their data to ai data sets 51:15.590 --> 51:19.810 Oh fuck it's not a free one damn it i can't read that one 51:21.110 --> 51:22.650 So let's do another 51:23.350 --> 51:26.870 Chrome crucian fix this one 51:29.270 --> 51:29.970 Yeah 51:30.870 --> 51:39.150 It's a instrumental and it's basically a part two 51:40.050 --> 51:44.110 Of uh bloodlines of solace. This is solace of solitude 51:46.050 --> 51:49.030 Well, no, I guess I gotta put it in the player don't I? 51:53.050 --> 51:53.750 I 51:53.750 --> 51:54.310 Here we go 56:34.850 --> 56:36.410 Graham linem 56:37.310 --> 56:42.470 Arrested by arm police over expo as uk free speech crisis deepens 56:42.470 --> 56:48.690 A comedian once celebrated by absurdity is now caught in britain's most absurd reality 56:51.070 --> 56:54.790 There are many ways to return to britain after a long haul flight 56:54.790 --> 57:02.370 Maybe you get a cup of tea a mildly annoyed customs agent and a taxi driver who tells you london's gone to hell 57:03.190 --> 57:04.730 Or if you're am linem 57:05.270 --> 57:05.830 linhan 57:06.670 --> 57:12.170 You're you you're mad at he throw by five armed officers officers 57:12.170 --> 57:16.410 Who then take you into custody or things you wrote on the internet 57:19.410 --> 57:25.650 The man who created father ted and the it crowd shows that helped define british humor 57:26.150 --> 57:29.410 Was arrested detained and taken to a hospital 57:30.250 --> 57:32.170 All because of three tweets 57:32.950 --> 57:33.870 He wrote later 57:34.490 --> 57:38.770 I was arrested at an airport like a terrorist locked in a cell like a criminal 57:39.290 --> 57:44.350 Taken to hospital because the stress nearly killed me and banned from speaking online 57:44.350 --> 57:51.570 The metropolitan police confirmed that linem was arrested on suspicion of inciting violence 57:52.410 --> 57:54.510 Related to posts he made on x 57:55.250 --> 58:03.610 Armed officers from the Mets aviation unit escorted linem off of flight from arizona and into custody 58:07.570 --> 58:12.970 Okay, the tweets in question included one joke suggesting that a trans identified male 58:13.480 --> 58:20.750 Is found in a women's only space people should make a scene call the cops and if all else fails punch him in the balls 58:22.310 --> 58:27.310 Another tweet featured a photo of a transgender rally with the caption 58:27.840 --> 58:33.330 A photo you can smell a third red. I hate them misogynists and oboe folks 58:34.170 --> 58:35.610 Mr. Buckham 58:36.910 --> 58:43.910 Linem says he was taken to a holding cell stripped of his bloggings and interrogated in detail about the tweets 58:44.490 --> 58:50.230 This isn't satire. This is modern britain at some point linem's blood pressure 58:51.130 --> 58:55.230 Despite the high enough that he had to be taken to a to the hospital 58:55.230 --> 58:59.710 Not exactly how most comedy writers picture the fallout of posting online 59:03.590 --> 59:04.190 I 59:05.310 --> 59:06.330 Yon a lot 59:07.030 --> 59:12.090 At some point linem's or he suspects the arrest wasn't spur of the moment 59:12.630 --> 59:16.930 It was planned before he even left the us something odd happened 59:18.090 --> 59:21.970 At the gate in arizona. He says airline staff told him his seat was 59:22.670 --> 59:26.590 Suddenly unavailable and he needed to be rebooked 59:26.590 --> 59:32.910 At the time he talked it up to airline chaos, but later reflecting on the timing he wrote at the time 59:33.590 --> 59:39.750 I thought it was just the sort of an innocent snap move that makes air travel such a joy 59:40.250 --> 59:43.110 But in hindsight it was clear I'd been flagged 59:43.950 --> 59:47.710 As for bail it became it came only one condition 59:48.410 --> 59:50.210 He's not allowed to use x 59:50.930 --> 59:57.030 Linehan has also become a public enemy in some progressive circle circles and a hero in others 59:57.510 --> 01:00:03.190 For years he's spoken out against what he sees as the ideological overreach of gender activism 01:00:03.590 --> 01:00:07.830 In the process. He's lost work colleagues and mainstream support 01:00:08.930 --> 01:00:09.650 linem's 01:00:09.650 --> 01:00:16.610 Arrest has unsurprisingly drawn criticism from those concerned about britain's increasingly twitchy attitude 01:00:17.130 --> 01:00:18.550 Towards online speech 01:00:19.370 --> 01:00:21.070 conservative mp neil 01:00:21.070 --> 01:00:25.790 O'brien called the incident laughable if it wasn't so serious 01:00:26.610 --> 01:00:33.050 Adding britain is now a total laughing stock a country where we arrest the authors of light comedies 01:00:33.050 --> 01:00:35.150 And interrogate them about their tweets 01:00:35.910 --> 01:00:36.630 linem 01:00:37.510 --> 01:00:39.910 expressed disbelief at the force mobilized 01:00:40.650 --> 01:00:46.010 Against him, especially when contrasted with the uk's handling of serious crime 01:00:46.610 --> 01:00:53.390 In a country where pedophiles escape sentencing where knife crime is out of control where women are assaulted 01:00:53.880 --> 01:00:56.410 And harassed every time they gather to speak 01:00:56.410 --> 01:01:02.690 The state has mobilized five armed officers to arrest a comedy writer for this tweet 01:01:03.440 --> 01:01:06.230 And no i promise you i am not making this up 01:01:07.170 --> 01:01:07.750 linehan 01:01:08.500 --> 01:01:14.330 Said he initially laughed at the absurdity of the situation. I couldn't help myself. Don't tell me 01:01:14.330 --> 01:01:17.450 You've been sent by the trans activists 01:01:18.200 --> 01:01:24.270 While officers were professional. He noted that they seemed confused by the political nature of the arrest 01:01:24.900 --> 01:01:25.950 entirely professional 01:01:26.540 --> 01:01:32.350 And even kind but most had a absolutely no idea what any of this was about 01:01:33.150 --> 01:01:40.390 Though during questioning linem said officers took his posts literally ignoring the satirical context 01:01:40.950 --> 01:01:45.510 I explained that the punch tweet was a serious point made with a joke 01:01:46.150 --> 01:01:48.030 Certainly not a call to violence 01:01:48.690 --> 01:01:51.930 When the officer referred to trans people linem 01:01:52.610 --> 01:01:55.310 challenged the phrasing assigned at birth 01:01:55.910 --> 01:02:01.770 Our sex isn't assigned. He called it semantics. I told him he was using activist language 01:02:02.570 --> 01:02:03.970 The stress of the arrest 01:02:04.630 --> 01:02:06.650 triggered a medical emergency 01:02:06.650 --> 01:02:11.390 Eventually a nurse came to check on me and found my blood pressure was over 200 01:02:12.010 --> 01:02:17.410 Stroke territory the stress of being arrested for jokes was literally threatening my life 01:02:18.170 --> 01:02:19.270 support for linehan 01:02:19.270 --> 01:02:21.590 A port and almost immediately 01:02:22.090 --> 01:02:26.210 J.K. Rowling who has herself faced relentless backlash for her gender 01:02:26.730 --> 01:02:31.270 Critical positions reacted to the news by writing what the fuck has the uk become? 01:02:31.710 --> 01:02:32.890 this is to total 01:02:32.890 --> 01:02:35.090 Toleral as totalion 01:02:35.890 --> 01:02:37.190 Yeah, you know the word 01:02:38.210 --> 01:02:39.370 utterly deplorable 01:02:40.410 --> 01:02:46.770 Other echoed others echoed her alarm elan must describe bretton as a police state pierce morgan poston 01:02:46.770 --> 01:02:48.930 What's happened to linem today? 01:02:49.830 --> 01:02:56.570 Is absolutely ridiculous five five armed cops arresting him at athro for tweets mocking the scandal 01:02:57.310 --> 01:03:01.990 Of biological men invading women's spaces when it becomes to free 01:03:02.890 --> 01:03:06.190 When it comes to free speech britain's turning into north korea 01:03:06.890 --> 01:03:09.610 robert genrich the shadow of justice secretary 01:03:10.170 --> 01:03:15.730 Also condemned the operations stating this is ridiculous and a complete waste of police time 01:03:15.730 --> 01:03:20.670 The police only respond to one in five reported shoplifting different offenses 01:03:21.050 --> 01:03:25.890 But deployed five armed officers to arrest a comedian over three tweets 01:03:26.570 --> 01:03:30.930 We desperately need to end this nonsense and go after criminals 01:03:30.930 --> 01:03:38.910 After actual criminals the free speech union has stepped in vowing to provide financial support for linem's legal defense 01:03:38.910 --> 01:03:41.470 Which is described as a response to 01:03:41.470 --> 01:03:44.870 preposterous allegations and a disproportionate 01:03:44.870 --> 01:03:46.490 response from the police 01:03:47.080 --> 01:03:51.910 The uk is currently experiencing a free speech crisis and this is only the latest example 01:03:52.380 --> 01:03:55.710 One of the starkest recent examples is lucy connelly 01:03:55.710 --> 01:04:01.290 She was sentenced to 31 months in prison for a single social media post about the southport killings 01:04:01.810 --> 01:04:04.330 Her case didn't surprise anyone paying attention 01:04:04.330 --> 01:04:09.750 What happened to her is now part of standard enforcement british police units are actively 01:04:11.970 --> 01:04:18.150 Integrated with online monitoring tools these systems flag content without the need for a complaint 01:04:18.670 --> 01:04:22.750 Though linem suspects this his arrest was prompted by a complaint 01:04:23.420 --> 01:04:25.870 Once flagged police now follow-up in person 01:04:26.660 --> 01:04:28.890 visits arrests and digital bans 01:04:29.740 --> 01:04:35.110 The state has built a process for regulating speech without having to say so directly 01:04:39.230 --> 01:04:44.870 You know that article we had earlier where the guy was talking about 01:04:45.930 --> 01:04:52.370 Listening to youtube videos when he falls asleep. Why are many people listening to my show to fall asleep? 01:04:53.910 --> 01:04:58.350 I know uh jen does over there in london 01:04:59.510 --> 01:05:01.830 But uh, yeah 01:05:02.870 --> 01:05:07.550 This is the legal and operational environment created by the online safety act 01:05:08.430 --> 01:05:10.530 The law was passed in 2023 01:05:11.490 --> 01:05:17.290 Came into force in 2024. It was announced as a proactive measure focused on child safety 01:05:17.970 --> 01:05:19.290 The framing has not 01:05:22.750 --> 01:05:23.390 Oh 01:05:24.470 --> 01:05:27.010 That framing was has not held 01:05:28.270 --> 01:05:28.950 Oh 01:05:30.710 --> 01:05:38.190 The act gives regulators authority over any online content deemed harmful even when it's not illegal 01:05:38.750 --> 01:05:42.450 The language of the law is broad enough to allow intervention based on 01:05:42.990 --> 01:05:48.810 Tone or framing linem's arrest is not difficult to explain the in the current legal context 01:05:49.550 --> 01:05:54.710 Linan is facing police interviews a court case and a ban from using x 01:05:54.710 --> 01:05:56.430 Connelly served a prison 01:05:57.150 --> 01:06:04.690 Served a prison sentence foreign websites are entering litigation with british regulators. The pattern is already visible 01:06:05.330 --> 01:06:07.710 This used to be the kind of thing that happened elsewhere 01:06:07.710 --> 01:06:13.230 It was a sort of legal system that british commentators once condemned on human rights grounds 01:06:13.690 --> 01:06:16.790 But for britness, it's not a foreign problem anymore 01:06:17.710 --> 01:06:18.710 It's happening 01:06:21.910 --> 01:06:24.750 It's happening at Heathrow with five armed officers 01:06:25.690 --> 01:06:29.390 And a man who once wrote some of the best modern british sitcoms 01:06:29.770 --> 01:06:33.970 Is now being interrogated like a criminal for online posts 01:06:38.670 --> 01:06:39.310 Yep 01:06:40.230 --> 01:06:41.730 In a follow-up story 01:06:42.350 --> 01:06:48.230 Graham linem desu metropolitan police over Heathrow arrest had online speech dispute 01:06:49.030 --> 01:06:54.790 A surreal airport takedown over public tweets now threatens to put them at itself on trial 01:06:57.350 --> 01:07:04.030 Graham linem the creator father ted in the it crowd is planning to sue the london metropolitan police 01:07:04.030 --> 01:07:06.850 After his arrest on Heathrow airport 01:07:06.850 --> 01:07:13.490 Over comments. He made on social media his detention which involves the yeah, yeah, yeah, we said that already 01:07:14.250 --> 01:07:18.130 Yadda yadda yadda the arrest stemmed from several posts linem made 01:07:18.890 --> 01:07:20.610 Yeah, he's he's suing them 01:07:21.330 --> 01:07:23.150 As as he should 01:07:24.210 --> 01:07:25.510 As he should 01:07:28.250 --> 01:07:35.410 Nigel Farage warns us congress uk censorship law threatens american free speech encryption and tech innovation 01:07:36.370 --> 01:07:41.830 Farage turned a a congressional hearing into a warning shot against britain's digital author 01:07:41.830 --> 01:07:48.670 Author authoritarianism man, I cannot pronounce words today. They're hard 01:07:49.330 --> 01:07:51.410 appearing before the house judiciary many 01:07:52.350 --> 01:07:53.150 committee 01:07:53.730 --> 01:07:54.490 british 01:07:54.490 --> 01:08:01.050 mp nigel farage issued a stark warning about britain's trajectory and speech regulation arguing that uk law 01:08:01.050 --> 01:08:05.150 Now poses a direct threat not only to free expression at home 01:08:05.150 --> 01:08:07.770 But also to core american liberties abroad 01:08:08.370 --> 01:08:15.410 The testimony submitted to the u.s. Congress during a hearing titled europe's threat to american speech and innovation 01:08:15.850 --> 01:08:18.550 the reform party leader detailed how the udk 01:08:19.250 --> 01:08:20.850 online safety act 01:08:21.390 --> 01:08:26.110 Past in 2023 is already being used to pressure american platforms in adopting 01:08:26.910 --> 01:08:33.030 restrictive uk speech codes many of which would be flatly unconstitutional under the first amendment 01:08:33.790 --> 01:08:38.190 Farage said the osa and terragates integrates the uk's 01:08:39.170 --> 01:08:46.410 Abroad or abroad speech related criminal offenses with sweeping duties imposed on online platforms 01:08:47.310 --> 01:08:53.930 That authority he warned now includes the right to demand self-incriminating data from platform operators 01:08:54.490 --> 01:09:01.070 Punished non-compliance with up to two years imprisonment and seek court orders to block access to non-compliance services 01:09:01.770 --> 01:09:07.150 Off-com has already threatened them for american companies with exactly those penalties 01:09:08.150 --> 01:09:13.970 I repeat regulatory bodies in the uk are actively threatening to imprison american citizens 01:09:14.410 --> 01:09:17.690 For exercising their protected constitutional rights 01:09:18.210 --> 01:09:22.910 This is not a hypothetical scenario just last week two u.s. based platforms 01:09:23.670 --> 01:09:28.750 filed suit in washington d.c. seeking protection against uk enforcement attempts 01:09:29.410 --> 01:09:32.690 Their case shows the growing tension between the uk's now 01:09:33.150 --> 01:09:39.110 New speech suppression regime and america's long-standing protections for political and controversial speech 01:09:39.670 --> 01:09:44.750 Under the osa the uk can extend its rules to any platform with links to the uk 01:09:45.510 --> 01:09:49.750 A a vague standard that includes merely having british users 01:09:50.290 --> 01:09:53.390 Even if a platform has no physical or legal presence 01:09:53.830 --> 01:09:58.150 In the country this creates what farage calls powerful and unconstitutional 01:09:59.710 --> 01:10:00.430 extraterritorial 01:10:00.430 --> 01:10:00.990 pressures 01:10:01.750 --> 01:10:05.770 Off-com spines which can can reach 10 percent of a company's global revenue 01:10:06.310 --> 01:10:14.290 Effectively fortune term international platforms to choose either conform to uk censorship demands or face financial ruin 01:10:14.290 --> 01:10:19.150 And bands within the uk market. Okay. I've got one question for you 01:10:20.390 --> 01:10:23.530 Not you listening, but anybody that's listening 01:10:25.990 --> 01:10:32.010 If I say fuck off uk and you try to 01:10:33.050 --> 01:10:38.810 sue me or real liberty media or liberty tunes 01:10:42.770 --> 01:10:46.570 And you don't try to sue me, but you try to find me 01:10:48.950 --> 01:10:52.250 What are you going to do if I don't pay that fucking fine? 01:10:54.190 --> 01:10:55.810 You can say 01:10:57.310 --> 01:11:00.690 That you're you know, I owe you 10 million dollars 01:11:02.330 --> 01:11:06.110 But I ain't paying you ever 10 million dollars 01:11:07.250 --> 01:11:08.930 Fuck you uk 01:11:09.950 --> 01:11:12.410 Your your laws don't 01:11:13.050 --> 01:11:14.330 Come across this border 01:11:15.070 --> 01:11:17.590 You know if if if 01:11:18.910 --> 01:11:20.330 It's up to you 01:11:22.170 --> 01:11:28.090 You don't have a right to shut me up 01:11:29.130 --> 01:11:31.630 You have a right to not listen 01:11:32.990 --> 01:11:36.110 But you don't have a right to shut anybody up 01:11:40.010 --> 01:11:44.070 So there's last week I said it 01:11:44.330 --> 01:11:46.610 Couple of times fuck you uk 01:11:47.590 --> 01:11:50.290 And I'm going to continue to say fuck you uk 01:11:52.390 --> 01:11:57.230 Not not the uk people. I love the uk people you guys are awesome 01:11:57.810 --> 01:11:58.150 You 01:11:59.410 --> 01:12:05.050 You got some of the funniest shit. I've ever seen on tv. Um, you're 01:12:05.970 --> 01:12:10.510 You got some great great shows great writers 01:12:11.450 --> 01:12:12.130 um 01:12:12.970 --> 01:12:14.610 Your your people are great 01:12:15.950 --> 01:12:17.150 but um 01:12:19.070 --> 01:12:25.410 Yeah, your government when I when I say fuck any government or any country I'm saying fuck fuck do 01:12:26.090 --> 01:12:27.050 Fuck the government 01:12:27.710 --> 01:12:30.690 So just keep that keep that in mind when you're listening 01:12:32.670 --> 01:12:37.350 You know like like you know a couple I got a couple of listeners 01:12:37.350 --> 01:12:43.030 A couple three or four listeners in the uk will probably more than that because I 01:12:43.650 --> 01:12:46.010 You know sub stack does track your ass 01:12:47.010 --> 01:12:48.210 Just so you know 01:12:52.010 --> 01:12:58.810 I can see where people are at that are accessing my content well at least where the vpn comes out at 01:13:01.530 --> 01:13:04.850 But it uh, yeah, I can 01:13:07.350 --> 01:13:13.870 I love my listeners. I love my my viewers or whatever your whatever platform you're on 01:13:17.110 --> 01:13:19.530 But I hate your fucking government 01:13:21.330 --> 01:13:25.930 And your government's you know my government's he's a hear a bit better 01:13:26.450 --> 01:13:33.030 Not much not much at all better. Um, they let us get away with more shit 01:13:33.930 --> 01:13:35.170 but uh 01:13:37.050 --> 01:13:40.590 Yeah, fuck fuck the uk government 01:13:42.390 --> 01:13:45.830 Yeah, just just fuck the okay, you know 01:13:49.070 --> 01:13:51.370 I've got another story I was going to read 01:13:52.090 --> 01:13:54.250 It was about the you know judge 01:13:54.870 --> 01:13:55.190 young 01:13:55.770 --> 01:13:58.610 His their decision on the the google thing 01:13:59.330 --> 01:14:01.390 I'll just give it to you in a 01:14:02.070 --> 01:14:03.990 short condensed version 01:14:05.130 --> 01:14:06.350 Google gets away with 01:14:07.430 --> 01:14:11.570 They get away with everything do you mean you there's no fucking fine? 01:14:12.170 --> 01:14:14.870 They don't have to sell chrome. They don't have to sell andre 01:14:15.570 --> 01:14:17.110 They can just keep doing 01:14:17.690 --> 01:14:19.990 the same shit they've always been doing 01:14:20.930 --> 01:14:21.450 and 01:14:22.070 --> 01:14:23.770 Nothing nothing changed 01:14:25.710 --> 01:14:30.010 So yeah, there was you know, there was took them 230 fucking pages 01:14:31.370 --> 01:14:32.810 To to say 01:14:32.810 --> 01:14:34.510 Yeah, google 01:14:35.190 --> 01:14:35.770 Yeah 01:14:36.370 --> 01:14:39.370 We know you we know what you're doing, but we're okay with that 01:14:40.090 --> 01:14:42.390 That's exactly what the fucking judge says 01:14:43.120 --> 01:14:46.410 And it took they wasted 230 pages of paper 01:14:47.210 --> 01:14:48.650 saying that so 01:14:49.770 --> 01:14:51.890 Don't worry crumb's going to stealth say 01:14:52.730 --> 01:14:55.390 Uh andre it's going to keep continuing to 01:14:56.010 --> 01:14:57.510 You know vacuum up your data 01:14:58.450 --> 01:15:00.550 And yeah, that's 01:15:01.370 --> 01:15:03.530 Nothing's going to change. So 01:15:04.270 --> 01:15:06.090 With that this song 01:15:07.270 --> 01:15:08.810 It's it's a good rockin song 01:15:09.590 --> 01:15:10.010 um 01:15:10.770 --> 01:15:11.590 this is 01:15:13.370 --> 01:15:13.770 It 01:15:14.730 --> 01:15:20.790 When it comes to your kids and your family you got to pay attention to them and and 01:15:21.890 --> 01:15:22.670 Protect them 01:15:23.590 --> 01:15:26.950 You're you're the ones that's responsible for your kids 01:15:27.510 --> 01:15:30.630 Don't let the government do it. Don't let you get let the government 01:15:31.410 --> 01:15:35.650 Use your kids as an excuse to take everybody's freedoms away 01:15:37.150 --> 01:15:38.470 It's the sentinels hemp