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Federated Computer, Streamline, Save, and Scale.

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You know, I talk about, or play that commercial here lately, pretty much every episode.

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And I talk about Federated Computer all the time.

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They're not my sponsor.

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They don't give me any money at all.

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In fact, I'm the one that gives them money.

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I digress.

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It's a hell of a service.

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And I keep saying that I'm going to go through it and talk about it.

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And I probably could do that, but this is like an audio show.

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I really would like to do that as a video so you can see what you're getting.

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It's just, I really do.

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I love them.

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What they're doing is they provide you service with open-source software.

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And you don't have to do pretty much anything.

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They maintain it, all that stuff.

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If you have a problem, you say, hey, I got a problem and they fix it.

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It's like when I was setting up the Matrix server for Liberty, Liberty tunes,

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I was like, I couldn't log in.

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And there was a mistake somewhere on a config file somewhere.

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And I just went in and emailed them.

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And about a minute, I was logged in.

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Had nothing to do.

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Had to do nothing for it.

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I just said I had a problem.

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They fixed it.

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I mean, 99% of the time, well, 100% of the time when I log in with a problem

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and holler at them, say, hey, something's wrong,

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it's fixed like super fast.

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They are stupid fast.

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Put it that way.

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Yeah, it's, I love it.

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Anyways, I digress.

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So the media's pivot to AI is not real and not going to work.

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This is from 404 Media again.

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AI is not going to save media companies and forcing journalists to use AI.

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It's not a business model.

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Did you know that Microsoft employees, they're totally unrelated here,

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but Microsoft employees are now being forced to use AI

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in their jobs.

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They are really pushing that go pilot.

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Yeah, I logged into the Windows partition here on the laptop.

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I got it upgraded to 11, you know, just because it needed to be updated

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because Windows 10, the Windows 10 that was on it was like

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a year or so ago since updates were done.

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But I logged into the Windows 10 partition, got the laptop updated

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and they upgraded to 11.

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And dude, Copilot is fucking everywhere in Windows 11.

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It's on your task bar.

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It's in Microsoft Edge.

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I log into Outlook for work and there's the big Copilot button,

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even though we don't have Copilot for our Microsoft account at work.

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And which by the way, we're getting rid of.

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Yay.

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Because the company that bought our company, they use Google Workspace.

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They've got a Microsoft license for like Excel or something like that.

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But they don't have the full Microsoft bullshit.

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So at least I'm getting away from Microsoft, but it's being replaced with Google.

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So anyways, I digress.

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I don't know if that's better or worse.

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But yeah, this is on May 23rd from 404 Media.

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We got a very interesting email from Ghost, the service we used to make 404 Media.

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Paid subscription started, the email said.

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Which is the subject line of all the automated emails we get when someone subscribes to 404 Media.

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The interesting thing about this email was that the new subscriber had been referred to 404 Media

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directly from ChatGPT.com.

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Meeting the person clicked a link to 404 Media from within a ChatGPT window.

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It is the first and only time that ChatGPT has ever sent 404 Media a paid subscriber.

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From what I can tell you, ChatGPT.com has sent us 1600 page views since we founded 404 Media

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nearly two years ago.

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To give you a sense of where this slots in, this is slightly fewer than the

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and Hungarian news portal, telex.hu.hu.

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The Polish news aggregator, ycop.pl.

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And barely more than the Russian news aggregator, dazen.ru, are you, sorry.

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The paywall jumping website, removepaywall.com.

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And a computer graphics job board called 80.lv.in.

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Oh, .lv.

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Period.

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Next sentence is, in that same time.

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I thought the .in, I thought that was part of the web address.

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I'll digress.

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In that same time, Google has sent roughly 3 million visitors or 187,400%

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more than ChatGPT.

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This is really neither here nor there because we have tried to set our website up

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to block ChatGPT from scraping us.

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Though it is clear this is not always working.

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But even for sites that don't block ChatGPT,

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now new research from the internet infrastructure company, Cloudflare,

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suggests that openAI is crawling 1,500 individual webpages

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for every one visitor that it is sending to a website.

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Google traffic has become the dry up.

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And as both Google's own AI snippets and AI-powered SEO spam

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have obliterated the business models of many media websites.

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This general dynamic, plummeting traffic because of AI snippets,

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ChatGPT, AI slot, Twitter, no workies so good no more,

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has been called the traffic apocalypse

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and has all been killed some other smaller websites

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and has been blamed by executives for hundreds of layoffs at larger ones.

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Despite the fact that generative AI has become a destructive force

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against their business, their industry, and the truth more broadly,

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media executives still see AI as a business opportunity

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and a shiny object that they can tell investors

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and their staffs that they are very bullish on.

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They have to say this, I guess, because everything else

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they have tried hasn't worked

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and pretending that they are forward-thinking or have any clue

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what they are doing will perhaps allow a specific type of media executive

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to squeeze out a few more months of salary.

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But pivoting to AI is not a business strategy

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telling journalists they must use AI as a business strategy

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or as not a business strategy.

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Partnering with AI companies is a business move

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but becoming reliant on revenue from tech giants

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who are creating a machine that duplicates the work you've already created

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is not a smart or sustainable business move

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and therefore it is not a smart business strategy.

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It is true that AI is changing the internet

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and is threatening journalists and media outlets

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but the only AI related business strategy

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that makes any sense whatsoever

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is one where media companies and journalists

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must go to great pains

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to show their audiences that they are human beings

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and that the work that they are doing

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is worth supporting because it is human work

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that it is vital to their audiences.

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This is something GQ's editorial director Will Welch

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recently told New York Magazine

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the good news for any digital publishers

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that the new game we all have to play

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is also a sustainable one.

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You have to build a direct relationship with your core readers.

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Becoming an AI first media company

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has become a buzzword that execs can point at

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to explain that their businesses can use AI

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to become more efficient

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and thus have a chance to become more profitable.

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Often but not always

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this message comes from executives

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who are laying off large swaths

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of their human staff.

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In May, Business Insider laid off

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a 21% of its workforce.

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In her layoff letter, Business Insider CEO

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Barbara Peng said there's a huge opportunity

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for companies who harness AI first.

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She told the remaining employees there

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that they are fully embracing AI.

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We are going all in on AI

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and said over 70% of Business Insider employees

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are already using Enterprise Chat GPT regularly.

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Our goal is 100%.

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And we're building prompt libraries

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and sharing everyday use cases

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that help us work faster,

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smarter and better, she added.

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They are exploring how AI can boost

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operations across shared services

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helping us scale and operate more efficiently.

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Last year, Hearst Newspapers

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executives who operate 78 newspapers nationwide

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told the company in an all hands meeting

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audio obtained by 404 media

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that they are leaning into AI

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as Hearst overall, the entire corporation.

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Examples given in the meeting included

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using AI for slide decks,

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a quiz generation tool for readers,

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translations, a tool called Dispatch

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which is an email summarization tool

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and a tool called assembly

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which is basically a public meeting

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monitor, transcriber, summarizer all in one.

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I've got no problem with companies

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big and small using AI

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to help them work.

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I use AI to make this podcast.

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I use AI to make my music,

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to convey messages.

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I use AI to prove for what I write

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because I suck when it comes to writing.

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Not so much the concepts

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it's getting it down into words

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where I have the problem.

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This kind of goes along with

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all these videos that I keep seeing

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from the big YouTubers

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in the music industry

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griping and complaining about Suno.

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Anybody can write a song, a hit song

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and there's one AI band

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on Spotify

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that's got way over a million

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listens.

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I can't think of their name right now.

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It's not my kind of music

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but that's why I don't listen.

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And plus I'm not on Spotify

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because I got kicked off.

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Which side note

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I do have an opportunity

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and I want to get you guys as input.

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I can submit

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the podcast version of the show

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to Spotify

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through Substack.

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So it's not going to be in my name

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so I could

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get back on to Spotify

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without

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having my name on it

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should I do it

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or should I just stick the finger to Spotify

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and tell them to go fuck off.

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Because there's a

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we've got a podcast on Substack

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there's a button that says

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you know

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to Spotify.

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So I'm thinking about hitting that button

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because it's just like a

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one-click thing and I don't have to really

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go to Spotify to use it

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or to do it

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but it would be

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it would be nice to be able to say

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if you can't find me on this, this and this

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look for the show on Spotify

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because nearly everybody's on Spotify.

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But anyway, I digress.

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These YouTubers that are

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griping and complaining

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that you can go create

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a song

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on Soono

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with quote-unquote no effort

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and it's all done because somebody else did it

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blah blah blah

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you're stealing other people's work

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blah blah

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okay I'm going to argue

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with that point

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because

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even if at this point

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in the history of music

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there is nothing original

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there is no lick

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no guitar riff

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no drum riff

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no bass riff

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no lyric

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no story

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no concept

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that has not been done already

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by many, many other people

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before you

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I get, you know, I am a musician myself

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I played guitar since I was 13 years old

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and I'm 55 now

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there is no

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song that I've ever wrote

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even when I was in the band

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no part of any song

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that we ever wrote

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was 100% original

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there is no song on

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anywhere

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that is 100% original

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everything is based off of

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that user

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or that user

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that individual musician

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or group of musicians

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is based on their experiences

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with other music they've heard

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before

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so are they

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original

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did they not rip off and copy

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other songs

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I mean yeah there are blatant

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rip off songs out there

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and there is copyright infringement

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galore in the music industry

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but you know

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arguing the point that

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AI and sudo

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is blatant rip offs

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is not the point you should be making

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if you want to go after AI music

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go after them

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for

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what's the word I'm looking for

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scraping

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the music to train their models for free

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that's where

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the argument should be made

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the argument should not be made

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that

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the entirety of AI music

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is a rip off

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because

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it's not

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the only reason you're saying it's a rip off

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and especially these large youtubers

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is because they want their money

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they want their little world to check

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they want to be like sting

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and get paid $2,000

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anytime

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was it every breath you take gets played on the radio

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no matter where it is in the world

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they want that

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they want their notoriety they want to be known

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they want their 15 minutes of fame

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they don't really care about the music

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they don't care about

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an idea that they're expressing

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a story in the song that's why I like indie music

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independent bands, independent music

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that's why I've been doing that since 2006

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because the music better

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there's more passion than what you listen to

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on the damn radio

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I can't tell you the last time I listened to a terrestrial radio station

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because it's literally nothing more

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than

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a record label

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a music label saying

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I can't really say record anymore but

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a music label

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endorsing and telling you who you should be listening to

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and liking now

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it's got nothing to do

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with whether or not the song is good

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I've heard indie songs

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tiny little indie songs

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and then I'll go listen to the radio

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just not purposely listen to the radio

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but I'll just be walking by somebody

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and they'll be playing this thing

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and it's like somebody big like Taylor Swift

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and the song sounds

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just like an indie song that I heard

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and it's like, really?

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who's this?

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Andrew Loper says that

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he does listen to fluid radio

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what is that some kind of

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LGBTQ radio

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the music is fluid

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it might be hard

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it might be Lawrence Welk Polka

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he says not gender fluid

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music fluid

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I know

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I've heard him before

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sorry Andrew Loper

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see this is kind of fun we could have

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in a chat room

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watch for the show notes

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the show notes will be over at libertytunes.substack.com

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and yeah

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the Maik Street chat room will be in there

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so anyways

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now that I've got D-Rail there from Andrew Loper

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back to the thing

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AI is just a tool

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these people that use it

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it empowers

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the little guy

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and the ones that you're hearing the bitch the most about it

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are the big corporations

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when it comes to like music

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you don't hear

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the little independent

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musician

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bitch about

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you know somebody

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you do hear them gripe

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mainly because they didn't get their royalty

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or what have you

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but I'm of the sound

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my brain thought

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I believe information should be free

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it should not be pay walled

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it should not be gate kept

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by

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anybody

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and I feel the same about music

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if you are truly and really

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about the music and you're passionate

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about what you write as a musician

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if you want people to hear it

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you want people to play it

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you don't want

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some multi

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mega million dollar corporation

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to gate keep it

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because what they will do is they will

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they pick and choose the winners

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there are lots and lots

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of times and examples

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over the years in the music industry

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where a music label will sign

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an up and coming local band

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somewhere in the states it's real popular around

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Nashville, LA, New York

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they will sign these bands

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give them a 2 EP

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record contract

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and then they disappear

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they record

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their music

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and then they never get promoted

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they never get thrown on the national stage

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unless they fit a certain

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mold

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that they can

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market towards on a national

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stage

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there are different levels

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in the music industry

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just like any industry you got the small

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little people then you got the mid range

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and then you got the national

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and then you got the world stage

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me, my band

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we were on the local

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almost pretty much at the state level

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we didn't really get

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outside of the state of Michigan

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but we were known

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as a live band

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and we never want, not once

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recorded at actual CD

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or EP

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if you look for it you'll find

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clips of us and even full songs of us

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playing live on stage

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a slight case of death

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it's, we were known as being

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a party band

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and we did have a little

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small little following that would follow us from city to city

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whether we played in Saginaw, whether we played in Lansing

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whether we played in Detroit

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it didn't matter they would be there

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they were like our own little

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dead heads, you know the grateful dead head

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people that would follow them around the country

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we had the Scott squad

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and it was fun

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but if we would have gotten the sign

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we never would have gotten anywhere

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mainly because one of our most popular songs

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was called Dear Mother

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and the chorus of it was literally

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Jesus doesn't love you anymore

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we were not a polka man

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and we had another

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song that was quite popular

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it was meant to be a joke song

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that Gary the singer he wrote it

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and it was not meant to ever

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get popular because it was just a joke

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it was a comedy song

27:21.840 --> 27:24.640
and it came to be known as ALB

27:25.260 --> 27:27.740
which stands for awesome lesbian boobies

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and it's like a country little folk song

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and it was fun

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but it got to be one of our most requested songs

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every time we showed up to a show

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and that's usually what we ended up

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with was awesome lesbian boobies

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and it's awesome

27:50.080 --> 27:53.640
it's fun hearing people sing along to that song

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but I digress

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let's move on to another new story

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holy shit we're like

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three-fourth of the way through the show

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damn

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here

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okay let's get into some kind of scary news

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the EU could be scanning your chats by October

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here's everything that we know this is from techradar

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Denmark has

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Denmark has reintroduced

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excuse me the disputed

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excuse me I shouldn't try to check that while I was

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playing that promo

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anyways Denmark has reintroduced

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the disputed child sexual abuse scanning bill

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or CCA

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on the first day of its EU presidency

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the so-called chat control proposal could be

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adopted as early as October 14th, 2025

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the proposal has been failing

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to attract the needed majority

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since May of 2022

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Denmark kicked off its EU presidency

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on July 1st and among its first actions

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lawmakers swiftly reintroduced

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the controversial child sexual abuse scanning bill

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to the top of the agenda

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having been deemed by critics as chat control

29:43.880 --> 29:47.480
the bill aims to introduce new obligations

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for all messaging services operating in Europe

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to scan users chats even if they're encrypted

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the proposal however has been falling to attract

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failing to attract the needed majority

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since May 2022 with Poland's presidency

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being the last to give up on such a plan

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Denmark is a strong supporter of chat control

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now the new rules could be adopted

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as early as October 14th

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if the Danish presidency manages to find a middle

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ground among the country's members

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the Danish parliament has not yet disclosed the contents

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of the new compromises at the time of writing

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we know that another meeting is scheduled

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for later this week July 11th

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so the stories can hold

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with lawmakers expected to deliberate on the bill

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on October 14th

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we also know that among the objectives of the Danish EU presidency

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there's a commitment to focus on strengthening the abilities

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to make use of the digital development law enforcement

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when fighting serious crime

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while also addressing the misuse of new technologies

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for criminal or harmful purposes

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so-called chat control

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aims to halt the spread of CCAM content

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online by scanning all communications

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especially encrypted ones

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over the years however the proposal has seen some twists

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and turns as privacy advocates, technologists

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and even politicians have raised concerns

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experts worry that these new obligations

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will undermine encryption protections

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encryption is the technology that likes the likes of

31:25.000 --> 31:27.160
WhatsApp signal proton mail

31:27.160 --> 31:30.220
and even the best VPN apps used to scramble

31:30.220 --> 31:33.040
user's messages into an unreadable form

31:33.040 --> 31:35.160
preventing unauthorized access

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and guaranteeing that chats remain private

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as per its first version

31:39.920 --> 31:43.660
all messaging software providers would be required

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to perform indiscriminate scanning

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of private messages to look for CCAM

31:48.260 --> 31:50.820
so-called client side scanning

31:50.820 --> 31:54.300
the proposal was met with a strong backlash

31:54.300 --> 31:56.660
and the European Court of Human Rights

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ended up banning all legal efforts to weaken encryption

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of secure communications in Europe

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in June of 2024, Belgium then proposed

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a new text target, only shared photos

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videos and URLs

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upon user's permission

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this version didn't satisfy either the industry

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or voting EU members

32:18.040 --> 32:19.660
due to its coercive nature

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as per the Belgian text

32:21.820 --> 32:23.620
users must give consent

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to shared material being scanned

32:26.400 --> 32:27.740
before being encrypted

32:27.740 --> 32:29.940
to keep using the functionality

32:30.820 --> 32:33.300
fast forward to February 2025

32:33.300 --> 32:35.600
Poland tried to fight a better compromise

32:35.600 --> 32:38.680
by making the scanning of encrypted chats voluntary

32:38.680 --> 32:42.120
instead of a mandatory and classified prevention

32:42.120 --> 32:45.500
while experts found this version to be major progress

32:45.500 --> 32:48.500
they still lamented the risk of mass surveillance

32:48.500 --> 32:51.500
and ultimately lawmakers failed to attract

32:51.500 --> 32:52.520
the needed majority

32:52.520 --> 32:55.600
we could then expect the Danish text

32:55.600 --> 32:57.820
to try finding a compromise

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that appeals to most of the country's members

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according to the former MEP

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for the German private party

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Patrick Breyer, Denmark

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crucially needs to manage

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to convince Germany

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of its proposed text

33:14.600 --> 33:17.400
the new government has not yet taken a position

33:17.400 --> 33:18.580
at the time of writing

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what's certain however

33:20.680 --> 33:23.400
is that controversial CCM scanning bill

33:23.400 --> 33:25.820
is far from being the only purpose

33:26.580 --> 33:27.320
proposal

33:27.320 --> 33:30.100
threatening encryption in Europe

33:30.100 --> 33:33.540
in the latest of these efforts on June 24th

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the EU Commission published the first step

33:35.680 --> 33:37.540
in its protect EU strategy

33:37.540 --> 33:40.260
which looked to enable law enforcement

33:40.260 --> 33:42.880
bodies to decrypt

33:42.880 --> 33:45.660
your private data by 2030

33:46.460 --> 33:48.800
encryption is going to be illegal

33:48.800 --> 33:51.260
whether you like it or not

33:54.180 --> 33:55.620
I'm telling you guys

33:58.540 --> 34:01.640
it's getting extremely extremely

34:01.640 --> 34:03.520
extremely scary

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yeah

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he's saying that the interoper

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we're saying that the one that I'm reading

34:14.700 --> 34:16.360
is related to the one I read earlier

34:18.060 --> 34:19.680
see how British government

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silenced the free press

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and made truth illegal

34:23.360 --> 34:25.680
this is from Reclaim the Net

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if you guys haven't

34:28.560 --> 34:30.300
ever checked out Reclaim the Net

34:30.300 --> 34:31.540
they got some really great articles

34:31.540 --> 34:32.840
ReclaimtheNet.org

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there are cover-ups and then there's

34:36.240 --> 34:38.180
whatever the British government just pulled

34:40.320 --> 34:42.540
imagine torching 7 billion

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pounds that's 9.4 billion

34:45.100 --> 34:47.200
US of public money

34:47.200 --> 34:48.940
risking 100,000 lives

34:48.940 --> 34:51.140
creating an immigration scandal

34:51.140 --> 34:53.180
and then when the inevitable

34:53.180 --> 34:54.440
outrage starts to bubble

34:55.060 --> 34:57.200
slapping a gag order on the entire country

34:57.200 --> 34:58.540
and pretending it never happened

34:59.180 --> 35:00.720
this is banana public behavior

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with better tailoring

35:03.100 --> 35:05.500
almost sounds like the US

35:05.500 --> 35:07.640
anyways because the

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yeah because for nearly two years

35:10.320 --> 35:11.620
they said super injunction

35:11.620 --> 35:13.720
the kind usually deployed when a

35:13.720 --> 35:15.360
Premier League footballers

35:15.360 --> 35:17.380
pants have wandered off again

35:17.380 --> 35:19.500
was used to silence journalists

35:19.500 --> 35:20.780
and the free press

35:21.220 --> 35:23.500
gag parliament and stopped the public

35:23.500 --> 35:25.980
from learning that the Ministry of Defense

35:25.980 --> 35:27.320
had done something

35:27.320 --> 35:29.420
catastrophically inept

35:29.420 --> 35:31.960
it began in August 2023

35:31.960 --> 35:33.400
when journalist David Williams

35:33.400 --> 35:35.740
discovered that the Ministry of Defense

35:35.740 --> 35:37.500
had managed to leak the identities

35:37.500 --> 35:40.160
of 18,800

35:41.080 --> 35:41.840
Afghans

35:42.360 --> 35:44.220
who had worked with British forces

35:44.220 --> 35:46.300
drivers and translators

35:46.300 --> 35:48.120
their families included

35:48.120 --> 35:50.700
we're talking about 100,000 people now

35:50.700 --> 35:53.120
allegedly squarely in the

35:53.120 --> 35:54.200
Taliban's crosshairs

35:54.200 --> 35:56.360
all because some bright spark

35:56.360 --> 35:57.780
couldn't handle a spreadsheet

35:58.400 --> 36:00.580
someone in Whitehall realized

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explaining to the public how

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a government that wants to introduce

36:05.040 --> 36:05.820
digital IDs

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biometric databases

36:07.740 --> 36:09.940
and centralized health records

36:10.460 --> 36:12.260
can't even keep the data of war zone

36:12.260 --> 36:14.080
informants safe might just

36:14.080 --> 36:16.700
might be a tough sell

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now in a functioning

36:18.620 --> 36:20.480
democracy this is what

36:20.480 --> 36:21.700
this is the point where

36:21.700 --> 36:23.840
the government admits the error

36:24.420 --> 36:25.440
apologizes profusely

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and gets on with fixing the mess

36:28.320 --> 36:29.680
that's not what happened

36:29.680 --> 36:31.800
indeed the conservative government

36:31.800 --> 36:32.480
went nuclear

36:32.480 --> 36:34.460
it reached for a super injunction

36:34.460 --> 36:37.140
a legal instrument so secretive

36:37.140 --> 36:39.460
that you can't even mention that it exists

36:40.200 --> 36:42.300
it's the Voldemort of British law

36:42.300 --> 36:44.320
he who must not be named

36:44.320 --> 36:46.700
and also must not be reported on

36:46.700 --> 36:48.400
discussed in parliament

36:48.400 --> 36:50.860
or even acknowledged in polite German

36:50.860 --> 36:52.100
or polite company

36:52.940 --> 36:54.680
ever since the day to hit the

36:54.680 --> 36:55.420
fan ministers

36:56.560 --> 36:58.320
hidden behind a wall of censorship

36:58.320 --> 36:59.960
so thick that it could double as a

36:59.960 --> 37:01.240
North Korean border post

37:01.240 --> 37:03.420
have been quietly orchestrating

37:03.420 --> 37:04.960
one of the largest peacetime

37:04.960 --> 37:08.200
migration missions in British history

37:08.880 --> 37:10.380
not that they told the

37:10.380 --> 37:11.980
tax-paying public of course

37:11.980 --> 37:13.280
or parliament

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or anyone

37:14.640 --> 37:17.500
who wasn't legally bound to pretend

37:17.500 --> 37:18.500
it wasn't happening

37:18.500 --> 37:20.800
they went full cloak and dagger

37:20.800 --> 37:22.940
smuggling thousands of Afghans

37:22.940 --> 37:24.280
out of a collapsing country

37:24.280 --> 37:27.300
into Britain on taxpayer funded flights

37:27.300 --> 37:29.300
all while maintaining the

37:29.300 --> 37:31.300
straight-faced lie that nothing

37:31.300 --> 37:32.380
was going on

37:33.020 --> 37:35.440
so far 18,500 people who

37:35.440 --> 37:36.960
stated it was lost in the ministry

37:36.960 --> 37:39.440
of defense's catastrophic blunder

37:39.440 --> 37:41.460
have either arrived in Britain

37:41.460 --> 37:43.060
or on in route

37:43.060 --> 37:45.760
stuffed into chartered jets

37:45.760 --> 37:47.420
the public paid for

37:47.420 --> 37:48.680
without being asked

37:49.280 --> 37:51.400
another 5,400

37:51.400 --> 37:53.080
are queued up to follow

37:53.080 --> 37:54.960
they're currently being housed

37:54.960 --> 37:56.660
in M.O.D. homes

37:56.660 --> 37:59.280
or hotels on the taxpayer's dime

37:59.280 --> 38:01.140
another reason Prime Minister

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Keir Starmer's government

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likely wanted to keep the

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super injunction in place when he became

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Prime Minister

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for fear of facing even more public at

38:10.460 --> 38:12.200
backlash that he's already receiving

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let's be clear about what this

38:14.320 --> 38:15.400
super injunction did

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it did more than ban journalists from

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publishing the truth

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it prevented parliament from

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talking about it

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it made it illegal to reveal the existence

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of the order itself

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for nearly two years

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Britain was living under a state-sanctioned

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lie of omission

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and the people who were

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gagged

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the very ones tasked with holding

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power to account

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this is not typically how a democracy

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behaves this is how a

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dodgy offshore bank operates

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or a mid-tier dictatorship

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with delusions of grandeur

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you do not

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under any same definition of a free society

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get to blow 7 billion

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pounds on a secret

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resettlement program

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and then deploy stealth censorship

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to bury the consequences for your own incompetence

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yet that's precisely

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what happened

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Justice Chamberlain who heard

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the case in secret courtrooms was

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reportedly stunned to learn

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that government officials were actively

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planning to lie to MPs

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his actual words

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a very very striking thing

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for a high court judge

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that's basically incandescent

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rage

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we've now entered a world

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where the government can simply decide

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that public interest isn't

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well in the public's interest

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super injunctions originally

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designed to stop tabloid editors

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from splashing scandal across every page

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three have become the swiss army knife

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of political embarrassment and management

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and what's more disturbing

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is how quietly it all

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happened no headlines

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no debates just two years of eerie silence

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while the government conducted

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one of the most politically

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expensive operations in modern British history

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never had I witnessed such

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an extraordinary scene

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in almost 30 years of reporting from the press

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bitches of the royal courts

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wrote Daily Mail

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chief reporter Sam Greenhill

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saying that the judge

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appeared genuinely

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incredulous that the government

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was preparing to actively proceed

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DC parliament

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here are the ways the British state

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just showed us it can gag

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mislead and trample liberty

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and a silk glove

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they gagged the press from reporting

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on matters of public interest

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the super junction wasn't

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content only hiding the details

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of the MOD's monumental

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data catastrophe

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if forbade anyone from even acknowledging

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the gag existed

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that's reality control

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Orwell would have lit a cigarette and wept

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journalists couldn't report

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editors couldn't a hint

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the public

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the people paying for all this

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were told nothing

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number two

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they allow the government to mislead parliament

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and the public

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with the press

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ministers had a field day

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spinning fantasy in the commons

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they deliberately concealed the fact

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that they were moving thousands of Afghans

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into the country and at a time

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when immigration is the number one concern

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of the public according to the polls

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justice chamberlain

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reportedly looked visibly disturbed

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in one secret hearing when

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officials revealed they were

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preparing to tell the elected members

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of parliament something deliberately

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and misleading and what happened

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nothing

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courts nodded gag remained

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taxpayer misprinted

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democracy is treated

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like an inconvenient bump in the road

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number three

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they bypassed democratic oversight and institutional checks

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even parliament's intelligence

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and security committee

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the people who were legally

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were supposed to know about this stuff

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were left out of the loop the executive branch

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simply decided it didn't need the supervision anymore

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number four

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the invert the role of the courts

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in a free society

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here's a fun twist the courts

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whose job is ostensibly to protect

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civil liberties were used

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as the government's personal bodyguard

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shielding ministries from embarrassment

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while throttling the press

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judicial robes

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returned into legal armor

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for executive lockups

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you expect judges to be the firewall

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between government overreach and public freedom

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instead they were the gatekeepers of secrecy

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the legal system was weaponized

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against the very people

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it was supposed to protect

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they prioritized state embarrassment

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over genuine security

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the dsma notice system

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originally designed to stop packs

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from leaking nuclear launch codes

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or troop movements

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was activated because ministers

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were at risk of a bad headline

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the real national emergency

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was a pr fallout

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number six

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they threatened journalistic freedom

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and chilled investigative reporting

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journalists were legally strangled

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even as the government later admitted

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these reporters had performed

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a very necessary public service

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they still tried to gag them

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for nearly two years

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number seven

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they contradict the liberal democratic

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principles

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in case we've all forgotten

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in a liberal democracy

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the government is supposed to fear the press

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not the other way around

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super injunctions flip up

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flip this on its head

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creating a reality where public servants act like

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private oligarchs

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hiding decisions that affect millions behind

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legal iron curtains

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number eight the UK lacked a constitutional

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free speech guarantee

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here's the tragic punchline

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unlike the United States where the First Amendment

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would treat a super injunction

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like the bubonic plague

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the UK has no constitutional projection

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for freedom of expression

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which means when ministers decide to shove

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dissent into a sack

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and drown it in legalese

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there's precious little the courts can do

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or will do to stop it

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number nine

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they undermine public debate on critical

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policy decisions

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this was a seven billion dollar

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migration program carried out

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in total darkness

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it involved flights, housing, free hotels

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resource allocation

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and massive public impact

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and the public

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utterly excluded from the debate

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were still when local tensions flared

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including riots in towns, housing

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migrants

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no one could speak honestly about what was going on

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because honesty had been declared illegal

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number ten

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they established a dangerous precedent

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for future censorship

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and finally

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the real horror this worked

44:47.280 --> 44:48.780
for nearly two years

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the government ran a secret

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expensive risky and morally fraught operation

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and got away with it

44:54.160 --> 44:56.760
if this becomes a playbook for future crisis

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then they've just

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pioneered censorship by precedent

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what began as the emergency measure

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is now a neat little work around

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for policy failure

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don't want the answer for it

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slap a gag on it

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don't want the public involved

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call it classified

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don't want parliament

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poking around

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say it's out of preview and carry on spending

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because now they know they can

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and unless this entire fiasco

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sparks real reform

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actual limits on injuctions

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real free speech protections

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and courts willing to rediscover their spines

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they will do it again

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and once you've seen a scandal like this

45:35.100 --> 45:36.920
dragged kicking and screaming into daylight

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you can't help but wonder

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what else is being hidden behind

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velvet curtain courtrooms

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and conveniently redacted memos

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it's a million dollar

45:47.200 --> 45:48.920
multi-billion pound operation

45:49.540 --> 45:51.540
involving national security

45:51.540 --> 45:52.920
mass migration

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and a catastrophic data breach

45:54.880 --> 45:56.620
can be buried for years

45:56.620 --> 45:58.020
under legal quicksand

45:58.560 --> 46:00.740
what smaller disasters are quietly

46:00.740 --> 46:02.040
rotting in the dark

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how many other narratives have been

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quietly managed

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into non-existence

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while the public is spoon fed

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whatever sanitized dribble passes

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to cabinet office sniff test

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is there a byline on this

46:17.020 --> 46:18.500
cause that was very well written

46:20.960 --> 46:22.340
scroll to the top

46:23.160 --> 46:24.660
the cam wake

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wakefield cam wakefield

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over on reclaim the net

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dot org

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great great article

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I love his love that

46:35.760 --> 46:37.220
I'm going to

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do some more searching for him

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um

46:42.620 --> 46:44.800
yeah we're down to 14 minutes left

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wow

46:48.160 --> 46:49.720
this two hours

46:49.720 --> 46:50.940
just went by fast

46:51.680 --> 46:51.980
usually

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there's times that I'll be like

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okay

46:56.860 --> 47:00.100
I gotta find something to talk about

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or something to play

47:01.760 --> 47:03.900
and then it comes up with something like this

47:03.900 --> 47:04.400
and it's like

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wow

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that went super quick

47:09.690 --> 47:10.760
that went stupid quick

47:11.360 --> 47:13.160
but I've got two songs I want to play

47:14.280 --> 47:14.780
um

47:15.760 --> 47:16.260
yeah

47:17.980 --> 47:19.440
this is a hammer on down

47:19.440 --> 47:20.920
this is the other one that I wrote

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yeah

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I've written all the songs

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but yeah all the songs

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that I play are great

47:28.400 --> 47:29.880
anyways I digress

47:29.880 --> 47:30.500
here we go

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in every reason to run

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I'll break the dawn

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yeah

51:03.480 --> 51:05.600
I do feel

51:07.820 --> 51:09.520
I don't want to sound like

51:09.520 --> 51:11.620
I'm throwing pity out there

51:11.620 --> 51:13.620
because we really don't have it

51:13.620 --> 51:15.560
that much better over here in the states

51:15.560 --> 51:17.780
but I do feel

51:19.700 --> 51:21.580
bad for you people over

51:21.580 --> 51:22.520
in the EU because

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you don't have that constitution that can

51:26.320 --> 51:27.080
somewhat

51:27.080 --> 51:28.060
protect you

51:28.060 --> 51:30.080
but it doesn't really

51:31.180 --> 51:33.680
even the US constitution

51:33.680 --> 51:34.360
doesn't

51:34.360 --> 51:36.960
the way it's doing now

51:36.960 --> 51:39.280
anymore it's not really

51:39.280 --> 51:40.200
protecting us

51:40.200 --> 51:42.120
all that much at all

51:43.000 --> 51:43.380
um

51:45.140 --> 51:47.620
but yeah we're getting close to the end here

51:47.620 --> 51:49.240
one final

51:49.240 --> 51:50.840
song that I'm going to play

51:51.680 --> 51:53.200
it's blood on the stripes

51:53.200 --> 51:55.140
and it's calling out

51:55.140 --> 51:59.100
a lot of things that the US

51:59.100 --> 52:00.880
government did to its citizens

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everything from

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killing the Indians

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and massacring them to

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you know

52:11.070 --> 52:13.080
wow I mean it's just

52:15.050 --> 52:17.020
a good question Interloper

52:17.020 --> 52:19.340
I told him it may not be

52:19.340 --> 52:21.020
economically feasible to

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but you know move

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and he said the question is

52:24.860 --> 52:26.660
where to that's a great question

52:26.660 --> 52:28.500
because the entire world is becoming

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blatantly

52:31.960 --> 52:32.580
fascist

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there's I mean there's no other

52:35.020 --> 52:36.600
word to say it

52:36.600 --> 52:38.220
you know it's

52:41.820 --> 52:43.260
if you haven't

52:43.260 --> 52:44.880
figured out by now it's not

52:44.880 --> 52:46.140
left versus right

52:46.800 --> 52:48.720
it's not red versus blue

52:50.260 --> 52:51.380
it's the state

52:51.380 --> 52:52.420
versus you

52:54.540 --> 52:56.460
the state being the government

52:57.100 --> 52:58.740
to put it in you know

52:58.740 --> 53:00.400
the bare

53:01.320 --> 53:02.480
minimum terms

53:03.640 --> 53:04.620
the state

53:04.620 --> 53:05.860
versus you

53:06.680 --> 53:07.940
now listen to this

53:07.940 --> 53:09.860
and we'll see you guys again next week

53:09.860 --> 53:12.920
I'm going to do my best to actually do it

53:12.920 --> 53:13.620
on Friday night

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and Saturday afternoon next week

53:17.000 --> 53:18.840
so we'll catch you guys again

53:18.840 --> 53:21.060
the next time be good be safe

53:21.060 --> 53:22.560
don't stick your finger where you went

53:22.560 --> 53:23.160
stick your face

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oh we'll lose it all

54:48.840 --> 55:18.880
stand up and burn your home

55:18.880 --> 55:20.560
they'll break your will

55:20.560 --> 55:22.640
stack the bodies hide

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or is there thrill

55:23.860 --> 55:27.100
fast and furious guns in the night

55:27.100 --> 55:28.920
rubies go scream

55:28.920 --> 55:30.860
this ain't right

55:30.860 --> 55:32.480
the feds to leave

55:32.480 --> 55:34.000
suckin life away

55:34.000 --> 55:35.720
rebel every dawn

55:35.720 --> 55:37.400
or we're slaves by day

55:37.400 --> 55:38.880
every deal in the dark

55:38.880 --> 55:40.580
every law they bend

55:40.580 --> 55:43.640
steals your voice brings the end again

55:43.640 --> 55:45.200
they shred it slow

55:45.200 --> 55:46.920
piece by piece they take

55:46.920 --> 55:50.040
a quiet theft till the spirit breaks

55:50.040 --> 55:51.680
but the fire's alive

55:51.680 --> 55:53.300
in the rebels vein

55:53.300 --> 55:55.000
smash their grip

55:55.380 --> 55:56.660
unleash the pain

55:59.820 --> 56:36.830
paint scars carved

56:36.830 --> 56:38.230
tales of the betrayed

56:38.230 --> 56:41.270
from 90s planes to the games they played

56:41.270 --> 56:42.830
each song a brick

56:42.830 --> 56:44.490
in the wall we tear

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a battle cry loud through the poisoned air

56:47.770 --> 56:49.450
liberty's shredded

56:49.450 --> 56:50.990
but the spark holds tight

56:50.990 --> 56:53.510
every fist we raise keeps the flame

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alight stand every hour

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guard what's yours

56:57.510 --> 56:59.110
so they'll lock the cage

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and bolt the door