This is a topic that i wanted to discuss for a minute, but i wanted to be able to take a couple days to sort of collect my thoughts and uh think about the best way to sort of approach this and how to talk about it. And now i feel pretty confident in uh sort of what i'd like to discuss. There was a interview done by the nelk boys right. These guys are a group of podcasters.

They also make other content, but if you want to check them out, uh they're on youtube, the full send podcast. This is led by a couple different guys. They're on twitter, you've got kyle over here, he's uh sort of the founder of the elk boys, and then you actually have the real uh nelk boys podcast available to you uh right here. They recently did a podcast with donald trump and uh.

If you aren't familiar, this actually got taken down by youtube and there's a you know the reason essentially stating that uh it was misinformation there was there was talks about the elections and the polls and all that sort of stuff, and i want to sort of approach This from an unpolitical uh perspective, an unbiased perspective. I don't like talking politics, i'm not really allowed to talk about politics for the time being, but i think that there's uh a story to be told here, uh and if you want to check out this interview, they actually put this up on their website, which is Why i'm showing this right here? You can go to fullsend.com and watch the full thing unfiltered, as it is no longer on youtube. I, but i think that there's an inherent desire within all of us as people to give power back to the people right. You kind of look at the way that uh narratives get spawned stories, get told and for quite a while, now decades, really uh, the main powerhouses have been mainstream media.

These are the guys who have been able to pitch information who get to uh, sell their agenda. Get you thinking what they want you to think and what's frustrating about mainstream media? Is you don't really get to choose whether or not they have power? What dictates their power? Is money they're able to to get their voices heard and have their opinions heard by money and the difference between mainstream media and youtube? Is you the viewer, get to decide who has credibility and who gets to be heard because ultimately, the subscribers and the views come from people digging what they're putting down and respecting what they have to say. So, ultimately, you know youtube is an opportunity to be able to pitch information a little less biased and you don't have to feel like there's sort of a hidden agenda behind whatever is happening with those situations. Now, obviously, there are scenarios in which that may not be the case.

You've got some bad actors whatever, but at the end of the day, i personally believe that youtube is a more trustable source than perhaps mainstream media. That seems to be the direction that we really are going uh and youtube took down this video. Now i don't want this to get twisted right. A lot of people have been arguing.

I've seen some videos, some react. Videos to this they've been saying what about what about freedom of speech right, and this is not about freedom of speech. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from repercussion. At the end of the day, big tech can decide whether or not they'd like to have their own agendas that they'd like to follow, uh and so be it.

You know they are able to do that. They're all they're able to take down videos if they believe it is misinformation. It is this. It is that whatever uh, but i think that there is something worth mentioning here and the big thing for me, this is my opinion.

Right is if you're going to be in a situation where you take down these videos where you you don't want people watching certain things on your platform uh. I think that takes away a conversation. Americans and people across the world frankly are intelligent enough to be able to watch something and read body language, read intention uh and be able to formulate their own opinion. If people believe that it is misinformation, they can do their own research.

They can dig into the facts they can dig into the data and determine that for themselves in the same way that you can look at somebody on mainstream media and say this guy's a cuck, this guy doesn't know what he's talking about. You know at the end of the day i see misinformation gets spread on mainstream media all the time, and you know that's ultimately their platform. They do what they want to do. They have their agenda, but as a as a youtuber as a guy who wants youtube to sort of surpass and supersede mainstream media.

I think there's a real opportunity here for the little guy, the average person to be able to have their voices heard and for them to decide who's credible and who's not now. Ultimately, there are things that i agreed with in this podcast or things that i didn't agree with in this podcast, and i don't even want to talk about that. What i'd like to talk about mainly, is just the censorship right. I want to see the depth of mainstream media.

I want to see the consumption of news and information come from a platform that is trustworthy and is driven by the voices of everybody, and i think youtube can do that. But i think ultimately uh the power comes in speaking out about these sort of things, and i'm not asking you to do that. I can't speak for you guys, but i'm i'm deciding to, because i personally believe that less censorship is probably better because unless it is endangering people's lives or it truly uh, it can stake the safety of a person right. Let people talk, have open dialogue and from youtube's perspective, to be completely frank, i i think they got to think about this in a way where they can monopolize their own platform, and then you know, there's always greatness in competition and competition is available for the time Being right, there's a whole bunch of different platforms out there that are trying to make it.

I know rumble probably is, is uh the biggest talk right and i think rumble could five ten years down the road overtake youtube if youtube continues down the path of censorship, and i think that's gon na change, how a lot of people view things so youtube should Feel incentivized to want to take down mainstream media. That's just more views, more eyeballs, more eyeballs, more clicks that are coming back to them that are going to ultimately be the death of that platform and the growth of this platform. You know so, i would really like to see. I would like to see some uh some some talk about this, some uh, maybe a reenlistment of the video, maybe a little less censorship.

At the end of the day, it's their platform right. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom for repercussion. They can do what they'd like to do with their platform, but big tech kind of plays a sketchy game when all they're doing is deciding what you can and cannot see, and this isn't just youtube. This is this is twitter.

This is facebook. This is instagram. This is a whole list of different tech names and i don't think censorship is the answer. I think open dialogue is the answer whether you agree or you don't agree.

Ultimately, the end of the day does not matter what matters is. If you can't even have the conversation in the first place, you've already lost, and i think this was a big step. I think, having a prior us president on a podcast on youtube. Instead of going to mainstream media, to talk about controversial topics was a big step towards saying: hey, look, mainstream media doesn't have to be here, their job doesn't have to exist.

This is this is stuff that can happen from a different platform that is not pushing an agenda uh that doesn't seem trustworthy, so i suppose that's kind of my piece at the end of the day, you know you guys can go, watch some different reactions to this. I uh, i personally am a fan of the elk boys. I like what these guys laid down. I like listening to their podcasts, especially, i think, there's some pretty good takes and some pretty good conversation that that takes place on all their different stuff.

So if you want to check that out feel free, i know this is uh, probably typical for me, but this is something i i felt pretty strongly about me and i think this is uh important conversation to be had and at the end of the day you Let me know what you think so uh, that's about it. That's about all. I got until the next one catch y'all later peace.