Ben Bankas

So this is the weird thing.

Venues will cancel my shows in Canada if 10 people complain, apparently, if they're loud enough.

Or, OK, oh, there was 50.

OK, there's 50 that they gathered over.

We had 900.

just buying tickets, then plus the other thousands that wanted to buy tickets that couldn't get tickets, plus the millions online.

And the venue seems to just only worry about liberal complaints because the second they cancel my show, what do they do?

They turn off comments on all their posts.

They turn off reviews on Facebook.

Any negative review on that venue that says, you guys canceled the show, I'm very upset about this, they just mark as spam and get it deleted.

So if they don't care about complaints coming from the right or from people who already bought tickets, who legitimately were going to go to your venue, but care about complaints from people who are never going to go to your venue, might not even live in your city, but are calling in,

is that a free country?

Is that a free speech?

No.

And this, the left pushes back and goes, well, it is free speech, but it's not free of consequences.

It's a sold out show.

It's been on sale for seven months.

We sold it out.

I did my part.

the venue decides to cancel it because they're getting complaints, that is a violation of free speech.