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Ezra Levant

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1028 total appearances

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

I saw a courageous professor, and those words don't go together very often, standing outside the University of Toronto making the case for freedom of speech while people tried to shout him down. And in fact, Antifa types brought loudspeakers to blast white noise. And we had our cameras there, and we said, who is this? And doesn't he know that he's going to get squashed?

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

I saw a courageous professor, and those words don't go together very often, standing outside the University of Toronto making the case for freedom of speech while people tried to shout him down. And in fact, Antifa types brought loudspeakers to blast white noise. And we had our cameras there, and we said, who is this? And doesn't he know that he's going to get squashed?

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

I saw a courageous professor, and those words don't go together very often, standing outside the University of Toronto making the case for freedom of speech while people tried to shout him down. And in fact, Antifa types brought loudspeakers to blast white noise. And we had our cameras there, and we said, who is this? And doesn't he know that he's going to get squashed?

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

Doesn't he know to bend the knee? And... And this was almost 10 years ago. It was 2016 in the fall, yeah. And we were citizen journalists just finding our legs. Rebel News was only born in 2015.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

Doesn't he know to bend the knee? And... And this was almost 10 years ago. It was 2016 in the fall, yeah. And we were citizen journalists just finding our legs. Rebel News was only born in 2015.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

Doesn't he know to bend the knee? And... And this was almost 10 years ago. It was 2016 in the fall, yeah. And we were citizen journalists just finding our legs. Rebel News was only born in 2015.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

That's right. And that was before the great— demonetization and cancellation of politically incorrect videos. It was the golden age for YouTubers. So things that were raw and interesting and real just zoomed on that channel. That all came to an end in early 2017 because all this bubbling, frothing conversation helped put Donald Trump in the White House in 2016.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

That's right. And that was before the great— demonetization and cancellation of politically incorrect videos. It was the golden age for YouTubers. So things that were raw and interesting and real just zoomed on that channel. That all came to an end in early 2017 because all this bubbling, frothing conversation helped put Donald Trump in the White House in 2016.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

That's right. And that was before the great— demonetization and cancellation of politically incorrect videos. It was the golden age for YouTubers. So things that were raw and interesting and real just zoomed on that channel. That all came to an end in early 2017 because all this bubbling, frothing conversation helped put Donald Trump in the White House in 2016.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

And Silicon Valley woke up and said, we did that. And so you saw Facebook and YouTube and Google learn about community guidelines and throttling and boosting, something that has really been going on to this day.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

And Silicon Valley woke up and said, we did that. And so you saw Facebook and YouTube and Google learn about community guidelines and throttling and boosting, something that has really been going on to this day.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

And Silicon Valley woke up and said, we did that. And so you saw Facebook and YouTube and Google learn about community guidelines and throttling and boosting, something that has really been going on to this day.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

A Google insider a few years back showed me some internal chats that they had in their company. There were more people at Google watching and talking and commenting and criticizing Rebel News than who worked for Rebel News. And we're a fraction of your size. So anything to touch your discoverability would be done – I wouldn't say a junior flunky. You're being too kind.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

A Google insider a few years back showed me some internal chats that they had in their company. There were more people at Google watching and talking and commenting and criticizing Rebel News than who worked for Rebel News. And we're a fraction of your size. So anything to touch your discoverability would be done – I wouldn't say a junior flunky. You're being too kind.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

A Google insider a few years back showed me some internal chats that they had in their company. There were more people at Google watching and talking and commenting and criticizing Rebel News than who worked for Rebel News. And we're a fraction of your size. So anything to touch your discoverability would be done – I wouldn't say a junior flunky. You're being too kind.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

And we know that this goes straight to the top. Mark Zuckerberg pretty much confessed to that a few weeks ago when he said he was going to stop doing that. We know from some lawsuits in the U.S., especially during the pandemic –

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

And we know that this goes straight to the top. Mark Zuckerberg pretty much confessed to that a few weeks ago when he said he was going to stop doing that. We know from some lawsuits in the U.S., especially during the pandemic –

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

And we know that this goes straight to the top. Mark Zuckerberg pretty much confessed to that a few weeks ago when he said he was going to stop doing that. We know from some lawsuits in the U.S., especially during the pandemic –

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

From the White House to the FBI to the CIA, there was so many different government organizations, including to do with health, that were plugged right in to the back end of social media, trying to throttle people even like RFK Jr. Oh, yeah, definitely.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
525. The War on Speech—and Those Who Dare to Fight It | Ezra Levant

From the White House to the FBI to the CIA, there was so many different government organizations, including to do with health, that were plugged right in to the back end of social media, trying to throttle people even like RFK Jr. Oh, yeah, definitely.