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Ezra Levant

👤 Speaker
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

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

And if you said anything that was contrarian about the pandemic, even things that are now accepted, like the likelihood that it came from the Wuhan Virology Center or Research Center, You would be demonetized, so you wouldn't be able to sell ads. You would be throttled in various ways. You would be suspended. That happened to us. We were growing at 8% per month.

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

And if you said anything that was contrarian about the pandemic, even things that are now accepted, like the likelihood that it came from the Wuhan Virology Center or Research Center, You would be demonetized, so you wouldn't be able to sell ads. You would be throttled in various ways. You would be suspended. That happened to us. We were growing at 8% per month.

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

And if you said anything that was contrarian about the pandemic, even things that are now accepted, like the likelihood that it came from the Wuhan Virology Center or Research Center, You would be demonetized, so you wouldn't be able to sell ads. You would be throttled in various ways. You would be suspended. That happened to us. We were growing at 8% per month.

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

Not quite the stats that you described, but back in 2015, 2016, we were the largest YouTube news service in Canada. More than Global News, more than CTV. Those are massive billion-dollar companies. We were bigger. And then... bam, in January 2017, we were cut by 85%. And then they later just took it all down to zero.

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

Not quite the stats that you described, but back in 2015, 2016, we were the largest YouTube news service in Canada. More than Global News, more than CTV. Those are massive billion-dollar companies. We were bigger. And then... bam, in January 2017, we were cut by 85%. And then they later just took it all down to zero.

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

Not quite the stats that you described, but back in 2015, 2016, we were the largest YouTube news service in Canada. More than Global News, more than CTV. Those are massive billion-dollar companies. We were bigger. And then... bam, in January 2017, we were cut by 85%. And then they later just took it all down to zero.

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

We still have about 1.7 million YouTube subscribers, and I love them, and we'll always give them content. But we're not allowed to put a single ad towards them or get what's called a super chat. And we love Rumble, which is a free speech alternative. But really, Elon Musk has... not only saved free speech, but I think through that, saved America. How are you guys doing on X?

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

We still have about 1.7 million YouTube subscribers, and I love them, and we'll always give them content. But we're not allowed to put a single ad towards them or get what's called a super chat. And we love Rumble, which is a free speech alternative. But really, Elon Musk has... not only saved free speech, but I think through that, saved America. How are you guys doing on X?

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

We still have about 1.7 million YouTube subscribers, and I love them, and we'll always give them content. But we're not allowed to put a single ad towards them or get what's called a super chat. And we love Rumble, which is a free speech alternative. But really, Elon Musk has... not only saved free speech, but I think through that, saved America. How are you guys doing on X?

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

Well, I mean, I love it. It doesn't make a lot of money for us.

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

Well, I mean, I love it. It doesn't make a lot of money for us.

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

Well, I mean, I love it. It doesn't make a lot of money for us.

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

But we have that kind of growth and engagement that we used to have back in the day at YouTube. And I hope Rumble continues to grow. Those guys have free speech on their mind, and they've— You know, they've got some big support. They're doing interesting deals, not just with social media, but cloud services. And I don't know, there's a lot of ways that censorship works. But I think...

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

But we have that kind of growth and engagement that we used to have back in the day at YouTube. And I hope Rumble continues to grow. Those guys have free speech on their mind, and they've— You know, they've got some big support. They're doing interesting deals, not just with social media, but cloud services. And I don't know, there's a lot of ways that censorship works. But I think...

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

But we have that kind of growth and engagement that we used to have back in the day at YouTube. And I hope Rumble continues to grow. Those guys have free speech on their mind, and they've— You know, they've got some big support. They're doing interesting deals, not just with social media, but cloud services. And I don't know, there's a lot of ways that censorship works. But I think...

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

I think the government has to get involved with rooting... Here's an example. Elon Musk and his doge, they're going through and finding all these cases where the government has been paying regime journalists.

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

I think the government has to get involved with rooting... Here's an example. Elon Musk and his doge, they're going through and finding all these cases where the government has been paying regime journalists.

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

I think the government has to get involved with rooting... Here's an example. Elon Musk and his doge, they're going through and finding all these cases where the government has been paying regime journalists.

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

I think it's actually closer to 30, and that's just through one particular program. And 99% of Canadian journalists are on that program. The CBC itself, the state broadcaster, is larger than... than all other media combined, all other news media combined.