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Ezra Levant

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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.

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.