0:00:01.950,0:00:04.496 Thank you very much.[br]Thanks to everyone who stood up. 0:00:04.506,0:00:06.990 Unnecessary but very flattering. 0:00:07.380,0:00:09.762 Thank you, Jonathan,[br]for your very kind words. 0:00:10.483,0:00:12.320 Thank you, the Anti-Defamation League, 0:00:12.330,0:00:14.512 for this recognition 0:00:14.565,0:00:18.225 and your work in fighting racism,[br]hate and bigotry. 0:00:18.715,0:00:19.950 And to be clear, 0:00:20.041,0:00:22.318 when I say racism, hate, and bigotry 0:00:22.860,0:00:26.206 I'm not referring to the names[br]of Stephen Miller's labradoodles. 0:00:26.603,0:00:27.879 (Audience Laughs) 0:00:30.490,0:00:33.920 Now, I realize that some of you[br]may be thinking: 0:00:34.000,0:00:38.127 "What the hell is a comedian doing[br]speaking at a conference like this?" 0:00:39.006,0:00:40.289 I certainly am. 0:00:40.390,0:00:41.390 (Audience Laughs) 0:00:41.440,0:00:44.638 I've spent most of the past two decades[br]in character. 0:00:44.900,0:00:49.682 In fact, this is the first ever time[br]that I've stood up and given a speech 0:00:49.752,0:00:53.173 as my least popular character:[br]Sacha Baron Cohen. 0:00:53.277,0:00:54.277 (Audience Laughs) 0:00:54.382,0:00:55.382 (Audience Cheers) 0:00:57.469,0:01:01.318 And, I have to confess, it is terrifying. 0:01:02.709,0:01:06.832 I realized that my presence here[br]may also be unexpected for another reason: 0:01:07.110,0:01:10.582 At times some critics[br]have said my comedy 0:01:10.732,0:01:14.087 risks reinforcing old stereotypes. 0:01:14.277,0:01:19.210 The truth is I've been passionate about[br]challenging bigotry and intolerance 0:01:19.270,0:01:20.422 throughout my life. 0:01:20.769,0:01:22.137 As a teenager in England, 0:01:22.190,0:01:24.950 I marched against[br]the Fascist National Front 0:01:25.010,0:01:26.893 and to abolish apartheid. 0:01:27.219,0:01:29.753 As an undergraduate,[br]I traveled around America 0:01:29.773,0:01:32.768 and wrote my thesis[br]about the Civil Rights Movement 0:01:32.778,0:01:35.150 with the help of the archives of the ADL; 0:01:35.667,0:01:38.610 and as a comedian,[br]I've tried to use my characters 0:01:38.650,0:01:41.694 to get people to let down their guard 0:01:41.714,0:01:43.944 and reveal what they actually believe - 0:01:43.974,0:01:46.006 including their own prejudice. 0:01:46.427,0:01:48.526 I'm not gonna claim[br]that everything I've done 0:01:48.566,0:01:50.210 has been for a higher purpose. 0:01:50.562,0:01:52.670 Yes, some of my comedy-- 0:01:52.699,0:01:54.389 Okay, probably half my comedy, 0:01:54.409,0:01:56.117 has been absolutely juvenile. 0:01:56.217,0:01:57.347 (Audience Laughs) 0:01:57.470,0:01:59.711 And the other half completely puerile. 0:01:59.749,0:02:01.517 But...[br](Audience Laughs) 0:02:01.590,0:02:04.229 I admit there was nothing[br]particularly enlightening 0:02:04.247,0:02:07.058 particularly enlightening about me[br]as Borat from Kazakhstan, 0:02:07.088,0:02:07.979 the first fake 0:02:07.979,0:02:10.919 news journalist, running through a 0:02:10.919,0:02:13.140 conference of mortgage brokers while I 0:02:13.140,0:02:14.670 was completely naked. 0:02:14.670,0:02:17.880 But when Borat was able to get an entire 0:02:17.880,0:02:20.069 bar in Arizona to sing ♪ throw the Jew 0:02:20.069,0:02:23.940 down the well ♪ it did reveal 0:02:23.940,0:02:26.660 people's indifference to anti-semitism. 0:02:26.660,0:02:30.450 When as Bruno, the gay fashion reporter 0:02:30.450,0:02:31.320 from Austria, 0:02:31.320,0:02:33.690 I started kissing a man in a cage fight 0:02:33.690,0:02:36.690 in Arkansas, nearly starting a riot, it 0:02:36.690,0:02:39.290 showed the violent potential of 0:02:39.290,0:02:42.300 homophobia. And when disguised as an 0:02:42.300,0:02:45.569 ultra woke developer I proposed building 0:02:45.569,0:02:47.850 a mosque in one rural community 0:02:47.850,0:02:50.940 prompting a resident to proudly admit "I 0:02:50.940,0:02:54.959 am racist against Muslims" it showed the 0:02:54.959,0:02:57.360 growing acceptance of islamophobia. 0:02:57.360,0:02:59.880 That's why I really appreciate the 0:02:59.880,0:03:02.360 opportunity to be here with you. Today, 0:03:02.360,0:03:05.790 around the world, demagogues appeal to 0:03:05.790,0:03:08.790 our worst instincts. Conspiracy theories 0:03:08.790,0:03:11.580 once confined to the fringe are going 0:03:11.580,0:03:14.580 mainstream. It's as if the age of reason, 0:03:14.580,0:03:18.660 the era of evidential argument is ending 0:03:18.660,0:03:21.150 and now knowledge is increasingly 0:03:21.150,0:03:24.299 delegitimized and scientific consensus is 0:03:24.299,0:03:27.720 dismissed. Democracy, which depends on 0:03:27.720,0:03:30.660 shared truths, is in retreat. And 0:03:30.660,0:03:33.810 autocracy, which depends on shared lies, 0:03:33.810,0:03:37.500 is on the march. Hate crimes are surging 0:03:37.500,0:03:40.110 as are murderous attacks and religious and 0:03:40.110,0:03:42.720 ethnic minorities. Now what do all these 0:03:42.720,0:03:45.060 dangerous trends have in common? 0:03:45.060,0:03:47.459 I'm just a comedian and an act, I'm not a 0:03:47.459,0:03:50.700 scholar but one thing is pretty clear to 0:03:50.700,0:03:54.450 me: all this hate and violence is being 0:03:54.450,0:03:56.880 facilitated by a handful of Internet 0:03:56.880,0:03:59.549 companies that amount to the greatest 0:03:59.549,0:04:03.739 propaganda machine in history. 0:04:04.289,0:04:05.289 The greatest propaganda machine 0:04:05.840,0:04:08.940 in history. 0:04:08.940,0:04:10.350 Let's think about it. Facebook, 0:04:10.350,0:04:13.290 Facebook, YouTube and Google Twitter and others 0:04:13.290,0:04:15.780 they reach billions of people the 0:04:15.780,0:04:18.440 algorithms these platforms depend on 0:04:18.440,0:04:21.510 deliberately amplify the type of content 0:04:21.510,0:04:24.630 that keeps users engaged stories that 0:04:24.630,0:04:27.480 appeal to our baser instincts and that 0:04:27.480,0:04:29.940 trigger outrage and fear it's why 0:04:29.940,0:04:32.610 YouTube recommended videos by the 0:04:32.610,0:04:36.060 conspiracist alex jones billions of 0:04:36.060,0:04:39.480 times it's why fake news outperforms 0:04:39.480,0:04:42.240 real news because studies show that lies 0:04:42.240,0:04:45.510 spread faster than truth and it's no 0:04:45.510,0:04:46.860 surprise that the greatest propaganda 0:04:46.860,0:04:48.240 machine in history 0:04:48.240,0:04:51.210 has spread the oldest conspiracy theory 0:04:51.210,0:04:54.150 in history the lie that Jews are somehow 0:04:54.150,0:04:57.630 dangerous as one headline put it 0:04:57.630,0:05:00.210 just think what gurbles could have done 0:05:00.210,0:05:04.320 with Facebook on the internet everything 0:05:04.320,0:05:08.190 can appear equally legitimate Breitbart 0:05:08.190,0:05:10.530 resembles the BBC the fictitious 0:05:10.530,0:05:13.350 protocols of the Elders of Zion look as 0:05:13.350,0:05:16.800 valid as an ADL report and the rantings 0:05:16.800,0:05:18.990 of a lunatic seem as credible as the 0:05:18.990,0:05:22.200 findings of a Nobel Prize winner we have 0:05:22.200,0:05:24.690 lost it seems a shared sense of basic 0:05:24.690,0:05:29.190 facts upon which democracy depends when 0:05:29.190,0:05:32.250 I as the wannabe gangsta led asked the 0:05:32.250,0:05:35.670 astronaut Buzz Aldrin what would they 0:05:35.670,0:05:38.960 like to walk on the Sun 0:05:40.930,0:05:44.750 the joke worked because we the audience 0:05:44.750,0:05:48.290 shared the same facts if you believe the 0:05:48.290,0:05:51.350 moon landing was a hoax the joke doesn't 0:05:51.350,0:05:54.620 work when Borat got that bar in Arizona 0:05:54.620,0:05:58.070 to agree that Jews control everybody's 0:05:58.070,0:06:02.150 money and they never give it back the 0:06:02.150,0:06:04.550 joke worked because the audience shared 0:06:04.550,0:06:07.210 the fact that the depiction of Jews as 0:06:07.210,0:06:10.400 miserly is a conspiracy theory 0:06:10.400,0:06:13.370 originating in the Middle Ages but when 0:06:13.370,0:06:16.040 thanks to social media conspiracies take 0:06:16.040,0:06:18.890 hold it is easier for hate groups to 0:06:18.890,0:06:21.560 recruit easier for foreign intelligence 0:06:21.560,0:06:24.800 agencies to interfere in our elections 0:06:24.800,0:06:28.670 and easier for a country like Myanmar to 0:06:28.670,0:06:33.700 commit genocide against the ringa 0:06:37.960,0:06:41.180 now it's actually quite shocking how 0:06:41.180,0:06:43.640 easy it is to turn conspiracy thinking 0:06:43.640,0:06:46.040 into violence in my last show who is 0:06:46.040,0:06:46.760 America 0:06:46.760,0:06:49.520 I found an educated normal guy who had 0:06:49.520,0:06:52.550 held down a good job but who on social 0:06:52.550,0:06:54.860 media repeated many of the conspiracy 0:06:54.860,0:06:57.590 theories their president Trump using 0:06:57.590,0:07:01.100 Twitter has spread more than 1700 times 0:07:01.100,0:07:05.030 to his 67 million Twitter followers the 0:07:05.030,0:07:07.190 president even tweeted that he was 0:07:07.190,0:07:10.790 considering designating and Tifa who are 0:07:10.790,0:07:12.560 anti fascists who march against the 0:07:12.560,0:07:16.640 far-right as a terror organization so 0:07:16.640,0:07:19.120 disguised and then as an Israeli 0:07:19.120,0:07:24.520 anti-terrorism expert : lol harmalard 0:07:24.520,0:07:27.610 yalla let go 0:07:27.610,0:07:30.020 disguised as him I told my interviewee 0:07:30.020,0:07:31.760 there at the Women's March in San 0:07:31.760,0:07:34.430 Francisco and Tifa were plotting to put 0:07:34.430,0:07:38.000 hormones into babies diapers in order to 0:07:38.000,0:07:42.440 make them turns again there and this man 0:07:42.440,0:07:45.230 believed it I instructed him to plant 0:07:45.230,0:07:47.330 small devices on three innocent people 0:07:47.330,0:07:49.340 at the March and explained that when he 0:07:49.340,0:07:50.120 pushed a button 0:07:50.120,0:07:52.490 he'd trigger an explosion that would 0:07:52.490,0:07:54.410 kill them all they weren't real 0:07:54.410,0:07:56.360 explosives of course but he thought they 0:07:56.360,0:07:59.330 were I wanted to see would he actually 0:07:59.330,0:08:03.260 do it the answer was yes he pushed the 0:08:03.260,0:08:04.760 button and thought he had actually 0:08:04.760,0:08:08.270 killed three human beings Voltaire was 0:08:08.270,0:08:11.690 right when he said those who can make 0:08:11.690,0:08:14.720 you believe absurdities can make you 0:08:14.720,0:08:19.580 commit atrocities and social media lets 0:08:19.580,0:08:25.430 authoritarianism now in their defense 0:08:25.430,0:08:28.070 these social media companies have taken 0:08:28.070,0:08:29.960 some steps to reduce hate and 0:08:29.960,0:08:32.659 conspiracies on their platforms that 0:08:32.659,0:08:34.789 these steps have been mainly superficial 0:08:34.789,0:08:37.220 and I'm talking about this today because 0:08:37.220,0:08:39.049 I believe that our pluralistic 0:08:39.049,0:08:41.990 democracies are on a precipice and in 0:08:41.990,0:08:44.210 the next 12 months and the role of 0:08:44.210,0:08:48.050 social media could be determinant now 0:08:48.050,0:08:49.670 British voters will go to the polls 0:08:49.670,0:08:50.900 while online 0:08:50.900,0:08:54.140 Spira says promote the despicable theory 0:08:54.140,0:08:56.870 of the great replacement that white 0:08:56.870,0:08:58.610 Christians are being deliberately 0:08:58.610,0:09:02.360 replaced by Muslim immigrants Americans 0:09:02.360,0:09:05.030 will vote for president while trolls and 0:09:05.030,0:09:08.150 BOTS perpetuate that it's the disgusting 0:09:08.150,0:09:12.020 lie of a Hispanic invasion and after 0:09:12.020,0:09:14.450 years of YouTube videos calling climate 0:09:14.450,0:09:17.630 change a hoax the United States is on 0:09:17.630,0:09:20.540 track a year from now to formally 0:09:20.540,0:09:24.080 withdraw from the Paris Accords a sewer 0:09:24.080,0:09:27.020 of bigotry and vile conspiracy theories 0:09:27.020,0:09:29.420 that threaten our democracy in to some 0:09:29.420,0:09:32.870 degree our planet this can't possibly be 0:09:32.870,0:09:34.520 what the creators of the internet had in 0:09:34.520,0:09:37.910 mind I believe that it's time for a 0:09:37.910,0:09:40.490 fundamental rethink of social media and 0:09:40.490,0:09:43.700 how it spreads hate conspiracies and 0:09:43.700,0:09:45.880 lies 0:09:52.170,0:09:56.640 now last month however Mark Zuckerberg 0:09:56.640,0:09:59.310 of Facebook delivered a major speech 0:09:59.310,0:10:03.150 that not surprisingly warned against new 0:10:03.150,0:10:04.890 laws and regulations on companies like 0:10:04.890,0:10:08.280 his well some of these arguments are 0:10:08.280,0:10:12.810 simply part of my French let's 0:10:12.810,0:10:13.770 count the ways 0:10:13.770,0:10:16.650 first Zuckerberg tried to portray this 0:10:16.650,0:10:20.130 whole issue as choices around free 0:10:20.130,0:10:23.670 expression that is ludicrous this is not 0:10:23.670,0:10:26.970 about limiting anyone's free speech this 0:10:26.970,0:10:28.950 is about giving people including some of 0:10:28.950,0:10:31.530 the most reprehensible people on earth 0:10:31.530,0:10:34.320 the biggest platform in history to reach 0:10:34.320,0:10:37.230 a third of the planet freedom of speech 0:10:37.230,0:10:41.250 is not freedom of reach sadly there will 0:10:41.250,0:10:43.950 always be racist misogynist anti-semites 0:10:43.950,0:10:47.070 and child abusers but I think we can all 0:10:47.070,0:10:48.570 agree that we should not be giving 0:10:48.570,0:10:51.930 bigots and pedophiles a free platform to 0:10:51.930,0:10:54.150 amplify their views and target their 0:10:54.150,0:10:56.660 victims 0:11:00.440,0:11:03.630 second Mark Zuckerberg claimed that new 0:11:03.630,0:11:05.610 limits on what's posted on social media 0:11:05.610,0:11:08.750 would be to pull back on free expression 0:11:08.750,0:11:11.940 this is utter nonsense the First 0:11:11.940,0:11:14.940 Amendment says that and I quote Congress 0:11:14.940,0:11:17.970 shall make no law abridging freedom of 0:11:17.970,0:11:20.070 speech however this does not apply to 0:11:20.070,0:11:22.470 private businesses like Facebook 0:11:22.470,0:11:24.720 we're not asking these companies to 0:11:24.720,0:11:26.430 determine the boundaries of free speech 0:11:26.430,0:11:29.760 across society we just want them to be 0:11:29.760,0:11:33.000 responsible on their platforms now if a 0:11:33.000,0:11:34.980 neo-nazi comes goose-stepping into a 0:11:34.980,0:11:37.050 restaurant and starts threatening other 0:11:37.050,0:11:39.090 customers and say he wants to kill Jews 0:11:39.090,0:11:41.610 would the owner of the restaurant a 0:11:41.610,0:11:44.130 private business be required to serve 0:11:44.130,0:11:46.790 him an elegant eight course meal of 0:11:46.790,0:11:48.420 course not 0:11:48.420,0:11:50.790 the restaurant owner has every legal 0:11:50.790,0:11:53.700 right and indeed I would argue a moral 0:11:53.700,0:11:57.060 obligation to kick that Nazi out and so 0:11:57.060,0:12:00.320 do these internet companies 0:12:03.640,0:12:07.460 now third Mark Zuckerberg seemed to 0:12:07.460,0:12:09.710 equate regulation of companies like his 0:12:09.710,0:12:12.880 to the actions of the most repressive 0:12:12.880,0:12:17.270 societies incredible this from one of 0:12:17.270,0:12:19.580 the six people who decide what 0:12:19.580,0:12:23.020 information so much of the world sees 0:12:23.020,0:12:26.240 Zuckerberg it's at Facebook sundar 0:12:26.240,0:12:29.060 pichai at Google at its parent company 0:12:29.060,0:12:31.390 alphabet Larry Page and Sergey Brin 0:12:31.390,0:12:33.620 Bryn's ex-sister-in-law 0:12:33.620,0:12:36.290 Susan Wojcicki at YouTube and Jack 0:12:36.290,0:12:40.640 Dorsey at Twitter the silicon six all 0:12:40.640,0:12:44.450 billionaires all Americans who care more 0:12:44.450,0:12:46.940 about boosting their share price than 0:12:46.940,0:12:55.210 about protecting democracy this this is 0:12:55.210,0:12:58.940 ideological imperialism six unelected 0:12:58.940,0:13:01.760 individuals in Silicon Valley imposing 0:13:01.760,0:13:04.270 their vision on the rest of the world 0:13:04.270,0:13:06.740 unaccountable to any government and 0:13:06.740,0:13:09.020 acting like they're a bomb for the reach 0:13:09.020,0:13:11.390 of law it's like we're living in the 0:13:11.390,0:13:13.460 Roman Empire and Mark Zuckerberg is 0:13:13.460,0:13:15.950 Caesar at least that would explain his 0:13:15.950,0:13:18.400 haircut 0:13:18.630,0:13:23.200 now here's an idea instead of letting 0:13:23.200,0:13:25.810 the silicon sects decide the fate of the 0:13:25.810,0:13:29.100 world let our elected representatives 0:13:29.100,0:13:32.230 voted for by the people of every 0:13:32.230,0:13:34.510 democracy in the world have at least 0:13:34.510,0:13:38.530 some say 4th Zuckerberg speaks of 0:13:38.530,0:13:42.070 welcoming a diversity of ideas and last 0:13:42.070,0:13:45.010 year he gave us an example he said that 0:13:45.010,0:13:47.590 he found post denying the Holocaust 0:13:47.590,0:13:50.260 deeply offensive but he didn't think 0:13:50.260,0:13:53.290 Facebook should take them down because I 0:13:53.290,0:13:54.970 think there are things that different 0:13:54.970,0:13:58.540 people get wrong at this very moment 0:13:58.540,0:14:01.300 there are still Holocaust deniers on 0:14:01.300,0:14:04.180 Facebook and Google still takes you to 0:14:04.180,0:14:06.460 the most repulsive Holocaust denial 0:14:06.460,0:14:09.850 sites sites with a simple click one of 0:14:09.850,0:14:12.520 the heads of Google in fact told me that 0:14:12.520,0:14:16.030 these sites just show both sides of the 0:14:16.030,0:14:18.970 issue this is madness 0:14:18.970,0:14:22.090 to quote Edward r murrow one cannot 0:14:22.090,0:14:24.850 accept that there are on every story to 0:14:24.850,0:14:27.540 equal and logical sides to an argument 0:14:27.540,0:14:31.090 we have unfortunately millions of pieces 0:14:31.090,0:14:33.900 of evidence for the Holocaust it is an 0:14:33.900,0:14:37.330 historical fact and denying it is not 0:14:37.330,0:14:39.910 some random opinion those who deny the 0:14:39.910,0:14:45.120 Holocaust aim to encourage another one 0:14:50.339,0:14:53.519 still zugerberg says that people should 0:14:53.519,0:14:55.829 decide what is credible not tech 0:14:55.829,0:14:59.040 companies but our time when two-thirds 0:14:59.040,0:15:00.720 of Millennials say that they haven't 0:15:00.720,0:15:03.269 even heard of Auschwitz how are they 0:15:03.269,0:15:06.360 supposed to know what's credible how are 0:15:06.360,0:15:09.839 they supposed to know that the lie is a 0:15:09.839,0:15:13.019 lie there is such a thing as objective 0:15:13.019,0:15:16.980 truth facts do exist and if these 0:15:16.980,0:15:19.139 Internet companies really want to make a 0:15:19.139,0:15:21.389 difference they should hire enough 0:15:21.389,0:15:24.420 monitors to actually monitor work 0:15:24.420,0:15:26.939 closely with groups like the ADL and the 0:15:26.939,0:15:28.160 n-double-a-cp 0:15:28.160,0:15:32.399 insist on facts and purge these lies and 0:15:32.399,0:15:36.410 conspiracies from their platforms 0:15:40.040,0:15:43.640 now v when discussing the difficulty of 0:15:43.640,0:15:46.820 removing content Zuka berg mark 0:15:46.820,0:15:47.360 zuckerberg 0:15:47.360,0:15:50.980 asked where do you draw the line yes 0:15:50.980,0:15:55.130 drawing the line can be difficult but 0:15:55.130,0:15:57.500 here's what he's really saying removing 0:15:57.500,0:15:59.660 more of these lies and conspiracies is 0:15:59.660,0:16:03.350 just too expensive these are the richest 0:16:03.350,0:16:05.780 companies in the world and they have the 0:16:05.780,0:16:07.850 best engineers in the world they could 0:16:07.850,0:16:10.060 fix these problems if they wanted to 0:16:10.060,0:16:14.330 Twitter could deploy an algorithm to 0:16:14.330,0:16:16.280 remove more white supremacist hate 0:16:16.280,0:16:19.010 speech but they have reportedly haven't 0:16:19.010,0:16:21.410 because it would eject some very 0:16:21.410,0:16:23.570 prominent politicians from their 0:16:23.570,0:16:26.750 platform maybe that wouldn't be such a 0:16:26.750,0:16:28.990 bad thing 0:16:34.689,0:16:38.569 the truth is these companies won't 0:16:38.569,0:16:40.369 fundamentally change because their 0:16:40.369,0:16:43.039 entire business model relies on 0:16:43.039,0:16:46.489 generating more engagement and nothing 0:16:46.489,0:16:49.459 generates more engagement than lies fear 0:16:49.459,0:16:50.689 and outrage 0:16:50.689,0:16:52.729 so it's time to finally call these 0:16:52.729,0:16:54.559 companies what they really are the 0:16:54.559,0:16:57.769 largest publishers in history so here's 0:16:57.769,0:17:00.589 an idea for them abide by basic 0:17:00.589,0:17:02.869 standards and practices just like 0:17:02.869,0:17:05.628 newspapers magazines and TV news do 0:17:05.628,0:17:08.929 everyday we have standards and practices 0:17:08.929,0:17:11.388 in television and the movies there are 0:17:11.388,0:17:14.419 certain things we cannot say or do in 0:17:14.419,0:17:16.638 England I was told that alley G could 0:17:16.638,0:17:19.148 not curse when he appeared before 9 p.m. 0:17:19.148,0:17:22.279 here in the US the Motion Picture 0:17:22.279,0:17:24.859 Association of America regulates and 0:17:24.859,0:17:27.559 rates what we see I've had scenes in my 0:17:27.559,0:17:30.110 movies cut or reduced to abide by those 0:17:30.110,0:17:32.480 standards now if there are standards and 0:17:32.480,0:17:34.850 practices for what cinemas and 0:17:34.850,0:17:37.210 television channels can show then surely 0:17:37.210,0:17:40.009 companies that publish material to 0:17:40.009,0:17:41.690 billions of people should have to abide 0:17:41.690,0:17:45.309 basic standards and practices to 0:17:49.480,0:17:52.600 take now take the issue of political ads 0:17:52.600,0:17:55.870 on which facebook have been resolute 0:17:55.870,0:17:58.630 fortunately Twitter finally banned them 0:17:58.630,0:18:01.270 and Google today I read is making 0:18:01.270,0:18:05.350 changes to but if you pay them Facebook 0:18:05.350,0:18:09.070 will run any political ad you want even 0:18:09.070,0:18:12.310 if it's a lie and they'll even help you 0:18:12.310,0:18:14.920 micro target those lies to their users 0:18:14.920,0:18:18.730 for maximum effect under this twisted 0:18:18.730,0:18:21.330 logic if Facebook were around in the 0:18:21.330,0:18:24.640 1930s it would have allowed Hitler to 0:18:24.640,0:18:27.550 post 30-second ads on his solution to 0:18:27.550,0:18:30.340 the Jewish problem so here's a good 0:18:30.340,0:18:35.050 standard and practice Facebook start 0:18:35.050,0:18:38.200 fact-checking political ads before you 0:18:38.200,0:18:41.380 run them stop micro-targeted lies 0:18:41.380,0:18:44.200 immediately and when the ads of false 0:18:44.200,0:18:46.630 give back the money and don't publish 0:18:46.630,0:18:48.870 them 0:18:54.519,0:18:59.289 here's another good practice slow down 0:18:59.289,0:19:02.090 every single post does not need to be 0:19:02.090,0:19:04.700 published immediately Oscar Wilde once 0:19:04.700,0:19:07.610 said we live in an age when unnecessary 0:19:07.610,0:19:13.460 things are our only necessity but but 0:19:13.460,0:19:15.440 let me ask you is having every thought 0:19:15.440,0:19:19.039 or video posted instantly online even if 0:19:19.039,0:19:22.220 it's racist or criminal murderous really 0:19:22.220,0:19:25.909 a necessity of course not the shooter 0:19:25.909,0:19:28.179 who massacred Muslims in New Zealand 0:19:28.179,0:19:31.519 live streamed his atrocity on Facebook 0:19:31.519,0:19:33.769 where it then spread across the internet 0:19:33.769,0:19:36.380 and was viewed likely millions of times 0:19:36.380,0:19:38.870 it was a snuff film 0:19:38.870,0:19:42.919 brought to you by social media why can't 0:19:42.919,0:19:45.019 we have more of a delay so that this 0:19:45.019,0:19:48.200 trauma inducing filth can be caught and 0:19:48.200,0:19:50.929 stopped before it's posted in the first 0:19:50.929,0:19:53.230 place 0:19:56.470,0:19:59.389 finally Zuckerberg said that social 0:19:59.389,0:20:02.679 media companies should live up to their 0:20:02.679,0:20:06.080 responsibilities but he's totally silent 0:20:06.080,0:20:08.529 about what should happen when they don't 0:20:08.529,0:20:12.710 by now it's pretty clear they cannot be 0:20:12.710,0:20:13.399 trusted 0:20:13.399,0:20:16.159 to regulate themselves as with the 0:20:16.159,0:20:18.019 Industrial Revolution it's time for 0:20:18.019,0:20:21.080 regulation and legislation to curb the 0:20:21.080,0:20:26.019 greed of these high-tech robber barons 0:20:28.930,0:20:33.010 in in every other industry a company can 0:20:33.010,0:20:35.170 be held liable when their product is 0:20:35.170,0:20:36.040 defective 0:20:36.040,0:20:38.520 when engines explode or seat belts 0:20:38.520,0:20:42.430 malfunction car company's recalled tens 0:20:42.430,0:20:44.950 of thousands of vehicles at a cost of 0:20:44.950,0:20:47.650 billions of dollars it only seems fair 0:20:47.650,0:20:49.780 to say to Facebook YouTube and Twitter 0:20:49.780,0:20:53.470 your product is defective you are 0:20:53.470,0:20:56.680 obliged to fix it no matter how much it 0:20:56.680,0:20:59.559 costs and no matter how many moderators 0:20:59.559,0:21:09.970 you need to employ in every under in 0:21:09.970,0:21:12.910 entry in every other industry you can be 0:21:12.910,0:21:16.000 sued for the harm you caused publishers 0:21:16.000,0:21:18.730 can be sued for libel people can be sued 0:21:18.730,0:21:21.990 for defamation I've been sued many times 0:21:21.990,0:21:27.220 I'm being sued right now by someone 0:21:27.220,0:21:29.440 whose name I won't mention because he 0:21:29.440,0:21:32.710 might see me again but social media 0:21:32.710,0:21:36.070 companies are largely protected from 0:21:36.070,0:21:37.929 liability for the content their users 0:21:37.929,0:21:41.260 post no matter how indecent it is by 0:21:41.260,0:21:43.870 section 230 F get ready for it the 0:21:43.870,0:21:48.510 Communications Decency Act it's absurd 0:21:48.510,0:21:51.250 fortunately internet companies can now 0:21:51.250,0:21:53.800 be held responsible for pedophiles who 0:21:53.800,0:21:56.830 use their site to target children so I 0:21:56.830,0:21:59.290 say let's also hold these companies 0:21:59.290,0:22:02.020 responsible for those who use their 0:22:02.020,0:22:05.320 sites to advocate for the mass murder of 0:22:05.320,0:22:07.390 children because of their race or 0:22:07.390,0:22:09.570 religion 0:22:11.610,0:22:18.070 and maybe fines are not enough maybe 0:22:18.070,0:22:21.760 it's time to tell Mark Zuckerberg and 0:22:21.760,0:22:25.000 the CEOs of these companies you already 0:22:25.000,0:22:27.970 allowed one foreign power to interfere 0:22:27.970,0:22:29.320 in our elections 0:22:29.320,0:22:32.980 you already facilitated one genocide in 0:22:32.980,0:22:38.280 the anime do it again and you go to jail 0:22:42.540,0:22:46.120 in the end it all comes down to what 0:22:46.120,0:22:49.440 kind of world we want in his speech 0:22:49.440,0:22:51.580 Zuckerberg said that one of his main 0:22:51.580,0:22:56.050 goals is to uphold as wide a definition 0:22:56.050,0:22:58.570 of freedom of expression as possible it 0:22:58.570,0:22:59.440 sounds good 0:22:59.440,0:23:03.130 yeah our freedoms are not only an end in 0:23:03.130,0:23:05.590 themselves they're also the means to 0:23:05.590,0:23:08.500 another end as you say here in the US 0:23:08.500,0:23:11.350 the right to life liberty and the 0:23:11.350,0:23:14.260 pursuit of happiness but today these 0:23:14.260,0:23:16.560 rights are threatened by hate 0:23:16.560,0:23:19.840 conspiracies and lies so allow me to 0:23:19.840,0:23:22.210 leave you with a suggestion for a 0:23:22.210,0:23:25.540 different aim for society the ultimate 0:23:25.540,0:23:28.360 aim of society should be to make sure 0:23:28.360,0:23:31.300 that people are not targeted not 0:23:31.300,0:23:34.630 harassed and not murdered because of who 0:23:34.630,0:23:37.330 they are where they come from who they 0:23:37.330,0:23:40.830 love or how they pray 0:23:54.350,0:23:58.610 if we make that our aim if we prioritize 0:23:58.610,0:24:02.200 truth over lies tolerance over prejudice 0:24:02.200,0:24:05.720 empathy over indifference and experts 0:24:05.720,0:24:10.430 over ignoramus --is then maybe just 0:24:10.430,0:24:13.520 maybe we can stop the greatest 0:24:13.520,0:24:16.370 propaganda machine in history we can 0:24:16.370,0:24:19.460 save democracy we can still have a place 0:24:19.460,0:24:22.220 for free speech and free expression and 0:24:22.220,0:24:25.760 most importantly my jokes will still 0:24:25.760,0:24:27.870 work thank you very much 0:24:27.870,0:01:46.232 [Applause]