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Thank you very much.
Thanks to everyone who stood up.

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Unnecessary but very flattering.

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Thank you, Jonathan,
for your very kind words.

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Thank you, the Anti-Defamation League,

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for this recognition

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and your work in fighting racism,
hate and bigotry.

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And to be clear,

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when I say racism, hate, and bigotry

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I'm not referring to the names
of Stephen Miller's labradoodles.

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(Audience Laughs)

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Now, I realize that some of you
may be thinking:

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"What the hell is a comedian doing
speaking at a conference like this?"

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I certainly am.

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(Audience Laughs)

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I've spent most of the past two decades
in character.

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In fact, this is the first ever time
that I've stood up and given a speech

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as my least popular character:
Sacha Baron Cohen.

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(Audience Laughs)

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(Audience Cheers)

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And, I have to confess, it is terrifying.

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I realized that my presence here
may also be unexpected for another reason:

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At times some critics
have said my comedy

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risks reinforcing old stereotypes.

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The truth is I've been passionate about
challenging bigotry and intolerance

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throughout my life.

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As a teenager in England,

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I marched against
the Fascist National Front

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and to abolish apartheid.

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As an undergraduate,
I traveled around America

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and wrote my thesis
about the Civil Rights Movement

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with the help of the archives of the ADL;

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and as a comedian,
I've tried to use my characters

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to get people to let down their guard

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and reveal what they actually believe -

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including their own prejudice.

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I'm not gonna claim
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has been for a higher purpose.

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Yes, some of my comedy –

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okay, probably half my comedy –

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has been absolutely juvenile.

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(Audience Laughs)

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And the other half completely puerile.

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But...
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I admit there was nothing
particularly enlightening

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about me as Borat from Kazakhstan,

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the first fake-news journalist,

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(Audience Laughs)

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running through a conference
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while I was completely naked.

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(Audience Laughs)

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But, when Borat was able to get
an entire bar in Arizona

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to sing ♪ throw the Jew down the well ♪

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it did reveal people's indifference
to anti-semitism.

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When, as Bruno, the gay
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I started kissing a man
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nearly starting a riot,

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it showed the violent potential
of homophobia.

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And when disguised as an

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ultra woke developer I proposed building

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a mosque in one rural community

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prompting a resident to proudly admit "I

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am racist against Muslims" it showed the

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growing acceptance of islamophobia.

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That's why I really appreciate the

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opportunity to be here with you. Today,

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around the world, demagogues appeal to

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our worst instincts. Conspiracy theories

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once confined to the fringe are going

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mainstream. It's as if the age of reason,

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the era of evidential argument is ending

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and now knowledge is increasingly

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delegitimized and scientific consensus is

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dismissed. Democracy, which depends on

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shared truths, is in retreat. And

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autocracy, which depends on shared lies,

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is on the march. Hate crimes are surging

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as are murderous attacks and religious and

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ethnic minorities. Now what do all these

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dangerous trends have in common?

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I'm just a comedian and an act, I'm not a

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scholar but one thing is pretty clear to

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me: all this hate and violence is being

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facilitated by a handful of Internet

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companies that amount to the greatest

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propaganda machine in history.

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The greatest propaganda machine

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in history.

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Let's think about it. Facebook,

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Facebook, YouTube and Google Twitter and others

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they reach billions of people the

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algorithms these platforms depend on

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deliberately amplify the type of content

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that keeps users engaged stories that

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appeal to our baser instincts and that

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trigger outrage and fear it's why

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YouTube recommended videos by the

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conspiracist alex jones billions of

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times it's why fake news outperforms

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real news because studies show that lies

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spread faster than truth and it's no

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surprise that the greatest propaganda

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machine in history

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has spread the oldest conspiracy theory

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in history the lie that Jews are somehow

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dangerous as one headline put it

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just think what gurbles could have done

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with Facebook on the internet everything

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can appear equally legitimate Breitbart

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resembles the BBC the fictitious

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protocols of the Elders of Zion look as

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valid as an ADL report and the rantings

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of a lunatic seem as credible as the

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findings of a Nobel Prize winner we have

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lost it seems a shared sense of basic

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facts upon which democracy depends when

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I as the wannabe gangsta led asked the

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astronaut Buzz Aldrin what would they

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like to walk on the Sun

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the joke worked because we the audience

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shared the same facts if you believe the

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moon landing was a hoax the joke doesn't

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work when Borat got that bar in Arizona

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to agree that Jews control everybody's

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money and they never give it back the

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joke worked because the audience shared

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the fact that the depiction of Jews as

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miserly is a conspiracy theory

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originating in the Middle Ages but when

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thanks to social media conspiracies take

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hold it is easier for hate groups to

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recruit easier for foreign intelligence

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agencies to interfere in our elections

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and easier for a country like Myanmar to

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commit genocide against the ringa

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now it's actually quite shocking how

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easy it is to turn conspiracy thinking

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into violence in my last show who is

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I found an educated normal guy who had

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held down a good job but who on social

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media repeated many of the conspiracy

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theories their president Trump using

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Twitter has spread more than 1700 times

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to his 67 million Twitter followers the

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president even tweeted that he was

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considering designating and Tifa who are

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anti fascists who march against the

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far-right as a terror organization so

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disguised and then as an Israeli

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anti-terrorism expert : lol harmalard

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disguised as him I told my interviewee

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there at the Women's March in San

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Francisco and Tifa were plotting to put

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hormones into babies diapers in order to

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make them turns again there and this man

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believed it I instructed him to plant

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small devices on three innocent people

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at the March and explained that when he

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pushed a button

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he'd trigger an explosion that would

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kill them all they weren't real

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explosives of course but he thought they

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were I wanted to see would he actually

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do it the answer was yes he pushed the

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button and thought he had actually

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killed three human beings Voltaire was

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right when he said those who can make

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you believe absurdities can make you

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commit atrocities and social media lets

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authoritarianism now in their defense

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these social media companies have taken

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some steps to reduce hate and

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conspiracies on their platforms that

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these steps have been mainly superficial

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and I'm talking about this today because

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I believe that our pluralistic

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democracies are on a precipice and in

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the next 12 months and the role of

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social media could be determinant now

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British voters will go to the polls

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Spira says promote the despicable theory

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of the great replacement that white

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Christians are being deliberately

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replaced by Muslim immigrants Americans

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will vote for president while trolls and

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BOTS perpetuate that it's the disgusting

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lie of a Hispanic invasion and after

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years of YouTube videos calling climate

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change a hoax the United States is on

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track a year from now to formally

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withdraw from the Paris Accords a sewer

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of bigotry and vile conspiracy theories

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that threaten our democracy in to some

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degree our planet this can't possibly be

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what the creators of the internet had in

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mind I believe that it's time for a

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fundamental rethink of social media and

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how it spreads hate conspiracies and

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lies

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now last month however Mark Zuckerberg

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of Facebook delivered a major speech

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that not surprisingly warned against new

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laws and regulations on companies like

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his well some of these arguments are

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simply part of my French let's

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count the ways

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first Zuckerberg tried to portray this

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whole issue as choices around free

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expression that is ludicrous this is not

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about limiting anyone's free speech this

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is about giving people including some of

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the most reprehensible people on earth

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the biggest platform in history to reach

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a third of the planet freedom of speech

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is not freedom of reach sadly there will

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always be racist misogynist anti-semites

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and child abusers but I think we can all

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agree that we should not be giving

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bigots and pedophiles a free platform to

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amplify their views and target their

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victims

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second Mark Zuckerberg claimed that new

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limits on what's posted on social media

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would be to pull back on free expression

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this is utter nonsense the First

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Amendment says that and I quote Congress

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shall make no law abridging freedom of

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speech however this does not apply to

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private businesses like Facebook

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we're not asking these companies to

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determine the boundaries of free speech

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across society we just want them to be

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responsible on their platforms now if a

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neo-nazi comes goose-stepping into a

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restaurant and starts threatening other

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customers and say he wants to kill Jews

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would the owner of the restaurant a

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private business be required to serve

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him an elegant eight course meal of

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course not

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the restaurant owner has every legal

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right and indeed I would argue a moral

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obligation to kick that Nazi out and so

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do these internet companies

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now third Mark Zuckerberg seemed to

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equate regulation of companies like his

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to the actions of the most repressive

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societies incredible this from one of

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the six people who decide what

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information so much of the world sees

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Zuckerberg it's at Facebook sundar

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pichai at Google at its parent company

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alphabet Larry Page and Sergey Brin

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Dorsey at Twitter the silicon six all

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billionaires all Americans who care more

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about boosting their share price than

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about protecting democracy this this is

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ideological imperialism six unelected

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individuals in Silicon Valley imposing

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their vision on the rest of the world

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unaccountable to any government and

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acting like they're a bomb for the reach

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of law it's like we're living in the

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Roman Empire and Mark Zuckerberg is

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Caesar at least that would explain his

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now here's an idea instead of letting

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the silicon sects decide the fate of the

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world let our elected representatives

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voted for by the people of every

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democracy in the world have at least

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some say 4th Zuckerberg speaks of

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welcoming a diversity of ideas and last

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year he gave us an example he said that

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he found post denying the Holocaust

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deeply offensive but he didn't think

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Facebook should take them down because I

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think there are things that different

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people get wrong at this very moment

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there are still Holocaust deniers on

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Facebook and Google still takes you to

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the most repulsive Holocaust denial

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sites sites with a simple click one of

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the heads of Google in fact told me that

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these sites just show both sides of the

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issue this is madness

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to quote Edward r murrow one cannot

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accept that there are on every story to

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equal and logical sides to an argument

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we have unfortunately millions of pieces

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of evidence for the Holocaust it is an

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historical fact and denying it is not

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some random opinion those who deny the

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Holocaust aim to encourage another one

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still zugerberg says that people should

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decide what is credible not tech

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companies but our time when two-thirds

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of Millennials say that they haven't

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even heard of Auschwitz how are they

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supposed to know what's credible how are

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they supposed to know that the lie is a

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lie there is such a thing as objective

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truth facts do exist and if these

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Internet companies really want to make a

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difference they should hire enough

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monitors to actually monitor work

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closely with groups like the ADL and the

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n-double-a-cp

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insist on facts and purge these lies and

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conspiracies from their platforms

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now v when discussing the difficulty of

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removing content Zuka berg mark

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zuckerberg

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asked where do you draw the line yes

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drawing the line can be difficult but

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here's what he's really saying removing

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more of these lies and conspiracies is

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just too expensive these are the richest

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companies in the world and they have the

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best engineers in the world they could

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fix these problems if they wanted to

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Twitter could deploy an algorithm to

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remove more white supremacist hate

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speech but they have reportedly haven't

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because it would eject some very

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prominent politicians from their

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platform maybe that wouldn't be such a

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bad thing

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the truth is these companies won't

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fundamentally change because their

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entire business model relies on

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generating more engagement and nothing

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generates more engagement than lies fear

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and outrage

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so it's time to finally call these

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companies what they really are the

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largest publishers in history so here's

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an idea for them abide by basic

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standards and practices just like

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newspapers magazines and TV news do

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everyday we have standards and practices

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in television and the movies there are

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certain things we cannot say or do in

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England I was told that alley G could

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not curse when he appeared before 9 p.m.

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here in the US the Motion Picture

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Association of America regulates and

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rates what we see I've had scenes in my

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movies cut or reduced to abide by those

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standards now if there are standards and

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practices for what cinemas and

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television channels can show then surely

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companies that publish material to

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billions of people should have to abide

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basic standards and practices to

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take now take the issue of political ads

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on which facebook have been resolute

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fortunately Twitter finally banned them

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and Google today I read is making

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changes to but if you pay them Facebook

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will run any political ad you want even

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if it's a lie and they'll even help you

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micro target those lies to their users

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for maximum effect under this twisted

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logic if Facebook were around in the

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1930s it would have allowed Hitler to

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post 30-second ads on his solution to

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the Jewish problem so here's a good

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standard and practice Facebook start

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fact-checking political ads before you

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run them stop micro-targeted lies

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immediately and when the ads of false

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give back the money and don't publish

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them

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here's another good practice slow down

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every single post does not need to be

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published immediately Oscar Wilde once

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said we live in an age when unnecessary

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things are our only necessity but but

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let me ask you is having every thought

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or video posted instantly online even if

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it's racist or criminal murderous really

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a necessity of course not the shooter

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who massacred Muslims in New Zealand

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live streamed his atrocity on Facebook

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where it then spread across the internet

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and was viewed likely millions of times

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it was a snuff film

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brought to you by social media why can't

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we have more of a delay so that this

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trauma inducing filth can be caught and

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stopped before it's posted in the first

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place

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finally Zuckerberg said that social

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media companies should live up to their

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responsibilities but he's totally silent

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about what should happen when they don't

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by now it's pretty clear they cannot be

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trusted

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to regulate themselves as with the

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Industrial Revolution it's time for

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regulation and legislation to curb the

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greed of these high-tech robber barons

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in in every other industry a company can

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be held liable when their product is

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defective

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when engines explode or seat belts

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malfunction car company's recalled tens

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of thousands of vehicles at a cost of

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billions of dollars it only seems fair

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to say to Facebook YouTube and Twitter

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your product is defective you are

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obliged to fix it no matter how much it

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costs and no matter how many moderators

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you need to employ in every under in

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entry in every other industry you can be

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sued for the harm you caused publishers

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can be sued for libel people can be sued

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for defamation I've been sued many times

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I'm being sued right now by someone

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whose name I won't mention because he

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might see me again but social media

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companies are largely protected from

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liability for the content their users

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post no matter how indecent it is by

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section 230 F get ready for it the

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Communications Decency Act it's absurd

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fortunately internet companies can now

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be held responsible for pedophiles who

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use their site to target children so I

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say let's also hold these companies

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responsible for those who use their

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sites to advocate for the mass murder of

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children because of their race or

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religion

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and maybe fines are not enough maybe

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it's time to tell Mark Zuckerberg and

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the CEOs of these companies you already

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allowed one foreign power to interfere

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in our elections

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you already facilitated one genocide in

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the anime do it again and you go to jail

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in the end it all comes down to what

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kind of world we want in his speech

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Zuckerberg said that one of his main

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goals is to uphold as wide a definition

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of freedom of expression as possible it

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sounds good

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yeah our freedoms are not only an end in

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themselves they're also the means to

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another end as you say here in the US

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the right to life liberty and the

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pursuit of happiness but today these

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rights are threatened by hate

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conspiracies and lies so allow me to

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leave you with a suggestion for a

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different aim for society the ultimate

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aim of society should be to make sure

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that people are not targeted not

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harassed and not murdered because of who

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they are where they come from who they

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love or how they pray

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if we make that our aim if we prioritize

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truth over lies tolerance over prejudice

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empathy over indifference and experts

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over ignoramus --is then maybe just

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maybe we can stop the greatest

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propaganda machine in history we can

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save democracy we can still have a place

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for free speech and free expression and

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most importantly my jokes will still

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work thank you very much

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[Applause]