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And the polluters are trying to deflect
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blame. Dishonest cries of censorship are
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filling Fox's airwaves with charges that
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these guys right here are being
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suppressed. The word censorship's been
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invoked almost 400 times on Fox this
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month alone and more than 300 times on
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Newsmax. You know, post insurrection, a
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book publisher decided that it does not
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want to be in business with Senator Josh
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Holly. So, he's been on a national TV
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tour claiming he's muzzled. And Tucker
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Carlson is telling viewers that this
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network, CNN, is trying to force Fox
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which is patently false. It's as
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predictable as the sunrise. Democrats
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win elections and then Republicans say
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they are being silenced. But while some
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cry cancel culture, let me suggest a
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different way to think about this. A
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harm reduction model.
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Most people want clean air and blue
0:58
skies and accurate news and rational
1:00
views. And then in that healthy
1:02
environment that looks beautiful. Then
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we can have great fights about taxes and
1:07
regulation and healthcare and all the
1:08
rest. The vast majority of people can
1:10
agree that disinformation about let's
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say the pandemic is unhealthy. It's
1:15
harmful. So how can that harm be
1:17
reduced? Well, big tech platforms say
1:19
they are removing lies about vaccines
1:22
and stamping out stop the steel BS and
1:24
queueing on cult content. Now, do these
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private companies have too much power?
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Sure. And many people would say yes, of
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course they do. But reducing a liar's
1:32
reach is not the same as censoring
1:35
freedom of speech. Freedom of speech is
1:37
different than freedom of reach. And
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algorithmic reach is part of the
1:42
problem. Now, Facebook CEO Mark
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Zuckerberg seems to agree. Here's the
1:45
headline from Politico. He's pledging to
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Facebook. As Zuckerberg says, one of the
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top pieces of feedback that we're
1:52
hearing from our community is that
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people don't want politics and fighting
1:56
to take over their experience on our
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Well, he's he's several years too late.
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But but that is a real issue and he
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wants to now try to clean up Facebook.
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But this is bigger than Facebook. This
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harm happens all over the place. In the
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words of a recently fired Fox News
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editor, news consumers are both overfed
