Elon Musk’s X-Corp asked a California court on Friday to overturn a first-of-its-kind online content moderation law, arguing the measure pressures social media platforms to censor discourse viewed as problematic by state officials.
X, formerly known as Twitter, filed a <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.caed.433955/gov.uscourts.caed.433955.1.0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lawsuit</a> in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California against the new law AB 587, which requires social media companies to publicly disclose moderation practices around categories the state could label as misinformation/disinformation, extremism/radicalization, and hate speech — otherwise the state could impose fines for non-compliance.
But with Musk’s pledge to restore a marketplace of ideas on his newly rebranded $44 billion social media company, X Corp. alleges California’s new law regulating certain forms of speech violates the First Amendment under the U.S. and California constitutions.
“Because X Corp. must take such positions on these topics as they are formulated by the State, X Corp. is being forced to adopt the State’s politically-charged terms, which is a form of compelled speech in and of itself,” the lawsuit alleges.
“AB 587 thus mandates X Corp. to speak about sensitive, controversial topics about which it does not wish to speak in the hopes of pressuring X Corp. to limit constitutionally-protected content on its platform that the state apparently finds objectionable or undesirable,” the suit says.
Lawmakers tout the content moderation practice as a mere “transparency measure” under which state officials require certain social media companies to make their content moderation policies and statistics publicly available.
Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino), who authored the bill, said in <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/08/twitter-x-elon-musk-california-moderation-transparency-law-as-unconstitutional-ab-587/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">response</a> to the lawsuit that AB 587 is “a pure transparency measure that simply requires companies to be upfront about if and how they are moderating content.”
“It in no way requires any specific content moderation policies,” he added. “If Twitter has nothing to hide, then they should have no objection to this bill.”
The lawsuit brought forward by X Corp. comes months after satire news website Babylon Bee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/babylon-bee-ceo-tim-pool-file-lawsuit-against-california-attorney-general-over-new-social-media-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filed separate litigation</a> with podcaster Tim Pool and Minds, Inc. against California’s attorney general to keep state officials from enforcing the content moderation law.
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The group argues the law was “written with the express intent to discourage expression” of constitutionally protected viewpoints and failed the vagueness doctrine of the Fourteenth Amendment, which requires criminal laws to state explicitly and definitely what conduct is punishable.
“If Big Tech is tasked by the state with eliminating hateful or misinformative content, they’ll stuff everything they don’t like into those categories, including opinions, jokes, and even factual statements,” Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon said. “We’ve already experienced it first hand.”
Upon signing the bill into law, which is set to take effect next year, California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom said the state would “not stand by as social media is weaponized to spread hate and disinformation that threaten our communities and foundational values as a country.”
Dillon argued that lawmakers made the law too vague and called it a censorship bill.
“We need laws that prohibit viewpoint discrimination, not laws that compel it under threat of penalties (and under the guise of good-faith content moderation),” Dillon said.

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A pair of drag performers debated the definition of woman and whether <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/four-colorado-elementary-schools-dei-groups-teamed-up-to-promote-drag-queen-story-hour" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drag queen story hours</a> at public libraries are appropriate for kids Friday in the latest episode of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-pool-praises-matt-walsh-for-the-attention-hes-brought-to-the-transgender-issue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Pool&#8217;s</a> &#8220;Culture War&#8221; <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKoeMuuz5f0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a>.
Maebe A. Girl, a transgender-identifying male who in 2019 became the nation&#8217;s first drag queen elected to a public office, defended drag for kids against Kitty &#8220;Hogatha&#8221; DeMure, who has been one of the sole voices in the drag community talking about the dangers of drag to kids after going viral when he asked in a video, &#8220;Why do drag queens need to read to kids?&#8221;
Things got heated on the show when Pool posed the eponymous question popularized in The Daily Wire&#8217;s groundbreaking 2022 documentary, &#8220;<a href="https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&amp;ai=CqB6JuKSxZNb4Koe5mgTJ9InwDI2q3YFxlpTe04sR0tLezrIyCAAQASC5VGDJpt6M4KTQFKABkvTujgPIAQHIA9ggqgRfT9ApBeK6Vb-qwrKcyeFuq7WuOG4SdXTyjcUwls4P8qNGkTMd32fTbnloJWpO5zCNNupMZoHwPRW16uShkP6dFvstcz-Eo6pljh0npng7gnrujpp2ISM9W_KsLCbH1o7ABL3er8maBIAFkE6IBY2SvrJJoAZmgAfWi5FxiAcBkAcBqAemvhuoB7ytsQKoB7mrsQKoB7masQKoB_PRG6gH7tIbqAf_nLECqAfK3BuoB5KvsQKoB7uksQKoB9imsQKoB9uqsQKoB9CqsQKoB9ywsQKgCMCPpgSwCAHSCB0QAiCEAzIEg-CADjoIwsCAgICABAJCAQRI0ezzKpoJKGh0dHBzOi8vZ2V0LmRhaWx5d2lyZS5jb20vd2lhdy9zdWJzY3JpYmWxCY-hEu1QFLI2uQmPoRLtUBSyNvgJAZgLAaoMAggBuAwB2gwICgMggAESAQLoDAaqDQJVU4IUHggCEhpkYWlseSB3aXJlIHdoYXQgaXMgYSB3b21hbogUA8gUk5G8t6zFk7Yq0BUBmBYB-BYBgBcBkhcJEgcIARADGIMC4BcC&amp;ae=2&amp;ved=2ahUKEwij3cX9-Y6AAxWkSzABHc-xCDIQ0Qx6BAgNEAE&amp;nis=2&amp;dct=1&amp;cid=CAASFORorymOXPtAJ2eRolR2pXkEq_JT&amp;dblrd=1&amp;sival=AF15MEBygqmSS-peyERjEAoaFayWY6MHl5EzGq8Jl5Hq_IIJu-wHS6tKYWkOr483GSJ96P1pq49EczGEFCMVFJD3J-thHHGlW9Crvfqd8ItHCZNjECorKtT1Ao7AUGD_3xrcSH2tohVeSzms6OftNtnTJK-v8vMOkQJLF_c-7rapIxHSr1Wk5R_d3n5k_UbE3RzuWKxntG8d&amp;sig=AOD64_1YGLNSHa2WHIAw1oAVvcIc-ly_8Q&amp;adurl=https://get.dailywire.com/wiaw/subscribe%3Futm_campaign%3Dwiaw%26utm_medium%3Dpaid%26utm_source%3Dgooglesearch%26utm_content%3Dna_subscriptions%26mid%3Dg%26cid%3Dwiaw%26xid%3D0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">What Is A Woman?</a>&#8221; Girl, who was elected to the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council in Los Angeles four years ago, equivocated while Demure dropped the mic.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m qualified to answer that because I don&#8217;t think that there&#8217;s a singular answer,&#8221; Girl replied. &#8220;And I think it goes back into this idea that I was talking about earlier that so many people view the world through this binary lens of you are either this or that.&#8221;
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&#8220;You&#8217;re a man or a woman,&#8221; Girl added. &#8220;But the idea of a man and a woman is actually so expansive, and there is so much opportunity and nuance in between. And I think it&#8217;s up to the individual to decide &#8230; I think this idea that we have to have this definition of what is a woman I think it&#8217;s counterproductive &#8230; and meant to be transphobic.&#8221;
When Pool pressed Girl to define &#8220;female,&#8221; the drag queen official said &#8220;female would be the end of this binary that society has created.&#8221;
DeMure replied that every &#8220;drag queen can tell you what a woman is if they are being honest.&#8221;
&#8220;A woman does not have a penis, because drag queens tuck their penises,&#8221; DeMure said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen one drag queen in all of my years of pageants have a bulge.&#8221;
&#8220;A woman is a human that is born with a vagina and has the capability of reproducing and giving birth, whether they can do it or not,&#8221; DeMure continued. &#8220;They have the anatomy for it. To me, that&#8217;s what a woman is. And we all know it.&#8221;
The pair also disagreed about drag queen story hour at libraries, with DeMure calling them inappropriate and suggesting that kids would rather have their parents read to them.
But Girl said it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;inappropriate&#8221; for children, and defended drag community as not a &#8220;monolith.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe that there are appropriate interactions for particular situations,&#8221; Girl said. &#8220;And I agree we shouldn&#8217;t have kids at drag shows that are taking place at night clubs, which is not happening.&#8221;
Girl disputed claims that drag performers read sexually explicit books at the events, saying &#8220;99 percent of the time&#8221; the books drag queens read to kids are age-appropriate.
But Girl acknowledged that some performers have gone too far at drag queen story hours.
&#8220;And unfortunately, that reflects on the whole community,&#8221; Girl said.
DeMure said he&#8217;s part of a tiny minority of drag performers speaking out against exposing children to drag.
&#8220;If we were going to expose children to this, why is it going to be a drag queen with their legs spread open reading to kids about hey maybe you’re a girl, maybe you’re a boy?&#8221; he wondered. &#8220;It’s like there&#8217;s no PR or head of the LGBTQ ink that is managing these things.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-pool-dives-into-hot-button-issues-with-his-new-podcast-the-culture-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Pool Dives Into Hot Button Issues With His New Podcast, &#8216;The Culture War&#8217;</a>

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Podcaster <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-pool">Tim Pool</a> exposed the hypocrisy of his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/abortion">pro-abortion</a> guest’s position during Thursday&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/podcast">episode</a> of “Timcast IRL.”
Pool was speaking with Lance from The Serfs, a popular democratic socialist YouTube channel. When the topic of abortion came up, Lance said he believed a woman should still have “the choice” and “ultimate authority over what happens to her body.”
“What about meth?” Pool asked Lance.
“Uh … like, should she be allowed to do meth?” Lance said. “Uh, I think if someone is doing meth while they’re pregnant, that it is completely acceptable for something like [child services] &#8230;”
“It’s her body, though,” Pool replied.
“Yeah, it’s her body,” Lance said.
“If she wants to do meth, what’s the big deal?” Pool asked.
“Uh, the big deal is that it’s – she’s intentionally trying to kill a child,” Lance said.
There was a brief silence as they both realized what he admitted. “Hold on there a minute,” Pool said, and Lance admitted, “Yeah, I see where you’re …” 
“I don’t understand what you’re saying,” Pool said. 
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The clip quickly started circulating on social media. “Well done,” the pro-life advocacy group Live Action <a href="https://twitter.com/liveaction/status/1654319788255072256?s=46&amp;t=y4YkrOT86oHdXG1HCmsfMQ">said</a> of the exchange.
“Why would you debate this topic when you haven&#8217;t thought about your position for even a second?” another Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/aguybeinaguy/status/1654298544772112384">wrote</a>. That post had 1.5 million views as of Friday.
“Love this argument. Leaves them stunned and swimming in circles every time!” another person <a href="https://twitter.com/MacmorrisJordan/status/1654540538291388421">wrote</a>. 
Pool also shared the clip, writing in the <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1654448066815041538">retweet</a>, “I love my job.”
At another point in the conversation, Pool and Lance <a href="https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1654304796503941120">discussed</a> children who identify as transgender receiving “gender-affirming care,” which Pool described as a “genocide.”
“You want to know what I think?” Pool told Lance after the guest trotted out familiar Leftist talking points about there being more trans-identified youth now because those individuals are more accepted in society.
“I think there is a trans genocide,” Pool said. “And I think it’s you. Because you’re sterilizing a lot of these people. You’re literally sterilizing them – the surgery to remove the gonads, hysterectomies, and cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers have a high rate of sterilization.”
“These people can no longer reproduce. That’s genocide,” Pool said.

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“How many times does someone have to lie to you before you call them a liar?” podcaster and independent journalist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-pool">Tim Pool</a> asks in a recent PragerU video.
Pool goes through several prominent cases of mainstream media outlets misrepresenting major national news stories, and suggests that said organizations do not deserve the blanket trust that some Americans still give them.
He specifically cites the Michael Brown shooting in 2014, where media portrayed Brown as a ‘gentle giant’ who was shot by a racist police after pleading for his life with the famous — and fictitious — line “hands up, don’t shoot!”.
In reality, Brown had just robbed a convenience store and had violently assaulted officer Darren Wilson, punching him and reaching for his gun. A local grand jury and a federal probe by the Justice Department under the Obama administration found that Wilson had justifiably used lethal force in self defense.
“The whole story was manufactured by the media.” Pool observed. “It wasn’t the first time. It wouldn’t be the last.” 

Pool outlined other major scandals, such as the big tech suppression of Hunter Biden’s &#8220;laptop from hell&#8221; during the 2020 election, and the mainstream media’s insistence that it was &#8220;Russian disinformation.&#8221; In a similar vein, Pool zeroes in on the &#8220;Russia Hoax&#8221; that dominated the aftermath of the 2016 election.
“The biggest whopper of them all was the Russia Hoax, the entirely made up story that Donald Trump the candidate, then Donald Trump the President of the United States, was a Russian Agent. This dark fantasy preoccupied the legacy media for 3 years.”
Pool notes that most of the reporting on this issue was sourced from opposition research funded by the Clinton campaign that was totally baseless — the New York Times and the Washington Post would both win Pulitzer Prizes for that baseless reporting.
Pool advised listeners to seek out information from across the political spectrum, and to critically evaluate the motives and credibility of their sources.
“If someone or some news source lies over and over again, you may not want to trust them.”
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Journalist and musician <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tim-pool-dives-into-hot-button-issues-with-his-new-podcast-the-culture-war" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tim Pool</a> announced Tuesday that he had his music yanked from online audio distribution platform <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/08/19/903547253/a-tale-of-two-ecosystems-on-bandcamp-spotify-and-the-wide-open-future" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bandcamp</a> without any explanation.
Pool <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-bandcamp-removes-timcast-five-times-august-from-platform" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Post Millennial three of his songs were pulled from Bandcamp, and he&#8217;s yet to receive an explanation. The journalist floated the idea of a class action lawsuit from fans who paid for his music and no longer have access to it on the platform.
&#8220;Hey look our [Bandcamp] account is still gone and they&#8217;ve never responded as to why,&#8221; Pool said Tuesday via Twitter.
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hey look our <a href="https://twitter.com/Bandcamp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bandcamp</a> account is still gone and they&#39;ve never responded as to why<a href="https://t.co/VeCaZ6uc7e">https://t.co/VeCaZ6uc7e</a>
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The music platform has also apparently leveled a ban on Five Times August, a band featuring singer/songwriter Brad Skistimas. An account for Five Times August on Wednesday suggested the ban could be political.
&#8220;Having a really hard time figuring out why [Band Camp] would target and delete Five Times August&#8217;s and [Timcast]&#8216;s pages and why their support manager wouldn&#8217;t be getting back to us&#8230;,&#8221; the account sarcastically posted along with a screenshot of a LinkedIn profile indicating the platform&#8217;s support manager uses &#8220;they/them&#8221; pronouns as well as a picture. 
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Having a really hard time figuring out why <a href="https://twitter.com/Bandcamp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Bandcamp</a> would target and delete Five Times August&#39;s and <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Timcast</a>&#39;s pages and why their support manager wouldn&#39;t be getting back to us&#8230; <a href="https://t.co/F8Bn4lcW1W">pic.twitter.com/F8Bn4lcW1W</a>
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&#8220;Oh wow okay so it really is #bannedcamp isn&#8217;t it [Band Camp]?&#8221; the account later posted, captioning an image revealing the company blocked the Five Times August Twitter account.
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And by “equitably” <a href="https://twitter.com/Bandcamp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Bandcamp</a> means they’ll delete your page without warning and then block you if you ask them why. <a href="https://t.co/Zcbpx9HPSk">pic.twitter.com/Zcbpx9HPSk</a>
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The Daily Wire reached out to Bandcamp for explanation on both bans, but did not immediately receive a response.
Pool reacted on Thursday to the Five Times August ban, writing, &#8220;maybe we should crowd fund a class action between all our fans who can no longer access the music they paid for.&#8221;
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maybe we should crowd fund a class action between all our fans who can no longer access the music they paid for <a href="https://t.co/x9C7p0Z1eC">https://t.co/x9C7p0Z1eC</a>
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&#8220;This is the part that pisses me off,&#8221; Five Times August responded. &#8220;If [Bandcamp] wants to delete artist pages and music on a whim because they’re butt hurt little wimps that’s fine, but to remove access from anyone who already purchased the music is theft.&#8221;
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This is the part that pisses me off. If <a href="https://twitter.com/Bandcamp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@bandcamp</a> wants to delete artist pages and music on a whim because they’re butt hurt little wimps that’s fine, but to remove access from anyone who already purchased the music is theft. <a href="https://t.co/WtTjzVXCnv">https://t.co/WtTjzVXCnv</a>
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&#8220;No idea what happened but after ten years on Bandcamp they removed my entire catalogue of music and signed me out as if I never existed. I just signed up again to reclaim my page. Silent War is available for now as a test but if they remove it again we&#8217;ll know why,&#8221; The band wrote back in February, adding, &#8220;I just re-registered. Had to start my account all over and reclaim my page again. Really strange.&#8221;
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No idea what happened but after ten years on Bandcamp they removed my entire catalogue of music and signed me out as if I never existed. I just signed up again to reclaim my page. Silent War is available for now as a test but if they remove <a href="https://t.co/GPbI3aaGvJ">https://t.co/GPbI3aaGvJ</a>… <a href="https://t.co/wHZyUgiwy6">https://t.co/wHZyUgiwy6</a> <a href="https://t.co/RVSW0OmJdi">pic.twitter.com/RVSW0OmJdi</a>
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Podcaster and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/youtube">YouTube</a> personality <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-pool">Tim Pool</a> is shedding light on the most buzzworthy cultural topics with his latest project, “The Culture War.”
This new show is streaming episodes on Fridays at 1:00 pm EST. Per the press release, Pool’s latest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-pool">podcast</a> will become “your home for unflinchingly honest discussions about the biggest cultural issues of our time, with the most interesting guests, free of political agendas.” 
“There is a whole world happening out there beyond the confines of the news cycle and we intend to get into all of it,” Pool, CEO of Timcast Media Group, said of the endeavor.
Fans are already familiar with Pool’s massively successful shows “The Tim Pool Daily Show” and “Timcast In Real Life.” While these programs dabble in cultural topics alongside politics and headline news, the newest project offers a deeper dive into the cultural divide in modern America and how it affects every aspect of everyday life. 
The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9oqgpKL4qw">debut episode</a> of “The Culture War” aired on Friday, February 24, with an expose on radical gender ideology. It featured detransitioner Oli London, who rose to fame while identifying as “Trans Korean” and transgender, then opted to re-evaluate.
London got real with Pool about why he stepped away from plastic surgery and found peace with his true self, plus how becoming one of a growing number of detransitioners made him a target for hateful reactions, including threats, from former allies and supporters.
Pool’s political views are often described as libertarian. Recently, he’s been taking on the issue of transgenderism more frequently, including when he defended Daily Wire host Matt Walsh for his scathing commentary on trans activist Dylan Mulvaney.
“All these people are talking to Matt Walsh, saying, ‘You shouldn’t be mean to people and blah, blah,’ and Matt’s like, ‘No, there’s no limits,’” Pool said on an episode of “Timcast IRL.”
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“Like, we can’t let these people do these bad things. You need to tell people who are doing bad things, what you’re doing is bad. And you can do it in a bunch of different ways,” he continued. “You know, calling someone ‘creepy’ and ‘degenerate’ is not the worst possible thing in the world for a person, and it may make them rethink targeting children and causing harm to other people.”

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Tim Pool Dives Into Hot Button Issues With His New Podcast, ‘The Culture War’

Tim Pool Dives Into Hot Button Issues With His New Podcast, 'The Culture War'

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YouTuber Tim Pool praised Daily Wire podcast host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-walsh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> on Friday for the good that has come from Walsh bringing attention to the subject of leftists trying to force transgenderism on America&#8217;s youth.
&#8220;All these people are talking to Matt Walsh, saying, &#8216;You shouldn&#8217;t be mean to people and blah, blah,&#8217; and Matt&#8217;s like, &#8216;No, there&#8217;s no limits,’” Pool said. &#8220;Like, we can&#8217;t let these people do these bad things. You need to tell people who are doing bad things, what you&#8217;re doing is bad.&#8221;
&#8220;And you can do it in a bunch of different ways,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;You know, calling someone &#8216;creepy&#8217; and &#8216;degenerate&#8217; is not the worst possible thing in the world for a person, and it may make them rethink targeting children and causing harm to other people.&#8221;
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&quot;He&#39;s actually accomplishing things&#8230;Matt Walsh is doing a good job drawing attention to this, even if he&#39;s being a little bit mean.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/3fqZCqZdpX">pic.twitter.com/3fqZCqZdpX</a>
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<blockquote>TIM POOL: All these people are talking to Matt Walsh, saying, &#8216;You shouldn&#8217;t be mean to people and blah, blah,&#8217; and Matt&#8217;s like, &#8216;No, there&#8217;s no limits.&#8217; Like, we can&#8217;t let these people do these bad things. You need to tell people who are doing bad things, what you&#8217;re doing is bad. And you can do it in a bunch of different ways. You know, calling someone &#8216;creepy&#8217; and &#8216;degenerate&#8217; is not the worst possible thing in the world for a person, and it may make them rethink targeting children and causing harm to other people.
ELAD ELIAHU: And then sometimes the ends justify the means and in the case of Matt Walsh, it goes bigger than just that video he released because in Tennessee, he also held a [rally] on trans [bans] &#8230; but in Tennessee, they actually also managed to pass something in their state legislature banning gender transition for people, I think … around 14 or 15. You&#8217;d need to fact check me on that, but you know, he&#8217;s actually accomplishing things, and I think it&#8217;s like called &#8216;culture jamming.’ So Matt Walsh is doing a good job drawing attention to this, even if he is being a little bit mean. You know, he&#8217;s actually getting things done in Tennessee.</blockquote>

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Tim Pool Praises Matt Walsh For The Attention He’s Brought To The Transgender Issue

Tim Pool Praises Matt Walsh For The Attention He's Brought To The Transgender Issue

Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michael-knowles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Knowles</a> opened an appearance on the Timcast IRL podcast wearing a black face-mask reminiscent of the one worn by Kanye West in his now <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/alex-jones-breaks-his-silence-following-viral-anti-semitic-interview-with-ye" target="_blank" rel="noopener">infamous interview</a> with Alex Jones, kicking off a two hour discussion about censorship and the foundational structure of society.
After removing the “$4 Amazon” mask and slamming Balenciaga as “satanic pedos,” discussion shifted over to the controversy surrounding coverage of the alleged assault on Paul Pelosi by David DePape.
Some on the Left argue that extreme right-wing rhetoric radicalized DePape, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/paul-pelosi-attackers-planned-hit-list-revealed-includes-oscar-winner" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> carried a hit list of various politicians and prominent citizens, including California Governor Gavin Newsom, actor Tom Hanks and Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden. Others on the podcast, including co-host Luke Rudkowski, questioned the veracity of DePape’s recent court testimony and the investigation by suggesting discrepancies in some initial reporting pointed to some kind of relationship between the two men and a subsequent media coverup.
Knowles pushed back on this, arguing that the various theories flying around are not necessary to understand the situation. “People are trying to construct really sophisticated narratives about what’s going on, but is it not possible — I humbly put forward — that this guy is kind of crazy?”
Knowles also acknowledged that repeated scandals had badly damaged the credibility of the American media and various other cultural and political institutions and had created a fertile breeding ground for conspiracy theories. “In a world where crazy pedo island exists and in a world where — I know we’re on YouTube so I’ll be really, super careful — where every single thing we’ve been told by people in authority over the past two years is totally fake. … in that world, it is more reasonable to assume that Paul and Nancy Pelosi are whipping and torturing this random guy than to believe the CNN version.”
The show then pivoted to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-bans-the-twitter-accounts-of-multiple-major-left-wing-media-figures" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent Twitter suspensions</a> of some prominent journalists such as Donie O’Sullivan of CNN, Drew Harwell of The Washington Post, and independent journalist Aaron Rupar. Twitter CEO Elon Musk has reportedly cracked down on accounts that broadcast his location and the real time locations of other prominent people after his son was recently allegedly followed by a stalker.
Knowles defended Musk’s decision. “I’m not a free speech absolutist,” he said. “I believe in standards and norms. And you know what I really believe in? Banning these left-wing losers — especially banning that guy who was tracking Elon Musk’s plane.”
Knowles argued when pressed that even the earliest liberal thinkers, such as John Locke, posited some limits to free speech beyond cases of fraud or threat, and argued that every civilization had some kind of taboos. He further argued that the “opening” of society and the relaxation of old norms had not resulted in a society free of norms, but instead created a society where immorality is elevated and virtue penalized.
“We have broad toleration for lots of different things, but there are limits, and they’re pretty severe limits.”
He argued that chivalry was a restrictive speech code of great social value and that issues like child pornography didn’t need to be litigated in the public square as its immorality was firmly established and those who advocate for it need not be entertained.
He also argued that law influences culture in the same way culture influences law, rather than one merely being downstream of the other.
The other hosts, notably Rudkowski, argued against this, pointing out that many of the arguments Knowles was citing were used by the Left to shut down conservatives and conservative ideas as being “dangerous” or “degrading society.”
“Who [gets to] decide who’s degrading society with what ideas?” Rudkowski argued. “Who’s gonna be calling the shots here? Power corrupts. … When it comes to bad ideas, they need to be challenged with good ideas. If there are idiots out there who believe in [child porn], they deserve to be challenged.”
Rudkowski also argued that censorship often creates echo chambers and a sense of victimized vindication. “They double down on that instead of [having] a bunch of people tell them, ‘Hey, this was wrong and not acceptable.’”
Citing the late conservative thought leader William F. Buckley, Knowles said, “I’m an epistemological optimist; I think that certain things are settled and we don’t really need to entertain Nazis or Communists.”
“Your political opponents are doing the same exact thing in Europe,” Rudkowski countered. “They’re using the same arguments you’re using in Europe to arrest people for saying men can’t be lesbians … they’re saying, ‘I know what’s best for society, I know what ideas are good or bad; we have to stop these ideas … if you hurt people with your ideas, we have to stop you, censor you, and throw you in jail.’”
“They’re using the same procedures,” Knowles responded. “The difference is that there’s a difference between ‘good’ and ‘bad.’” Knowles argued that the promotion of the good, the true, and beautiful was just and proper.
“That’s based off your interpretation,” Rudkowski argued, saying that Knowles’ political opponents might find a drag queen to be good and beautiful.
“But they’re wrong,” Knowles shot back.
After a debate over whether morality could be universalized or whether moral standards differed from individual to individual, Timcast host Tim Pool brought the discussion back to its original launching point.
Pool took a middle ground position between Knowles and Rudkowski’s arguments and said that having an established corpus of norms and laws was vital, while saying that law was an “analog” process that would inevitably be filtered through the norms and perspectives of the current times.
“Elon Musk needs to set clearly defined parameters for what he wants, but then we need judges to interpret [that],” Pool said.
The debate then turned to the whether or not the individual or the family should be considered the primary unit of society, with Knowles making the case for the family while Rudkowski argued for the individual.
“The family unit, I think, is one of the most important units, but I think we also have to respect the strongest minority of them all, and that’s the individual,” Rudkowski said.
Knowles argued that individuals emerge from families with both rights and duties, and that those ties and duties were of fundamental importance. He also argued that communism and anarchism or purist libertarianism were fundamentally two sides of the same coin, atomizing the individual — although the former then tried to reconnect them in a collectivized new society. “That’s why I think Karl Marx, if he were alive today, would be in the Tea Party.”
All members of the panel came to the consensus that political power was presently too centralized and that more localized control and subsidiary structure would be preferable, albeit for different reasons.
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'But They’re Wrong': Michael Knowles Talks Speech And Censorship On Timcast

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Rapper Ye, formerly known as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kanye-west">Kanye West</a>, stormed off the set of an interview with Tim Pool, host of the show &#8220;Timcast IRL,&#8221; on Monday after he was confronted about his anti-Semitic views.
The interview comes as West has repeatedly made news headlines for spouting anti-Semitic remarks which have since upended many of his business pursuits.
&#8220;They tried to lock me up. That&#8217;s right, because every time, I&#8217;m just holding stride, and it&#8217;s like, I didn&#8217;t, I thought I was more Malcolm X, but I find out I&#8217;m more MLK, because as I&#8217;m getting hosed down every day by the press, and financially, I&#8217;m just standing there,&#8221; West claimed. &#8220;And when I found out that they tried to put me in jail, it was like a dog was biting my arm. I almost shed a tear, almost. But I still walked in stride through it.&#8221;
&#8220;I think they&#8217;ve been extremely unfair to you,&#8221; Pool responded, talking about the media&#8217;s treatment of West.
&#8220;Who is they though?&#8221; West responded. &#8220;We can&#8217;t say who &#8216;they&#8217; is, can we?&#8221;
&#8220;The press,&#8221; Pool responded. &#8220;I&#8217;m not using the, I don&#8217;t use the word [&#8216;they&#8217;] as the way I guess you use.&#8221;
&#8220;What do you mean it&#8217;s not?&#8221; West responded before getting up and walking out of the interview.
&#8220;Are you leaving?&#8221; Pool asked as West walked by him.
Another man in the room asked West, &#8220;Are you afraid of the press?&#8221;
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Kanye West just stormed out of a livestream on <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Timcast</a> because Pool refused to go along with West&#39;s antisemitic and conspiratorial assertion that Jews control the corporate press.<a href="https://t.co/TRD7snV3zk">https://t.co/TRD7snV3zk</a> <a href="https://t.co/OXHiTGVmaM">pic.twitter.com/OXHiTGVmaM</a>
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<blockquote>KANYE WEST: They tried to lock me up. That&#8217;s right, because every time, I&#8217;m just holding stride, and it&#8217;s like, I didn&#8217;t, I thought I was more Malcolm X, but I find out I&#8217;m more MLK, because as I&#8217;m getting hosed down every day by the press, and financially, I&#8217;m just standing there. And when I found out that they tried to put me in jail, it was like a dog was biting my arm. I almost shed a tear, almost. But I still walked in stride through it.
TIM POOL: I think they&#8217;ve been extremely unfair to you.
WEST: Who is they though? We can&#8217;t say who &#8216;they&#8217; is, can we?
POOL: The press. I&#8217;m not using the, I don&#8217;t use the word [&#8216;they&#8217;] as the way I guess you use.
&#8230;.
POOL: No.
&#8230;.
WEST: What do you mean it&#8217;s not?
POOL: What do I mean? Like, so how about&#8211;
[West stands up and leaves]
POOL: Are you leaving?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you afraid of the press?
POOL: He&#8217;s gone. I&#8217;ll say it right now, you guys want to bring that stuff up [inaudible/crosstalk]. You think Ye&#8217;s going to come in here and say, &#8216;here&#8217;s my pain, here&#8217;s my suffering,&#8217; I&#8217;m going to say, &#8216;I hear you.&#8217; And then he&#8217;s going to say, &#8216;it was Jewish people,&#8217; and I&#8217;m going to be like, &#8216;Ok, but don&#8217;t you consider&#8211;?&#8217;
[Highlights West&#8217;s reaction]: &#8216;I&#8217;m not going to do this, I refuse!&#8217;</blockquote>
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Cenk Uygur&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM64v82pKM4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">latest unhinged rant</a> saw the Young Turks host attack Catholic priests, accuse the right-wing of cheering on pedophilia, and make a bizarre supposition about why Tim Pool wears a wool cap.
The volatile leftist&#8217;s diatribe on his internet show was triggered by Saturday night&#8217;s mass shooting in a Colorado Springs gay bar, which he erroneously said Pool and other conservatives applauded. Several liberals have claimed conservative opposition to pedophilia, radical gender theory, and grooming children through drag shows is putting LGBT lives at risk.
“The right-wing loves pedophiles,” Uygur said. &#8220;There’s no end to the depravity of right-wing media.”
A particular observation by Pool in response to the shooting, which left five dead, seemed to set off Uygur. Initial speculation swirled that the suspect, whose lawyers have just revealed identifies as &#8220;non-binary,&#8221; launched his attack in Club Q because it was set to host a drag show for children the next day.
“We shouldn’t tolerate pedophiles grooming kids. Club Q had a grooming event,” Pool said, before suggesting the challenge facing decent people is “how to prevent the violence and stop the grooming.”
Uygur took the comment to mean that Pool was somehow justifying violence.
“He’s a monstrous right-winger,” Uygur shouted. “He’s a terrible, terrible person. [He thinks] &#8216;all gay people are pedophiles and groomers and we should all attack them and do all these horrible things so we can goad our lunatic audience.’ And yes, Tim Pool, Matt Walsh, Tucker Carlson, you all have lunatics in your audience and you weaponize them and you know it.&#8221;
“I’m sick of these right-wingers,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Look at it. They’re almost celebrating it! I mean, he nearly brought pom-poms to the shooting!”
Rage against pedophilia, Uygur said, should instead be directed at the Catholic Church and the Boy Scouts of America.
“What do we know about the giant cases of pedophilia in this country?&#8221; he asked his audience. &#8220;Number one is Catholic priests, one of the most conservative professions in America.
“And the right-wing’s like, ‘Yes! I love how they molest the little kids like that! Go get ‘em, Boy Scouts! Go get ‘em, priests!’” he charged.
“They love the Boy Scouts. A nest of vipers and pedophiles and groomers, okay? And the right-wing’s like, ‘Yes! The Boy Scouts! I love how they molest the little kids like that! Go get ‘em Boy Scouts! Go get ‘em priests!’ Tell me I’m wrong. You guys love the Boy Scouts and priests. You never criticize them.”
Uygur brought the pedophilia fulmination back to his initial target, Pool, with a strange explanation for why the YouTube and podcast star often sports a ski cap.
“The reason Tim Pool wears a beanie is because he’s trying to contain the pedophilia that’s in his head,&#8221; Uygur said. &#8220;That’s why he’s always talking about it. He’s seeing it everywhere. Why? Because he’s projecting.”
However bizarre Uygur&#8217;s attack on Pool, priests, and the Boy Scouts may seem, he will have to work harder to top his most unhinged rant.
“If I were the benevolent dictator of the world, I would legalize bestiality where you are giving — you’re pleasuring the animal,&#8221; Uygur said in 2013. &#8220;You see what I’m saying?”
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Popular podcast host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-pool">Tim Pool</a> just released his first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">single</a> with former Offspring drummer Pete Parada.
The official music video already has more than one quarter of a million views on YouTube as of Friday. Pool, who became famous for live-streaming the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011, wrote and performed the debut single “Only Ever Wanted” as a collaboration with Carter Banks and Parada.
“With this song we make our first foray into seizing back the cultural spaces dominated by establishment institutions that hate you,” Pool said of his first contribution to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music-industry">music industry</a>.
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Pool called the new album “a dream come true.” He <a href="https://heromag.net/exclusive-tim-pool-drops-new-single-with-cancelled-drummer-pete-parada/">said</a> in a press release, “The first song I ever learned was from the first album I ever bought, ‘Americana’ By the Offspring. When I heard that Pete was fired over his inability to get the vaccine I knew instantly that The Offspring had made a mistake, both politically and in terms of market opportunity.”
Last August, Parada <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/offspring-drummer-writes-viral-post-opposing-vaccine-mandates-parts-ways-with-him-over-medical-inability-to-get-shot">announced</a> he would not be joining the band’s upcoming tour because he had the immune condition Guillain-Barré Syndrome and had been advised not to get the COVID vaccine. He said because he wouldn’t “comply with what is increasingly becoming an industry mandate,” his band The Offspring claimed “[he was] unsafe to be around” and fired him after 14 years.
But to Pool, their loss was his gain. He continued, “Pete&#8217;s drumming and vision has been a major asset to our production and added that burst of energy our songs were looking for. Carter made magic happen and transformed these songs I&#8217;ve written into something I never thought possible.”
Parada agreed that the collaboration with Pool was a huge benefit both personally and professionally.
“Tim was one of the first people with a large platform to support me after my dismissal from The Offspring,&#8221; Parada said. &#8220;When I reached out to thank him, he immediately invited me to his home to talk about music and the possibility of working together.”
The veteran drummer said he was happy to keep making music with Pool and Banks after he was let go from the band.
“I was impressed with the range of material that he had already written and could instantly hear what I would do with those songs. It’s been a great collaborating environment between myself, Tim and Carter,” he continued. “I get excited every time they send a new song for me to play on here in my studio because I know it’s going to be interesting and something that I’ll enjoy sinking my teeth into.&#8221;

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/youtube" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a> appears to have amended its policies so that it is now acceptable to express skepticism about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/face-mask" target="_blank" rel="noopener">masks</a> on its platform.
Journalist and podcaster Tim Pool posted before-and-after screenshots from YouTube&#8217;s misinformation policies to Twitter. The screenshots show that a rule that bans users from claiming that face masks do not play a role in preventing the spread of COVID-19 has been removed from the policies page. The amended rules come nearly a year after the platform suspended several high-profile conservative leaders with massive followings for violating the policy.
&#8220;Youtube updated its policies to no longer ban claims that masks do not play a role in preventing spread of COVID,&#8221; Pool captioned the photos. &#8220;Essentially, you are now allowed to claim masks don&#8217;t work.&#8221;
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Youtube updated its policies to no longer ban claims that masks do not play a role in preventing spread of COVID
Essentially, you are now allowed to claim masks don&#8217;t work <a href="https://t.co/SI3wF9jov8">pic.twitter.com/SI3wF9jov8</a>
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) <a href="https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1561906311125680138?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
The screenshots are taken from Youtube&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en&amp;ref_topic=10833358" target="_blank" rel="noopener">COVID-19 medical misinformation policy</a>.&#8221; Under the headline &#8220;Prevention misinformation,&#8221; Youtube bans content on its platform that includes &#8220;[c]laims that masks do not play a role in preventing the contraction or transmission of COVID-19.&#8221; It also bans &#8220;[c]laims that wearing a mask is dangerous or causes negative physical health effects.&#8221; Pool&#8217;s second screenshot shows the same section, with both those rules removed.
A screenshot of the rules page from the Internet Archive&#8217;s <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220000000000*/https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785?hl=en&amp;ref_topic=10833358" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wayback Machine</a>, dated April 13, shows the policies still on the site. But they were quietly removed shortly afterward, as they do not appear in a screenshot of the site dated May 31.
A number of YouTubers who had allegedly been banned for violating the rules during the height of the pandemic reacted to the changes.
&#8220;I think I got a strike for this,&#8221; user @matthewprewett tweeted. &#8220;I wasn’t allowed to do certain actions during that time as my account was restricted. This is the problem with a company deciding to be the arbitrator of truth.&#8221;
&#8220;In March 2021, @YouTube banned a video of me telling @GovRonDeSantis that there was no high quality evidence that force masking children protects anyone from covid,&#8221; Stanford School of Medicine Professor <a href="https://twitter.com/DrJBhattacharya/status/1562138852965376003?s=20&amp;t=91PYRAGaKT7PoBDIUQM_aw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Jay Bhattacharya</a> wrote. &#8220;Shame on YouTube for censoring to support CDC propaganda. The Science(tm) changed, but the science didn&#8217;t.&#8221;
&#8220;Smh. I got a strike over this,&#8221; YouTuber and former police officer <a href="https://twitter.com/TheOfficerTatum/status/1562086185836560385?s=20&amp;t=91PYRAGaKT7PoBDIUQM_aw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brandon Tatum</a> replied.
YouTube suspended a number of other high-profile leaders in the conservative movement in 2021 and early 2022 allegedly for violating the policy. As tweeted by Bhattacharya, in April 2021, YouTube took down a video of Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youtube-pulls-video-of-desantis-medical-experts-for-saying-children-dont-need-masks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ron DeSantis</a> (R) discussing the efficacy of masks in schools. Then in August, YouTube removed a video and suspended Senator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-not-sure-when-youtube-became-an-arm-of-the-government-rand-paul-slaps-back-after-youtube-suspension" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rand Paul</a> (R-KY) discussing “a variety of topics, including the science behind masks,&#8221; The Daily Wire reported at the time.
YouTube&#8217;s move prompted the senator to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/they-just-want-my-silence-rand-paul-quits-youtube-slams-big-tech-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">leave the platform altogether</a> in January. YouTube also permanently suspended conservative talk show host <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/dan-bongino-youtube-suspension-covid/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dan Bongino</a> in January 2022 after he questioned mask policies on the platform, prompting him to migrate his content to the alternative video platform Rumble.

YouTube Appears To Update Policy Banning Claims That Masks Don’t Stop The Spread Of COVID

YouTube Appears To Update Policy Banning Claims That Masks Don't Stop The Spread Of COVID

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