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So this week we've had the google thing,
there was the youtube thing that 

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happened last week,
what's going on with censorship and what

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should people do about it?

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If you're in a workplace in 
pathological,

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things are happening.
This is easy.

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I can tell you how you know of 
pathological things are happening at 

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your workplace or they're happening with
you one of the two.

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But you can straighten that out if 
you're being required to do things that 

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make you weak and ashamed,

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then stop.
Don't do them.

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Like one of the things I learned from 
Solzhenitsyn and Frankl was that

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systems go terribly under,
out of control when people don't stop 

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them,
when they're going mildly out of 

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control.
You know,

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when you might say,
I should just keep my goddamn head down 

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and shut up.
It's like maybe you should like,

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that's not bad advice.
You know,

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you don't want to make unnecessary 
enemies and you don't need any more 

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trouble than you need,
but you got to ask yourself on a day to 

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day basis what makes you think you're 
not selling your soul?

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You know?
And there's so much foolishness going on

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in the mid level bureaucratic world now 
that's where all the tyranny seems to be

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focused.
And the reason that it multiplies is 

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because sensible people say nothing

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when they should say something.
And what's so strange about that is that

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there are way more sensible people than 
people who aren't sensible.

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They're just not as noisy.
So what you'll turn out if like,

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so let's say something's bugging the 
hell out of you at work,

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well then you have to prepare it to find
another job.

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That's the first thing you have to do.
I don't think that you should find 

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another job,
but you should prepare to find another 

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job.
And if possible,

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you should prepare to find a better job.
Because if you can't tell someone to go 

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to hell,
then you can't negotiate with them.

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And if and if they've got you over a 
barrel,

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then you can't say anything.
So you gotTa,

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you gotta set yourself up.
So you've got some mobility and actually

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that's a really good principal in your 
life,

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period.

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You should set yourself up so that you 
have a lateral move at hand.

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And then you should find out,
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are there things at work that are 
disturbing my soul?

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You know,
and you find that out.

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First of all,
you ask yourself,

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okay,
I'm disturbed at work.

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Okay,
I'm probably week and deceitful and 

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useless and lazy.
He might as well start with that.

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And then you talk to some people like 
your wife,

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your friends,
your coworkers,

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and find out are you stupid,
deceitful and lazy,

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or is there something not so good going 
on at work?

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And so if you,
if you can then eliminate your own 

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personal pathology as a cause of your 
dissatisfaction,

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then maybe there's something rotten in 
the state of Denmark and maybe you 

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should say something about it before the
whole goddamn thing collapses.

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Because that can happen.
It can happen in companies a lot faster 

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than people ever think.

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You know?
And you may find that,

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well,
first of all may find if you say 

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something,
well first of all,

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that's an adventure.
That's for sure.

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That's a bloody adventure.
And you have to do it carefully and,

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and you have to be prepared for it.
But it might be the best thing that ever

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happened to you.
And the other thing is if you're careful

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about it,
you get your words right.

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Like in this is a,
this is strategic battle,

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right?
It's not something you wander into 

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carelessly.
Then you may find that there's lots of 

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people who feel exactly the same way you
do and that you've actually caught and 

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onto something.
You're a canary in a coal mine and not 

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just some like psychopathic mouthpiece.
So you got to ask yourself,

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when you go and do what you do like,
is this making you stronger?

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Is this making you weaker?
And if it's making you weaker,

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then you got to ask yourself,
do you really want to be weaker?

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Because the weaker you get,
the more your tyrannized.

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And then worse than that,
like the weaker you get,

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the more bitter you get.
And the more you'll work towards 

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terrible things,
the more you'll snap it your wife,

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the more you'll kick your kids.
You know,

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like it's no joke to be tyrannized at 
work.

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And so I would say you have an ethical 
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forthrightly confront,
creeping tyranny,

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no matter where it occurs.
And part of,

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part of what we're learning,
I would say from these stories,

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if we're learning anything at all,
is that if you're aimed at the good,

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which is a question you really got to 
ask yourself,

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you know,
if you're genuinely aimed at the good,

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then take heart because you're a lot 
stronger than you think.

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I have a followup question.
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So I'm speaking to,
there's lots of people who were in this 

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situation like,
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people at universities and corporations 
all over the place.

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I,
you know,

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Google is not the only company that is 
not the worst repressive,

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uh,
freedom of speech,

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denying workplace codes and everybody 
feels alone,

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right?
They're all like,

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why should I stand up,
be a martyr,

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get fired.
This guy at Google got fired.

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Yeah.
What's the point?

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And like,
I'm asking rhetorically.

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No,
it's a good question.

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And how do you,
how do you convince people that there's 

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a point to,
to standing up when it appears to be 

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futile?

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Okay.

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Well,
the first thing I think is you convince 

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them that it's not few tiles.
It might be difficult,

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but it's not futile.
If you get your words right,

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you have something to say.
There'll be an impact of those words.

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It might not be the impact that you 
would choose,

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but the.
But the other thing you got to tell 

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people is pick your poison.
You don't.

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You may be in a situation where you 
don't have a.

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You don't have a cake.
Walk to the garden of Paradise.

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You got tyranny or famine.
Those are your choices,

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but you get to pick which one you have.
And I would say if,

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if you're being oppressed and I mean in 
your soul by what you're required to 

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swallow at work,
well you think you're not paying a price

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for that.
You got no self respect and,

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and,
and,

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and rightly so,
but worse than that,

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you're an agent of your own destruction.
You're destroying your own ideal and 

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you're letting people who are weak and 
corrupt when

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and if you stood up and stood up 
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but you have to put yourself in order to
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At least to some degree,
right?

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You can't do it casually.
You have to do it from some position of 

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preparedness and strength.
Then what makes you think you couldn't 

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scare them back into the corners and 
that would be a good thing and you know 

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the alternative personally is bad 
because there's a psychological 

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degeneration that goes along with it.
I've seen this with many,

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many of the people that I've worked with
who have been tyrannized in the 

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workplace to the absolute detriment of 
their psychological and physical health.

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Right?
To the point of collapse confronting 

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these crazy,
crazy things when they were sensible 

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people.
That's a terrible price to pay man.

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Like it's,
it's a bad price.

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And then if the foolishness isn't dealt 
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relatively trivial,
then it will multiply until it's dealt 

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with at the social level and we're 
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is a good sign of that,
you know,

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and problems that aren't solved.
Multiply and soon people fight and you 

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know,
edit,

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argue,
then to fight.

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Unless you want to fight and some people
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but I wouldn't recommend it because

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that doesn't lead good places.
It really doesn't lead good places,

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so I would say you have a duty.
Maybe that's,

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that's where you stand up.
It's because you have a god damn duty to

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stand up and say,
just say what you have to say it.

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You don't even have to be trying to make
a point.

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Exactly.
You're trying to get something done.

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It's like,
this is how it looks to me.

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That's what that guy had.
Google did.

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He wrote this memo and he said he.
I talked to him today.

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He said,
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he went to a diversity training seminar 
and he thought,

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no,
I don't agree with that.

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And so then they asked for feedback.
So we wrote this document a month ago.

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This was written a month ago.
Got No real response to it.

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Well,
it bounced around inside Google until a 

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lot of people got interested in that.
It escaped into the outside world,

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but all he was doing was.
He was told a bunch of things he didn't 

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think were true.
He wrote down a bunch of things he 

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thought were probably true.
He launched that out and said,

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well,
I think these things are probably true.

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It's like,
well,

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probably their true well,
so he paid a price for it,

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but maybe we'll see what sort of price 
he paid for it,

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man.
It's going to be a lot tougher in two 

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years than he was two years ago.
So.

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No,
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they didn't answer his feedback.
No,

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no,
but,

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well,
you can watch the video,

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the stories there,
but that's kind of the outline of it.

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So,
sorry to monopolize this.

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I have one other question about this and
I think it's important,

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aside from Google just being a 
workplace,

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right?
It also controls the on Youtube,

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right?
Which,

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which is post a new censorship scheme,
um,

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and it controls a huge amount of the 
information that people get.

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And so true.
And so what happens to society when 

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companies such as Google,
which control our information start to 

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censor,
not just how about ourselves and maybe 

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the information that's coming out to the
rest of the world.

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How much is this already happening and 
how much?

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How about if we would have,
if we refuse to find out,

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that would be good.
You know,

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like I reviewed this,
this guy's document,

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I did that yesterday and everything he 
said was validated by the scientific 

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literature.
So what has happened is that someone has

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been fired publicly by a major 
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scientific truths right there.
Exactly the sorts of things that I say 

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in my classes for example.
And the reason that I say to them is 

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because I read the literature.
It's not because I'm personally happy 

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about the fact.
I think Iq research particularly is so 

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dismal that you can't possibly read it 
without being seriously disheartened.

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If I could reconstruct the world.
So that ICU,

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the ICU research wasn't true.
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it should be tempting,
you know,

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but that's not how science works.
Science doesn't tell you what you,

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what you want to hear,
it just tells you the way it bloody well

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is,
and he got pilloried for.

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He got pilloried for revealing a good 
fraction of current scientific knowledge

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about gender differences.
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That's not good.
And as you said,

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that's a big company and it controls our
communication.

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It's how about we do what we can to 
ensure that these large communication 

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companies don't get to impose a 
factually false ideological structure on

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the rest of the planet where you can 
think about supporting this.

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This guy who blew the whistle,
there's a fundraiser for him online.

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He could use some money.
He wants to sue google.

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Yeah,
thank you.

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Maybe we could.
Maybe we could let

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them know that hiring a human resources 
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equity is probably not a good idea for 
capitalist company.

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Why in the world would you hire your own
enemies?

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I don't understand that so.
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we'll see how the dialogue continues,
but back to the personal like you need 

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to say what you think because that's 
where you come from.

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Right?
And if you don't say what you think,

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then you kill your unborn self.
That's what you do.

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That's what Cain did when he killed 
Abel.

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And that's why his punishment was 
unbearable.

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You know you have things in you that are
struggling to come to the light.

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That's the truth.
You need daughter and you need to either

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that truth because without that truth,
who cannot live in the world because the

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world is real and you need truth to live
in the world.

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And if you stifle your truth,
well,

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how,
how can that be anything but something 

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that brings about hell,
how could it be any other way?

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So you think,
well,

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why should you speak up?
That's easy because the consequences of 

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not speaking up,
although delayed are far worse.

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That's the reason.
That's the reason.

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If,
if,

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if it can't be courage,
it could at least be prudent.

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So.
Yep.