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I was just checking my YouTube analytics, and YouTube is really good at showing you all the different ways you can analyze who's watching and why they're watching and all that. There's one view where you can see that YouTube has decided to demonetize any particular videos that you've created. I was a little bit surprised to find out that my one demonetized video that I had before, which didn't bot…

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So if you're wondering what is the slippery slope for, let's say, demonetization on YouTube, and of course I'm famously saying there's no such thing as the slippery slope. There are always limits that pop up to stop things from sliding forever. Now this is sort of a special case because it appears, and by the way the first one that got demonetized is where I said that if the fine people hoax, the only topic I'm going to talk about today, I said the first one that got demonetized, I said that if the fine people hoax were debunked in a way that the nation agrees it's been debunked, it would change everything about how people saw this president.

I've referred to it as the alpha hoax. It's the hoax that makes all the other ones believable because they're not believable by themselves. They contradict observed behavior. But if you believed that this president said what it is reported he said about Charlottesville and the neo-Nazis, if you believe he really said that they were fine people, well then you're primed to believe all kinds of stuff even without good evidence just because confirmation bias kicks in. So this is sort of a big flag. This is a big flag.

So we're gonna test this. I think I've done a pretty good job of keeping it on topic and so I didn't have much else to talk about in this one. I'd like to keep it on that topic. We'll put this up in a little while and we'll see if YouTube, which would mean Google, think about this. Think about the fact that Google might be preventing the public from knowing that what the biggest story that defines our political understanding is the hoax. And not only is it a hoax, it's the easiest debunked hoax in the history of hoaxes. Here's the transcript, look for yourself. Here's the video of the president talking, look for yourself. That's it. That's the whole debunking right there. The whole thing.

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So anyway, I've said enough. I'm going to leave it at that. We'll check in with you tomorrow. See you then.

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