RADIOAugust 19, 2024

YouTube censors Glenn for NONVIOLENT content, but is fine with THESE videos?!

YouTube recently censored Glenn Beck's newsmaking interview with British independent journalist Tommy Robinson about the UK riots. Media outlets and officials in Great Britain and the European Union have claimed that Robinson's rhetoric instigated the violent riots, but he called for NONVIOLENCE in his interview with Glenn: "They're saying it's Tommy Robinson [calling for violence]. Whereas the truth, if you watch my videos, is the total opposite." So, why would YouTube censor the video and declare it "inappropriate or offensive to some audiences"? Is the company bowing to a global censorship regime? Glenn asks these questions and also highlights some content that YouTube HASN'T censored, including a video of Kamala Harris saying that BLM "should not" "let up" as they were burning cities and attacking police officers.

Transcript

Below is a rush transcript that may contain errors

GLENN: YouTube has taken away some of our -- some of our freedoms on YouTube. Why? Well, because we have -- we dared to have a news maker on.

We dared have Tommy Robinson on. What was it, last week?

Week after.

Now, he's the guy that the English are saying, is responsible for it.

I interviewed him.

I asked him about violence. He said, he was absolutely against violence. And there wasn't one thing in this eight minute interview. There's not one single thing that he said about violence.

Except, to say, he's not for it. In fact, let me -- could we please play the Tommy Robinson clip here.

You are not -- you're not calling for the rioting and burning of buildings and bricks through windows. Correct?

TOMMY: Glenn, if you just -- I put a media together. The media, the politicians can be building a narrative, and they're everywhere. The boy -- so I thought -- if you look, it's my latest tweet on Twitter. I made a video. And I've (inaudible) that said, do not be violent. You're a moron if you're violent. Put the bricks down. You're ruining everything.

I have appealed for calm, peace, and love from the start. But the truth of the matter, the truth of the matter, because my name is banned from Facebook and Instagram and TikTok. So they can tell the public whatever they want, and they're currently saying that I am indeed violent. So you're looking at the bias. Right now, on British TV, on every chapter, everywhere, they're saying it's violence.

Whereas the truth, if you watch my videos is the total opposite.

GLENN: Jeez. Huh!

So that's the only time we talked about anything violent, and he was against it. But YouTube is taking now their marching orders from the European Union. This is something, we warned you would happen.

We now all have to comply by Europe's standards.

So if Europe puts this woke bullcrap in, these public private partnerships will say, well, yeah.

We have to do it for Europe. Otherwise, we won't be able to compete. So, you know, they'll kick us out of Europe.

Good. Kick us out of Europe! Kick them out of Europe! That's fine!

This is not an American first attitude, because we're better than everybody else. You don't break our Constitution. You don't go against the things that set America and the rest of the world free, for the first time, in human history.

We have certain standards here. Don't we?

Or maybe we don't. Maybe we don't. And I can't figure out the standards, at all.

Of -- of YouTube. Because this is -- this is the note we got.

YouTube doesn't allow hate speech. Tell me what the hate speech was there. Tell me what the hate speech was.

Or content that provides or promotes or incites violence.

Okay?

Tell me, tell me how we promoted or incited violence.

Can't do that. And in some cases, content that is potentially controversial, or offensive.

It may remain up, but with some features disabled. That's exactly what this is.

It's -- it's remained up. But you can't share it. You have to go through a maze to get to it.

And the features are disabled.

You can't read any comments.

You can't make any comments.

Your videos are still live on YouTube, but some features have been disabled.

Meaning, the Watch page will no longer have comments, suggested videos, or likes.

So you can't share anything. This is -- you know what this is? This is a digital ghetto! And I know I've got a lot of heat from social media, when I first talked about a digital ghetto. I said, that's what they're building.

You can talk all you want. Talk all you want! You Jews!

You just have to do it behind this wall. You can say whatever you want. Oh, but nobody will see us, because there's a wall between us?

It's a digital ghetto!

YouTube. Telling the truth, is not inciting violence. Telling the truth is not controversial, and if it's offensive, get over it! Since when, in this country, can we not talk to a news maker? What was hateful about this? What part incited violence? Oh, I know it's controversial. But with whom?

The elites. I'm going to show this Wednesday night, this is what the whole special is about.

This is going around the Constitution because public/private partnerships are in bed with our governments. The -- and we're very careful. We are very careful, on what we put on YouTube.

Because we know that X, and the Blaze, are the only true free platforms, that we don't have to worry about.

Two. Two platforms, that we don't have to worry about!

X and the Blaze. My gosh.

I got this on Friday, right after the show. And I was livid. Livid.

How dare you!

This is a news maker, on a news making show.

Fight! Fight! Fight!

That's controversial. He said fight, fight, fight. You know what he meant by that. He meant burn down Minneapolis. No, they already did that.

May I just show you some other things that have not had any problems on YouTube. And are still live and are still there?

You know the -- the home secretary of the UK, is now saying, that they -- they have to look at ideological trends, and what they need to do is hold people's views about women.

It's not okay anymore to ignore the massive, growing threat, caused by online hatred towards women.

What online hatred towards women is there?

Come on. Think this through. Well, if you're talking about the UK, I would say it's about 60 percent of London now. What is it?

58 percent Islamist.

They don't seem to like women an awful lot. They don't seem to give the rights to women.

Is that who you're talking about England? Or are you talking about the extreme right-wing?

Oh, you know what, it's -- this is it. It's not the Islamist that you're worried about. It's all of those people that say, these men can beat up women in a boxing ring.

Right? The one that says, your daughter has to compete against men in sports, or the one that says, hey! You, as a guy, you can become a woman, and become anything.

You go, girl. Even though, you're a man. That must be the hate. The ones that hate women, right?

The ones that have taken all the rights that women have worked so hard for, and flushing them down the toilet. That has to be the women's rights that you're talking about.

Or is it the extreme right-wing?

Now, when you listen, I think you can spot. I mean, it kind of -- inciting violence. You kind of know what it is, when you hear it. Tommy Robinson saying, no. You're destroying everything we're trying to do, by picking up a brick or having violence.

Yeah. I kind of understand that. Because if it wasn't the FBI or the CIA or whoever, that orchestrated January 6, if it was really just a bunch of right-wing people, which I highly doubt.

Thanks a lot. You've destroyed everything. So I understand that, what Tommy is saying. But let's listen to some other things that are not inciting violence or controversial, that are still on YouTube with all of their privileges.

Cut five.

VOICE: Some of the success that we've been able to achieve around criminal justice reform, would not have happened in recent years were it not for Black Lives Matter. And the intensity and the brilliance of that movement, that forced at least that -- that there would be some counterforce to the status quo, which is so reluctant for change, if not hostile to change. That's what these movements do. They're not going to stop. They're not going to stop. And they're not -- this is a movement, I'm telling you. They're not going to stop. And everyone, be aware, because they're not going to stop. They're not going to stop before Election Day November. And they're not going to stop after election take. And everyone should take note of that on both levels, that this isn't -- they're not going to let up, and they should not. And we should not.

GLENN: And they should not. And they should not, said Kamala Harris. And they should not. That's in the midst of the rioting in the streets. YouTube says that's fine.

Shocking train video: Passengers wait while woman bleeds out

Surveillance footage of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, NC, reveals that the other passengers on the train took a long time to help her. Glenn, Stu, and Jason debate whether they were right or wrong to do so.

Transcript

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GLENN: You know, I'm -- I'm torn on how I feel about the people on the train.

Because my first instinct is, they did nothing! They did nothing! Then my -- well, sit down and, you know -- you know, you're going to be judged. So be careful on judging others.

What would I have done? What would I want my wife to do in that situation?

STU: Yeah. Are those two different questions, by the way.

GLENN: Yeah, they are.

STU: I think they go far apart from each other. What would I want myself to do. I mean, it's tough to put yourself in a situation. It's very easy to watch a video on the internet and talk about your heroism. Everybody can do that very easily on Twitter. And everybody is.

You know, when you're in a vehicle that doesn't have an exit with a guy who just murdered somebody in front of you, and has a dripping blood off of a knife that's standing 10 feet away from you, 15 feet away from you.

There's probably a different standard there, that we should all kind of consider. And maybe give a little grace to what I saw at least was a woman, sitting across the -- the -- the aisle.

I think there is a difference there. But when you talk about that question. Those two questions are definitive.

You know, I know what I would want myself to do. I would hope I would act in a way that didn't completely embarrass myself afterward.

But I also think, when I'm thinking of my wife. My advice to my wife would not be to jump into the middle of that situation at all costs. She might do that anyway. She actually is a heck of a lot stronger than I am.

But she might do it anyway.

GLENN: How pathetic, but how true.

STU: Yes. But that would not be my advice to her.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

STU: Now, maybe once the guy has certainly -- is out of the area. And you don't think the moment you step into that situation. He will turn around and kill you too. Then, of course, obviously. Anything you can do to step in.

Not that there was much anyone on the train could do.

I mean, I don't think there was an outcome change, no matter what anyone on that train did.

Unfortunately.

But would I want her to step in?

Of course. If she felt she was safe, yes.

Think about, you said, your wife. Think about your daughter. Your daughter is on that train, just watching someone else getting murdered like that. Would you advise your daughter to jump into a situation like that?

That girl sitting across the aisle was somebody's daughter. I don't know, man.

JASON: I would. You know, as a dad, would I advise.

Hmm. No.

As a human being, would I hope that my daughter or my wife or that I would get up and at least comfort that woman while she's dying on the floor of a train?

Yeah.

I would hope that my daughter, my son, that I would -- and, you know, I have more confidence in my son or daughter or my wife doing something courageous more than I would.

But, you know, I think I have a more realistic picture of myself than anybody else.

And I'm not sure that -- I'm not sure what I would do in that situation. I know what I would hope I would do. But I also know what I fear I would do. But I would have hoped that I would have gotten up and at least tried to help her. You know, help her up off the floor. At least be there with her, as she's seeing her life, you know, spill out in under a minute.

And that's it other thing we have to keep in mind. This all happened so rapidly.

A minute is -- will seem like a very long period of time in that situation. But it's a very short period of time in real life.

STU: Yeah. You watch the video, Glenn. You know, I don't need the video to -- to change my -- my position on this.

But at his seem like there was a -- someone who did get there, eventually, to help, right? I saw someone seemingly trying to put pressure on her neck.

GLENN: Yeah. And tried to give her CPR.

STU: You know, no hope at that point. How long of a time period would you say that was?

Do you know off the top of your head?

GLENN: I don't know. I don't know. I know that we watched the video that I saw. I haven't seen past 30 seconds after she --

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: -- is down. And, you know, for 30 seconds nothing is happening. You know, that is -- that is not a very long period of time.

STU: Right.

GLENN: In reality.

STU: And especially, I saw the pace he was walking. He certainly can't be -- you know, he may have left the actual train car by 30 seconds to a minute. But he wasn't that far away. Like he was still in visual.

He could still turn around and look and see what's going on at that point. So certainly still a threat is my point. He has not, like, left the area. This is not that type of situation.

You know, I -- look, as you point out, I think if I could be super duper sexist for a moment here, sort of my dividing line might just be men and women.

You know, I don't know if it's that a -- you're not supposed to say that, I suppose these days. But, like, there is a difference there. If I'm a man, you know, I would be -- I would want my son to jump in on that, I suppose. I don't know if he could do anything about it. But you would expect at least a grown man to be able to go in there and do something about it. A woman, you know, I don't know.

Maybe I'm -- I hope --

GLENN: Here's the thing I -- here's the thing that I -- that causes me to say, no. You should have jumped in.

And that is, you know, you've already killed one person on the train. So you've proven that you're a killer. And anybody who would have screamed and got up and was with her, she's dying. She's dying. Get him. Get him.

Then the whole train is responsible for stopping that guy. You know. And if you don't stop him, after he's killed one person, if you're not all as members of that train, if you're not stopping him, you know, the person at the side of that girl would be the least likely to be killed. It would be the ones that are standing you up and trying to stop him from getting back to your daughter or your wife or you.

JASON: There was a -- speaking of men and women and their roles in this. There was a video circling social media yesterday. In Sweden. There was a group of officials up on a stage. And one of the main. I think it was health official woman collapses on stage. Completely passes out.

All the men kind of look away. Or I don't know if they're looking away. Or pretending that they didn't know what was going on. There was another woman standing directly behind the woman passed out.

Immediately springs into action. Jumps on top. Grabs her pant leg. Grabs her shoulder. Spins her over and starts providing care.

What did she have that the other guys did not? Or women?

She was a sheepdog. There is a -- this is my issue. And I completely agree with Stu. I completely agree with you. There's some people that do not respond this way. My issue is the proportion of sheepdogs versus people that don't really know how to act. That is diminishing in western society. And American society.

We see it all the time in these critical actions. I mean, circumstances.

There are men and women, and it's actually a meme. That fantasize about hoards of people coming to attack their home and family. And they sit there and say, I've got it. You guys go. I'm staying behind, while I smoke my cigarette and wait for the hoards to come, because I will sacrifice myself. There are men and women that fantasize of block my highway. Go ahead. Block my highway. I'm going to do something about it. They fantasize about someone holding up -- not a liquor store. A convenience store or something. Because they will step in and do something. My issue now is that proportion of sheepdogs in society is disappearing. Just on statistical fact, there should be one within that train car, and there were none.

STU: Yeah. I mean --

JASON: They did not respond.

STU: We see what happens when they do, with Daniel Penny. Our society tries to vilify them and crush their existence. Now, there weren't that many people on that train. Right?

At least on that car. At least it's limited. I only saw three or four people there, there may have been more. I agree with you, though. Like, you see what happens when we actually do have a really recent example of someone doing exactly what Jason wants and what I would want a guy to do. Especially a marine to step up and stop this from happening. And the man was dragged by our legal system to a position where he nearly had to spend the rest of his life in prison.

I mean, I -- it's insanity. Thankfully, they came to their senses on that one.

GLENN: Well, the difference between that one and this one though is that the guy was threatening. This one, he killed somebody.

STU: Yeah. Right. Well, but -- I think -- but it's the opposite way. The debate with Penny, was should he have recognize that had this person might have just been crazy and not done anything?

Maybe. He hadn't actually acted yet. He was just saying things.

GLENN: Yeah. Well --

STU: He didn't wind up stabbing someone. This is a situation where these people have already seen what this man will do to you, even when you don't do anything to try to stop him. So if this woman, who is, again, looks to be an average American woman.

Across the aisle. Steps in and tries to do something. This guy could easily turn around and just make another pile of dead bodies next to the one that already exists.

And, you know, whether that is an optimal solution for our society, I don't know that that's helpful.

In that situation.

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Max Lucado on Overcoming Grief in Dark Times | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 266

Disclaimer: This episode was filmed prior to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. But Glenn believes Max's message is needed now more than ever.
The political world is divided, constantly at war with itself. In many ways, our own lives are not much different. Why do we constantly focus on the negative? Why are we in pain? Where is God amid our anxiety and fear? Why can’t we ever seem to change? Pastor Max Lucado has found the solution: Stop thinking like that! It may seem easier said than done, but Max joins Glenn Beck to unpack the three tools he describes in his new book, “Tame Your Thoughts,” that make it easy for us to reset the way we think back to God’s factory settings. In this much-needed conversation, Max and Glenn tackle everything from feeling doubt as a parent to facing unfair hardships to ... UFOs?! Plus, Max shares what he recently got tattooed on his arm.

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Are Demonic Forces to Blame for Charlie Kirk, Minnesota & Charlotte Killings?

This week has seen some of the most heinous actions in recent memory. Glenn has been discussing the growth of evil in our society, and with the assassination of civil rights leader Charlie Kirk, the recent transgender shooter who took the lives of two children at a Catholic school, and the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, how can we make sense of all this evil? On today's Friday Exclusive, Glenn speaks with BlazeTV host of "Strange Encounters" Rick Burgess to discuss the demon-possessed transgender shooter and the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Rick breaks down the reality of demon possession and how individuals wind up possessed. Rick and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the grotesque things we see online and in movies, TV shows, and video games on a daily basis. Rick warns that when we allow our minds to be altered by substances like drugs or alcohol, it opens a door for the enemy to take control. A supernatural war is waging in our society, and it’s a Christian’s job to fight this war. Glenn and Rick remind Christians of what their first citizenship is.