Social Media Censorship and the Christian

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All right, welcome to The Rap Report. I am your host, Andrew Rappaport, along with my trusty sidekick,

Bud the Wiser. Greetings. Thanks. Thank you for that. Hey, your Bud sign is off.

Usually. I can fix that. Yeah. Usually when we record here. Yeah, there we go. There's Bud in bright lights.

Now I feel better. The world is normal again. How are you doing?

I'm doing well. We'll get to that in a moment. What we're going to talk about today, folks, is kind of what we started with two weeks ago.

We did a thing on the national strategy of dealing with counterterrorism. Very, very, unfortunately, scary episode.

It was a long one. I think Bud said I was just, I was obviously too ramped up, too much knowledge on the subject, and so I went off for two hours and Bud barely said a word.

So we're going to try to rectify that this episode. We made Bud do a lot of research this one, so he could have lots to say.

But this is really a continuation of that, and what we're going to deal with today is dealing with examples and things from Facebook, Twitter, elsewhere, where you're seeing social media and what they define as how they're trying to take care and protect people.

Really, we would call that censorship. We're going to show that today in this episode.

But I want that to be seen, want you to realize this is going on. One of the reasons that we're going to do this, and we're going to get to the show, we're going to try to get a point across to each one of us is the world is against us, folks.

Just wake up to that fact. It's time to be woke in a real way. Truthfully, woke means being born again.

That's really what it should mean. You're dead in your sins, and then you're born again.

That's woke. You woke up from deadness. But we'll talk about woke and things like that.

But the thing, though, that you see is that in this idea of trying to protect people, social media is not really protecting, they're censoring.

They're no different than communist China. A lot of people then are going, well, we got to fight this.

We got to fight this. Okay, you can, but Christian, realize the biggest thing for us is not to try to fight the culture, it's to try to convert the culture.

Obviously, we don't do the converting God does, but guess what? What does he say in Romans 10? He's not going to spray the gospel in the air.

That's not what he's planning to do. He could have people just Bibles and people read the Bible. But the reality is he wants a preacher.

How are they going to hear? How are they going to believe unless they hear? And how are they going to hear if someone doesn't preach? Well, we got to be preaching the gospel so that they get hear the gospel and so that they would get saved.

That's where we got to focus. So really, although we're going to talk a lot about issues in culture today, we're going to talk a lot about social media.

What I really want you to focus in on is the fact that, Christian, our focus needs to be on the gospel.

Our focus needs to be on recognizing what we need to do in a culture that is very much against us.

So that's going to be the overarching thing that we hope you'll get across, to get across.

Now, I will mention last week, I had the privilege of being on Voice of Reason radio. I encourage you to go listen to that one.

We talked about a tweet that was out by Joya Micah. She has obviously blocked me on all social media now.

It's really kind of funny, bud, because I told her she was going to block me on Facebook. And she was like, no,

I won't. And I just kept looking. Because I said it, she didn't block me right away. She waited three months.

But she did block me when I hadn't been saying anything about it. So she just remembered, I think, her pride.

She was like, well, I'm not going to let him be proven right. Because I said, folks, watch, she will be blocking me because I criticized her.

And so she waited several months, but then got back to it, right? But we dealt with a tweet she said about that we should be

Christ -like and not biblical. And Chris and I went through, what does that mean?

Like, look at the definitions. And so it was a privilege to be on there. If you listen to Voice of Reason radio, that just dropped last night.

I'm not on Twitter. We could talk about that tonight, today. Why, right? I've been kind of shadow banned from Twitter.

And that became a useless platform for me. But yeah, I mean, I think the rumor that I heard, the

Voice of Reason radio, their episode was on Owen Strand's book, Christianity and Wokeness.

And the way I understand it is on Twitter, I guess, Chris Honhold is giving away three signed copies. That's how

I think I heard that on his podcast. I could be wrong, folks. But go listen to his podcast.

See if I heard that correctly. If it's on Twitter, it must be true. Correct? OK. You know, you've been doing a bunch of articles,

Bud, on the SBC. I mean, a ton of them on different topics.

You've dealt with what went on with the convention. You dealt with a number of things with Ed Litton and the plagiarism.

You've dealt with things about, which I think is the great article on, you know, is, you know, the

SBC got the wrong black man, right? Because if Ed Litton resigns, then you have

Lee, who's black, but he's not woke. He's not a critical racism theory kind of guy.

And so he's the wrong kind of black man. Like you make in the article, great point. Like, OK, well, hey, getting rid of Litton would be an appeal to both groups.

Not only do you replace a white guy with a black guy, but you get to say that you got rid of the white guy to appeal to the conservatives because he was plagiarizing.

Yeah. And yet they're not doing that. Wonder why. There's a word for it. Yeah. There's a word.

It's called hypocrisy. Oh, that's right. Yes. Well, you also deal with some of the hypocrisy in an article on Al Mueller.

So you have that. You also have a great article for folks who are in the SBC on leaving the

SBC. And so that's another article. And I will admit the funnier article is when you did

Babylon B style on Lifeway selling sermons. But an interesting thing this week, though, with all that SBC stuff we've talked with, the world is watching.

They said that. My whole argument is their problem is they're focused on the world is watching. And that's why they want to push critical race theory.

My argument is God is watching. And that's why the plagiarist guy should step down.

John Harris on his, I think it was John Harris on his podcast, had talked about the fact that in the

Southern Seminary, they specifically say that this service that J .D.

Greer had a testimony on, he removed it. He asked them to remove his testimony, of course.

But he used their service and said how that service, I forget what it is, that Justin Peters had mentioned,

DAS. Docent Group. DASR Group. Docent Group. And so they made

J .D. Greer look good. You know, and it's kind of interesting how many people have 143 sermons in Romans.

You know, just interesting as if they all were maybe using that same group. How many of them have the same titles?

I mean, that's not for people to start doing is looking at all of these big name preachers, especially going through the

DASR group and look at who has recommended them and then go through all their sermon lists online and go, oh, let's figure out, you know, how many people have the exact same title, names of their sermon titles and number of sermons and start looking there.

And I bet you're going to find that, you know, you're going to see a lot of people that have identical sermons.

So the other thing I found interesting is, as you know, I do some stuff still with IT and I help out one of a major Fortune 500 company.

Every year they put on a software symposium where you get people coming in to talk about software and the advances within software.

Very interesting, because one of the things I do in leading that seminar symposium is

I go, I work with teams, you know, about, you know, like 50 people who are going to be reviewing all the papers that come in.

And this week I got an email from someone saying, hey, here's a paper and I happen to notice that it's basically right from this website and that website.

Yeah. And so what did we do? Well, we're canning that article or that paper.

That abstract is being rejected. Why? Plagiarism. So for the SBC that says the world is watching in a secular capacity,

I would not allow plagiarism. Why in the world would I accept it in a capacity in the church?

You're just being a Pharisee. Thank you. Oh, that wasn't a good thing. No. I thought being

Jewish, that was a compliment. I'm sorry. On the other side of the argument. Remote. So, but we're starting a little bit late today.

I know. And that's throwing you off a bit. I'm sorry. I'm, you know, I kind of didn't,

I called you and said, we need to start a little late. I don't remember.

I can't remember the reason. Why did we have to start late? You overslept. Oh, that's right.

Now, why did you find that interesting? Why did you find that strange? Because I know you sleep like 45 minutes a night or something.

Usually three hours. And it's only because my wife promised, made me promise that I'd sleep every night. But I've been sleeping.

I mean, look, look, you don't understand when I've been running about a half marathon a day. Okay. So that helps with getting a little bit more sleep.

So I got up to like four to five hours of sleep. I've been doing lately. But yesterday

I did try something. I got into a sauna. I have, and, and so after I run and then a lift,

I got into a sauna and it was late in the, in the evening. And so I actually slept six straight hours.

I haven't done that in years. But maybe it's also because I have like the world's best mattress topper.

I mean, I, that I'm just saying I got the MyPillow pillow, the MyPillow mattress topper.

I think that's it. Now I will say that MyPillow is running a massive overstock sale right now.

And I am thinking of getting their MyPillow weighted blanket. That's 50 % off right now.

So I am thinking about that, but you, but I can only get the 50 % off with a promo code.

So do you happen to know a promo code I could use, bud? Uh, SFE, I think.

That would be a good one to use because that would not only get me a weighted blanket, but, and say 50%, but support striving for eternity and this program.

So that's a good idea. I might have to do that. But that is, that, that is something I am looking at getting.

Cause I, I do like weighted blankets, um, but, and, and it's on sale, but the mattress topper

I got, uh, I don't know if it's still on sale. They had the two inch mattress topper on sale for 50 % off with a promo code.

I have the three inch, which I absolutely love. If you've been listening to this show, you know that I have been, been enjoying my sleep a lot more.

I will admit that I don't know if it was the running that has gotten me sleeping more, you know, to four to five hours, or if it's that mattress topper, but they do seem to coincide.

I'm just saying actually, no, actually, the more I think about it now, the running did start earlier cause

I've been running for a while. Just not that much, but yeah, I guess it's the mattress topper getting me sleeping more.

All right. So, so, uh, folks, we, we are supportive. You're not woke.

Literally. Yeah. I'm not fully awake yet. The, uh, but this show is supported by my pillow.

We appreciate when you guys go out there, go to my pillow .com and you can, you can, uh, order there and use promo code

SFE or call 1 -800 -873 -0176.

That's 800 -873 -0176. And I would strongly suggest getting the mattress topper strongly and the my pillow pillow.

I'm looking forward to this, this winter. I plan to get the plan and having the, the, the, um, slippers and the robe that they have.

So I'm, I'm looking forward to that. Um, so with that, uh, you know, we should talk about before we get into our, our show, cause this kind of coordinates with the show.

Um, we should talk about the funniest post I've seen on Facebook this week.

Yes. Okay. So, uh, my friend Darren Stid, um, who, okay.

First off I did like him, he was on Apologex live with me. So I kept calling him Darren stud just to see his reaction.

He liked that. But here's his post.

This was, I told you about this this morning, but this was hysterical. I saw this this week. Funny.

This gets the award for funniest post of the week. It's creative, makes you laugh.

You can also do this on your own Facebook. Try this. It works well. I may actually,

I, you know what? I think I'm going to steal it. I'm going to do this right now. And I wonder if I share it, whether this works, let me share it with friends and see if that'll work as well.

But I've just shared it on my Facebook. So you will see if it works. Bud can go out to my

Facebook and see if it works same. But here's, here's what Darren said. This post right here is about to be the dumbest, most inaccurate, most irrational thing you've ever seen on my

Facebook wall. To find out more, click the link below. Oh, also

COVID vaccine. What, what happens when you do, when, when you post that?

Well, you get a link that Facebook immediately puts up that says, visit the COVID vaccine,

COVID -19 vaccine center for vaccine resources. Get vaccine information.

That is hysterical. That was just, that was brilliant that he did that.

The only thing you have to do is say COVID vaccine and, and Facebook will automatically magically put that link in there.

Now, how long did that take? Well, as, as we saw, I mean, I could take a snapshot of this.

It says just now, I just shared it, folks just saying that. And I read to you what it said on my wall with the

COVID vaccine link. That's how quick it is. You know, so, so what we want to talk about is the fact that this is the thing you end up seeing with Facebook and Twitter.

They are, they're doing these algorithms to search through everything that you have and they're taking action on things that you do.

In fact, Bud, you, you just shared with me, Owen Strand, we mentioned the, the podcast that Voice of Reason had done on his book,

Christianity and Wokeness. It seems that they're doing the same thing they did with Voddy Bakum's book,

Fault Lines. People are posting a link to his book and they're, and now all of a sudden it says this content is unavailable.

Facebook is removing Christianity and Wokeness and Fault Lines. Now, what's with these two books?

Well, these two books happen to be two books that are against the view of being woke of this critical racism theory.

And so Facebook and Twitter and the like are going out of their way to make sure you don't find anything they don't want you to see.

Okay. And this is organized. Now, folks, I want you to recognize something. We're going to go through, what we had said we were going to do some weeks ago, we're going to do today is go through their, their community standards on Facebook, Twitter, to show what their rules are for things so that you understand.

And, you know, this goes along. If you had, have not listened to the episode we did, and you should have, by the way, the episode we did two weeks ago.

If not, you really should go back to that one only because the reason

I'm saying that you should go back to that is because the one we did on the national strategy for counterterrorism against Christians, we did that because, excuse me, that shows you what their target is.

They're looking to target Christians or people that they choose to target.

They're coming up with, they're saying they are domestic terrorists. Real quick synopsis.

We went through a, basically what the Biden administration has revealed as their plan to deal with domestic terrorists.

And they explain who they think domestic terrorists are. Violent domestic terrorists. And you say, well, fine, that's not me.

Well, they're going to say they want to get them before they're violent. So they're going to do profiling.

What are they going to profile? If you, if you want to protect your privacy from them spying on you, you are in that category.

If you think there might've been fraud in the 2020 election, you're in that category. It's amazing because they've said fraud in every, every time a

Republican wins, the Democrats and media claim that there was fraud. But this election, somehow that makes you a terrorist.

Saying that Russia, that Trump was working with Russia in 2016 is not terrorism.

But saying that there was fraud by Americans in 2020 is terrorism.

You go figure that difference out. But do you not believe everything that the Biden administration is saying about COVID -19?

You're a terrorist. Do you think that there's an overreach of the government? You're a terrorist.

All those things are put you in the category. And what that document said is that the government will work with private sectors.

What private sectors? Social media. This is why we're saying part of what gets you identified as a terrorist in their eyes is moving off of the platforms that the government, the liberal government is working with.

This started under Obama. This is the, remember folks, this is the thing that Obama said.

He wants to fundamentally change America. You all thought he was talking about socialism.

He was. He was talking Marxism. But how was he going to get it? This is how he got it.

To get the major companies to push his agenda. To be working with the major social media platforms to influence the news, to censor the news.

And that's what we are now talking about today. This is part of it. We, a lot of times on this show, we'll talk about biblical interpretations for things.

We also talk about giving you an understanding of our culture from a biblical perspective. So what we want to do here is, like we did two weeks ago, we're going to go through a lot of things that are going to be going through what is actually going on.

And then at the end, we want to give you encouragement. But we have to lay a lot of groundwork first.

This is stuff that you're not seeing. Yes, you've known these things exist. You hear people talk about it.

What we want to do is actually give you, well, evidence, okay? That's what we're going to do here. So, but before we get started, anything that you want to start us off with, because I said you're going to do a little bit more talking this time.

I'm not going to, you're definitely talking, you're definitely going to be talking for sure when we get into talking about Section 230.

Oh, Section 230, yeah. No, I think it's important to understand we've all, as participants in Facebook, we've tacitly agreed to these policies.

And we're at the mercy of these policies so far as we are on that platform and on Twitter and other social media that would be in the same vein.

And that's important. It ties directly to this whole Biden move about handling domestic terrorism that we did that show on, which folks really do need to go back and listen to that.

And then drill down into this episode where we're talking about particularly social media and then particularly how it affects

Christians. And you'll ultimately see where is the real target going?

Because we can't, as Christians, we can't forget there is an enemy behind this narrative.

There is an enemy that is against our Lord, against the gospel, against our faith that is driving all this narrative.

And it's being done by people with debased minds and evil intent. Correct. So let me start,

I wanna start with this Facebook, Facebook's community standards, okay?

So this is, I'm gonna read some things from there, violence and incitement, okay?

So let me read the paragraph of their rationale for this policy. We aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook.

So I'm gonna stop there. Where's the harm actually occurring there? Offline. Offline, oh, okay.

Offline. So right off the bat, Facebook is saying, they're going to monitor what you're gonna do when you're not on Facebook, huh?

Okay. So they're basically with this saying, if you notice, they're saying, you know, indirectly, they have to do this because they feel that they are indirectly responsible for what happens off their platform by the content on their platform, okay?

Which is a very interesting admission, why? Because, well, Facebook wants to say that, you know, they wanted to blame, if you remember

January 6th, you remember that day of infamy, right? Oh, wow, yeah. Yeah, that was the day that the

Pelosi worked with the FBI and Capitol Police to allow people to come in and act like tourists in the

Capitol building, take selfies and walk around and be invited in and be given the, you know, free to reign to walk around and take pictures.

And that was horrible, it was horrible. In fact, do you know how many people have been charged with insurrection?

500 people have been arrested, over 500. You know how many have been charged with insurrection? Not one, not a single one.

In fact, they're being held, here's what my theory is with this. They're being held in solitary confinement for all this time, since January 6th, many of them are in solitary confinement.

There haven't been charges against them yet, for many of them. And those that have had charges are things like trespassing.

I don't know how they're trespassing, like, you know, they were invited in. But we already have one guilty plea, okay?

The first one, they haven't had any cases, none have gone to trial that I know of, but one that was plea bargained, why?

Because a grandmother wants to see her family. She said that the police waved her in, but what did she have to do?

To get out of jail, she had to plead guilty and read a whole bunch of books about what a racist she is, and before the judge, admit that she is evolving on the issue of racism, and she apologizes for her white supremacy.

Why has that become important? Because what they want is a narrative. They want to say, see, see, all these

Trump supporters that were protesting that day, they're a bunch of white supremacists, because they can't actually find evidence that they're white supremacists.

So what are they going to do? They're violating the law, because they're not giving them due process. They're supposed to have a very quick trial, pretrial to see if there's enough information for a trial and be given bail.

And there has to be justification if they're kept in jail without bail. These guys haven't even had that bail hearing.

And so the due process is being denied them. Why are they in solitary confinement? That's for the worst, because this is all about an agenda to push.

They want to get these people so willing to, they'll do anything to get out of jail. They'll plead guilty to anything.

Okay. And so far, as far as I know, only two cases have gone forward. Sorry about that.

So what we end up seeing is, because that really isn't the main point of what we're discussing, but I got off -

Wait, was that a rabbit trail? It was a rap trail. Okay.

Okay. So we aim to prevent potential offline harm that may be related to content on Facebook.

While we understand that people commonly express disdain or disagreement by threatening or calling for violence in non -serious ways, we remove language that incites or facilitates serious violence.

We remove content, disable accounts or work with law enforcement that we believe there is a genuine risk of harm or direct threats to public safety.

We also try to consider the language and context in order to distinguish casual statements from content that constitutes a credible threat to public or public safety.

In determining whether a threat is credible, we may also consider additional information like a person's public visibility and the risks to their physical safety.

In some cases, we aspire to conditional threats directed at terrorists or other violent actors.

In other words, saying terrorists deserve to be killed is an example they give. And we deem those non -credible, absent specific evidence to be contrary.

Okay, so let me break some of these down. And I'm not gonna be able to go through all my show notes that I gave to you, bud.

I just know that upfront, but notice it. They're gonna remove language. They're saying they have the ability to remove language that they believe.

So here's the thing. Facebook, whether you know it or not, when you first signed up for Facebook, you signed up to give away the fact that this is public information.

I don't know if you recognize that. When Facebook started, what they did was have you sign that everything you put on there is public information. That's what allowed them to sell your photos and make the money off it.

Yes, they resell your photos that you took or images of you.

You don't get the money. They get the money. Because you, knowingly or not, accepted their rules their agreement that says it's public information.

Why did they do that? They originally did that because they said they didn't want to, this is supposed to be free speech. They wanted everything to fit under free speech, which is public domain.

They wanted it to be able to be where if the government has to come after some information for law enforcement purposes, they didn't want to have to make them have to get court orders.

Therefore, if it's in public domain, they can just hand it over. Very interesting because they pick and choose what they want to hand over.

We've had plenty of cases where you see a killer that they clean up their Facebook page after the person dies.

Facebook does it. Not the person who committed the crimes, but it's like they cleaned up these, you see these black kids who commit murder and all of a sudden it's all cleaned up.

Because when they get killed by a white cop, all of a sudden, all the pictures with them with guns and threatening to kill people, kill cops, all that's gone.

Facebook removed it after the guy died. Amazing. Was that to prevent other harm?

You see, they've set themselves up in public domain, but they're setting themselves up as they're the arbiter of the censorship and they get to decide what needs to be censored.

But then they want their cake and eat it too. We're gonna get to that with section 230. We're gonna make sure we get to that because what they're doing is saying, hey, we're protected by this.

Section 230, if you don't know what it is, Bud's gonna go through this. But that protects them from the government coming in and censoring them.

But they're acting as, well, the Chinese government. They're acting on behalf of, like the

Chinese government to censor. And they're acting on behalf of who? Well, let's be clear. Joe Biden, the

Biden administration, the spokesman for the Biden administration said this, quote, in terms of actions we have taken or we're working to take,

I should say from the federal government, we've increased disinformation research and tracking within the

Surgeon General's office. We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation, unquote.

So they have agreed. They've acknowledged that they are working with Facebook and other organizations, which if you listened two weeks ago, we said, that's what they said.

There's gonna be a strategy of dealing with terrorists, domestic terrorists. They're gonna work with private companies. They're gonna work with social media companies to be able to do the spying that the government cannot do.

Folks, this is unconstitutional, okay? It is unconstitutional, why?

Because Facebook right now is acting as government. They are censoring speech, public speech, which fits under the

First Amendment. It is free speech. You have the right to say it. And they'll say that, hey, they're protected by Section 230 under free speech that they don't censor, but yet here they're being, they will censor.

But let's take a look at some posts that have been censored. I sent some of these to you. Just some examples of this that fit under this, because when you click on their link, this is where you get sent to.

Okay, so here's one from, I'm not gonna give the last names, but Justin. We've reviewed your comment and found it goes against our community standards on hate speech.

And when you click on it, you get to the article that I read. So what did he say?

What was the thing that was so bad? Here's what he read. Here's what he wrote. He wrote to answering someone's question in my

Christian Apologetics Facebook group. He was answering the question to someone, what does respecter of persons mean?

That's a theological term. And so he gave an answer. A respecter of persons, meaning no one earned

God's favor for salvation. All men are desperately wicked. God calls who he wills without respect of persons.

Read Romans 9. Read the whole chapter so you don't miss anything. Great read.

That sounded pretty violent, didn't it? Hate speech. That is hate speech. What in there could possibly be hate speech?

Calling all men desperately wicked. Desperately wicked. Where did he get that from, folks? The Bible.

That is from scripture. That is hate speech in there.

So Danny in our group, one of the admins that have helped me moderate that group, he says,

Dear ones, we have just received a Facebook strike, or warning as it were, that what was, and what was it for, you ask?

For this line right here, quote, because all men are desperately wicked, unquote.

Seriously, that's it. Facebook, quote, suggested, unquote, that I remove the person slash member that made it.

Under absolutely no circumstance will I do that. I'd rather die a martyr's death than cower to the powers to be.

So dear ones, please press on. Keep fighting for the standing on biblical solid doctrine and accurate theology, because in the end, that's what we have that's worth fighting for.

That one got removed. Oh, for hate speech. So what did I do?

Well, see, I understand how the technology works. So where Danny typed that all out,

I took what Danny said and took a picture of it and put that into the group and made it an announcement.

Why? Because it's easy to search. We have computers that can search text very quickly, very easily.

That's what, when you do big data, it's basically dealing with all of this text and being able to search it really, really rapidly.

That is what, that's how Google searches all these websites. So when you type something in, and we're going to give a reason why you shouldn't be using

Google anymore. You should use DuckDuckGo. I will give evidence for that in a few minutes.

So I took it, made this into a picture because that they can't scan the same way. And so that's still up there.

That'll be removed probably eventually when the Facebook Nazis, when the

Facebook SS decide they're going to find it. But here's another one that I found from Wesley. Now, Wesley got this thing.

Wesley, we received your comment and found it goes against our community standards on harassment and bullying.

What did he say? You ready, bud, for harassment and bullying? Here we go.

I'm looking at it. Wow. Here we go. Here's what he said. He responded to someone and said, if that's what you want to believe, bud, you're obviously a literal brick wall.

That is so harassing. I mean, this is nothing like what I... You want to challenge folks, go into the leftist

Facebook groups, go into the pro -Biden groups. You want to see what harassment and bullying looks like?

You want to see what hate speech looks like? Go in there and read it. I joined some of those groups just to see the vitriol and hatred.

They're still bashing Trump, wishing he would die. We're going to get to that in a moment. That's not allowed. But they could do that all the time when it's

Trump. Saying that someone... Now, bud, I don't think he was talking to you, just for the record, when he said...

Yeah, no, that's one of them. ...what you want to believe, bud. He was talking to a guy named Rick. So it wasn't you. Just so people recognize that.

I mean, you're bud the wiser, not just bud. But brick wall used to be like a compliment.

High school football. I was called the brick wall when I played high school football. And that was like a badge of honor.

And in fact, I have a literal badge. Is that... It says brick wall. Isn't that like what

Andrew Jackson was? You know, he was the stone wall. Stone wall, yeah, yeah.

I mean, but you're obviously a literal brick wall. I mean, in the context,

I'm guessing, like thinking about it, he's saying the guy just isn't thinking through things. Well, it's got little laughter emojis and head slapping and, you know.

Yeah, I'm not great with the emoji stuff. I don't read emoji well. Yeah, well, I mean, I don't even know how to put them on there.

But nevertheless, obviously they're reading a tone in here that I can't read. Yeah, I mean, but how does this fit the definition?

I mean, is this like some... You know, it's amazing because they're going to even, by their own definition, they're going to protect terrorist groups, okay, from people that are against terrorism.

Like you can't say a terrorist deserves to die. And yet you go into these other groups and you'll see

Trump is... They could say Trump should die. You know, they could bash him all day long, even though he's not even president anymore.

But hey, you know, so let's look at... And they continue with what they say for the violence here.

Let me read some things that fit under. How do they define violence? Well, let me quote from their

Facebook standards. Quote, threats that continue to lead to death and other forms of high -severity violence targeting people or places where threat is defined as any of the following.

Statements of intent to commit high -severity violence. This includes content where a symbol represents a target and or includes a visual of an adornment or method to represent violence.

Calls for high -severity violence, including content where no target is specified, but a symbol represents the target and or includes a visual of the armament or method that represents violence.

Statements advocating for high -severity violence. Well, actually...

Oh, aspirational or conditional statements to commit high -severity violence.

I'm just, but I'm just... How do they determine this? Let me go back to those

Facebook posts that were removed. I'm just, I'm confused. All men are desperately wicked.

I'm trying to figure out, wait, I'm trying to... I'm trying, but I'm trying to see how that fits under this definition here.

They were targeting people. All men, who are they targeting?

I guess they're targeting every single human being. Is that it? Saying all men are dead, but what's the high -severity violence in there?

I'm not quite sure if I get that. Calling someone a literal brick wall. I don't know,

I'm having a hard time with this, but I really, really am. You think their algorithm is picking up when something is maybe

Christian? Maybe, maybe. You can post white fragility, but you can't post

Christianity and wokeness or Vodie Bachum's fault lines.

Gotta be conspiracy. We're just engaged in conspiracy here. There's gotta be reasons. There's gotta be more.

I mean, they probably tell us what we can and can't post, right? I mean, that would be a fair thing to do on Facebook. I will admit,

Facebook gave us more information than Twitter. That's why we're focusing on the Facebook one, because they actually tell you what you can and cannot post.

So what you should not post, do not post. That's literally what it says, do not post. So what should we post?

Quote, content that puts LGBTQI plus,

I needed my pillow, people at risk. I mean, why don't they just add the whole alphabet?

Google is, isn't Google the parent company called Alphabet now, right? So why don't we just call it

Alphabet? Content that puts LGBTQI plus people at risk.

So if you put them at risk, how do you define risk? Well, they do define it.

If you say that they practice homosexuality. Okay.

What if you out a Christian? What if you say someone's a Christian? Can you, people never get canceled just because of their

Christian views, do they bud? Wait, flip over to the other page with your. You read it.

We'll get to that, because I got a couple of quotes for you on this. You're reading ahead, huh?

Page three, okay. No, no, no. You want to give your quotes now? No, no, go ahead.

So the first one is if you put them at risk, who else? And I found this one interesting. You and I had to talk about this one.

Here's another person that put it, content that puts unveiled women at risk by revealing their images without avail against their will or without their permission.

Now, who would that be? That would be Muslims. Now here's the irony folks.

This is where when you read this stuff, and I know you've never read through the community rules, the community standards that they have for Facebook or Twitter or these other groups.

You usually get that thing that asks you to agree and you just click, yes, I accept.

I accept your terms without reading them. Silly you, silly me, silly all of us, because this is what we're agreeing to.

But it's fun when you read it, because when you read it, you realize, wait, they're saying that in the

Muslim culture, if a male finds out that there's a picture of a female, how's he going to know?

Who's going to know that it's her? If you put up a picture, say some woman's in the gym working out and you take a picture because you know she wears a veil when she leaves the gym and you post that, that would be wrong.

Who's going to know what she looks like? Well, the only people that could know what she looks like under that veil is her family in Islam.

So what is it saying? That if there's a picture of her without her veil in public, that she could be in harm from who?

Oh, her Muslim family. So what does that tell you that they think about Islam?

That they think it's violent. And yet, who do they protect? Muslims.

Yeah, that's the irony. Yeah, they're protecting Islam. You would get in trouble for posting the picture of the woman because they know that Islam would harm her.

If they're going to practice the Islam properly. Anyone smelling that?

Yeah, that's the smell of hypocrisy. That's that smell that you smell there.

Violent threats against law enforcement officers. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. That can't be possible, bud.

Did I just read that? Violent threats against law enforcement officers.

What about the Antifa and Black Lives Matter posts?

For a year now, targeting law enforcement officers. Where did they learn in every city to use the green lasers, the lasers into the police officer's eyes to blind them?

Facebook. Yeah, that's right, folks. And some of those posts are still up there a year later.

Where did they get the idea of burning police cars? With police in them.

And police buildings. By the way, folks, in case you didn't realize, that's called violence. I mean, just for those on Facebook that may not recognize.

Over two billion, that's a B, two billion dollars of insurable damage.

That means those people that were insured, there's a whole lot of people that don't have insurance. They got damaged.

That's not counted in that two billion plus, okay? So when you look at this, violent threats against people accused of a crime.

Interesting. What about the Dems' false claims of Trump committing crimes?

I mean, they threatened all kinds of violence against him. AOC does it all the time.

She's still on Facebook. But 10 ,000 people had their

Facebook and Twitter accounts removed because either involvement with January 6th protest, or they're friends with them, or know them, or have interaction with them.

That was enough to get you blocked because you're violent. January 6th, by the way, folks, not a single gun, not a single gun was found.

Not one. Zero, nada, none. One person was killed by a

Capitol police officer whose name is being protected. You never find that when a white man kills a black person, but here's a white man killing a black girl,

I'm sorry, a white girl, and there's nothing on it, right? I mean, she should at least have one intersectionality point up, but nope, she was a

Trump supporter. And was there a threat to the officer? I mean, if you haven't seen that video of her being shot, you should go find it.

Oh, what am I saying? That's been removed. Okay, go to Rumble.

It's still out there, okay? The reality is when you look at that, she wasn't even in the building.

She wasn't even in the building. He shot her through a window, and there was a whole swarm of police right behind her.

What in the world was that about? They needed something. They needed someone killed to have some violence. That was all stage, folks.

I'm just telling you that one area, they wanted people to be breaking in.

They wanted the video of people breaking in the building. They had the police right there. They had the media right there. The police were inside.

The police had it all barricaded with chairs. Look at that barricade. Anybody who's been in any kind of law enforcement or military that knows how to barricade a door knows that that door was not barricaded with chairs that could easily be pushed aside, okay?

There was nothing heavy barricading that door. A bunch of chairs just stacked on. Some looked like they were almost wicker chairs, easily pushed over, okay?

It was all for show. I'm sorry. Now, I know that makes me a domestic terrorist under Biden's administration.

Well, you're back into the conspiracy theories, my goodness. Simple logic, critical thinking. I know

I'm cursed with that, having to think for myself. And so what you end up seeing with it is that was all staged, okay?

If you listen to this podcast, you know I've gone through that in the past. It was all a stage thing.

It was all for Pelosi to make a big cry. And now she's going to have a Democrat -only committee.

Oh, wait, there's one Republican on there. The one Republican that's going to lead the committee.

But she's really a Democrat. The Republican Party should just remove her from their own party. That's what they should do.

But the thing is, though, is that they're just using this to take total control. This is everything.

And so you end up seeing that they say that threats against elected officials, really, that's violence, folks.

If you make threats against elected officials, I could be wrong, but wasn't

Trump president when they actually removed his account while he was still president?

And the left has been able to make all kinds of claims against him all the time.

All right, so what does it come down to? We're going to skip a bunch of this, but their focus on some of this is what they say.

They have three tiers. Tier one focus focuses on entities that engage in serious offline harms.

Folks, how do they know what you do offline? Very simple.

They're working with the government. Go back to the episode two weeks ago with the national strategy on countering terrorism.

That's against Christians. They're targeting us. They're watching what we do.

In fact, now would be a good time for me to bring up this article, bud, that I had sent you. But here's an interesting thing.

There is a semi -secret internet surveillance group. It is called the

Internet Covert Operations Program. Now, is this part of the FBI? No. CIA?

No. And folks, so you understand the difference. FBI does investigations and things, law enforcement in the

US. CIA is foreign. How about Department of Homeland Security? I mean, that sounds like it could be

Internet Covert Operations Program. That could fit in. No, it's not them either. Who runs this covert program?

The US Postal Service. That's right. The US Postal Service has hired thousands of people to be able to spy on you.

They go through Facebook, Twitter, Parler, Telegram, all of these things so that they can build these profiles to know how you behave offline.

Interesting. They're building all that. Now, you say, why would it be the USPS? Why the

United States Postal Service? And I'll have in the show notes an article to this. Here's a little thing of why

I think that it had to be under that organization. Because that organization, the

US Postal Service, you may not realize this, is the only government organization that is both private and public sector.

Because of the way they're designed, they actually became semi -private.

I think it was under Clinton because they basically were losing money.

Because of government laws, this was then done in such a way that they could do things as a private entity.

It's interesting because the first year they went semi -private, what ended up happening? Well, they lost,

I forget how many it was. I forget the exact number, but we'll just use number 500 ,000.

They had given 600 ,000 in bonuses to all their executives because now they could give bonuses as a semi -private company.

I found that very interesting. But the issue here is they can fit under both public and private laws.

That gets them around certain things. I think that's why the government is using that organization to be able to do this, but they're openly spying.

What do they see as a threat? Well, groups that offline do serious harm, that repeatedly dehumanize people.

I haven't seen Hamas thrown off of Facebook yet. We know they do a lot of harm to people shooting rockets into Israel.

Every time there's an election, a Palestinian election, where there's the different groups,

Hamas seems to do this regularly. They just shoot rockets in, not a problem. Dehumanizing.

Obviously, bud, there is nothing on Facebook promoting abortion, is there?

No? Yeah, I didn't think so because that dehumanizes people, doesn't it?

It says that they're not people. I always love how when they put these things at the end here, it says, we also will remove content that praises, substantively supports or represents ideologies that promote hate, such as Nazism and white supremacy.

There's the catch -all. White supremacy, the catch -all phrase. But I think you had some things on white supremacy that we were talking about.

I'll give you a chance to bring that up. The thing I put in my notes here for this was, I noticed that there's no praise for the false arrests in January 6th.

None of them have been removed. That's praising. Oh, why? Oh, that's right. They call them white supremacy.

I do see lots of praise of BLM. That's still up there a year later. That's black supremacy.

What exactly is the difference between black supremacy and white supremacy? It's narrative. People are going to be against racism.

No. Narrative, which we've discussed. What I was going to tell you is from Voti, which we mentioned earlier, fault lines.

It's not merely the issue of white supremacy, but notice what the category is.

You just mentioned white supremacy is the summary there. But the overriding thing is

Christianity. Here's what Voti said. I'll send you the link so you can put the link to the sermon and the show notes.

This is quoting. He's defining what critical theory is, critical race theory. We understand from the

Marxist foundation of that, originally being an economic critical theory between oppressors and oppressed, proletariat and bourgeois.

But here's what Voti said, and this is quoting. The oppressor class, and he's defining this, the oppressor class is unjust, white, male, but also heterosexual, cisgendered, able -bodied, native -born, but ultimately

Christian. Christianity is the hegemonic oppressive power in America, according to critical theory.

Now, all these things we're reading here, where is this directed? Where is this going? Well, it's certainly bringing in all of these different categories that they define as unjust.

It's targeting white. You just mentioned white supremacy. Male, of course, patriarchy is a big deal.

We've seen heterosexual is not a protected class.

That's an oppressor class. Cisgendered, so you've got the transgender issue.

Able -bodied, native -born. But ultimately, it's Christian. So this is what we're dealing with here, and this is what these guidelines, these policies and procedures ultimately do lead to.

You've already given examples of that, and ultimately will lead to in a much more severe and dramatic way,

I think. Yeah, because later in that document, they define hateful ideologies as Nazism, white supremacy, white nationalism, white separatism.

Well, let's look at that. Nazism. Well, Nazism doesn't actually exist. You don't have...

The Nazi party doesn't exist in Germany anymore, right? Oh, but they'd say the ideals of...

Well, what are those ideals? It's interesting because they don't address what those ideals are.

But what do they always bucket it with? Well, white supremacy. They think white supremacy is

Christian. You see this in the media. White nationalism, what's that? Conservative or Republican, right?

They're referring to everything January 6th. That was white nationalism. I love the fact that there were a ton of blacks and Hispanics and they would say black and brown people.

Those were white nationalists. But there's no mention of black supremacy, black nationalism, black separatism.

Interesting. So they use this term so that you're supposed to have...

Say, well, I'm against white supremacy. Yeah, but they define that as Christianity. I'm against white nationalism.

I don't want just whites running the country, but they define that as conservative. Now, it's interesting because in their tier three, they say tier three focuses on entities that may repeatedly engage in violence of our hate speech or dangerous organizations policies on or off the platform.

Well, I'm going to stop there, on or off. Folks, how do they know the off -platform stuff?

They're working with the government and other groups to build a whole profile on you of your life.

Remember, profiling is wrong. Police are not supposed to profile. Law enforcement shouldn't profile when you're black.

But profiling you, Christian, we could do that all day long because white supremacy, bad, black supremacy, good.

That's racism. When you start saying any group should be supreme, that's racism.

What makes white supremacy wrong? Racism. Therefore, black supremacy is wrong.

Racism. We are being consistent. They are not. They're practicing, oh, oh, what's that word?

It starts with an H. I can't remember. A hypocrisy. Oh, that's right, hypocrisy. So let me continue.

So they're going to look at on or off platform or demonstrate, and this is crazy, demonstrate strong intent to engage in offline violence in the near future, but have not necessarily engaged in violence to date.

So Facebook thinks that you will, in the future, you might be violent and they have the right to decide.

Notice, they're the ones making this decision. They are going to decide that you will be violent in the near future.

They don't need evidence of it. They just need to, they don't have to justify themselves, folks. This is, they have the ability to censor you.

They don't have to prove any of the thing that they say on your freedom of speech.

Remember, this is open to the public. This is under free speech, but they have the right to censor your free speech.

This is, the constitution guides this conversation now that it's public domain. Yet they say, oh, it's our algorithms do this.

We're protected by our algorithms. We're a private company. If what we say on Facebook is public domain, then they may be the platform that allows for the discussion, but they should not have any right to limit or censor that discussion.

And to censor based on what they think you're going to do in the future and that you haven't necessarily engaged in.

They just think you might. That suddenly is bad. Yeah. And obviously,

I mean, it says that, you know, if you demonstrate strong intent, how do they determine this?

Well, we already know that. They determined it on the basis of these categories that they've just identified and the ones that we've discussed.

But see, now that Biden administration gave them the categories. Right, exactly. If you want to protect yourself from Facebook spying on you, if you want to, you know, if you think there was fraud in the election, if you don't believe that, you know, everything they're saying about COVID by the way, everything they're saying today about COVID, they said was conspiracy before about COVID.

So go figure. You know, if you have question about it, where, you know, the origin of COVID came from, well, they won't declassify that.

The Democrats won't allow that to be declassified so that we could know, did it originate from a

Wuhan virus that was paid for with government money for research by none other than Anthony Fauci.

So Facebook says they're going to, you know, an example they give is you can't say things like we donate to the

KKK. That will be removed. You see any removing of things that say we donate to BLM. In fact, all the companies are praising that online.

What's the difference between white supremacy and black supremacy? So, you know, there's some other stuff.

We had stuff with Twitter you could as well, but, you know, it's amazing that we see, you know, that like on Twitter, I want to give at least one example for Twitter.

They said they're going to remove stuff that expresses a desire for death, bodily harm, or serious disease on an individual.

Really? Really? Can we go back to the leftists that were, that said, we're thanking

God that Trump got COVID. We hope he dies from it. Those tweets are still up there today, folks.

The left can do that. That's not a problem to them. They don't think that's violent or extreme.

So, what you see here is what's their standard. Now, I want to give some examples, and you wanted me to do this.

So, let me look at my other screen here. But so, in examples, you wanted me to explain some stuff going on with Google, all right?

And so, I'm going to give some actual evidence of what's going on. By the way, before we get to that, we should mention our second sponsor is

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I've mentioned this on the episode two weeks ago, Matt Slick and I did an example, just to show, and you can do this as well.

The example we did is go on every search engine and type in, what is the Trinity? And if you'd go to DuckDuckGo, CARM .org

is going to show up in one, two or three position. Yahoo, one, two or three position. You know, any of them that are out there, any search engines are going to give you,

CARM, we did like a half dozen to a dozen search engines and all of them had CARM in position one, two or three.

We did it on Google. What did we find? We found that CARM was on page three.

What was before him? Wikipedia .com, Wikipedia .Denmark, Wikipedia .UK,

Wikipedia .Australia. I mean, literally there were three pages of Wikipedia in different countries.

And then CARM. Oh, useless links. Oh, wait, no, there was one on, that's right,

I forgot. There was one on page one from an atheist site. So they are purposely downgrading.

So I want to give some examples. So I'm going to go back to last, well, what did we say? We said we wanted to start before the election.

So I'll start in September. So these are some facts from our website from Striving for Eternity.

And just so you get some numbers. So back last September, we had 4 ,700 people that came to the website just from Google.

This isn't including Facebook or anything else. And then we had next month, 3 ,200.

The following month was 2 ,800. Following month was 2 ,600.

The following month, I got to actually click on it. That helps. The following month, 2 ,600.

These are just from Google, okay? 2 ,500 the following month. Then we have 2 ,400.

Then we have Google with 2 ,100.

Then we have Google with 2 ,000, 1 ,500.

Then we have them Google at 1 ,500. This is now

September. This is this last September. So I went a year ago,

September. So you get that whole year. So now we're in last September. Now, by last September, you saw it going down.

You could say, well, hey, maybe people weren't finding stuff on Google. That could be. But we want to show you how quickly it dropped.

Last September, 1 ,400. November, during the election, we were 1 ,700.

Then we go to December and we're at 1 ,900.

In January, we're at 2 ,100. February, 2 ,000.

March, 2 ,300. In April, 3 ,400, okay?

This is when we started to notice the change. Now, you've seen all the numbers. By the way,

DuckDuckGo, before the election didn't even show up. Now that was started showing up, okay?

And so here, May, we see in May, Google, 2 ,400.

June, let me get June up. June is 2 ,000.

And all of a sudden in July, 800. Sorry, I was wrong on June.

June, I looked at the wrong one, sorry. I ended up looking at the full list of all of them when

I said 2 ,000. So Google was 900 and then 800.

So what you end up with is looking at this. You can see that all of a sudden in the last two months, sudden drop.

Interesting. This seems to coordinate with Biden's putting out that thing about domestic terrorism.

Okay? So Google is purposely downgrading

Christian sites, okay? We were 800 in July, right?

And so you see from where in the thousands, suddenly it would drop.

And the reason we wanted to go through all those months is to show you that this was a quick drop, okay?

From May to July, we go from the thousands to the hundreds just on Google.

Now, DuckDuckGo, I find very interesting. That just keeps rising up and up and up and up. It didn't even register before.

Now we're getting hundreds of DuckDuckGo. That's the search engine, by the way, that I use now, folks, is

DuckDuckGo. Me too. Yeah. Because you told me to. I'm such a dictator.

So, folks, we could show mathematically just with our site.

And if I asked Matt Slick at CARM to give his numbers, I'm sure he could show the same. We've given you ways you could show this on your own.

Go do a search on what is the gospel. Well, you could do that. I haven't tried that one.

Maybe we'll try that one. But do what is the Trinity? And you're going to see what happens. In fact, bud, now

I'm kind of curious. Let's do this one. What is the gospel? And DuckDuckGo, the first one up is bible .org.

Got questions. Gospel Coalition. How would they know what the gospel is? Ligonier.

I mean, those are some pretty good sources, right? If I wanted to find out if I was looking for stuff.

So let's see. What does Google have? What is the gospel? Oh, it helps if I'm in the right place.

What is the gospel? What does Google have? Google's number one.

Well, that's an advertisement. I get past there. Let's see. Advertisement, advertise. So they're number one.

Okay. So they do have got questions. That's good. And page one has got questions.

So that's interesting. But I noticed that there's a

Wikipedia. Info .gonow .org. Don't know who that is.

Plan O Bible Chapel. Plan O Bible Chapel.

Plano, Texas, probably. Oh, okay. That could be. All right. That's interesting to have that up there.

If I keep scrolling down, I eventually find the Bible Coalition and Nine Marks. There's Ligonier.

Amazon. Okay. So that one's not so bad. That's not nearly as bad as what is the

Trinity. But do a search on what is the Trinity. And you can see how it's way out of whack on that.

So this is something that you could do. So let us switch over to section 230.

Now, this is some, but you've done a lot of the research on this one. I know we're going a little bit longer, just like we did on the last one, because we want to give you all this information.

But I said, wait till the end. We have an important message coming at the end of the show.

But we do, we do. Because a lot of this, you say, well, where's the Christian view on this? That's coming.

But we needed to lay a lot of groundwork at first. So what's the issue with section 230?

Why is this having their cake and eating it too? The, you know, the section 230, which if you go there, there's a really helpful link that you'll provide on here from Heritage Foundation.

It is very thorough with regards to section 230. And this, what this is a part of is the

Communications Decency Act. And this is attempting to oversee the protection of social media, largely is where it applies, to provide them some legal protections, and also some legal empowerment to screen what was originally for obscene material.

In certain jurisdictions, if there was illegal content that shouldn't be displayed, and they deleted that, it would prevent them from being frivolously sued for removing content.

So that's what section 230 speaks to. Particularly, there is a category.

It's section 230, paragraph C, which is known as the Good Samaritan paragraph.

And what it says is protection for Good Samaritan blocking and screening of offensive material.

It says under the treatment of the publisher or the speaker that no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

You skip on down and you get to number two under that paragraph, which says no provider shall be held liable on account of any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected.

And I'm trying to flip over to this very helpful. And you're saying flip because what people can't see is unlike me.

I actually have paper. You print everything out. You have it on paper with highlights. My highlighter doesn't work on my iPad.

Sure it does. Just, I mean, it wipes off. That's the only problem. Yeah, well.

Bud has actual paper. He actually prints everything out. So when we say old school, he's really old school.

I didn't say he's old. I said, he's old school. Don't, I don't want to get the emails from you folks saying that you called

Bud old. Have you seen? I mean, come on. He's got a lot more white in his beard than me.

Well, that's true. But I've had that since I was in my thirties. So, well, so here's what, here's what heritage says.

Let me, let me read this. Come on. We got to want to cover this heritage in the article, which is called mend it.

Don't end it. Speaking of section two 30, it says section two 30 is clearly intended to incentivize internet companies and websites to proactively remove objectionable content by providing them with a liability shield from continuous and presumably frivolous lawsuits from aggrieved users, the statutes, vague language, and subsequently broad judicial interpretations have, however, led to a situation where some internet companies are overly incident insulated from accountability and are reasonably, reasonably suspected of not meeting section two thirties good faith standard.

So in other words, they've got such excessive legal protection that they can effectively get away with doing whatever they want to do with regards to Spencer censorship.

You know, this is social media spy craft. All these algorithms that are affecting, you know, what you post every time you say the word

COVID and you get the links, they're, they're not only participating with the domestic surveillance that Biden certainly is, is promoting and wants for the protection against domestic terrorism.

But they're, they're also targeting specific categories that they're, you can't go back against them.

Um, they've got a lot, they've got freedom from liability, um, this section two 30 shield under the good

Samaritan by saying, well, we were acting in good faith. We were trying to protect people. Yeah.

And, and it, this is, this is what I say, having your cake and eating it too. What they want to be able to do with this is to say that they're protected.

The government can't stop them, but they are allowed to censor. So they've set themselves up as the arbiters of what content is dangerous and the ones to, to remove the data.

So it's kind of like the inmates are running the, the asylum. Oh yeah, it's definitely that.

Yeah. And so this section two 30, you know, it became a big deal when

Trump was president, where he wanted to get this, he wanted there to be awareness to this because there, there is issues with this.

Okay. There's issues when it comes to the fact that here, you have the government stepping in and doing, you're really doing what they don't have the legal right to do.

Okay. And the, but because they're doing, doing it with the business, the business goes, well,

Hey, uh, government can't come after us. They can't charge us because, you know, we're just a, you know, we're just a business.

And then at the same time, they want to be able to say, well, you know, we're, we're, you know, they're, they're kind of protected because, well, we're not, you were a private company.

And so, but yet they also say, well, yeah, but guess what? Everything is, is, is a public domain.

Well, if it's public domain, it is protected under free speech. That's the reality. Okay. So is it free speech or is it not?

Is it public domain or is it not? This is, these are the things we need to figure out. One of the little things that astounded me, uh, that comes from the information technology and innovation foundation, which, uh, is, is pro section two 30.

I mean, this supports their industry. It gives them these, these certain rights and freedoms. Um, but they've got a thing.

I'll send you a link on it. Um, they say perhaps most famously section two 30 shields social media platforms from liability for their users posts.

And as it's writers intended, it allows them to engage in good faith content moderation with how active internet users are on social media.

It's nearly impossible for these platforms to remove every potentially unlawful or offensive post.

And here's, what's astounding. For example, every 60 seconds, Facebook's billions of users post an average of 510 ,000 comments, 292 ,000 status updates, and 136 ,000 photos.

Facebook has 15 ,000 content reviewers. These are not algorithms.

These are people viewing your con your posts. Facebook has 15 ,000 content reviewers working around the world to remove posts that violate the website's community standards.

Yet some still managed to slip through the cracks. And then it mentions YouTube that, uh, their stats as of 2018, every minute, there were over 500 hours of new video content, uh, uploaded.

And, uh, they have, what's it say? Over 10 ,000 people reviewing that content.

There is massive oversight here on your speech.

And so you say at this point, it's like, okay, Andrew, Bud, you guys have been talking about this for over an hour.

What is the Christian response? How should the Christian view this? How should the Christian respond to this? And so all of this was to lay out to here, because basically the

Christian response should be one thing. First is the fact that we got to recognize that the world we live in, this world is not in favor of us.

They're not looking to, they, they, they are not looking to work with Christians.

Okay. They are clearly have an agenda that they're pushing.

And what we end up seeing is that there's many

Christians who want to try to fit in with the world, live a comfortable Christianity. This has been the drive for, for decades now within Christians to just try to have a big church, go to church, leave your

Christianity at church. Don't, don't bring it into the workplace. Don't bring it into the culture. Just say quietly and the world will leave you alone.

That was the thinking, you know, there are a bunch of Christians that just picked up and they vacated.

They, they, they left the, the culture, left the schools and started their own.

And now there's, there's been a push for generations now of Christians.

Keep your kids in homeschooled or keep them in Christian school. Keep them away from the evils of the society, protect them.

And then they grow up and it's like, well, you know, all their friends are always just hanging out with the Christians. Keep all our, all our Christianity at church at work.

We could be completely different. Oh, we, we don't, we don't go like do everything that everyone else does. We, but we'll keep our

Christianity at home. That doesn't work, folks. The reality is that the culture, the culture, if you remember, bud, we're old enough to, to remember this when the, those that practice homosexuality in the eighties used to say, you know, they wanted to, we shouldn't talk about what they do in behind closed doors, what they do in the bedroom, they should be allowed to do.

They should be, you know, leave us alone in our own bedroom was, was some of the arguments that were made.

And what was the thing that people said back then? That's fine. If you'll leave it there, but you won't, but you won't, you'll, you'll push it into the, into culture.

They did. You'll push it into the schools. They did. You'll force it into the churches.

They are. And what's the next step? You'll silence the

Christians because of it. And that's what their goal is. So what you end up seeing folks is that, you know, we, we did the thing last week where we talked about, they're coming for your children, that, that homosexual group that, that made a song about it in San Francisco.

They they're really clear in it. They could say it's satire, but they know it's true. They're coming for the children.

That's why in kindergartens, yes, kindergartens, they have drag queen day.

They have drag queen teachers. Why? To make it acceptable. The world is not comfortable with you keeping your

Christianity within your church. That's not enough for them. They want it eliminated.

They want you off Facebook. They want you off Twitter. They just don't want you going to sound like, you know, parlor or gab or, or, you know, any of the others, because if you go to the others, they can't spy on you for the government.

They can't censor you. They lose that control. That's why, I mean, look at, look what happened with parlor.

I mean, they just took parlor down because parlor supposedly was where everybody coordinated

January 6th. No, it wasn't. It was Facebook and Twitter. Facebook had far more, was the number one place where people were talking about going down January 6th.

And yet Twitter was, Facebook was not taken offline. Neither was Twitter. But that was supposedly the reason that they took down parlor or parlay would probably be the way to pronounce it.

Why? Because they want to be able to censor you. And if you go somewhere else, they don't have that ability to do that.

So what do they do? They're going to work to get parlor, parlay offline until parlay agrees to being sent to act as censors.

Okay. The only one that's standing up that I could see is really gab. I mean, Gabby, he's just like, okay, well, you know, we're going to create our own way of doing things because we're just not going to be turned off.

And so I just wish more Christians were on there because everything on gab is like political. So I'm there starting to get more active on there.

But the reality is folks, what we end up seeing as Christians is we have to recognize the key is the gospel, the gospel, the gospel, the gospel.

You hear this from us over and over and over again. We do not try to change society. Let God do his job.

He will do that if he so desires. And this is a hard thing. I was discipling some people last night and we were talking about this.

The reality is, and this is hard for Americans. I understand. It may not be

God's will for you to live comfortably. You may live like the rest of Christians under persecution.

How could you say that, Andrew? Because I don't know God's will and neither do you.

And you having wishful thinking is not God's will. The question that we have when we pray, we are to pray your will be done, right?

What does that mean? That we want to pray according to God's will. What God wants on earth, that's what we should want.

We need to be seeking what is his will. Right now, it looks like his will is judgment.

Because this rampant homosexuality is not going to bring God's judgment. It is God's judgment.

Read Romans 1. We have to recognize the times in which we live. Stop trying to live in the past.

Live in today. Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, those of you listening, you have the greatest opportunity to share the gospel unlike any time before.

Right now, everybody who had any kind of indifference, gone. Every single person, it seems, right now is afraid.

They're afraid of something. They're either afraid of COVID virus or they're afraid of socialism, but everyone's afraid.

We have the answer. The gospel is the answer.

Is Facebook censoring us? Yes. Are they spying on us? Yes. Is Twitter doing the same?

Yes. Are they doing it in working with a government, a regime that is trying to make this a one -party system that is trying to take over the country so that they could bring in their

Marxist ideologies? Yes. Is that God's will? It sure looks like it.

Why? Because it's happening. Now move on. I mean, it's like, folks, look, we're not going to sit here and change it by complaining about it.

We bring all this stuff up so you're aware of it, so you know it's going on. The reason we bring it up is not so you sit on your couch and go, whoa, what was me?

I can't take it. Not so you get out to the next political rally and start fighting there, but to get you out and get you onto the street corner where you are and make a difference with the gospel.

That's what we need to do. Look, the reality is the world is not changed by what you don't do.

We have a whole bunch of leftists that think that their whole purpose in life is to make an impact on the world.

They got to change the world and their way of change. Change is not always good, folks. You know,

Barack Obama could say hope and change. He's hoping for change. The question is, what is the change?

Is it for good? No, it wasn't. And so change can be bad. And people go, no, it can't get worse.

Oh, it can get much worse. And I think it will. But if we don't start sharing the gospel now,

I love what Rich Story says from Voice of Reason Radio. If you're not willing to share the gospel when it's legal, when the world makes you think you're going to share the gospel when it's illegal.

And that time is coming. The time that Christianity will be illegal is coming.

And so I want you to think about that. I want you to realize that now is the time for us to share the gospel.

Okay. With that, let me tell you something. If you live anywhere in the

Philadelphia area, we're planning an outreach in Philadelphia. On the 30th of this month,

Friday the 30th, July 30th, 2021. So if you're listening to this later, then you should not be binging old episodes.

Well, you should, you could, but listen live. For those of you who are months behind and you don't get these, that's why you're missing these things.

I'm going to start letting you know of different events so that you could be in the know. But you got to start listening when we drop it.

Which I will announce we're changing our drop date. This is going to be the last episode that will drop on Sunday.

I'm going to start changing it to dropping midweek, probably Tuesday or Wednesday. Different reasons for that.

But it's just going to be a little bit easier time -wise scheduling with all of the other podcasts that we have in the

Christian podcast community. We have like 40 podcasts there. Everyone seems to want to drop on Sunday or Monday.

So we want to kind of spread it out through the week. So I have, since I'm the executive director,

I lead by example, I'm going to move my podcast. And so this will move to a prior

Tuesday or Thursday that we're going to switch to. So next week, next

Sunday, don't go, hey, something happened. Let me know what your thoughts are with that. If you like that idea, don't like that idea, please email me.

Email info at strivingforeternity .org, info at strivingforeternity .org. It should be in the show notes as well.

And so if you want to join us for Philadelphia to evangelize, we have two different evangelism teams right now that are coming together.

We might be having a third. We're going to try to go out there on the 30th and have a really good event where we're just going to go out and evangelize.

We're not doing a conference like we've done in the past. We're just going to have a day to evangelize. I'm hoping that this becomes something we're going to try to do monthly, just to get a lot of people out monthly evangelizing down in Philadelphia.

And then hopefully that encourages you to evangelize in your local neighborhood. Why? Because we want to create events for people, encourage people to start evangelizing.

Also let you know that I will be out with Brother Justin Peters in Keller, Texas. He called me up, asked if I'd come help him out.

So I will be at First Baptist Church Keller in Keller, Texas, August 1st to the 5th.

Justin will be speaking at the church. He's going to be doing his Clouds Without Water seminar, an adjusted version of it.

He will be speaking there on Sunday. I will not be there until Sunday evening because, well,

I have my church to preach at. So I get there. I will be there for his seminar Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday night at First Baptist Church Keller if you'd like to meet us there.

We will be there. So come check that out. Encourage anyone in that area that is part of Word of Faith.

If you know people that, I mean, that is Todd Bentley territory. I mean, this church actually is, from what

Justin said, walking distance to where Todd Bentley is. So maybe that'd be fun. Todd Bentley runs into, or Justin runs into Todd Bentley.

That would be classic. Can you picture that? There is video of that. There is video of Justin. There is video of that already.

Very short video, great video. Todd Bentley getting rebuked by Justin Peters in front of his own live audience.

And the guy knows so little scripture that he didn't even realize Justin was quoting scripture.

Crazy. Just search Justin Peters, Todd Bentley. You'll probably find it. That'd be great if they just happen to run into each other like at the grocery store.

So that would be classic. So I'll just have to make sure my camera is always on or something. Also, the following week,

I'm headed out to the Creation Museum, July 8th to the 12th, probably.

We'll be there at the museum. The plan is that we'll be at the Creation Museum July, sorry, August 9th.

Yeah, I said July, I meant August. So in case I said wrong, August 2nd to the 4th,

I'll be with Justin at Keller, Texas, August 9th to the 11th. The 9th and 10th, we plan on going to the

Creation Museum. On the 11th, we plan to go to the Ark Encounter. If you'd like to join us, the plan that we're trying to work on is either

Dr. Silvestro or myself will be doing a guided tour for folks. We may have some other people, people's names you might recognize, that might be helping and doing a tour through those facilities, explaining some of what we see there, things like that.

If you want to be part of that, contact us, info at strivingforeternity .org, info at strivingforeternity .org.

The main purpose of this is really my church that is going out there. So we're going out as a church, but I want to open it up to any that want to join us and be able to gleam from the advantage of not only going out to the museum, but also being able to be taught by either myself,

Dr. Silvestro, or others that may be joining us. So if you want to join Grace and Truth Bible Church, you're welcome to join us.

The first time I've announced the name of the church, we've planted a church in Pennsylvania.

The neat thing with it, Bud, is the reason for our name is real simple. There's a lot of churches that we've discovered that we've attended that either have grace or they have truth.

We haven't found any that seem to have grace and truth. With the Bible. So we're

Grace and Truth Bible Church. And you're going to say, well, where's the website? Well, we haven't put it up yet.

We're still working on it. So if you're in the Pennsylvania area and you're like, I want to get involved with a church at the ground floor, you can join us.

There's going to be more news that I'm going to mention of affiliations and things like that who we're working with to plant the church.

But, you know, there'll be a lot more information I'm going to give out in the future about that. But if you happen to be in the area and you want to get in the ground floor, contact us again.

Info at strivingforeturning .org. That'll be a place for now to contact us.

And so those are some events coming up that we have. After that,

G3 is on the schedule. That's out September 29th to October 2nd.

So we'll be out to G3. To update on the Israel trip, our

Israel trip was not canceled. It was postponed. What Justin and I agreed to do is because our trip was basically canceled for October, we have decided to change.

Jim Osman had a church trip planned through the same guy that we used. He used the same person that we're using.

That person, Eric, had two trips planned. One is with Jim Osman. One is with Matt Slick from CARM .org.

So what we decided, since Justin used to attend Jim's church, it made sense for Justin to go on that.

We took the people that were with us. Half the people went on to that trip. I believe that trip is full. So that trip was scheduled for February.

That will continue if they drop the vaccine requirement, I think, by November. Our trip is going to be in March.

And I think you can go to CARMIsrael .org or .com. I forget which. Go to the

CARM website. It'll be on there, I'm sure. You just mentioned, Eric, that you heard it from Striving Fraternity.

But since Matt Slick and I are very good friends, we decided I would go on the

March trip. We took the other half of the people and went to there. There is still room on that one. I believe there is about five to ten slots open.

So, Bud, there is room for you. Just saying. No pressure to put you on the spot.

But, Bud, we need a wise man out there. Just saying. There is one thing with the trip that we're doing with Matt that is kind of neat.

The trip that Justin and Jim are going on doesn't have the better guide. We have

Andre, the guide that Eric really likes, which is what we had for our trip. But we got something else that we didn't have originally scheduled for March.

And that is we're going to have an archaeologist who lives in Israel that will be with us. He's done a lot of the work there.

Does a lot of work with Eric and has written books on Israel and the archaeology there. That becomes a real treat because we're going to have an expert walking us through who decided to move there so that he can do his expertise there.

So, that is going to be a neat thing. That's going to be an extra that we didn't plan on. So, I encourage you to do that.

If you ever wanted to go to Israel, now's the time. Because Eric told us that if we canceled and Justin and I didn't split up, if we tried to do what we originally wanted to do, if we held it off to 2023 and rebook a brand new trip, it would have been $6 ,000 minimum.

They think it'll be $6 ,500 to book a brand new trip the way we had it. So, this is the last time we can get trips at these prices.

Because of COVID, everything is going up over there. So, I really encourage you to go check that out. It's going to be on the

CARM website. It should also be on Striving for Eternity. I believe actually that Josh did make an update there.

So, it should be up on strivingforeternity .org on one of the banners there. I could see

Bud is already on his way. He's quickly typing away to see if it's there.

So, is it there? No, I got a text message. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, it is there. I looked.

So, yeah, you could go there and all the details will be there. It's on the banner up there at the top.

It's Striving for Eternity. So, go check that out and get the details there. So, a little bit of updates there, a little bit of a long show.

We wanted to give you the details. Bud, any other things you think that we missed? Oh, there's always a lot that we missed, but we have other shows.

Oh, that's right, next week. But yeah, I would just, you know, on the issue, I'd reiterate. I was thinking about hope and change.

Look, our hope is Christ. We have to proclaim Him, and the change that we're looking for is the power of God in the gospel.

That's our hope. Our call, you know, deny yourself, take up your cross, follow me. This is the call of Christian.

It's about Christ. It's not about us. He's left us here to share that truth and that grace.

There we go. Next week, we plan, or at least I plan to address some theological issues.

We're going to try and tackle some passages that people take out of context. There's a lot of them.

So, we're going to try to choose which ones we're going to deal with. We've dealt with some political things for a while.

I want to get to some biblical things, help encourage you in that way. If you have topics you want us to discuss, we need to hear from you.

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