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Hope you having fantastic Thursday.
Welcome back to the Philip Defranco show.
And starting off today, we got to do something I hate doing,
but it is important to do, I need to sorry, apologize
for this and acknowledge, that yesterday
there was a mistake in the show.
Now, luckily it was somewhat inconsequential,
but, it still bugs me because a lot of you know,
I pride myself on the show so much.
Yesterday, while talking about
the Twitch YouTube streaming story,
I said Corpse, who of course is one
of the, biggest streamers of the year,
breakout creators of the year, i said that he,
he streams on Twitch, he uploads highlights to YouTube,
it's more of a classic model.
I said this with confidence,
and it actually just was not accurate.
And the good thing with this,
is we went back through the process, saw how
this slipped through the cracks.
So, something like this doesn't happen in the future.
Any much more important story.
Of course, while we seek perfection,
no one will ever be perfection, but also to,
it led to actually me talking to Corpse for the first time,
he was very pleasant, and fun guy,
I also, I apologize for the mistake,
he was very understanding.
- Hey no problem, Philip Defranco on youtube.com it happens.
But, if you ever mess up a story about me again,
I'm slicing off your pinky toe, praise bingus.
- Yeah, with that said, welcome back
to the Philip Defranco show, buckle up, hit
that like button, otherwise we'll punch you in the throat,
or maybe Corpse will, and let's just jump into it.
The first thing that we're gonna talk about today,
is this absolutely ridiculous video that's gone viral,
I don't know if you've already seen it.
It shows a youth football coach yelling at a player, before
then hitting him hard in the head.
You then see him walking around, angry yelling before
then hitting that player again,
this time slamming him to the ground.
The child then gets back up,
he continues to get screamed at,
and then, the coach ends up grabbing
his helmet, sending him off the field.
This video blew up getting millions upon millions of views.
There was a lot of outrage here.
As far as more details about the situation, according
to local reports, this is actually
a youth football team based in
Savannah Georgia for kids nine and under.
With this incident happening,
while they were playing in the
American Youth Football National Championships in Florida.
You know while we did see some people, kind of minimizing
the situation or not having a big reaction like that.
Of Roddy White, who tweeted them his kids i bet.
Which by the way, no, in fact it wasn't.
The primary reaction we saw, was kind of in the vein
of a former NFL star, Shannon Sharp tweeting.
If that's my child, I've gotta have him,
I'm going to carry his punk ass, following that up with.
I'll whip him, even if that's his kid.
I won't let anyone prey on the weak
or vulnerable in front of me, not going to happen.
NBA star, LeBron James, expressing
a similar sentiment saying.
Ain't no way couldn't be my kid.
Hell if I'm there and it's not even my kid,
we're gonna have more than words for sure.
Now that said, as far as the teams, organizers,
there's a post floating around on social media,
that was allegedly posted, and later deleted
from the team's official Facebook page.
With that post reading.
Please keep the negative comments off this page,
please, this organization has great coaches.
We understand what we all saw yesterday
was disturbing to us all, but let's not blame everyone
for one man's actions.
The guy in the video is our 9U head coach.
He is a good guy, that just took it
a little too far, on a 9U player.
Also, as far as the coach in this video,
he has since been identified as Darrell Williams.
And, he released what some are calling an apology.
But i mean, if you watch it,
it doesn't really feel like an apology.
- I'ma apologize for my actions, about
what took place, but at the end of the day,
I am a man, and I'm not gonna make no excuses
for what I did, I was wrong.
I shouldn't have disciplined him in public.
I should've waited till we got back, for doing what he did.
At the end of the day, I apologize to him, the kids,
the city down here, and my family back at home.
I do apologize, there's no excuse for my actions.
I hope, well, he forgave me and his parents
have forgiven me, so nobody else should be bashing me.
- And you know, somehow with this apology,
this goofy looking asshole made things worse,
one, fuck you, you absolutely worthless piece of garbage.
Two, if what you're saying about
the kid's parents is true, screw them too.
And three, if you do not face charges
for this, at the very least moving forward,
you should never be put any position of authority
when it comes to children.
It is clear as day, anyone paying attention,
you look at your actions,
you look at your bullshit words afterwards,
and it is once again, it's clear as day
that you're one of these limp dick, douchebag assholes
that, that feels like, you can do this to children
to make yourself feel big and strong.
I've got a dope life, I try not to do anything
that will risk it, but if you do that to my child,
you're gonna have a conversation,
with the wrong end of a baseball bat.
For the sake of my lawyers, I'm not saying
I would do that, it's just in this world,
sometimes bad things happen to bad people.
Yeah, going back to commonly reporting this story,
that the Savannah Gators have now come out,
and said that this coach will be removed from
his role, though it appears that once again,
later deleted that as well, and instead said,
we don't allow or condone any of our coaches to hit a child
in no way, shape or form with the name Savannah Gators.
We made a mistake, and we will learn
from this as we move forward.
In addition to that, an incident report
from the Chatham County Sheriff's office
says that, he's also been expelled from the league
and won't be able to attend any games.
I now, we initially saw reports that he would face charges.
When authorities contacted the child's mother,
she said she was aware of what happened,
but did not wanna press any charges, even telling
the Savannah Morning News that,
she didn't wanna talk about what happened,
but knows that, quote
none of these coaches would harm the kids.
But the mother's opinion here,
and I also wanna say garbage opinion here assigned,
is actually more fall out to the story,
because it turns out,
that this guy was also a counselor
for the Chatham County Sheriff's detention center.
And thankfully there, he has also been terminated
from that role, but ultimately
that is where we are with this story.
And hey, whether you agree or disagree with me,
I'd love to know your thoughts on the story,
and also what should happen with this coach if anything.
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And then, before we jump into the final story of the day,
let's launch a brand new segment I call.
Let's try to jam as much news into the show as fast
as possible, 'cause I'm not gonna see you till Monday.
First here we have Cyberpunk 2077,
in the newest for multiple reasons.
One, it just came out to generally good reviews.
Two, we have a lot of people complaining about bugs,
really bad graphics on the console versions,
and three, reportedly the game,
has already caused seizures in some players
this including as Kataku noted,
a game informer associate editor who reported yesterday
that she suffered a grand mal seizure, while playing
a review copy of Cyberpunk 2077, due
to the games use of various flashing visual effects.
Kataku reported on the eighth.
The game's EULA a seizure warning,
but does not appear when regularly booting up the game .
City Project read then responded, saying
we're working on adding a separate warning in the game.
Aside from the one that exists in the EULA,
which I think would be beneficial for a lot of people.
Because who's actually, reading through
the end user license agreement but, good news is
as of today, a seizure warning has been added.
And also, none of that is stopping this from just being
an absolutely record-setting game, reportedly destroying
Steam and Twitch records to become
the biggest single player launch in history.
Then we have the news that AvKare a pharmaceutical company,
has had to recall two of their medications,
because, the factory accidentally swapped
an erectile dysfunction drug with an antidepressant drug,
which I mean, part of my brain goes,
it's kind of two roads to the same destination, also not,
and it could be dangerous for people to take this drug that
they don't realize that they're taking.
So, dad or your grandpa's acting
a little bit different today, maybe check in
or don't if you don't wanna have that conversation,
but maybe check in, then maybe
while you're having a small chuckle,
let me give you bad quickie news.
In the department of labor today reporting,
that another 853,000 people filed
for new unemployment claims last week.
And that's the highest spike we've seen since mid September.
With another 428,000 people filing under
the federal joblessness benefits program
for freelancers and self-employed workers,
all of that incredibly concerning on its own.
But even more so because, today
we still have no COVID relief in Congress.
Though as Bloomberg reported.
History suggests that if the 2020 relief deal does get done,
it is likely to come together rapidly,
and at the very last minute.
Indeed, house minority leader,
Kevin McCarthy said on CNBC Thursday,
I think next week will be the week we get it done,
with treasury secretary, Mnuchin telling reporters
Wednesday afternoon, that he is cautiously hopeful
a deal will come together, calling
bipartisan talks quite constructive.
But of course, those are just words,
and I think we're all just waiting for actions.
Plus, there's also the question of
what would this legislation actually look like?
Who will make concessions?
And finally within this week,
we should mention that Mitch McConnell actually, broke
from president Trump today, urging the Senate
to pass the National Defense Authorization Act.
Even though, Trump has threatened to veto it.
But, with McConnell support here, there might be
a veto approved vote in the Senate,
unlike a number of things there has been bipartisan support
for this mean, we look to the house.
Right now we saw this bill passing,
with more than eighty percent of the house
in support, 140 Republicans joining 195 Democrats.
And as far as why Trump would veto this thing,
that a firm's three percent pay raises for US troops
in authorizes billions and military programs
in construction is because he's trying to get Congress
to repeal Section 230, which is a part
of the communications code that shields, Twitter, Facebook,
and other big tech companies from content liability.
As essentially, Trump was trying to hold the NDA hostage
to get his way in a different place.
But like I said, it appears that McConnell
is breaking away from the president here, though.
Today we did see Kentucky Republican,
Rand Paul objecting to the quick passing
of the NDA though, for different reasons,
then Trump, meaning that it will be temporarily blocked.
So, it is gonna be interesting to watch
what happens in the Senate, but also
what happens with this situation in general,
because, we also saw the house minority leader,
Kevin McCarthy, who supports this passing
also reportedly telling colleagues
that he would oppose a veto override,
even though right now in the house,
it appears that they have a veto proof majority.
They may not actually have that if Trump vetos it.
And then, let's talk about Facebook's
not so fun last 24 hours.
So, if you haven't seen yet,
the lawsuits are stacking up against Facebook.
We'll start here is with
the Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit, right?
The Federal Trade Commission formerly accusing
Facebook, of engaging in illegal anti-competitive tactics
to buy, bully and kill it's rivals
with the commission saying,
on the opening page of its lawsuit.
Facebook has maintained it's monopoly position
by buying up companies that present competitive threats
and by imposing restrictive policies
that unjustifiably hinder actual or potential rivals
that Facebook does not or, cannot acquire.
And here we saw the FTC specifically lists Instagram,
which Facebook bought back in 2012, WhatsApp,
which it bought two years later in 2014, audibly
that lawsuit also cites 2012 comments from CEO,
Mark Zuckerberg, where he said that,
Instagram threatened to leave Facebook, quote,
very behind in both functionality and brand.
Also putting out that Zuckerberg once called WhatsApp,
the next biggest consumer risk to Facebook,
but like the lawsuit notes,
it's not just about acquisitions,
the lawsuit also going on to mention vine.
Which first came out in 2013 and then, users were able
to find friends on the app using connectivity to Facebook.
However, Zuckerberg later okay to move,
to cut off that functionality and very of
the lawsuit arguing that this then stripped vine
of a feature that would have helped it to be able to grow.
So, we ultimately saw with this lawsuit
and one of the biggest things with it,
is that the FTC is asking a federal court in DC.
To force Facebook to sell off both Instagram and WhatsApp,
so they can once again become independent businesses.
But like I said, the lawsuits are stacking up.
This isn't even the only one that was filed yesterday.
With this other lawsuit filed
by attorneys general in forty eight States.
New York attorney general Latisha James saying that,
Facebook's practices have squeezed oxygen
from the tech industry and adding.
- Today, we are sending, a clear
and a strong message to Facebook,
and every other company,
that any efforts to stifle competition,
and hurt small businesses, reduce innovation and creativity.
Cut privacy protections, will be met
with the full force of our offices.
- Though, unlike the FTC lawsuits,
this one does not explicitly call
for Facebook to be broken up, rather
we see the attorney general, asking the DC courts
to do something kind of more open ended,
to stop Facebook's anti-competitive conduct in general.
While also asking the court to take any other action.
It sees fit, and here denouncing that conduct.
As a bury-or-buy strategy, that forces users
who are otherwise dissatisfied with the data usage
and privacy options available on Facebook,
to have nowhere else to go.
Now, following those lawsuits,
we saw Facebook vice-president,
Jennifer Newstead responding, noting that
at the time Facebook bought
these two companies, the FTC approved, both
the Instagram and WhatsApp acquisition.
With the Newstead saying.
The government now wants a do-over, sending
a chilling warning to American business that no sale
is ever final, Newstead also going on
to label the lawsuits as,
revisionist history, arguing
that antitrust laws exist to protect consumers
and promote innovation, not to punish successful businesses.
Also saying people in small businesses don't choose to use
Facebook's free services in advertising
because they have to, they use them
because our apps and services deliver the most value.
But, look for one, that revision is history claim
is not entirely accurate, for example,
with a WhatsApp acquisition,
when the FTC originally approved that sale,
it did so with a promise that, Facebook would preserve
WhatsApp's independence and privacy protections, however,
Facebook over the last year has been working to integrate
WhatsApp and Instagram with Facebook messenger,
a move regulators have described, as a bait
and switch tactic that has in effect, eliminated
both competition with WhatsApp as well as
its unique privacy protections.
Two, Zuckerberg has appeared before Congress, multiple times
this year alone because of anti-trust concern.
And three, back in October house Democrats unveiled
a 450 page antitrust report against Facebook,
Google, Amazon, and Apple with those lawmakers noting.
Our investigation leaves no doubt that there is a clear,
and compelling need for Congress and,
the antitrust enforcement agencies to take action,
that restores competition, improves innovation
and safeguards our democracy.
And you know, in addition to that counterpoint
as legal experts have pointed out.
The government is well within its right,
to pursue these lawsuits.
Right, these lawsuits are undoubtedly meant
to be a step in that direction.
In fact, as the Washington post noted.
Lawsuits together represent,
the most significant political
and legal threats to Facebook,
in it's more than sixteen year history, setting up
a high profile clash between US regulators
and one of Silicon Valley's most profitable firms,
that could take years to resolve.
Which I mean, that is one of the things to keep in mind.
This could take years, and it appears
that Zuckerberg is rather confident, reportedly
Zuckerberg himself even noted
in an internal discussion with employees that,
they didn't anticipate any impact on individual teams
or roles, as a result of the lawsuit.
And, as if all of this was not enough,
Facebook is now facing issues in Germany.
This is because, German regulators announced
they were launching an investigation
into Facebook's decision to require people,
to create Facebook accounts, in order
to be able to use their Oculus virtual reality products.
Which at the very least I will personally say,
is so damn annoying.
But also these investigators saying,
Linking virtual reality products,
and the group social network in this way,
can constitute a prohibited abuse of dominance by Facebook.
But, ultimately that is where we are right now.
We have a number of lawsuits and, and keep in mind,
this is an addition to other already existing things.
But, it will be interesting to see
what actually happens to Facebook, if anything.
And I think a lot of these companies,
they get so big, paying fines just becomes kind of,
a part of the regular business you know,
with these lawsuits specifically, there is a question of,
do we see Facebook get broken up?
And the question that I'll pass off to you is,
do you think that Instagram and WhatsApp,
should be separated from Facebook?
What do you think?
What would you want, to happen?
And that is where I'm going to end today's show.
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