- On your dime,
in the middle of a pandemic,
they're selling beans.
Are you kidding me, seriously?
- Sup you beautiful bastards.
Hope you're having a fantastic Thursday.
Welcome back to The Philip DeFranco Show.
Buckle up, hit that like button
otherwise I will punch you in the throat
and let's just jump into it
and the first thing we're gonna talk about today
is something that Kim Kardashian West, Elon Musk,
and even Barack Obama have in common,
they all had sex with Ray J on camera.
That's a joke, it's a stupid joke.
Elon didn't film when it was his turn,
but no, the real thing that they had in common
is that all of their accounts were compromised
yesterday on Twitter and all the accounts affected,
tweeting out a variation essentially of this message
reading "I am giving back to my community due to COVID-19.
All Bitcoin sent to my address below
will be sent back double.
If you send $1,000, I will send back 2000.
Only doing this for the next 30 minutes! Enjoy."
Which I will say in general, that doesn't seem believable.
Like there's nothing in my head that goes,
yeah, Barack Obama would do this
but when you have the likes of Elon Musk,
who is just so incredibly random on Twitter
for a second you're like, maybe?
Well here's the thing,
no matter the person that's tweeting it out
you should never trust one of these messages
even me for example, when yesterday I tweeted,
"It's simple, you has one cookie, you give me one cookies.
I gives you two cookies. You can trust me."
but you can't, I was just gonna steal your cookies
by taking your cookies
and then turning them into several smaller cookies
and then giving you two of those cookies,
which may be is equal to half a regular cookie back to you.
It's all part of my new program, Kookies 4 Kookies.
These shows are always more fun when I don't get sleep
but back on topic reportedly enough people were tricked
that the hackers reportedly made away with $120,000,
and just to kind of paint you a picture
for how potentially far reaching this hack was,
yesterday we saw on Twitter so worried and concerned
that for a time they actually disabled everyone
with verified accounts from directly tweeting,
which side note, is yet another reason why
if you are in the United States or Canada,
you should text me at 813-213-4423.
In addition to getting extra special updates, exclusives,
I have the ability to message everyone
or one person at a time.
It's also what I use as a backup to communicate,
whether it be I'm locked out of something
or YouTube videos are being suppressed
but with this story Twitter did this
to prevent hackers from continuing to post tweets,
but that move also opened up a whole different can of worms.
For example, The National Weather Service
in Lincoln, Illinois
was tweeting about severe thunderstorms at that time
but due to the lockout,
they had to resort to just retweeting their bot account
to keep people updated
but you know one of the big questions here
is how did this actually happen?
I mean sure they may have guessed Elon Musk's password,
420 69 69 gang gang with the G is capital of course,
but how did they get everybody?
Well, it appears the situation has exposed
some just absolutely massive security flaws at Twitter
and that's because according to Motherboard,
hackers convinced a Twitter employee
to help them hijack accounts.
You understand, I'm not talking about some Twitter employee
being tricked into giving out the passwords
to those accounts, no.
Motherboard alleges that according to leaked screenshots
and two anonymous sources who took over those accounts,
that employee was bribed into handing over
at least indirectly an internal tool that allowed them
to hack into the accounts nearly simultaneously
with one of the sources saying
"we used a rep that literally done all the work for us"
and according to a Twitter spokesperson
who spoke to Motherboard,
"the company is investigating whether that employee
hijacked the accounts themselves
or if they gave hackers access to the tool."
With Twitter support also saying
in a statement yesterday evening,
"we detected what we believe to be
a coordinated social engineering attack
by people who successfully targeted some of our employees
with access to internal systems and tools."
Okay but then you have the question
about how are these hackers actually granted access
to the accounts?
And there according to Alan Woodward,
a cybersecurity expert at the University of Surrey
"looks like the way this was done
was by using the tools inside Twitter
to reset contact details and then trigger password resets"
Right so essentially using this powerful Twitter tool,
they changed emails attached to the accounts
and then they just made up their own password
and logged into the account themselves.
It's a notably, an incredibly hard attack
to try to counter defend yourself from
if you're just the account holder.
Now with this coming out, you had some people saying,
well, could you just throw out the internal tool
that allows employees to reset passwords,
but as Woodward noted here, if you did that,
people might end up just getting locked out
of their accounts forever,
which is why he's now suggesting
having Twitter require more than one employee
sign off on a password reset saying
"if you allow such tools to exist
and it's difficult to see how you'd not,
then the only way stop them being misused by an individual
is to have a process in place to make sure you need
two people internally to make it function."
And this whole situation isn't about people
just being scammed into sending crypto,
it also brings up a general privacy question of,
are we going to see something else?
With these accounts being compromised,
are we about to see something private being released?
I mean whoever did this had access to the accounts
of the former president and Elon Musk, right,
and then you think of president Trump, right.
It doesn't appear that his account was hacked in this scam,
but what if it had been.
Side note, with what Donald Trump tweets,
I just wanna see that man's draft folder
or I mean possibly it's just empty.
Also, as I was filming today, we got massive updates.
We got the confirmation that the FBI has opened
an investigation into this hack,
as well as at the direction of governor Andrew Cuomo,
the New York State Department of Financial Services
has launched it's own investigation
with Cuomo saying that the hack is
"deeply troubling and raises concerns
about the cybersecurity of our communication systems,
which are critical
as we approach the upcoming presidential election"
but main point, that is where we are right now.
We may learn more in the future.
Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey saying yesterday
"tough day for us at Twitter.
We all feel terrible this happened.
We're diagnosing and we'll share everything we can
when we have a more complete understanding
of exactly what happened."
But ultimately that is where we are with this story
and actually the question I wanna pass off to you here,
not only what are your thoughts about this hack,
but also what are your thoughts about privacy in general?
You know it feels like every day
there are stories about people getting hacked,
privacy just completely out the window.
So I guess my question to you is as you operate through life
on these social media platforms or whatever you're using,
do you currently operate from a standpoint
of the things that you want to be private
will remain private?
Do you just kind of have that hope,
but maybe an expectation that there's a possibility
or are you maybe of the mindset of whatever I do privately,
I'm gonna operate as if it would one day be public, right.
Especially because with this most recent incident,
if the most powerful people in the world aren't safe,
why would you be safe?
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and then let's talk about the situation
around Dr. Disrespect, A.K.A Guy Beahm.
We've had a lot of requests to cover this story,
but there just hasn't been a ton to actually report on,
even that in a sense is a big part of this story.
So for those that don't know, Guy A.K.A Dr. Disrespect
is one of the biggest streamers in the world.
On Twitch he has over 4 million followers.
When he streams, he has a ton of concurrence.
Back in March, he signed a multi-year deal with Twitch
to keep him streaming on the platform
but then just a few weeks ago on June 26 we saw reports
that Dr. Disrespect had been permanently banned on Twitch
and as far as why we really don't know.
Twitch for their part really didn't provide any detail
but rather responded with an incredibly vague statement
saying "as is our process, we take appropriate action
when we have evidence that a streamer
has acted in violation of our community guidelines
or terms of service.
These apply to all the streamers
regardless of status or prominence in the community."
And then not really any other information came out
with some claiming that they knew why,
but they weren't gonna talk about it
because it was a sensitive matter,
but no confirmations of anything.
The next day though, we ended up seeing Dr. Disrespect
seeming to confirm the rumors tweeting
"Champions Club, Twitch has not notified me
on the specific reason behind their decision.
Firm handshakes to all the support
during this difficult time, Dr. Disrespect."
And after that, he didn't say or post anything
for the next three weeks
and pretty much everyone's just been in the dark.
You know, during those three weeks,
we did see a lot of speculation.
We've seen a number of theories,
but we really didn't hear anything else until today
because it appears that Guy has gone on a media spree
speaking with a number of outlets ranging from PC Gamer,
all the way to The Washington Post but here's the thing,
in those interviews while he gave insight
into what's been going on with him,
he really didn't talk about why he was banned.
Though that appears to be very much for legal reasons
with The Post reporting that when pressed on the subject,
he frequently followed advice from his legal counsel
to remain silent
and also to use the PC Gamer interview as an example,
they published the full transcript of the conversation.
At one time there we even see
Guy's publicist interrupting him to redirect a question
but in this interview,
Guy maintains that he still doesn't know why he was banned
telling The Post, "honestly, we just don't know.
It was a total shock.
Imagine showing up to work and the doors are closed
and you can't get inside.
You're going, 'what's going on?'
and you've been told you've been fired.
You haven't been told the reason why.
We just weren't given an answer, it was the worst feeling."
Also adding,
"I've been dealing with a lot of stress and anxiety.
You know, my wife and I both, this is our livelihood.
We worked really hard to get to this point.
Let's just say I've felt all the emotions
that you could possibly feel."
Also in these interviews,
an interesting note that was touched on,
is you had Guy addressing some of the speculation
and the theories around the ban
and his last stream specifically,
where the interview is noting
that there'd been a lot of theories specifically
around that final stream where at the end
he kind of gets serious.
It appears that he's breaking character.
- Life's weird right now, I...
- Oh my God (roaring cheerfully)
- We'll..
- I did, I did, I did.
- We'll get through this okay, and
- Hey Christopher
- You better not talk to me
I dare you
(hearty laughter)
- Fuck.
- Well you had a lot of people
kind of understandably assuming that's when he found out
that he was banned
but in these interviews we actually have Guy saying
that had nothing to do with the ban
that he was just kind of talking about
the state of the world.
Going on to say that he actually first learned
about the ban when he was watching a friend's stream
and noticed that some of his creator features were missing,
then claiming that he sent an email to Twitch,
which responded and told him that he was banned,
but never explained the reason why
then some of these interviews, they kind of try and touch
on possible reasons that he may have been banned.
For example you have PC Gamer noting
that he actually recently had discussions
about the corona virus and conspiracy theories
linking it to 5G,
as well as the fact that in his last stream
he talked about David Icke, who is a conspiracy theorist,
who was recently kicked off both YouTube and Twitter
for spreading conspiracies and antisemitic claims
but when they asked Guy
if that ever resulted in Twitch warning him
or saying anything, he said no, and when they followed up
by asking if he thought it was the reason for his ban,
he said, "I don't think so.
In fact I" but then his publicist interrupted telling him
"we're getting really close to dangerous territory here."
Also in these interviews at PC Gamer noting
that Twitch has recently been banning a lot of people
who have been accused of sexual assault
and other toxic behaviors.
So they asked Guy whether he knew if his ban might've been
a result of similar allegations, he responded,
"listen, I'm not interested in engaging crazy speculation.
I've seen all the theories.
I've seen all the possible conspiracies
and it's just like, I'm just not interested
in engaging that type of stuff.
I have a great community of loyal fans,
and I'm totally focused on getting back
and delivering great entertaining content
and that's where the focus is."
Another point and question in these interviews
was what is happening next
and well Guy was pretty tight lipped on this matter as well.
He did offer some insight telling PC gamer
that his relationship with Twitch was 100% over
saying " obviously for legal counsel,
I have to be careful here, but I can say however,
that I will not be returning to Twitch,
so, I mean, that's it."
And in fact regarding Twitch specifically,
he added that he is considering taking legal action
against the platform.
As far as if Guy is planning to come back
on any specific platform he responded,
"oh no, we're just focused on the Doc's return.
We haven't made any decisions on platforms.
We're not interested in looking for an exclusive
or any of that stuff."
And in a follow up email after that interview,
he reportedly said
that he's considering streaming independently
on his website,
in addition to other big options like YouTube and Facebook.
Now following these interviews, you had a lot of people
kind of happy to get more information
though still frustrated that there wasn't more to learn,
though I think most people there blame Twitch
for not being more forthcoming,
but also we did see criticism of these interviews.
For example, you had Slasher, A.K.A Rod Breslau,
who reports in the space tweeting
"a bunch of publications ran Dr. Disrespect interviews
as straight up CAA-backed puff pieces
with absolutely no new information, nonsense answers
and as should be obvious still zero explanation
on why he's banned.
A collective fail from the media here."
And so essentially kind of this mindset that these outlets,
where we're happy to take in the free views to provide us
what was essentially just promo for Guy, which on that note,
the timing of everything does appear to be very coordinated.
Interviews coming out this morning
then on the DrDisrespect Twitter account, we saw a video.
It's a video that doesn't really show anything.
It kind of is like a hype video
and I mean, no doubt there is a lot of attention
in just like the first 37 minutes.
It was viewed 1.1 million times just on Twitter.
Though a lot of the responses to that video is well,
thank you for clearing everything up
though you do have people pointing to his bio
that now newly showcases his YouTube URLs.
Now there's this question of,
will he be popping up anytime soon?
Yeah, ultimately that's where we are with the story
and I will say it is,
I've really never seen anything like this.
By Twitch banning Guy Beahm,
it's one of the biggest bans from a mainstream platform
and he wasn't just A creator, he was one of The creators
with a multimillion dollar deal with them
and we don't know the reason.
Twitch is saying, well rules are rules.
You have the guy that's banned saying, I don't know
and somehow the reason hasn't leaked yet.
I'm genuinely surprised,
but for now we kind of just have to wait to watch
what happens next, 'cause we're stuck in this limbo
but with that said, the question I wanna pass off to you,
especially if you're someone
that's a part of the streaming community,
whether you're you're someone
that actually makes the content, or you're just watching it.
What are your thoughts around this?
And then let's talk about the corona virus,
you heard of this thing?
You know, with it we're seeing things
like in the state of Florida,
there have been over 315,000 cases.
It's responsible for more than 4,600 deaths.
In fact, Florida broke their previous record amount
with over 150 corona virus deaths in a single day,
but actually the place and the person I wanna focus on
for right now is Georgia and governor Brian Kemp.
You know, right now as corona virus cases
are rising in the state, doctors are advising
that the best way to prevent the spread
is by wearing a mask and so we saw Brian Kemp yesterday
issuing an executive order that prohibits local governments
from enforcing mask mandates with him saying in a statement,
- I heard the jury is still out on science.
- Okay so obviously that is not him,
but the part about the executive order is true.
Well the order says that Georgia residents
are strongly encouraged to wear face coverings
and actually suspends any State, County or Municipal law
requiring masks or face covering and this is something
that's meant to have an immediate effect
because according to The Associated Press,
around 15 local governments
already had adopted these kinds of mandates
and while Kemp has said that they had no power
in enforcing these kinds of rules,
the executive order makes it official
with Kemp's communication director saying on Twitter,
"previous executive orders and now this order state
no local action can be more or less restrictive than ours.
We've explained that local mask mandates are unenforceable"
closing with "the governor continues to strongly encourage
Georgians to wear masks in public."
And as far as why Kemp is against the rules,
he told the Atlanta Constitution Journal
that he believes it to be a bridge too far,
adding "there's some people that just do not want to a mask.
I'm sensitive to that from a political environment
of having people buy into that
and creating other issues out there."
But also once again,
masks are not a political tool to buy into.
Studies show that they are truly effective
in preventing the spread of the virus.
It should not be a political issue
and when we look to Georgia,
Georgia's cases are on the rise.
The state has seen a total of 127,834 cases and 3091 deaths.
Just yesterday, they reported another 3,871 new cases,
which is their second highest daily case count to date,
which is also why it's not a huge surprise
that this move was met with backlash
with the mayor of Savannah,
which previously had a mask order, writing
"it is officially official.
Governor Kemp does not give a damn about us.
Every man and woman for himself/herself.
Ignore the science and survive the best you can.
In Savannah, we will continue to keep the faith
and follow the science.
Masks will continue to be available."
You also have the mayor of Dunwoody, Georgia
saying in a Twitter thread,
"you know who is caught in the battle
between the Georgia governor and local governments?
Grocery store clerks, retail workers,
and restaurant servers.
In other words, just the folks who aren't likely
to have health insurance and paid time off.
Our small businesses asked us to mandate masks.
Their employees are worried about being exposed.
Without our mandate, some customers are pushing back
and arguing about wearing a mask.
Local governments want to make sure small businesses thrive"
And also adding that hospitals in the area are struggling
with patient increases and community spread and closing
"incredibly sad for my community in Georgia tonight.
Sorry that the governor has chosen
to politicize your health,"
but also of note here, Kemp is not the only governor
sort of standing by not mandating masks.
You also have people like Oklahoma governor, Kevin Stitt,
who actually yesterday announced that he tested positive
for the corona virus but when he was asked
whether he regretted not wearing masks more often,
he said "I don't really second guess anything"
and regarding a potential mandate, he added,
"I'm just hesitant to mandate something
that's problematic to enforce"
But also I do wanna note, this also comes
as other governors, specifically, some Republican governors
are implementing mask mandates in their States.
This including Alabama governor Kay Ivey,
who announced it as of today,
the state has a mandatory mask requirement,
which reportedly expires when the stay at home order ends,
which is currently at the end of the month
with Ivy asking everyone to do their part in this,
wear a mask and also adding yesterday in a press conference
- We're almost to the point
where our hospital ICUs are overwhelmed.
Earlier this week,
87% of our ICU beds state wide were occupied.
Folks, the numbers just do not lie.
- Right, you have cases and deaths on the rise in Alabama.
We're also seeing the same thing in Texas,
where earlier this month, governor Greg Abbott
actually ordered that most Texans wear masks in public.
This applying to anyone in a County
with more than 20 confirmed COVID-19 cases.
Yeah that's where we are with this story.
Also side note, actually somewhat connected.
I uploaded a bonus video
over on the youtube.com/defrancodoes channel.
I upload there right now a rate of eight times a year.
It involves to a certain degree the mask situation
in Huntington beach so maybe check that out.
But with this story, I do wanna pass a question off to you.
What are your thoughts on this?
What do you think of Kemp's move here?
Do you think it does make sense?
Or do you think it is a weird political play, right?
While the number of cases are going up,
why encourage people to wear masks,
but then actively go after the local governments
that are trying to control it?
I personally think,
and it's not just based off of this decision
that Kemp is a complete moron
but this is the Philip DeFranco show,
whether you agree or disagree, I do wanna hear from you
and that is actually where I'm going to end today's show.
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