Sup, ya beautiful bastards
Hope you're having a fantastic
Tuesday. Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show. Let's just jump into it. The first thing we're gonna
Talk about today is actually a last second update.
There were reports right before today's show went up of an active shooter at YouTube headquarters in San Bruno.
An employee at YouTube tweeting "Heard shots and saw people running while at my desk
now barricaded inside a room with coworkers"
We saw a ton of police show up, YouTube employees walking out with their hands up
Ambulances were at the scene, authorities have been saying for the public to stay away
And I normally wouldn't do a quick update on a story like this, because it's an active situation;
There is a ton of misinformation getting thrown around, but the police put together a press conference incredibly fast
And they have now made confirmations. Police have confirmed that yes
There was a shooting; there are at least four victims that have now been taken to the hospital with injuries
There's also one fatality at the scene it appears that it was a self-inflicted gunshot
wound. So they also believe and they are investigating to see if that was the shooter Police also have confirmed the deceased is a
Female or also several other reports I get a little more descriptive but most of them
usually only have one source so as of right now
I'm waiting. But that's where we are as of right now of course in the description down below. I will provide links to updates
We're going to be talking about this most likely tomorrow - and 2 I just want to send my-my well wishes to everyone at YouTube
but I-I-I
Can't imagine
What you're going through right now
but that said I-I don't know how to transition to the rest of the show because
Obviously that was filmed before and I was in a better less pissed off and scared mood
But here we go. Then like we've had for several weeks
We had Stoneman Douglas students in the news
But this time it wasn't related to the March for Our Lives or any of the activism there. Since the school shooting the school has
Put into place new security measures among these new measures you have additional school
Security students, have to have ID badges on them
And they must wear clear backpacks. And in addition to this there's also been talk about metal detectors, metal detecting wands
But one of the big standouts right now has been the clear backpacks. many Stoneman Douglas
Students mocking that new security measure. Lauren Hogg tweeting "my new backpack is almost as transparent as the NRA's agenda
I feel so safe now as much as I appreciate the effort
We as a country need to focus on the real issue instead of turning our schools into prisons hashtag clear backpack". Delaney Tarr tweeting "Starting
off the last quarter of senior year right with a good-old
Violation of privacy". And in fact students like Delaney and others included have gone to social media and show that they are modifying their back
Delaney writing "We need real change," outfitting it with activist buttons and then just for fun putting in things like
tampons
Of course stemming from this there were people of two minds one you had people that were definitely agreeing with a student's how to clear
Backpacks keep the students safe when when you're talking about the way the shooting happened. Someone who didn't even go to the school anymore
Came to the school and just started firing. More security can of course make sense; the IDs can be helpful especially
Since they've had issues with people trespassing recently. But many people arguing that the clear backpacks
It should a security theater. And 2 one of the other main reactions we've seen are people finding
It somewhat funny that the students are saying this is a violation of privacy one commenter writer
"They demanded that liberty be restricted for their safety
They just didn't expect it to be their liberty," but of course any of people arguing
That's not apples to apples comparison
One is security theater whereas the other could actually stop lives in which case more people are saying then why is there more security seemingly
That's an acknowledgement that more good guys with guns is helpful
Then you end up in that same debate that we've seen at least a variation of for a very very long time
That said, I would love to know what you think about these new security measures is it security theater? Or,
"No, you're not when you change security," It's not just about what happened before you're trying to prevent everything else
What are you thinking
and why? Then let's talk about Info Wars and Alex Jones being sued by
undocumented-globalist-lizard people, four dimensional air monsters and/or a guy by the name of Marcel Fontaine.
It's interesting how it looks like all of this happened. On February 10, four days before the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting in Parkland, Florida
someone reportedly post a picture of Marcel Fontaine on 4chan. the picture of Fontaine was reportedly taken from his Instagram profile
It was posted in the poll message board specifically in a thread title the "Antifa/lefty commie cancer" where users then scrubbed through his social
Media accounts and they find this picture; a photo that shows him wearing a shirt that has historical communist leaders and on February 14th the day
Of the shooting the picture of Fontaine starts circulating again actually identifying him as the shooter. Some images
even showed Fontaine above the text "Shooter is a commie" And so as media outlets raced to identify the shooter there was a
writer at
Infowars, named Kit Daniels, who decided to prominently feature the photo of Fontaine. The photo was used an article that went through three title revisions
Over the course of a day. You had "Reported Florida Shooter Dressed as Communist, Supported ISIS," "Florida Shooter Inspired by ISIS
Allahu Akbar," and "Reported Florida Shooter Discussed Allahu Akbar on Instagram profile"
What's weird is that Daniel seemed to use the picture of Fontaine despite someone on 4chan reportedly writing under the photo
"I can guarantee that this loser works the Palladium in Worcester,Massachusetts
They play loads of metal shows is far more than any other genre."
According to Fontaine's layer mark Bankston, "They published this photo with zero confirmation
They published knowing it was false or with such reckless disregard that they didn't care even doing the most basic thing like a reverse image
Search would have shown that he had nothing to do with
Florida or the school shooting." Now despite the fact that Fontaine had absolutely nothing to do with the shooting,
Despite that the photo was actually taken down later in the day, the photos still spread all over the internet.
You saw it everywhere, even
a Republican state legislator in North Carolina named Larry Pittman shared comments about Fontaine and his shirt writing on Facebook,
"Not surprising to see the people depicted on his t-shirt. So many of these shooters turn out to be communist Democrats that I suspect they
Are doing these things to push for gun control so they can more easily take over the country."
And like I said the beginning of the story
the reason that we're talking about this is that there is now a lawsuit;
specifically a defamation lawsuit against Infowars and Alex Jones.
The lawsuit was filed in Texas where Infowars is based and Fontaine is seeking over 1 million dollars in damages.
The suit saying because of Infowars Fontaine received ridicule, malicious threats,
saying his image has been "irreparably tainted"
also claiming that yes InfoWars did remove his picture, but allegedly it was removed without an explanation statement or correction.
Also as recently as yesterday there was no correction although after this lawsuit was filed
there was an editor's note. Saying "We showed a photograph of a young man that we had received and stated incorrectly that it was an
alleged photo of the suspected shooter at Douglass High School in Parkland, Florida.
InfoWars promptly removed the contents of this webpage within hours after posting on February 14th, 2018
The young man whose picture was shown later contacted us and asked that we take the photo down,
but we had already done so several days before. We regret that this error occurred."
Now as far as how strong is this case
it will be very interesting to see.
The suit includes pages and pages of background on Infowars; this including what they say is a history of publishing false in defamatory reports
When you have everything from the pizza gate conspiracy
to attacks against victims of the Sandy Hook massacre
And so the argument that this is a strong case is essentially they have a history of this reckless
Reporting and so by posting this photo without fully confirming that this was 100% true
There was a reasonable expectation that Fontaine would suffer harassment and threats, but on the other end according to First Amendment attorney, Ken White
InfoWars might be able to win this saying the core of the lawsuit that InfoWars falsely accused Mr. Fontaine
of being the shooter states a very plausible claim for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress the problem is that the complaint buries
That core wrong into a general attack on InfoWars and Alex Jones and their fans
And then also adding that this could become a slap suit slap stands for strategic
Lawsuit against public participation in suits are identified as slap suits in order to prevent plaintiffs from filing frivolous
Lawsuits designed to silence particular categories of speech and according to White, Texas has a very strong anti slap law
Infowars can frame the lawsuit as being more broadly about the content of its speech in general or about the speech of third party commenters
For whom InfoWars is not responsible under Section
230 of the Communications Decency Act the plaintiff Fontaine faces a real risk of an anti slap rule
So there is a risk in this lawsuit for Fontaine as well
And it will be very interesting to see how this develops that including all the other things InfoWars is dealing with right now including another
defamation lawsuit
I mentioned this story because obviously every single day you have either people saying or examples of fake news all over the place
They're examples of stories where it appears intentional
They're examples of story where maybe it was a mistake that someone tried to fix
But didn't do a great job of it all of that having a little dance of okay
Well how do we how we regulate that without accidentally infringing on people's First Amendment rights?
how do we how do we handle that without censoring voices that we just don't agree with it's been very interesting to see how that
Conversation has evolved in the United States, but also it's important to remember. This is an international problem when we look to other countries
It's very interesting to see how they are trying to deal with it one of the most notable in the past 24 hours has been
Malaysia they speak Malaysian parliament approved the anti fake news 2018 bill
it is expected to be easily pass through the Senate go through everything become law, and under the bill anyone found maliciously creating or
Sharing information that is false may be fined up to
123 thousand dollars, and they see possible jail sentence of up to six years
and if you feel like six years is
Excessive for having shared a piece of fake news you should know that the original legislation had it at ten years
This is their compromise and the law defines fake news at news information data
And reports which are wholly or partly false whether in the form of features visuals or audio recordings or in any other
form capable of suggesting words or ideas also
Violators could even be people outside of the country if Malaysia or Malaysian citizens are affected according to Malaysian authorities
They say the bill is intended to protect people from online attacks and will not infringe on free speech
But of course you have critics saying that the language is very very open and broad also
And is actually kind of a valid question these days who gets to decide what is true or not there are plenty of
Countries where you could look to leadership and go oh
they have a
Different belief of what reality and truth is than other people so with this law being pushed through just before a national election there are
Many who think this is going to be used to crush voices of dissent
Also that it will impede on important discussion, surrounding the prime minister's involvement in a multi-billion dollar scandal
I don't know if I'm about to cut off my ability to possibly visit Malaysia
But if you didn't know in 2015 their Prime Minister Najib
Razak was accused of channeling billions from a state
investment fund into personal bank accounts and in fact the United States and several other countries are already investigating allegations of cross-border
embezzlement and money laundering Najib repeatedly denied any wrongdoing
Along with that the Malaysian government has said that it conducted various inquiries into the allegations
But found no evidence of wrongdoing on his part you also had officials from 1mdb saying that there was no money missing the US Justice
Department says at least 4.5 billion was stolen from 1mdb by Associates of Najib in fact
they're reportedly working to see is one point seven billion dollars taken from the fund to buy assets in the United States so obviously the
Prime Minister and the government seem to have a different belief of what is true or not than other sources
It's also not like these concerns from critics are coming out of nowhere since the scandal came out the prime minister has fired critics in
His own government he's tried to silence the media and also this is happening at a time where many say there is a power grab
Happening last week their parliament signed off on redrawing voting districts for the next election which of course resulted in people saying this is
Gerrymandering changing districts they're cracking down on people that do not agree with them
Who are trying to speak out and so that's a situation as it is right now personally?
I think it's incredibly concerning obviously I come from the standpoint when I talk about the First Amendment freedom of speech
But how vague and open the words are I mean are we gonna see people jailed for memes is unfortunately based on several countries is
Not a crazy thing to think I mean they include the word maliciously, but then you have to argue about intent
we also know that the people in power at least on one if you have a different belief of what reality is what truth and
Fake news is compared to international
Investigators, but ultimately, we'll have to see every country is different
We recently saw India threatened to crackdown on journalists starting to remove journalists official accreditation
But then backed off on that after there was a lot of outrage online, so we'll see if there is something similar
Or if this just gets rushed through, and then the people don't fight it
But that said I do want to pass a question off to you. What are your thoughts?
Where do you think the line is what do you think is the proper punishment If there is a proper punishment?
How did you crack down an actual fake news without it becoming a tool for the government to crack down on people they don't agree
With and how do you do in a way where if a news organization?
Gets something wrong or there's a piece of misinformation that they try to correct
They use best practices that it doesn't bankrupt them due to a ton of lawsuits
And I'd love to know your thoughts on this then we had garbage person
Extraordinaire the former spokesperson for subway Jared Fogle back in the news yes
The same Jared Fogle who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for child pornography?
He is back in the news because he and two other inmates have filed a civil lawsuit a lawsuit where he is trying to get
57 million dollars on the judges and prosecutors
Who put him in jail this because he claims he was unjustly
Charged with conspiracy to receive photos of minors now as far as if this will actually work
It doesn't really seem like a strong case that unjust conspiracy charges reportedly been the basis for several of his appeals which of course failed
My ultimate take away from this is a Jared Fogle is a garbage person and every day that he is still in prison
It's a slightly better day
then let's talk about the situation regarding the
us-mexico border
Obviously border security for President Trump has been a massive deal to him from I mean even when he was candidate Trump
Or his security the wall the whole shabang, it's not weird to hear him talk about and today Trump made a very big statement regarding
Border security how we're going to secure the border, and it seems like it's connected to an issue
We've seen from over the weekend that situation involving the caravan of roughly
We've seen several report roughly 1100 to 1500 people most of them Hondurans
they're making their way to the United States from the southern border of Mexico reportedly in Honduras there has been massive political violence and that's
On top of just the general gangs and cartels in the area and reportedly the caravan was organized byPueblos Si Fronteras PSF people
without borders
They say on their website they accompany migrants and refugees and their journey of hope and together demand our human rights is reportedly making it
The fifth year in a row where there's been an organized caravan of some sort so that story initially popped up
Thanks to BuzzFeed who sent someone out there to report on it and on Sunday Fox and Friends does a piece on it the interview
national Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd shortly after that we then saw President Trump start tweeting saying Border Patrol agents are not allowed to
Properly do their job at the border because of ridiculous Liberal Democrat laws like catch and release getting more dangerous
Caravans coming Republicans must go to nuclear option to pass tough laws now no more DACA deal
I think Mexico is doing very little if not nothing at stopping people from flowing into Mexico through their southern border into the u.s.
They laugh at our dumb immigration laws
They must stop the big drug and people flows or I will stop their cash cow NAFTA need wall
Then finally saying these big flows of people are all trying to take advantage of DACA
they want in on the act
now there are a few things to unpack there, but what I want to focus on
There are the mentions of DACA
him shouting no more DACA Deal is really interesting since big narrative
he has been pushing for a while as the Democrats don't care about DACA
others have argued that no the Democrats are trying or the
Democrats that have given up are just
Giving up because they realize that they can't get that without doing something with the wall
And there's a mention that these people on this Caravan are trying to take advantage of DACA
But that is in no way what daca is there's no reason to believe that any of these people would actually qualify daca is supposed
To be about the people who are brought to this country as children
Who were ended up actually being here illegally by no choice of their own and not
New people he then continues to tweet about immigration
But then we get an update from yesterday Mexico announces that they are
disbanding the caravan PSF organizer Alex Men saying calling the disbanding a victory this because Mexico would actually be allowing certain people in the
Caravans to apply for asylum in Mexico adding don't be fooled the government isn't quote disbanding it
It's conceding its participants right to apply for asylum without traveling in the shadows
But it's also important to know that it's it's not a great happy story for everyone that was in this Caravan according to reports Mexico's
Only granting humanitarian visas to people like women who are pregnant people with disabilities people with chronic illnesses like
HIV
And the rest of the people in the caravan will have ten days to petition Mexico to stay for another thirty days during that time
They're supposed to petition Mexico to stay even longer otherwise
They'll be deported and in fact four hundred have already been deported and Mexico immigration officials have said in a statement under no
circumstances will the government of Mexico
promote irregular migration and in fact Mexico has been stricter over the past few months in January and February they deported more than 16
Thousand people one of the biggest updates to the story came today from President Trump
Who during a luncheon said I told Mexico?
And I respect what they did I said look your laws are very powerful your laws are very strong
We have very bad laws for our border and we are going to be doing some things. I spoke with mattis
We're going to do some things militarily until we have a wall in proper security
We're going to be guarding our border with the military. That's a big step adding
We cannot have people flowing into our country illegally disappearing and by the way never showing up for court
And then when asked to clarify just so there was no misunderstanding
Trump said he was preparing the military to secure the border and well that is a big announcement
I also think it is important to point out that past presidents have done somewhat of the same thing in
2006 Bush sent six thousand troops in 2010 the Obama
Administration also deployed the National Guard also in the state level in 2014 you had Governor Rick Perry
Mobilizing a thousand troops, and I point that out not to say oh well
This is no big deal, but just so that people know that it's not unprecedented, but also at the same time
It could be because according to multiple sources these from the Defense Department and military officials
They are unsure of what the specifics of this situation are also saying that they were surprised by this announcement
We'll have to wait and see what happens there
Also, what happens with us-mexico relations with NAFTA a lot of things in the air being juggled right now
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