certainly we ve seen they have weekly or monthly industry meetings with the dhs and the fbi. those included a number of companies, including facebook, in some cases wikipedia, pinterest, a whole series of companies included in these communications. how deep the penetration goes in those other companies i can t say, but i do know they had close communications. in twitter s case, the number of requests that came in was really overwhelming. your previous guest michael shellenberger talked about how they were paid $3 million by the fbi. they were underpaid. they were doing so much work for the government in terms of reviewing these documents that they should have been commented a lot more for their work. tucker: how can it be a free society or democracy if law enforcement and intel agencies are determining what we can say? well, people are hiding behind the fig leaf of, well, they didn t formally ask, they
least have a vote on it. i think if mccarthy offered those two things, i think those could be real game changers for the people the holdouts who who have one problem, spending. tucker: i think that s right. the fact that we re sending billions a month to protect ukraine s borders while our own remain so open that we had to close a national park last weekend, because it was flooded with illegals, it s so offensive, such an insult to this country, if you can t do that, you i agree with you. charlie hurt, thank you for your analysis. you may remember, in the deep recesses of your brain, that creepy shop teacher in canada who decides to sexualize the kids in his shop class getting them involved in his weird fetish. the guy uses the name calo lemieux, and shows up to class wearing gigantic prosthetic breasts, emulating japanese
on them, an email about, quote, keep producing material for them. ultimately twitter ended up caving. by the end of the year, they said publicly we will only remove content at our sole discretion. privately we will remove content identified by the united states intelligence committee as a foreign state actor. if the intel community says take it down, we ll take it down. tucker: and a lot of people censored were not foreign state actors. in one case you documented this was a journalist. a lot of different nonprofit organizations that purport to defend free speech. have any of them weighed in on this and raised holy hell? no. that s been a profound disappointment. you know, for me personally i gave to the aclu for years on
then thirdly, we would like the school board to cease and desist from interfering with the right of the parents to discuss this matter. they ve repeatedly done that in school council meetings since the beginning of the year. tucker: this reveals their priorities, much more interested in protecting this guy s sexual journey than they are with the kids. shouldn t they be concerned with the kids that go to the school? i do agree with that. this is an issue about gender identity and expression. human rights by their nature are complex, but gender identity and expression are relatively new grounds introduced into code in 2012. we don t have a lot of jurisprudence or direction from the tribunal or courts. they ve taken an overly risk