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[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Matt Walsh is a very conservative podcast host under Ben Shapiro's daily wire outfit. His shtick is he's extremely sarcastic and condescending and that makes him an epic god tier troll and excellent at getting people to lose their shit.

He dredged the local hospital website and Facebook groups for information the hospital publicly released online and correlated it together to show that they have a youth transition program. As well as a video from an LGBT conference where someone in the hospital talks about how much money they can make from transgender care and FTM bottom surgeries specifically as one of the reasons why they are moving into this. As well as another video where the person condemns any criticism or objections and low key implies that she'll fire anyone who does so in what may be a potential violation of labor laws. All these videos were publicly released on the internet and he took them and put them together in a piece on his show. The hospital promptly deleted the section from their website without comment.

Unsurprisingly this set off a Twitter storm which just got it even more attention because the dumbasses still haven't learned about the Streisand effect. Got enough attention now the governor and at least one federal representative have commented on the situation and vowed to investigate the hospital for wrongdoing.

[–]xoenix[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I'm amazed the guy's accounts have survived on Youtube and Twitter.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

YouTube doesn't seem so overly ban happy as other sites. They do more shit with the algorithm to funnel you into content they want you to see. That's how I found out about him in the first place and frankly I think they are happy if he brings in views and money.

Twitter I think is caught between their philosophy and the realities of business. Twitter relies on bullshit drama to stay relevant so if they ban the people who cause the drama then the site will become boring and they'll hemorrhage users faster than you can say Elon Musk buyout.

[–]Newzok 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Twitter is a propaganda tool through and through and are in kahoots with government and glowies. It's a great consent-manufacturing machine. I don't think they care as much about business as their political angles.