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A (0:03)
My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a Turning Point USA College chapter. Go start a Turning Point USA High School chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. Most important decision I ever made in my life. And I encourage you to do the same. Here I am, Lord.
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Use me.
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C (1:09)
All right, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. We are joined by Alan Bakari. He's from the foundation for Freedom Online. He's been a guest on this show multiple times in the past. So it's good to have him back. You can find him at X Alembicari. B O K H A Alan, welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show. It's good to see you.
D (1:29)
Good to be back on.
C (1:30)
Yeah, it was wonderful. So we are here to talk about Netflix and Warner Brothers.
B (1:35)
The Netflix Warner Brothers merger yet again. We've talked a bit about this, but you have a new piece in the American Conservative where you say it's quite the headline. It's Netflix swallowing Warner Brothers would create a monster. So that sounds like a fun discussion to have. So why don't we just give it to you? Why would you know? You're from the foundation for Freedom Online. How does giant media company buying other giant media company undermine Freedom Online?
D (2:05)
Well, I mean, first there's a clear cut, you know, competition case to be made here.
C (2:09)
Right?
D (2:09)
I mean, so Netflix is already the largest streaming platform in America with 81 million subscribers. If this deal went through, there'd be 50 million. Almost 50 million subscribers. Subscribers more than their closest competitor. So that's just the clear cut and competition case. You know, concentration of markets always leads to declining consumer choice and declining consumer standards. So there's that issue. But there's also the wokeness question. I mean, there's the wokeness question here as well. Most of Silicon Valley, most social media platforms have been fairly Sympathetic to where they've been going over the last three or four years, they've done a little bit of a U turn, especially in case of x on their 2016-2024 era censorship policies. They've rolled back some of those censorship policies. YouTube, for example, has unbanned a number of prominent creators that had banned during the worst of censorship. So, you know, many of the social media platforms have rolled back their censorship policies. And in a way, social media, you know, it's inherently disruptive to the legacy media. Right. So even when, even at the height of censorship, when trust and safety departments were banning conservative commentators, the logic of social media was to disrupt the legacy media and the post war liberal order, which it held up. Now, Netflix is not like that at all because they're a studio first and a technology company second. So even though they're disrupting hot Hollywood, you could say that they've definitely done that because they're a studio first. They still have that ideological gatekeeping role. In a way. They combine the worst elements of post 2016Silicon Valley wokeness with Hollywood liberalism to create something that's worse than both. So, I mean, I'm not sure why any Republican administration want to give a company like that more power.
