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Dr. Jim Garlow is a lifelong pastor who most recently served in San Diego, California, and now leads Well Versed, a ministry dedicated to bringing biblical
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Deplatformed: My Big Tech Betrayal 0:10 Well, we welcome you to chapter 42 of reversed from culturally woke to biblically awake. And what is the theme for chapter 42? Big tech.0:22 Let me tell you a story. While I was pastoring the church, we used a particular social media platform. My sermons were on them for years. We had no problem with them. It was wonderful.0:34 Wonderful relationship. When I went from pastoring to founding a ministry, my wife and I found this ministry called Well Versed. By the way, well versed world dot org is our website. We found this0:46 ministry called Well Versed bringing biblical principles that govern us to government leaders. And so I continued using that same social media platform. But pretty soon they contact us0:58 and says, well, you've you you're using so much now that, you need to be paying. You've had a free service for all this time, but you're gonna need to you're gonna be paying for it. We said, okay. So we begin negotiating1:09 in the contract and all. And as we went along, we were ready to sign the contract. I said, sir, I wanna make sure you're gonna not deplatform me. You're not gonna cut1:21 me off if I say marriage is a man and a woman or if I speak out against if I speak against vaccine or I just gave several examples. And he says, well,1:33 not if it's misinformation. I said, well, who determines if it's misinformation? I said, I wanna make sure before I sign a contract. I've had a relationship with you for years now that you're not going to cut me1:45 off for what I say. And he says, well, no. No. No. No. No particular problem there. And so we signed the contract. The next day, the1:57 person I interviewed, I interviewed him about an issue, and they went back. And they know I pulled that 1 down. They went back a year and a year and a half or so and started pulling them down.2:08 The next day, we're talking about big tech and the cancel culture. We'll be talking about cancel culture more than once. We'll talk about it during this chapter on big tech.2:20 Robert Malone, doctor Robert Malone, who certainly experienced a lot of censorship himself, they tried to shut him up. He calls it the censorship industrial complex. He's borrowing obviously from that2:32 phrase from president Eisenhower on his outgoing speech in 19 60 when he gave the speech about the military industrial complex. Robert Malone rightfully calls it the censorship2:44 industrial complex. Now social media, as we know it today, is the official public square. That's where ideas are shared. Influencers can impact2:56 millions of people. The the the word is very, very powerful. Even the the book of James chapter 3 verse 5 talks about the power of the tongue. And it gets it, like, set a spark and the entire forest be ablaze. Well,3:08 that's like social media's capabilities and what we what we are able to do now through social media. Hand in hand with that is the whole understanding of the nature of bias. I've said several times on these3:19 this video series, I followed the news every day since I was a 9 year old. I followed every day since August the 13th 19 56. I remember the day very well. I was watching the Democratic National Convention as a 9 year3:31 old. Got intrigued with the political governmental realm, and I've been watching the news every day since then. I remember names like Douglas Edwards, John Cameron Swayze, men like Chet Huntley, David3:43 Brinkley, Walter Cronkite. Those are names the news forecast I used to listen to these newscasters way back when I was a child. But I became, as I grew older, aware of3:55 content moderation. That's a fancy name for saying bias put into the news report. I remember attending the 19 84 Republican National Convention. It was in Dallas.4:07 Ronald Reagan was being nominated for the 2nd time. George h w Bush was his vice presidential candidate for the 2nd time. And I attended the event, and then I would4:19 go home and watch it on the news, the next day. And I remember hearing Roger Mudd, I don't remember which network he was with right now, of him saying some things. I went,4:31 wait a minute. That's not true. I was there. And what happened is, many of the, college age students who were working as interns at the convention4:43 were so offended by the thing. He has this misreporting that outside his booth there on the convention floor, they staged a a protest. I I saw it myself, and they he4:55 he deserved to have that protest because he was so biased in what he said. It was so wrong. That was kind of the 1st I became aware of the severity of bias in the news reporting.5:08 The now is amplified so many times over. When you think of who controls now, controls our thinking, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, x, Google, they control5:20 essentially most of the content, for so many of us are able to get. And they say, well, we control it, and we wanna make sure it's safe and inclusive. Safe and inclusive5:32 for whom? Safe by whose standards? Safe by what definition? Inclusive? Really? Is it inclusive of everyone? No. It's according to whom do they5:43 make these judgment calls? And why we find it offensive in big tech is because we move to an Isaiah 5 20 moment. Isaiah chapter 5 verse 20, they call good evil, and they call evil5:55 good. And the power they have it used to be they'd say, well, if you don't like what's on TV, turn the channel. Okay. Freedom of conscience there. If you don't like what's on TV, you can change the channel. Fair enough.6:07 But now they control whether you can watch that channel or not. And more personal, now they can control you, what the information you put out. They can shut6:18 your channel off. And how many friends I've had that happen to, and how many of my shows have been polled because they do not like what I said about some particular topic. Paul himself6:30 was no stranger to being canceled. He got canceled in Acts chapter 24. So it's not exactly like it's something new. The problem is who makes the determination of what gets canceled,6:42 what gets pulled? In 1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14, it tells us that the natural man perceiveth not the things of the spirit. The natural man does not6:54 perceive or understand the things of the spirit. The result is we have people making decisions on moral issues who don't have the foundation to make a decision7:06 on that topic. I proposed in my book now we're talking about the book reversed, but before I wrote the book reversed, I wrote the book well versed. He lays out the biblical foundations to 30 political7:17 topics. This 1 lays out the foundation to 60 well, that's 60 different chapters, almost 60 political topics. And I proposed the idea in this book that to have7:29 honesty in media I even proposed, let's have a website called honestinmedia dot com. And to have honesty in media, that those are who are in the media would7:41 simply have to reveal, if they're gonna report on political things, reveal to what candidate they had donated, what party they were registered in, and who they voted for. Fair enough request.7:53 If they're reporting supposed to be objective, independent and objective on topics, then they could report who they voted for. And at least there would be the recognition8:05 of that. My idea never caught hold. The fact is I think it's something like, well, way over 90 percent, like 96 percent or something of people in the media have heard have, have voted democratically.8:17 Yet that never gets it never gets reported at all. It it's it would seem to me the people in the media who are reporting on political items ought to have a dis full8:29 disclosure. I donated to this candidate. I voted for this candidate. I'm registered to this party. Now you know that. Now I'm gonna report. I'm gonna try to be objective, but you have the awareness8:41 of my predispositions. That idea has never caught hold, and it's never been required, and I certainly wish that it was. 1 of the things that helps us in this field is is the issue of competition.8:53 Competition is a good thing. Competition, like when you have Fox News competing with Newsmax or whatever, that those are those are good things. Because then you have other avenues, the people can go to and9:05 try to find where reporting is accurate. What's the key issue here we're talking about? The issue is 1 of honesty in reporting, not deception, but honesty in reporting.9:17 That is a virtue that Christ honors. And that helps us move from being culturally woke to biblically awake.9:27 Let us pray. Almighty father, thank you for the gifts of human ingenuity and creativity, but prevent these powerfulUnmasking Media Bias and Control 9:39 tools from being used for harmful and unjust purposes. Please give discernment and wisdom and protection against addiction and distraction. Do not let us become slaves9:50 to these devices, forgetting the importance of being present to God and to 1 another. For those working in the big tech industry, we pray that they will use their skills and10:02 abilities for good and not evil. May we always remember, God, that you are our sovereign, that you alone can save us, and we seek to align technologies used10:15 with your will. Amen.10:18 We hope you enjoyed the video. Thank you so much for watching. Hey. Don't forget to check out this discussion questions that are attached. Have a fun time studying, and we will see you in the next chapter.In this video 0:00 Deplatformed: My Big Tech Betrayal9:30 Unmasking Media Bias and Control10:30 A Call for Honest Media Disclosure11:00 Prayer for Tech Wisdom and Sovereignty
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