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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're going to play you, uh, a person a clip
(00:03):
a human here, You're going to hear her voice, Michael,
play seventy two for us. Then I will elaborate a bit.
Trolls live everywhere. Can can you just explain what's like?
Can you draw a picture of what it is like
when a surge of harassment hits. It's horrifying. And it's
not just me either. You know, they immediately docks you
and go after your family members. They try and look
(00:25):
up everyone who's ever been associated with you. Um, and
it's completely overwhelming and terrifying. That is reporter Taylor Lorenz,
formerly of The New York Times, currently of the Washington Post,
talking about being docked and harassed online. That does sound
really concerning. She has more to say on this topic
seventy three Michael. I've had to remove every single social tie.
(00:48):
I had severe PTSD from this. I I contemplated suicide.
Got really bad. You feel like any little piece of
information that gets out on you will be used by
the worst people on the internet to destroy your life.
And it's so isolating and terrifying. It's horrifying. I'm so sorry.
(01:12):
Speak speaking of acting, that's not great acting I hate
the whole faking your upset. You don't have to cry
to make your point. Everybody needs to please embrace that
we're a little off the top of you. But you
don't have to pretend to cry to make your point.
If I may return to my what was going to
(01:34):
be a brilliantly constructed argument slash profile, that was again
Taylor Lorenz, who is characterized by Matt Taieb as Taylor Lorenz,
a dunce of historic proportions unleashed on the world by
The New York Times. She is a part of a
(01:55):
new brand of journalism that Tybebee and Glenn Greenwald, for instance,
have utterly lambasted. Whereas they believe journalism is meant to
be the free voice of the people holding the powerful
to account. This is a new thing now the left.
Journalism has become part of the left power structure, and
(02:18):
people like Taylor Lorenz, and she's one of the leading
lights of this. Their job is to haunt chat rooms,
haunts Reddit, haunt Twitter, go into private meetings by hack
or invitation by a confederate, and report on anybody, any
private citizen, any Joe, nobody who says something that they
(02:42):
can then persecute and get that person in trouble, uh
in the parlance of a middle schooler. More specifically, get
them docked, get them fired, get them run out of
their profession, make them move, terrorize them Taylor Lorenz and
we'll get to the lives of TikTok a thing in
a moment. More specifically, in the last several weeks, she
(03:04):
has docks people shown up at their homes, shown up
at their relatives homes, and tried to ruin their lives.
The idea that she would be boo hooing on MSNBC
about people being mean online is an obscenity. Never mind
the fake crying that's obscene anyway, would suck. It absolutely
(03:28):
would suck, because there are a lot of crazies out there,
and when they have your addressing phone number and social
Security number and everything else that comes up, and and
then harassing your friends and family and all of a sudden,
you're mom and dad and kids are brought into it
and everything like that. Oh my god. Yeah, I'm tempted
to go a little further down that road. But lives
of TikTok is an account on Twitter. It is a
(03:49):
gal who posts videos of progressive types to woke types
uh their own videos. She reposts them as they're proudly
telling the world old who they are and what they believe.
She collects them and tweets them out, occasionally with a
couple of words of commentary about can you believe this
or that sort of thing, But it is really just
(04:10):
repeating their own words. Well, Twitter is constantly harassing her,
and this Taylor Lorenz monster has decided to ruin the
gal who runs this life for daring to use people's
own words as an indictment of their crazy ass beliefs.
And it's really become ugly and various people from Matt
(04:31):
Taiebi who's an avowed lefty, to Glenn Greenwald who's all
over the map, to Tucker Carlson are all agreeing that
this is vicious and horrible behavior. Yeah, that's a good point.
That's quite the wide spectrum of people who are against this. Yeah. Yeah.
And so now that the vicious, vicious Taylor Lorenz has
targeted the creator of the lives of TikTok thing, her
(04:54):
life has grown scary and ugly. Clip seventy five please Michael, Well,
it's two days have been very chaotic and overwhelming. UM.
I had to make some travel times, you know, really fast,
but was not planning on earlier, so there was a
little bit of coordination. I had to hop in UM.
(05:14):
And I'm now in a location where I don't think
anyone would find me UM, not in any of the
locations that tends leaked or that anyone can find UM.
But it's it's been a little bit tough, but I'm
not gonna allows to get me down. But so, she's
an aggregator of the nuttiest lefties out there. She grabs
(05:36):
their social media's is looking how crazy these people are.
That's all she does. And then the Washington particularly particularly
people in positions of power like teachers who are proudly
teaching kids this stuff. And then the Washington Post uses
their immense powers of investigation to try to bring her down.
That is not democracy. Dyes in darkness, Jeff, I mean,
(06:00):
what the hell? So, in spite of the fact that
she just posts what people have already proudly posted publicly,
the Washington Post ran the Taylor Lorenz of viciousness, complete
with the woman's name and a link to the listing
of her professional real estate license, complete with her address Wow,
that is so out of line and uh, why would
(06:23):
they do this? Um? And this writer whose name is
ed Morrissey uh says why would they do that? I'll
quote from Lauren's own justification for it, but you can
find it. Lives of TikTok reposts a steady stream of
TikTok videos and social media posts, primarily from lgbt Q
plus people, often including incendiary framing designed to generate outrage.
(06:45):
Videos shared from the account quickly find their way to
the most influential names in right wing media. The account
has emerged as a powerful force on the Internet, shaping
right wing media, impacting anti l g b t Q
plus legislation, and influencing millions by posting viral videos and
seeing that aimed at inciting outrage among the right. Yeah. Sure, uh,
(07:05):
Lives of TikTok has you know, a fair number of followers,
but it's still hardly one of the top accounts on
the platform. The content on the account is almost entirely
reposting of insane TikTok videos. What other impact results from
the feed comes from the insanity demonstrated by the TikTok
users themselves and the reason Lawrenz doc the users, the
same reason why Twitter keeps locking the account, only do
(07:27):
unlock it later because it's a left wing effort to
shut the account down led by the manipulative progressive attack
dogs at Media Matters. Yeah, I don't. I don't like
the argument that it's not that popular. I don't care
if it's the most popular place on Twitter. That's not
the least. That's not an argument for why it shouldn't
be on their good Lord, do you want to play
(07:47):
the clip of an example of the lives of TikTok? Sure? Yeah,
that's seventy Michael. Hi, my names us and I'm a
preschool teacher. Recently we started wearing pronoun pints and the
kids get to pay a new pronoun pin every we
have something that picked like she her every single day
and we have something changed up. So I'm a non
binary pre school teacher and my kids know I'm non binary. Um,
(08:10):
they know I'm not a girl or a boy. I
used say them pronounced in the classroom. We work on it.
Not all the kids get it, that's okay, And I
go by mixed gray in the classroom, not MS or
mr bought me teaching the children of me being Foullie
was crazy. But not only that, but they also know
that I'm gender fluid. I'm going to give you my
(08:31):
explanation about what it means to be transgender as well.
So when babies are born, the doctor looks at them
and they make a guess about whether the baby is
a boy or a girl. It's as young as three
and four are actually aware of their gender identity, even
if they don't have the language for it. Say that
pre K through third grade are not ready for such
topics is actually internalized homophobia and transphobia. Oh yeah, exactly,
(08:53):
that's what it is. And I look particularly like the
preschool teacher who goes by mix as opposed to Mrs
or miss her because she's I wonder if they're latinos
non binaries. Some of the kids don't get it. Oh,
some of the four year olds don't get what the
hell you're talking about. So that's an example of lives
of TikTok. And that should be the person who who
aggregates those teachers mostly there and exposes that to America
(09:19):
for a discussion so we can all discuss whether we
think this is cool or not. She has her personal
information put out there by the freaking Washington Post. She
should be terrorized out of her home by the Washington Post,
not like some left wing You knew they were scary
before you know the website, the Washington Post. Lord, I'd say,
(09:41):
to their shame. One more quote from Matt Tybee on
this topic. My colleague Glenn Greenwald hit the nail on
the head when he wrote about tattletale journalism, in which
media reporters for the largest companies spend their time attacking
speech instead of defending it. This miserable trend reached its
apex when Taylor Lorenz, a dunce of historic for portions
unleashed on the world by The New York Times, attended
(10:02):
an invitation only clubhouse chat and not only reported that
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mark Anderson used the word retarded in
a discussion about the game Stop Uprising, but published the
names and faces of those who were guilty of being
present in silence silent during the commission of this heinous crime.
Shows she published and docs all sorts of people. Wait,
(10:23):
there's more. Lawrence was wrong on three counts. One Andresa
never said the word to the person who did say
the word was merely relaying that the Reddit users betting
on GameStop called themselves the retard revolution. Uh third, what
the f private utterances of the word retarded his news.
As Gleen Greenwald points out, this would be joke behavior
(10:44):
coming from a middle school hall monitor. Such deviance hunts, however,
are now a central concern of media reporters like Brian
Stelter and Oliver Darcy of cnnn Ben Collins and Brandon's
as Roads. The of NBC goes on to mention several
people at the Times the post, et cetera. It is savage,
it is vicious, it is sanctioned by our media elite.
(11:05):
It's a mostly so far nonviolent cultural revolution like the
head in China in the sixties, is what it is. Yeah,
but the lady runs uh lives at TikTok is absolutely
metaphorically for now being forced to her knees and being
beaten for daring to go against the orthodoxy. Wow, that's amazing.
We're going to play you, uh, a person a clip
(00:03):
a human here, You're going to hear her voice, Michael,
play seventy two for us. Then I will elaborate a bit.
Trolls live everywhere. Can can you just explain what's like?
Can you draw a picture of what it is like
when a surge of harassment hits. It's horrifying. And it's
not just me either. You know, they immediately docks you
and go after your family members. They try and look
(00:25):
up everyone who's ever been associated with you. Um, and
it's completely overwhelming and terrifying. That is reporter Taylor Lorenz,
formerly of The New York Times, currently of the Washington Post,
talking about being docked and harassed online. That does sound
really concerning. She has more to say on this topic
seventy three Michael. I've had to remove every single social tie.
(00:48):
I had severe PTSD from this. I I contemplated suicide.
Got really bad. You feel like any little piece of
information that gets out on you will be used by
the worst people on the internet to destroy your life.
And it's so isolating and terrifying. It's horrifying. I'm so sorry.
(01:12):
Speak speaking of acting, that's not great acting I hate
the whole faking your upset. You don't have to cry
to make your point. Everybody needs to please embrace that
we're a little off the top of you. But you
don't have to pretend to cry to make your point.
If I may return to my what was going to
(01:34):
be a brilliantly constructed argument slash profile, that was again
Taylor Lorenz, who is characterized by Matt Taieb as Taylor Lorenz,
a dunce of historic proportions unleashed on the world by
The New York Times. She is a part of a
(01:55):
new brand of journalism that Tybebee and Glenn Greenwald, for instance,
have utterly lambasted. Whereas they believe journalism is meant to
be the free voice of the people holding the powerful
to account. This is a new thing now the left.
Journalism has become part of the left power structure, and
(02:18):
people like Taylor Lorenz, and she's one of the leading
lights of this. Their job is to haunt chat rooms,
haunts Reddit, haunt Twitter, go into private meetings by hack
or invitation by a confederate, and report on anybody, any
private citizen, any Joe, nobody who says something that they
(02:42):
can then persecute and get that person in trouble, uh
in the parlance of a middle schooler. More specifically, get
them docked, get them fired, get them run out of
their profession, make them move, terrorize them Taylor Lorenz and
we'll get to the lives of TikTok a thing in
a moment. More specifically, in the last several weeks, she
(03:04):
has docks people shown up at their homes, shown up
at their relatives homes, and tried to ruin their lives.
The idea that she would be boo hooing on MSNBC
about people being mean online is an obscenity. Never mind
the fake crying that's obscene anyway, would suck. It absolutely
(03:28):
would suck, because there are a lot of crazies out there,
and when they have your addressing phone number and social
Security number and everything else that comes up, and and
then harassing your friends and family and all of a sudden,
you're mom and dad and kids are brought into it
and everything like that. Oh my god. Yeah, I'm tempted
to go a little further down that road. But lives
of TikTok is an account on Twitter. It is a
(03:49):
gal who posts videos of progressive types to woke types
uh their own videos. She reposts them as they're proudly
telling the world old who they are and what they believe.
She collects them and tweets them out, occasionally with a
couple of words of commentary about can you believe this
or that sort of thing, But it is really just
(04:10):
repeating their own words. Well, Twitter is constantly harassing her,
and this Taylor Lorenz monster has decided to ruin the
gal who runs this life for daring to use people's
own words as an indictment of their crazy ass beliefs.
And it's really become ugly and various people from Matt
(04:31):
Taiebi who's an avowed lefty, to Glenn Greenwald who's all
over the map, to Tucker Carlson are all agreeing that
this is vicious and horrible behavior. Yeah, that's a good point.
That's quite the wide spectrum of people who are against this. Yeah. Yeah.
And so now that the vicious, vicious Taylor Lorenz has
targeted the creator of the lives of TikTok thing, her
(04:54):
life has grown scary and ugly. Clip seventy five please Michael, Well,
it's two days have been very chaotic and overwhelming. UM.
I had to make some travel times, you know, really fast,
but was not planning on earlier, so there was a
little bit of coordination. I had to hop in UM.
(05:14):
And I'm now in a location where I don't think
anyone would find me UM, not in any of the
locations that tends leaked or that anyone can find UM.
But it's it's been a little bit tough, but I'm
not gonna allows to get me down. But so, she's
an aggregator of the nuttiest lefties out there. She grabs
(05:36):
their social media's is looking how crazy these people are.
That's all she does. And then the Washington particularly particularly
people in positions of power like teachers who are proudly
teaching kids this stuff. And then the Washington Post uses
their immense powers of investigation to try to bring her down.
That is not democracy. Dyes in darkness, Jeff, I mean,
(06:00):
what the hell? So, in spite of the fact that
she just posts what people have already proudly posted publicly,
the Washington Post ran the Taylor Lorenz of viciousness, complete
with the woman's name and a link to the listing
of her professional real estate license, complete with her address Wow,
that is so out of line and uh, why would
(06:23):
they do this? Um? And this writer whose name is
ed Morrissey uh says why would they do that? I'll
quote from Lauren's own justification for it, but you can
find it. Lives of TikTok reposts a steady stream of
TikTok videos and social media posts, primarily from lgbt Q
plus people, often including incendiary framing designed to generate outrage.
(06:45):
Videos shared from the account quickly find their way to
the most influential names in right wing media. The account
has emerged as a powerful force on the Internet, shaping
right wing media, impacting anti l g b t Q
plus legislation, and influencing millions by posting viral videos and
seeing that aimed at inciting outrage among the right. Yeah. Sure, uh,
(07:05):
Lives of TikTok has you know, a fair number of followers,
but it's still hardly one of the top accounts on
the platform. The content on the account is almost entirely
reposting of insane TikTok videos. What other impact results from
the feed comes from the insanity demonstrated by the TikTok
users themselves and the reason Lawrenz doc the users, the
same reason why Twitter keeps locking the account, only do
(07:27):
unlock it later because it's a left wing effort to
shut the account down led by the manipulative progressive attack
dogs at Media Matters. Yeah, I don't. I don't like
the argument that it's not that popular. I don't care
if it's the most popular place on Twitter. That's not
the least. That's not an argument for why it shouldn't
be on their good Lord, do you want to play
(07:47):
the clip of an example of the lives of TikTok? Sure? Yeah,
that's seventy Michael. Hi, my names us and I'm a
preschool teacher. Recently we started wearing pronoun pints and the
kids get to pay a new pronoun pin every we
have something that picked like she her every single day
and we have something changed up. So I'm a non
binary pre school teacher and my kids know I'm non binary. Um,
(08:10):
they know I'm not a girl or a boy. I
used say them pronounced in the classroom. We work on it.
Not all the kids get it, that's okay, And I
go by mixed gray in the classroom, not MS or
mr bought me teaching the children of me being Foullie
was crazy. But not only that, but they also know
that I'm gender fluid. I'm going to give you my
(08:31):
explanation about what it means to be transgender as well.
So when babies are born, the doctor looks at them
and they make a guess about whether the baby is
a boy or a girl. It's as young as three
and four are actually aware of their gender identity, even
if they don't have the language for it. Say that
pre K through third grade are not ready for such
topics is actually internalized homophobia and transphobia. Oh yeah, exactly,
(08:53):
that's what it is. And I look particularly like the
preschool teacher who goes by mix as opposed to Mrs
or miss her because she's I wonder if they're latinos
non binaries. Some of the kids don't get it. Oh,
some of the four year olds don't get what the
hell you're talking about. So that's an example of lives
of TikTok. And that should be the person who who
aggregates those teachers mostly there and exposes that to America
(09:19):
for a discussion so we can all discuss whether we
think this is cool or not. She has her personal
information put out there by the freaking Washington Post. She
should be terrorized out of her home by the Washington Post,
not like some left wing You knew they were scary
before you know the website, the Washington Post. Lord, I'd say,
(09:41):
to their shame. One more quote from Matt Tybee on
this topic. My colleague Glenn Greenwald hit the nail on
the head when he wrote about tattletale journalism, in which
media reporters for the largest companies spend their time attacking
speech instead of defending it. This miserable trend reached its
apex when Taylor Lorenz, a dunce of historic for portions
unleashed on the world by The New York Times, attended
(10:02):
an invitation only clubhouse chat and not only reported that
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Mark Anderson used the word retarded in
a discussion about the game Stop Uprising, but published the
names and faces of those who were guilty of being
present in silence silent during the commission of this heinous crime.
Shows she published and docs all sorts of people. Wait,
(10:23):
there's more. Lawrence was wrong on three counts. One Andresa
never said the word to the person who did say
the word was merely relaying that the Reddit users betting
on GameStop called themselves the retard revolution. Uh third, what
the f private utterances of the word retarded his news.
As Gleen Greenwald points out, this would be joke behavior
(10:44):
coming from a middle school hall monitor. Such deviance hunts, however,
are now a central concern of media reporters like Brian
Stelter and Oliver Darcy of cnnn Ben Collins and Brandon's
as Roads. The of NBC goes on to mention several
people at the Times the post, et cetera. It is savage,
it is vicious, it is sanctioned by our media elite.
(11:05):
It's a mostly so far nonviolent cultural revolution like the
head in China in the sixties, is what it is. Yeah,
but the lady runs uh lives at TikTok is absolutely
metaphorically for now being forced to her knees and being
beaten for daring to go against the orthodoxy. Wow, that's amazing.
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