1:48:56 You know, I remember the days on early YouTube when my videos were literally the only videos that would show up in the search results. That's how long I've been on YouTube. And of course, you know, the younger generations are going to grow up and not know that when you're used to search for something, you would find relevant videos, not just mainstream media. I mean, even if you search like Brian Stelter parody, I think all the top search results are CNN's videos because- You know, that's a whole other topic about how different the internet is now. We got to take a break. Mark Dice with us. We'll be right back. We're back here live on the Alex Jones Show brought to you by Infowarsstore.com. Mark Dice is our guest. I got a couple other questions from Mark and then I've got some cultural news I may get into with Mark as well. And we were just getting into the thing about the internet.
1:49:44 But I actually want to take it back to something you were breaking down at the beginning of the last segment, Mark. And, you know, I think what has happened when you interview these people and they're just so clueless, I would say is the best way to put it. Is that, you know, we've had it so good for so long here in America that these people basically can just walk around as clueless zombies with no survival instincts, critical thinking at all because it's just so good. And they can live and they can thrive and they can survive and they can have a roof over their heads and they can have easy access to food and energy. So there's no consequences for being a complete idiot.
1:50:19 There's no consequences for having no survival instincts or anything whatsoever. You're just totally controlled by the elements around you, whatever way they go. So I feel like there's a certain element of we've just had it so good in this country that people have basically just turned off all critical thinking, all survival instincts, and just kind of float around like dust in the wind. It is a muscle that atrophies from lack of use, and especially with the internet, I think there have been studies that show that it's diminishing people's long-term memory. Because if you're going to remember something long-term, it's almost like if you know something is important, your mind is going to store it in long-term memory at the end of the day. It's going to do a data dump, put it into the long-term memory.
1:51:02 Stuff that's not important, short term memory, it just sort of evaporates at the end of the day, or even maybe within a few minutes or within a few hours. And so, I mean, I think it probably is a good analogy, that the mind is a muscle, that they're not using it, that it's getting weak, that people are becoming ping pong balls and they're just so easily manipulated. And with CNN and liberal media demonizing Trump supporters for now almost five years, constantly just painting every one of them as Nazis and evil. That's why these people have started to believe it, the gaslighting. And so what would you want to do with some terrorist that's walking amongst you? Well, you wouldn't want to throw him in jail, of course. You wouldn't want Al Qaeda members walking around in your neighborhood amongst you. You'd want to round them up.
1:51:49 And so that's what they believe many of the Trump supporters are. And that's why CNN is in the entire liberal media industrial complex is so desperate to continue to paint them as the enemy in Trump's enemy because hardly any Republicans denounced Trump after, you know, the January 6th mostly peaceful protest. And I don't know, hopefully you don't waste any of your time or brain cells doing it, but I'll tune into CNN fairly on a regular basis. I watch CNN so that you don't have to. I'm not kidding you. They lead with January 6th. several nights a week. Every show, every day talks about it. And Don Lemon pounded on the desk the other day because people were starting to get tired of him here after almost 10 months of them literally, I'm serious, this is like primetime television and you would think that Anderson Cooper, Don Lemonhead, Fredo is gonna start with, hey, look at this, the ports are backed up, grocery shelves are empty, inflation's out of control, gas prices are all down.
1:52:46 Yeah, actual news. They're literally starting. We have new footage of the January 6th insurrection. And all I do is just complain about Trump. I don't know how people continue to actually watch it. But then again, they don't. Jerry Springer, Jerry Springer was on air for, I think almost 25 years, you know, every day. Jerry Springer and Maury Povich, because you'd think they'd be like a novelty after, I don't know, a week or two weeks. But literally, like Maury Povich is on air for almost 25 years every day. You are the father, you know? So I guess there's just so many morons out there. But there's the ratings. I think the difference is though that CNN is basically a weapon against America. So it's got to stay in operating procedures.
1:53:28 But, you know, I watch or I monitor the fake news as well for the same reason as you do. You're a media commentator. And the one thing I have noticed, though, is that they have their two big fake news stories. January 6 is usually the lead, but now they're bringing back the fake Russiagate thing, too. That's kind of, they're peppering that back in, too. Their big two fake news stories, they just keep going back and forth with it. They can't move on. It's like they're stuck in a time loop. But let's move on to something else here. You mentioned this in the last segment and I was talking about this yesterday, how different the internet is now than it was say five or really even ten years ago more than anything. It used to be the wild west of information and just any sort of
1:54:09 digital consumption, now it's so controlled, it takes such an effort to find what you're looking for, half the stuff gets memory hold. You've been on the internet for a long time, you know, you could say you're an expert on the internet, I would even say. I would say the same about myself, even since I was a kid, I loved the internet. Talk about how different it is now. Well, in the early days of YouTube and even up until after Trump was elected, when everything changed, when all of the bogus fact checks, all the censorship started to try to contain the conversation because we use these new tools to bypass the mainstream media. And then the empire struck back
1:54:44 working with big tech to then merge big tech with the traditional mainstream media. So up until just four or five years ago, when you searched for things on YouTube, you would find the most relevant video, not the video with the most views, but they actually had a pretty good algorithm. It would be the videos with the most watch time. So if somebody watched a video for five minutes on average, It's a good search result, it's a good video. If somebody clicked on a video and watched it for five seconds and clicked off, it wasn't what they were looking for, so it would be buried lower in the search results. And for those of us that have been watching this, we kind of know this, but we maybe need to keep reminding people of these recent history of these changes because
1:55:25 For example, when you would search for the Federal Reserve, the private mafia bank that's running the central banking system and destroying our currency, you would find relevant videos and documentaries and commentary about the Federal Reserve. But then when Chris Hayes from MSNBC complained about the search results for the Federal Reserve, Then YouTube went and added tags, added that search result to the tag of manipulated results to then boost the channels that they've tagged internally as authoritative sources. And so now whatever you search for when it comes to news or politics,
1:56:02 The top search results are almost always from mainstream channels. It never used to be that way because it was YouTube. It was the alternative to the mainstream. And then they've combined and sort of formed an alliance, which is why then Facebook was paying CNN to have Anderson Cooper do a special show just for Facebook. Facebook. It's why all now the material that are in your feeds are only mainstream media. They'll allow you to share a video on Facebook and we have the analytics on the pages to see the
1:56:38 the drop in reach, but if I post one of my videos on Facebook today, they're uploaded. Nobody watches it. Hardly anybody watches it. Pre-algorithm manipulation, I mean, you'd have 10 million people would watch the man on the street interviews. Oh, I remember. I'd get on YouTube years ago and your videos would almost always be trending. because it was just a real organic algorithm and it was like, hey, everybody's watching the Mark Dice videos and so it would go to the top trending videos. Now you probably, you'll probably never see that again. Actually, let me go back even further. Remember the good old days of Google Video even before YouTube or perhaps even before YouTube came on everybody's radar and they had the top 100 trending list. And it was videos like Alex Jones' Terror Storm documentary and Loose Change.
1:57:24 and it was a resource of documentary films that people were producing, that people were sharing organically. This was even really before social media. So people were, you know, remember the old days of emailing, you know, sending off your email list or people sharing them in forums. And, you know, I have a friend who runs a forum and there are still our forums, as you know, like Reddit and different automotive forums and things that use the old fashioned forum software, which you can buy. You can, you know, just license that. So he has a forum and And he runs, I'm not gonna say which industry he's in. And he told me that there is a disgruntle feature so that if somebody is trolling or if he wants to discourage, it's a discourage feature rather, you can actually add a discourage filter onto somebody's account and then when they log in, it just won't log in. It'll take three attempts or the forum won't load. And yeah, I'm not kidding you.
1:58:25 And he said that you could do this, and he doesn't follow social media. He doesn't follow a lot of the censorship stuff, but we were just, you know, we hadn't seen each other for a while and we're talking about, hey, how much you been up to? And I couldn't believe it. I mean, I can, but it just makes perfect sense. I was gonna say, that explains a lot. It's a feature, not a bug, okay? And I'm being 100% serious. So if that's a feature built into a commercially available forum software that people are using for various industries, imagine what these big social media services have. Yeah, so it's like we don't have to directly censor you. We'll just torment you until you go away. Final segment here with Mark Dice. Remember folks, Infowarsstore.com. That's how everything we do here is possible.
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