 and ensure that these massive global sites, either act like platforms and not publishers, or accept some kind of legislation, a people's charter, or whatever you want to call it, that protects political speech, protects opinion. And more and more I'm coming around to that. I really, really am. But those are my thoughts on it and the background to it. What I really want to bring in here is our American friend, Drone Tech. Can you hear me, sir? I can. Can you hear me? I can hear you loud and clear. How are you doing, fella? I am great, bud. How are you doing? Oh, do you know what? Not bad. Enjoying myself immensely. Thanks so much for coming on, mate. Always appreciate it. The thing is, this has quite a direct effect on you. Please, please do tell us why. So, really, I got caught up in all this early. They demonetized my channel back in February. Literally, as the State of the Union started, I was live streaming it, and they demonetized me right at that moment. But I fully expected, and maybe even still, that my channel could get shut down. Because of that, I am asking people to go and subscribe to me on Bitshoot, just in case that happens. But, yeah, I mean, it could happen. And it's like I talk about my videos constantly. These people want to shut us off. They want all opposition silenced. And that sounds real conspiratorial. But if you live in America and you just see the media every day, and if you've been following it for a long time, you can see that's where we're headed. And I think this is just another piece of that plan that's being put in. And really, they just want to mitigate how much opposition that they have to deal with leading up to the 2020 election. So, they just want their best chances in 2020, and their best chances are going to come by silencing the opposition. And a lot of people out there will say, oh, well, you don't have any right to make money on Facebook or on YouTube. And you know what? They're right. But YouTube claims to be an open platform for all ideas. And when you have almost, you know, it's almost exclusively right-leaning channels that are being shut down. That's a problem because, you know, YouTube is going to play a part in this election, just like it played a part in last election, which is why this is all happening. Do you think also, I mean, I don't disagree with the word you said that, despite me obviously being a terrible leftist as described by yourself on your show. Do you think there's also an element that this is an ideal opportunity as well? For the mainstream media to crack down a little on alternative media. So they're getting a two for almost, aren't they? They're getting a two for one. And I've often said as well, I do believe there's a silencing of conservative voices on the major platforms. And I do believe that's true. But where do you see this going? What do you see the end point to this being? Well, I mean, it's pretty clearly going in a direction where, I mean, you're going to get on the internet and it's basically what they want is they want left-wing ideas, left-wing ideology, all of their ideas, everything that they believe. They want that to be like the starting point. That's like the default position. And anything that, you know, questions that are in opposition to that, you know, they want to frame as somehow way outside the mainstream and extreme. And I think that's just where we're headed. I mean, and like you said, and like you were talking about earlier, you know, Vox is owned by NBC. These big companies, they don't want to, not only do they not want opposition politically and have to, you know, defend their ideas and their positions, but they don't want competitors. And what you're seeing on YouTube, especially in guys like Crowder, is that they're actually getting more views and more reach than, you know, some of these big cable news people. 100%. We were, we had, again, just someone came to see us at the studio, a friend of ours who works in mainstream radio. If you are watching, Rob, great seeing you, mate, hope to see you again soon. And we were talking about the effect podcast and, you know, podcasts and other, you know, independently produced media were having on the major companies and it is having a genuine effect on them. It's having a genuine effect that they don't like. Now, you see certain companies, there's nothing they can do with these huge corporations like NBC, CNN, they can exert massive pressure on advertisers and platforms, especially if the platforms, let's be fair, as centrist as a try and be, there's no getting around the fact that the Silicon Valley dudes are a little left of center. So they're not going to fight against it. Look at what happened with the guy that did the video of Pelosi. Right, yeah. All they had to do was go to Facebook and go, who posted that, please? Yeah. Which, was that BuzzFeed? Yeah, BuzzFeed and the Dockstams. The AIDS and cancer of the internet decided that doxing some itinerant forklift driver was worthwhile and newsworthy. But Facebook just handed that shit over. He's pretty low or he's pretty high, I mean, and yet they turned on him. So I'm real, isn't it? Absolutely I'm real. What happened there was I didn't understand that and we're seeing this more and more. I mean, if you had any news about your monetization yet or anything like that. No, and I do want to thank, I did start putting out sort of a call to action asking people to get on Twitter and just tweet at YouTube and tag me in as well. You know, DroneTech put in his re-monitization many months ago. Review it and give him an answer. That's all I want. But no, I've got nothing and I got to tell you, you know, with recent events, I really don't think I'll ever get monetization back, probably. You're not holding out your hope just yet. I'm not giving up, but I'm definitely not giving up. I will never give up. I mean, and something else about that, you know, I'm working on this website. You're helping me with the website, which thank you very much. I really appreciate it. And once I get that up, that'll give me more, you know, power to do more and to not be as reliant on YouTube. I think that that's what we really need to start really focusing on on the right and as far as just social media influencers. I hate that word, but we need to start coming together and producing content and getting on other platforms and just we need to get away from YouTube and we need to get away from ad revenue because they're just always going to be able to get us that way. You know, Crowder and Shapiro have it right with their Mug Clubs and things like that. That's it. We all need to network up, dude. That's what it is, but not just the right. Everybody, there's passionate about independent media. I don't like alternative media much as a phrase. I think it comes with too much baggage, but truly independent media. We all need to support each other regardless or perhaps because of our differences because that's what makes it stronger. You can have right-leaning, left-leaning, centrist, whatever. Getting together, it means the more extremes are just kept to do their own thing. Right. And you know what? The extreme positions need to be out there. I want them out there because I want to be able to argue against them and defeat those ideas. That's the whole point of all of this. What's the fun if everybody just agrees with each other and nobody's arguing about anything? That's the problem these days, dude. Some people absolutely love that. Go on Twitter, you know? But these social media platforms are engineered for that. I thoroughly believe I keep people in a happy little bubble. Happy, happy, happy little bubble where they're not confronted and if they are, they can all attack them together and make the nasty people go away. Yeah, the mom mentality. Well, you know, and it's funny, you said you bring everybody in together, left and right, and I agree with that 100%. I want all left-wingers to have their freedom of speech and be able to say what they want to say. And I like the idea of them coming in. The ones that agree, you know, legitimately with free speech, come in with us. The left-wingers I don't want are like these people I'm arguing with on Twitter who, you know, they'll tell you that, oh, well, Crowder's harmful. What's funny about that? Everything he's saying is harmful. And if you just come back at them with, well, I think that your views are harmful. Should you be honest? Oh, no, I don't think that. These people, it's like they have no... People forget. ...common to your subject. Yeah, they have no self-awareness. They never think that their standards and what they want to apply to us will ever be applied to them. Oh, no. So they're okay with it. Well, the good news is, at the end of the show, we've got a story where all of a sudden you just start biting them in the arse a little bit with Guy. We do have a lot together. DroneTechs, listen, dude, seriously, thank you so much for coming on. It's great to have your important voice on this. Guys, if you're not already familiar, I'm sure you are, it's DroneTechPolitics on YouTube, soon to be DroneTechPolitics.com. Do check him out, subscribe and check out. He has a great channel that you don't have to agree with. You've just got to listen to. Because he has very valid and interesting talking points, and it's a good watch as well. So do go and check that out, guys, seriously. And DroneTech, always a pleasure, dude. And I'll talk to you probably tomorrow because there's some stuff I want to tell you with the site as well that we can do. Well, you're doing a great job, Hey, and keep up the good work. Cheers, fella. Take care. Bye-bye. Cheers, all of you.