The Left's Launched An All-Out Assault On Me and My Show. Here's What We're Doing to Fight Back.

On Monday afternoon, I was informed that YouTube was demonetizing my channel. This was a first step towards a possible permanent demonetization, or banishment from the platform entirely. YouTube keeps its rules intentionally vague. They will penalize you for violating their policies, and yet they will not explain exactly what their policies are. The company gives itself the license to single anybody out, for whatever reasons they decide. They accused me of engaging in hateful conduct which supposedly ran afoul of both their community guidelines and their ads guidelines. They already took the step of deleting a number of my offending episodes, and now they are taking away our ads, which is a penalty of more than $100,000 per month.

They provided us with just three examples of my infractions, though they wouldn't tell us why they were infractions. All three of them had to do with Dylan Mulvaney and seemed to revolve around the crime of “misgendering,” for example, when I referred to Mulvaney at one point as a “guy.” You should know that we were not flagged by the algorithm and this wasn't some low-level decision. But a path to remonetization is available. It seems we can get back into YouTube's good graces by simply respecting preferred pronouns and refraining from offering any meaningful critiques of gender ideology. In other words, all I have to do is forfeit my integrity and betray all of my deepest held principles. Not to skip ahead, but I can tell you right now that my answer to that offer is not only no, but hell no.

The next day, shortly after I finished eating dinner with my family, I noticed that my Twitter account had been logged out on my computer. I tried to log back in and the password didn't work. That's when I knew that I was hacked. I grabbed my phone to call my team, but my phone had stopped working at that precise moment. And that's when I knew that the hack went far beyond Twitter. As we would soon find out, the hacker had pulled off a maneuver known as “SIM swapping,” where the target's phone number is transferred over to a SIM card that the hacker controls. Once they have your number and your SIM card, they can access almost anything. And this hacker did. He got into my text messages, my DMs, my emails, everything. Leftists and trans activists were giddy, cheering on the attack. They begged for my private messages to be released and said that I deserved to be the victim of this federal crime.

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At least one journalist openly solicited my stolen information. The hacker did an interview with that journalist, who works for the publication Wired. The hacker showed the journalist my tax documents, some pictures, and some of my old emails. The article directly quotes one of my private emails, though it contained nothing salacious or even mildly interesting. The only interesting revelation in the article is that the hacker had help from an unspecified “insider.” We have independently found other evidence which also points in that direction. However he did it and whoever helped him — and we will find all of this out, I promise you — it resulted in something much worse than the mere headache of someone posting dumb tweets from my account. This was a total violation of our privacy, and one of the worst things that my family has ever experienced. I didn't sleep that night. I was up with our security team and tech guys and lawyers, trying to put out dozens of fires all at once. Through the following day, we had people on the phone with Microsoft, Apple, Google, Twitter, my cell phone carrier, the FBI, local law enforcement, etc. It was a nightmare even with all of these resources available to me. I can't imagine what this kind of attack is like for people who aren't so fortunate.

On Wednesday, with no sleep, I flew to the University of Iowa to deliver a speech in front of what turned out to be a massive sold out crowd. There was a lot of energy in the room, which gave me enough of a boost to get through the event without passing out on stage or descending into incoherent Joe Biden mumbles. Outside, throngs of protesters took to the streets, stopping traffic and blocking the exits out of the event. They dumped thousands of marbles in the hallway outside of the auditorium in hopes of causing serious injury to the hundreds of people walking out. Fortunately, the plan failed.

It was a difficult week, but also fully in keeping with my experience over the past year or more. Especially since my film What Is A Woman came out, we have been doxxed, threatened, stalked, and harassed almost constantly. The threats became severe and frequent enough to necessitate 24-hour armed security in our home. Last night, a Reddit post went viral from someone calling me a homophobic Nazi and saying that I should be murdered. The poster said he's “tired of me getting away with this” — meaning, he's tired of me getting away with expressing my beliefs openly — and there “needs to be consequences.” The consequence, he specifies, should involve me being bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat. This is not the sentiment of just one random weirdo on Reddit. Someone posted something similar to Twitter a few weeks ago and it got tens of thousands of likes and thousands of supportive comments. There is a wide consensus on the Left. I deserve to be killed. They have made that point abundantly clear.

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But the good news is that we are not taking any of this lying down. I am going to work with law enforcement to ensure that the person who hacked into my phone, and anyone who granted him access, is punished to the full extent of the law. We are going to sue everyone involved. I can't say much more about it right now, except that many different wheels are currently in motion. If the people who did this aren't nervous right now, they should be.

On the YouTube front, as long as they make affirmation of gender ideology a prerequisite for posting my show on the platform, I will not post my show on the platform. But I also will not allow myself to be banished into obscurity, off to some internet ghetto where nobody will find my content. Big Tech wants me to either surrender my principles or become irrelevant. They will be happy with whichever of those two options I choose. Which is why I choose neither. Instead, starting today, we are going to make this show available to everyone, for free, on the Daily Wire. It will also be available on Rumble, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all of the other places you normally get your podcasts. And we are trying something new. Starting today, every episode will be posted in full on Twitter, which is now the most powerful free speech platform in the world. If you follow our channel on YouTube, you can still find plenty of content that we'll make specially for you, and we'll still post clips from the show so that we can reach new audiences with our message. But we won't give YouTube our full show so long as the situation remains as it is. The point is that we are not going to capitulate, but we also aren't going to scale down and become obsolete. Instead we are going to be bigger, we are going to innovate, we are going to reach more people in more ways on more platforms. This is just the beginning. I'll have more to announce soon.

Also, we've been talking with Congress. YouTube shouldn't be allowed, legally, to hold its users to standards of conduct that it refuses to properly explain. It's not just that they target conservative voices — which is bad enough on its own — but that they do it in these incredibly underhanded ways with intentionally ambiguous rules that are enforced unevenly according to their opaque policies that they often seem to be making up as they go. The only way this changes is if the people running YouTube experience a sudden and mysterious bout of integrity, or if the law forces it to change. I'm not betting on the former, so instead I'll fight for the latter, and I will take the fight all the way to Capitol Hill.

There is a point at the end of this whole saga. The point is that the term “culture war” is no mere metaphor. We are up against people who have no interest in debates or discussions. If you oppose them, they will not engage with your arguments. They will simply try to silence and ruin you. There will be no rebuttals, except the ones that they issue in the form of censorship, death threats, and worse. The more that they perceive you as a threat, the more that they will work to destroy you and everyone associated with you. This should not dissuade us. We shouldn't be discouraged by the viciousness of our opponents, but motivated by it. It couldn't possibly be more clear who is on the wrong side and who is on the right side. This is about as black and white as a cultural divide can get. There is one side that hates the truth, rejects it in principle, and wishes total destruction on all those who speak it. All you have to do is choose the side that is not that one. It may require courage to take that stand, but at least you'll know where to stand.

As for my ongoing ordeal, I didn't tell you all of it so that you would feel sorry for me. I chose this line of work. I chose to be in this fight. I went in with my eyes open. I may get hit with a curveball on occasion — I may be introduced to new concepts like “SIM swapping,” for example — but mostly I am getting exactly what I expected from the vicious, bloodthirsty rage-mob and its leaders in Big Tech. It has not dissuaded me even slightly. I still will not back down by an inch or compromise at all. I have told you many times that I would rather be dead than surrender to these people, and I meant it. So to all of the people who are sending me death threats, posting my home address, hacking my accounts, trying to black mail and threaten me, giving away my personal information, mass reporting me to get me deplatformed, and all the rest of it, I want you to know that nothing you have done, or will do, or could do, will ever make me shut up. None of your schemes have worked, or can ever work. It is all futile. Your efforts are hopeless. The truth is the truth, and I will never pretend otherwise. I am not here to make a martyr of myself. I don't want any of the good guys to be martyrs. I want us to win. And we will.
 

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