The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 3.4 Viral Star Accused of Sex Trafficking, China Coronavirus Censorship, Safiya Nygaard & Biden

Starting point is 00:00:00 What's up you beautiful bastards? Hope you're having a fantastic Wednesday. I'm Safiya Nygaard and let's just jump into it. Another Wednesday, another possible PDS host fired, Safiya Nygaard. But unfortunate firing aside, if you'd like to watch my brand new podcast with Safiya, as well as her husband, Tyler,

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Starting point is 00:00:42 and let's just jump into it. And the first thing we're gonna talk about today is Kaylin Ward, AKA the Naked Philanthropist. Now, if you're unfamiliar with Kaylin, she blew up, she rose to fame after she raised over a million dollars by exchanging nude photos for donations to Australian Wildfire Relief. And as we often see on the internet,

Starting point is 00:00:57 a lot of people on the internet went from, "'Hey, we love you' to, "'Hey, we hate you.'" As far as why, it's because of these tweets where she proposed an idea, writing, "'I am looking for girls with little to no OnlyFans "'or sex work experience who are interested "'in getting started. "'You will live in a mansion with approximately 15

Starting point is 00:01:13 "'to 20 other girls and will be trained "'on how to be successful on OnlyFans and social media. "'We will also be filming for TV and YouTube. "'Comment below if you want an application "'to be casted for LA Dreamgirls.'" Now, if you're unfamiliar with OnlyFans, like a lot of guys watching with their wives and their girlfriends are right now,

Starting point is 00:01:27 it's a service where influencers and models can make a commission by usually selling racy content. And some have free ones, it's for social growth, referrals, whatever, you get the idea, sexy stuff. Right, but main point, following this post, it didn't take long for some to slam this proposal, calling it dangerous, predatory, many skeptical, with tweets like,

Starting point is 00:01:43 "'Unironically hoping the FBI or somebody "'is keeping tabs on this "'because this is insanely sketchy, predatory, many skeptical. With tweets like, "'Unironically hoping the FBI or somebody "'is keeping tabs on this "'because this is insanely sketchy slash predatory "'and quite possibly a front for human trafficking.'" Another saying, "'Fucking shady,' the wording, "'Wow, straight up predator. "'This is major sex trafficking vibes.'"

Starting point is 00:01:55 Saying, "'Please do not fall for this. "'This sounds exactly like something a pimp would say.'" You also have people specifically saying that it was suspicious that she was aiming for beginners, right, people that were new to the industry because those individuals would be the most vulnerable. Though I imagine the counter argument of that would be if the supposed house setup is about teaching newcomers, you actually

Starting point is 00:02:10 need people that are new so they can be taught. While these criticisms were being thrown her way, also some hate. We saw Ward take down her tweet and then posting more tweets defending her motives, writing, I'm sorry if anything I said on social media came off wrong, but everything I'm doing has good intentions and it really sucks how much y'all try to cancel someone and assume things. Y'all should know me better than this." Kaylin also didn't stop with just tweets, she posted videos.

Starting point is 00:02:30 I understand that I didn't present all the information. Honestly, the reason that I didn't present all the information is because there's a lot that goes into it. I'm actually trying to start a legitimate business. I will have an HR team. I will have like contracts. I will have like actual like employees, like all the girls will be employees, they will get paid, they will have contracts.

Starting point is 00:02:49 Everything is going to be regulated and by the books and I didn't really know exactly how to express all of that in one tweet. I was just trying to start my ideas somewhere and get people on board and try to go from there. Ward then going on to discuss how she was upset about the serious accusations against her and how they were marring her image. Right, and throughout these clips, Kaylin kept returning to the sentiment that she was only trying to help people get a foot in the door.

Starting point is 00:03:12 My idea is not to exploit sex workers. I was, I mentioned in a tweet that I was looking for some new girls because constantly on my platform, girls are messaging me, asking me how they can get started with OnlyFans. Where do they begin? How do they get promo?

Starting point is 00:03:27 With Ward also comparing what she was trying to do here to other big new influencer developments, like the big TikTok houses. You got a ton of these young creators on TikTok who are blowing up. There's just mass collaboration, mutual success. Honestly, I will say when I first saw that tweet where she was like, I want to get all these people together,

Starting point is 00:03:42 that's really what I assumed. Because on paper, that seems like a genuinely interesting and possibly profitable idea. I mean, hell, don't know if this was part of our initial plan, but I mean, if you look to TikTok and the demographics that are blowing up right now, among those you have adult stars, Instagram models with OnlyFans accounts, they're blowing up on their own.

Starting point is 00:03:57 So what happens if you essentially use that same model, but for them? But also the point I would concede is I do not know this person, I don't know their ability, their intent, all of that. But I will say I do know that the the internet can often take the whatever smallest bit of information is out there and assume the words where I fill in any sort of blanks they might have in their thought process with the worst of intentions. But really with this I would love to know your thoughts based off of what is publicly out there. Do you think that she was doing this kind of bad or nefarious thing, or is it a case of people assuming

Starting point is 00:04:27 the worst off of little information? Any and all thoughts you have on this? I'd love to look through them in those comments down below. And then let's talk about the coronavirus and Chinese censorship, because according to a report that was published yesterday from researchers at the University of Toronto, WeChat censored hundreds of keywords concerning the coronavirus

Starting point is 00:04:42 during early stages of the outbreak. And if you're unfamiliar with WeChat, it is an incredibly popular messaging app worldwide, but especially in China. According to reports, it has an active monthly user base of over a billion people. So that's a lot of people potentially missing out on a lot of very important information.

Starting point is 00:04:54 And to do a little recap, we jump back to December 30th. That's when Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang warned his medical school alumni group about a potential new SARS-like virus. He did so on WeChat, someone screenshot it, it went viral. And while Li was later forced by Wuhan police on January 3rd to sign a letter admitting he had made false comments,

Starting point is 00:05:09 on December 31st, the Chinese government actually alerted the World Health Organization about that virus. However, at that time, nothing was officially public. And in fact, it wasn't until January 20th that President Xi first addressed the public, saying that the virus had been resolutely contained. But the researchers found that 20 days earlier,

Starting point is 00:05:24 WeChat actually began censoring words. January 1st, and they weren't the only one, actually another platform, YY, they're a live streaming site, think of it as China's version of Twitch or Mixer. They began censoring similar words a day earlier on December 31st. Here, there's a debate that I wanna touch on.

Starting point is 00:05:37 We do not officially know if these platforms were following directives from the central government, or if this was a case of the company's quote, "'over censoring' in order to avoid official reprimands. Right, it said that a lot of companies there follow self-discipline. Now, as far as what words were reportedly blocked, that list included Wuhan seafood market,

Starting point is 00:05:52 SARS variation, SARS outbreak in Wuhan, virus infected, epidemic, atypical pneumonia. Notably, these words were later removed from YY's blacklist on February 10th. Though, on the WeChat side of things, it reportedly censored 132 known keyword combinations in January, then continued to censor more words as the situation developed, and by February 15th,

Starting point is 00:06:09 it had reportedly censored at least 516 keyword combinations. And notably here, almost 200 of those keyword combinations included references to China's highest level leaders, most of which were about President Xi, I imagine, so he did not get bothered. Things like Xi Jinping goes to Wuhan and Xi Jinping epidemic spread.

Starting point is 00:06:25 Also references to Dr. Li were censored. My favorite is that they censored the word coverup. And I guess the main point of this story, I don't know what the main point is. China gonna China? Censorship's kind of the game for that government. They block sites like Google, like Wikipedia. And I know some will make an argument of, you know,

Starting point is 00:06:40 this may be their way of trying to stop misinformation. You know, people heavily rely on this for information, for communication. Reportedly, doctors even use WeChat to obtain professional knowledge from peers. Blocking content could cause people to miss vital information about this virus. When you look at some of the key things censored here,

Starting point is 00:06:54 it feels more about not being held accountable rather than trying to stop the spread of information. But that's a story, some of my takeaway, and of course, I pass the question off to you. What do you think about this? And then let's talk about the results and the fallout from Super Tuesday. You had 14 states and one territory voting,

Starting point is 00:07:08 and more than 1300 delegates, over a third of the total delegates up for grabs. And wow, Joe Biden dominated the day. With almost all the results in, although the exacts in places like California, we won't know for a little bit, Biden ended up winning 10 of the 14 Super Tuesday states, Bernie winning three himself.

Starting point is 00:07:24 Understand when I say winning, right, that matters and it doesn't matter. Obviously you want to win, you want to get the most votes. But also if a candidate doesn't win a state but they did relatively well, it's not the worst thing in the world because it's not a winner take all, they still get delegates.

Starting point is 00:07:36 And also, this is an easy statement to take out of context, all states are not created equal. And I mean that in two ways. One, certain states just have more people, so they have more delegates. And two, going into the 2020 general election, it's interesting to see voter turnout and where people are voting in swing states. With that said, let's first look to California and Texas. California, of course, the juiciest or, if you let me, the thickest state with 415 delegates. In California right now, as of recording, not all of the delegates have been counted, but right now it's looking like

Starting point is 00:08:03 a good win for Bernie. But the same could not be said for Texas, where in fact Biden won by about 4%, ranking in 34.1% to Bernie's 29.9%. Though a big note here is Biden's actually expected to share the number of delegates evenly with Bernie, or at the very least, only have a slight majority of the number of delegates in Texas.

Starting point is 00:08:20 Also notably in these two states, we saw people waiting in crazy, crazy long lines. People in line for hours and hours, some voting as late as 1 a.m. and the polls are supposed to close at eight in California and seven in Texas. So according to the reports, the reason this happened was different in each state.

Starting point is 00:08:33 In Texas, most of the delays were likely caused by a lack of polling stations. This is because Texas has been closing more and more polling stations since 2013, when the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. And in fact, according to the Leadership Conference Education Fund,

Starting point is 00:08:45 Texas has closed 750 polling sites since 2012. And 542 of those sites were in 50 counties where African American and Latino populations have significantly grown in recent years. And so that's why it wasn't surprising to see reports coming in saying areas with black and Latino voters were hit the hardest by long lines and voting centers.

Starting point is 00:09:00 Meanwhile, in California, most of the problems were actually from Los Angeles County. They just rolled out a new election system and new voting machines. And so what we saw there were election officials saying that there was a combination of high voter turnout and glitches with the new machines that caused delays. In fact, at one point during the night,

Starting point is 00:09:13 it was said that around 20% of the county's voting systems were shut down. And specifically in one major voting center at the UCLA campus, Sanders' state director in California said that only nine out of 39 machines were functioning. Also in California, network problems with electronic poll books made it complicated

Starting point is 00:09:25 for workers to look up voters and more provisional ballots had to be handed out. Also another state I wanted to briefly mention was Massachusetts. There, Biden pulling in a surprise win. It was largely predicted that Bernie was going to win there. But instead what we ended up seeing was Biden getting 33.4% of the vote,

Starting point is 00:09:38 Bernie getting 26.7% and Warren getting 21.6. And along with it being an upset in general, this was notable for two other reasons. One, Warren is a Senator from Massachusetts, so she lost in a home state, not a great look. And two, you have people arguing that Warren handed Biden the win here because she split a vote with Bernie.

Starting point is 00:09:53 And she didn't win a single state coming in third and fourth in every single race. A lot of people calling for her to drop out. Also on the note of third and fourth and dropping out, we should talk about Bloomberg. There's a lot of numbers getting thrown around, but let's say that he has spent around half a billion dollars of his money, which granted is around only

Starting point is 00:10:09 1 120th of his net worth, but it's still so much money. All so he could come in third and fourth place in every state, except notably Bloomberg did win by a landslide in the US territory, American Samoa. Winning almost 50% of the vote there and snagging five of the six delegates. That sixth delegate though, going to Tulsi Gabbard, who grabbed her first and only delegate from this whole race.

Starting point is 00:10:29 But this morning we saw Bloomberg did not decide to ride the high of just dominating American Samoa. And instead he dropped out and endorsed Biden. Also notably Biden picked up some states that Bernie actually won in 2016, like Minnesota and Oklahoma. And as far as why Biden appears to be getting this bump, I mean, one, it's kind of the consolidation

Starting point is 00:10:46 of the other moderates that are dropping out and the endorsement. And two, it appears that black voters are pushing him on top. According to the Washington Post, black voters pushed Biden over the edge to win Texas, where six in 10 black voters supported him. Biden also doing well with older voters

Starting point is 00:10:59 and voters who decide who they were going to vote for very late, whereas Bernie has been doing well with younger voters and Latinos, with Bernie winning about half the Latino vote in both Texas and California, while the other half was divided up among the other candidates. But also notably regarding the youth vote,

Starting point is 00:11:11 it appeared that there was just not enough. According to exit polls, only about one in eight voters were between the ages of 18 and 29 years old. By contrast, nearly two thirds were 45 or older, and about three in 10 were 65 and older. So yesterday, as expected, was a game changing moment, but of course everything is not done. A lot could still happen next week, very notable.

Starting point is 00:11:28 You've got Washington State, Idaho, Michigan, North Dakota, all states that Bernie won in 2016. But the way things went yesterday, the way the moderate vote has been consolidating around Biden, it is a much harder tomorrow for him. Also, I think I saw a lot of people talking about regarding Super Tuesday with security. And that's because last night at Joe Biden's rally,

Starting point is 00:11:46 protesters took to the stage. You know, when you watch the video, you see Joe and the others genuinely startled. Protester is holding a sign, shouts, let Derry die. After that, security starts taking her away. And as that protester is being pulled away, all of a sudden we see another protester storm the stage. And notably here, like a badass,

Starting point is 00:12:01 Jill Biden puts herself between this protester and her husband, puts hands on the protestors' wrists, pushing her away. And then as only a few others are helping them, we see Simone Sanders, senior advisor to Biden, rushing the stage in a way that was described by a number of people, like a Pro Bowl linebacker. And then she and several others

Starting point is 00:12:17 pulled the protester off the stage. Now following this, among the reactions, you had a lot of people praising Jill, Simone, and others for their quick reactions. But also you had people asking where the hell was security? And specifically, there were a lot of people praising Jill, Simone, and others for their quick reactions. But also you had people asking where the hell was security? And specifically, there were a number of people thinking that he had Secret Service protection. The thing is, Joe Biden is a former VP, not former president.

Starting point is 00:12:33 And it's only the former president that gets continued Secret Service protection for the rest of their life. Vice presidents can have that Secret Service protection for six months after leaving office. It can be extended by the Department of Homeland Security, but with Biden, they chose not to. Now, the next thing you might say is,

Starting point is 00:12:46 sure, but now he's running to be the president of the United States. Doesn't he automatically get it? Well, no, as Newsweek explains, "'After Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy "'was assassinated following his victory "'in the 1968 California primary, "'Congress authorized Secret Service protection

Starting point is 00:12:59 "'for major presidential and vice presidential candidates "'and their spouses within 120 days "'of the presidential election. And so if we were to follow that exactly, that's July 23rd, but you know, following this incident and really just how vulnerable the candidates have been, you have a number of people saying now is the time. Or at the very least the two front runners,

Starting point is 00:13:16 Sanders and Biden, they should be protected. And among those calling for the secret service to be activated here, you had Robert Gibbs, former press secretary under Barack Obama. Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden need secret service protection. What happened tonight was nothing short of genuinely scary. It's happened to Senator Sanders and others on this trail. They should have Secret Service protection in the next 24 to 48 hours. And the thing is, with Secret Service protection,

Starting point is 00:13:41 there is not a hard line regarding that 120 days. There are other factors at play, like the known threat level towards a specific candidate. For example, Barack Obama, almost for two years before the election, he had secret service protection. And in fact, major candidates can get it. And because of that 1968 legislation that can reportedly happen after a consultation by committee,

Starting point is 00:13:58 including the secretary of Homeland Security, the house speaker, the house minority leader, and majority and minority leaders of the Senate. And regarding Sanders and Biden, they already qualify as a major candidate. They just have to have been publicly declared, be campaigning nationally and contesting at least 10 state primaries, represent a qualified party whose presidential candidate won at least 10% of the popular vote in the last election. There's also funding and polling levels, but it's all been met. So really at this point, there's just the question of will it happen now? As far as will it happen, I don't know. As far as should it happen, I do believe so.

Starting point is 00:14:25 Especially because these nationally televised moments are just revealing to more and more people how vulnerable the candidates really are. But with that said, of course, I'd love to know your thoughts and we'll have to wait to see what happens from here. And that is where I'm going to end today's show. And hey, if you liked the video, hit us with a like. If you're new here, hit that subscribe button.

Starting point is 00:14:39 Also, if you're looking for more to watch, listen to, you can check out that brand new podcast I did with Sophia and Tyler, or maybe you just missed yesterday's Philip DeFranco show, you wanna catch up, you can click or tap right there to watch either of those right now. But with that said, of course, as always, my name's Philip DeFranco, you've just been filled in,

Starting point is 00:14:53 I love yo faces, and I'll see you tomorrow. I hope you liked this video. Subscribe if you like it.

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The Philip DeFranco Show - PDS 3.4 Viral Star Accused of Sex Trafficking, China Coronavirus Censorship, Safiya Nygaard & Biden

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