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Clips from Q: Into the Storm (2021) - Panic in D.C. (S01E01)

"Barr: What's triple bracket?"
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"it means it's Jewish."
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"-Yeah, I know. I know, but, yeah. Yeah. -It's like..."
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"-I figured. I can, I can see it, you know? -Yeah? Yeah, yeah."
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"I needed to resolve this Bannon theory,"
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"All right. So we are, um, about a kilometer away"
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"on the door and kind of play it by ear,"
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"As it turns out, they do give small tours"
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"(tour guide 2 speaking)"
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"But for the time being,"
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"And there was one thing that really stood out."
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"and that got me thinking."
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"So, who would do such a thing?"
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"Someone who was trying to make it look like Steve Bannon."
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"Filmmaker: Back in the Philippines,"
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"Lieutenant Colonel Elpidio Ramirez."
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"Have you been able to talk to Mr. Watkins?"
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"Filmmaker: And it seemed that Fred's efforts"
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"I mean, I, I don't know if they're after me,"
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"-Ron Watkins: No. -(filmmaker speaking)"
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"Filmmaker: Oh."
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"(Ron Watkins speaking)"
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"-I guess we're good? -Filmmaker: I guess we're good."
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"Filmmaker: We soon figured out what had happened."
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"So, it wasn't imagined."
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"That was actually a real thing going on over there."
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"Jim was working on a plan to bring 8chan"
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"back from what had definitely been"
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"more than 10 days of darkness."
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"Jim Watkins: I put my company in his Congressional district."
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"CULLEN HOBACK: Q had been slowly making its way into the mainstream,"
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"And 8kun finally managed to get online."
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"Yeah!"
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"I think that my narrative got really wrapped up in Q's."
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"then Jim should follow suit."
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"Filmmaker: And soon after, Congress called in the tech giants"
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"to prevent hate from metastasizing"
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"on the internet, and bleeding into the world."
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"speech that incites imminent violence is not protected."
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"This is a particular problem on the dark web,"
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"where we see certain websites"
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"like 8chan and a host of 24/7, 365 hate rallies."
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"Filmmaker: Jim was not invited."
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"Senator Mike Lee: As you know, Section 230"
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"from being held liable as a publisher of information."
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"Senator Todd Young: I would request that, uh,"
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"the representatives tell us"
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"why Americans should be confident"
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"Since 2015, we've suspended more than 1.5 million accounts."
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"Filmmaker: They seemed eager to assure representatives"
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"that the situation was somehow controllable."
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"Of the nine million videos that we removed"
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"in the second quarter of this year,"
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"87 percent of those were first flagged by our machines."
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"Filmmaker: Their new plan was to use algorithms--"
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"A.I., which had amplified content like QAnon"
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"in order to moderate and control content like QAnon."
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"We are now able to use technology"
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"to review a lot of that content so that people don't have to."
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"Filmmaker: Now, such algorithms were already in use."
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"But when it came to the Christchurch shooter's video,"
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"they had only managed to block a portion of the millions of uploads."
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"Conversely, automated moderation"
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"had intentionally, or unintentionally,"
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"blocked Black Lives Matter hashtags,"
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"limited the reach of disabled people,"
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"and silenced certain LGBTQ channels on YouTube."
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"If Congress reformed or repealed Section 230,"
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"not exactly known for being a small business,"
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"what about a start-up?"
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"that each of your companies entered into"
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"when they were created not very many years ago?"
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"Sommer: You know, it strikes me that"
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"Um, do you think that 8chan is radicalizing these QAnon people,"
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"'cause they're often baby boomers who would not otherwise be on a chan site,"
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"and suddenly they find this website that's, like,"
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"just awash in anti-Semitism, racism..."
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""Every idea is an incitement.""
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"But when you have people say, like,"
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"uh, idolizing a, you know,"
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"the Christchurch shooter or something like that,"
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"you know, is making heroes out of these people."
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"-I mean-- -I find it repugnant."
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"Um, I mean, do you believe-- do you believe in QAnon?"
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"who's like, dropping these clues, and..."
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"You know, Pizzagate and so on and so forth."
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"I'm just wearing the Q out of respect"
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"for the fact that people are interested in Q."
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"And I wore pizza socks to Congress."
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"as Snoop Dog would say."
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"of the political speech wearing pizza socks?"
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"Well, I don't believe that."
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"Well, there's a lot of things people talk about,"
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"-but you know, like-- -Yeah, let them talk."
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"-The decision to wear the socks suggests-- -Let's-- let's let them talk."
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"So you're being a little cagey on whether you believe in QAnon or not."
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"It may be crazy, but I'm not saying it is crazy."
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"And I do believe they are not political terrorists."
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"If you want to look at, like, hate speech and incitement,"
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"People died over that."
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"-So, you know, when the site comes back-- -Mm. Yeah."
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"If they shut down 8chan,"
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"Then there's gonna be no place anybody can speak out."
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"Jim Watkins: If you put three brackets on each side of a word,"
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"-There you go. Okay. -Did you know that?"
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"-Barr: All right. -I don't, I don't think that way."
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"-That's right. -More speech and grilled portobello sounds good."
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"I'm, uh, I'm 25 percent Ashkenazi Jewish."
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"Filmmaker: When Ron does recode the site,"
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"you might, like, ask him to remove the triple bracket thing."
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"Maybe instead of removing that,"
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"we need to add something that's opposite."
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"Filmmaker: With the Congressional hearing over,"
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"so I headed to Italy to visit his monastery."
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"from, uh, Bannon's lair."
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"(laughs) I guess. I don't know if Bannon has people here right now."
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"I, I guess I can just knock up in--"
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"and see, um, if they're receptive to giving me a tour."
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