Why is Brian Rose being censored?

Bulletproof radio. A state of high performance. You are the first, I'm gonna call it podcast, who was like, you know what, we can do better. And you said, I'm gonna get studio grade cameras. I remember coming in seven and a half years ago, I was mailing out literally little like Sony handycams to guests because their webcams were so bad. And you're like, come to the studio. And I felt like I was coming on Dr. Oz or something. And because you just said I care about my audience enough to do really good production quality, but then something bad happens. So you're an established media brand with many millions of views and all of that, and then you had a few interviews with people who are absolutely firebrands, who people do not agree with, but some people do agree with, and then suddenly they shut all your videos down. What happened? Just walk me through the censorship that you experienced.

Yeah, so it's been a fascinating year, a really eye opening year when it comes to censorship. I thought, Dave, that the weirdos got censored. That's what I thought. And when I started London Real in 2011, it was really a platform for free speech. We had people with varying views on some I openly disagreed with. Some of them made me uncomfortable. Some people were like Dan Pena, who we both know, this high performance mentor who yelled a lot, who I hated the first time I met him. But you know, I would allow people to come on and they could speak in an unscripted, unedited and uncensored way. And I did that for nine years and never had a single problem. Built up a massive YouTube channel with a half a billion views, 8,000 videos. A partner at YouTube, been down to the headquarters many, many times. And you know, then 2020 came and there was a lot of fear out there and people didn't know who to trust. And people weren't trusting the mainstream media, they weren't trusting the governments. And so we decided to start having voices on that might offer some alternative opinions. And you know, it was April 6th of this year where we had a live stream episode right here in the studio. And it was the second largest YouTube live stream in the world that day, second behind President Trump's coronavirus briefing that day at the White house. It was 65,000 concurrent viewers. And based on the metrics from the previous episode, I had with the same guest who it had gone to be watched 10 million times that episode. This was trending to be go on to be watched 40 million times, which would have made it the most watched video podcast in history, more so than Elon Musk on Joe Rogan, which is like 37 million. And so we were blown away. It was shared all over the world. And 30 minutes later, we were like, wow, this is going to be a game changer. And 30 minutes later, the episode was deleted and banned on YouTube.

And this is by a person at YouTube who didn't like it.

You know, for 24 hours, I didn't know why. And I kept trying to re upload the episode. And I was vlogging about how what was going on. And it was unfair, and this had never happened to me before. I couldn't get ahold of my rep at YouTube. The next day, an article dropped in the BBC talking about how they had pulled the episode because it violated their community guidelines. And I was quite not impressed that they talked to the BBC before they talked to me.

That's dirty.

Yeah, that was dirty. And so I had long conversations with them. They said that I violated their community standards. And I said exactly how? They said, well, you weren't towing the exact same line as the who. And that's our standards. But I said, well. Well, actually, Governor Cuomo of New York City was just saying something that opposed the who. So did you pull his channel? So we got into this whole thing. Dave and I soon realized that censorship was real. We got censored on Facebook, on Instagram, I got kicked off of LinkedIn. My TED talk disappeared off their channel for about a week. PayPal, Vimeo pulled my videos. Dropbox pulled my account. It was fascinating, you know, that Dropbox would even watch the videos that was on the account.

So you got canceled.

We got very close to be canceled, you know, and we got told in no uncertain terms that if you want to upload certain types of videos, that they are going to be taken down, and then you will be taken down. And so my initial reaction, Dave, was no, that doesn't sound right to me. You know, I mean, I grew up in America, and that's not okay. You know, freedom of speech is in my DNA. So. So we decided to fight back. And keep in mind, this is in the middle of the pandemic. Everyone's locked down. And we thought, this isn't going to happen. So we decided to create our own live streaming platform. And we raised a million dollars in 11 days and created the Digital Freedom platform and went on to stream the largest live broadcast of a human conversation in history. We had over a million unique viewers. We actually got the people that livestream the super bowl the previous year to do our tech for the livestream, which was quite complicated, actually. It's different than hosting a video. Live streaming is a completely different ball of wax. And I mean, the truth is, Dave, there was no crowdfunding platform that would even take us, so we had to create our own platform. Again. It was in the middle of the pandemic, but we had this major success, and we live streamed this episode, and we just wanted to show the world that it wasn't okay to censor us. And it was just a massive episode that was watched that day. So. And then from then on, we've just kept pushing it. That platform's gone on to have 40 or 50 more live streams. We did the largest live stream of a documentary film with 1.3 million uniques a couple months later. And we've had Nobel prize winners, scientists, doctors, nurses, professors emeritus at mit, four star generals, all on that platform since. And some of those messages were actually more correct than what the government and mainstream media was doing. So Professor Michael Levitt of Stanford, Nobel Prize winner, he was correct in his prognosis of the damage. And yet I couldn't stream on YouTube. So, honestly, censorship costs lives this year, and it's been painful to watch.