Welcome to the Hindu News Analysis by Shankar Iyer's Academy for the date 12th April 2019. Displayed are the list of news articles selected for today's analysis and their page numbers in both Chennai and Delhi edition of the newspaper. The first discussion of the day is based on three articles of the newspaper which focuses on the Jalianwala Bhagmasakha. These articles appeared on page number 9, 10, 11 of the Chennai edition and page 7, 8, 9 of the Delhi edition. Now the various aspects of this news article come under current events of national importance and history of India and Indian national movement in preliminary examination syllabus and the freedom struggle, its various stages and important contributors, contributions from different parts of the country in GS1 paper. Let us now get into the main discussion about the Jalianwala Bhagmasakha. Let us know about the background for this Massakha. See the government of India passed the Raulot Act in March 1919. The Act authorized the British Indian government to impress any person without trial and conviction in a court of law and it aimed at severely curtailing the civil liberties of Indians in the name of curbing revolutionary violence. The Act would thus also enable the government to suspend the right of habeas corpus which had been the foundation of civil liberties in Britain. This Act was passed even though every single Indian member of the Central Legislative Council opposed it and it was treated by the whole of political India as a grievous insult because it came as a sudden blow to the people of India who were promised the extension of democracy and substantial constitutional concessions during the World War I. Hence the step of the government appeared to be a cruel joke and it spread agitation across the country during which Gandhiji stepped in and took the command of the national movement and he suggested that a new technique of struggle by the name Satyagraha be launched on 6th of April 1919 and a nationwide hartal which means a strike that was accompanied by fasting and prayer was decided as the form of protest. But the movement which emerged was very different from the one anticipated because the protest was accompanied by violence and disorder in many areas. Events in Punjab were moving particularly in a tragic direction and the arrest of two leaders Dr. Saifuddin Kichlu and Dr. Satyapal led to attack by people of Punjab on the town hall and the post office and the telegraph wires were cut and Europeans including women were attacked. As a result of this army was called in and the city was handed over to General Dyer who was the British military commander of Amritsar and he issued an order prohibiting public meeting and assemblies. All the above events led to the day of 13th April a Baisaki day when a large unarmed crowd of people many of whom were visitors from the neighboring village who came for the celebration gathered in the Jalyanwala garden to attend a public meeting. See the General Dyer was enraged that his orders were disobeyed so he surrendered the bag or the garden with his army unit closed the exit with his troops and then ordered his men to shoot into the trapped crowd with rifles and machine guns. He had not thought to issue any warnings nor did he give any opportunity to disperse even though the garden was closed on three sides with high walls which left little chance or no chance for the crowd to escape. The shooting continued for 10 to 15 minutes until their omniscience were exhausted. After this tragic incident the British Indian government estimated the death toll to be 379 which was a gross under estimation while the other institutions estimated a higher death toll. After all this the repression was intensified in Punjab with martial law and people were submitted to the most uncivilized and undignified atrocities such as flogging of people in public arrest and detention of Indian students and professors construction of an open cage for confinement of arrested Indians and a crawling order which forced the people of India to crawl on their bellies before Europeans and depriving of basic amenities by the cutting of electric and water supplies. Even though this led to the withdrawal of Rawalat Satyagraha by Gandhiji it removed the illusions about the bending and benevolent British rule and it finally culminated to a liberation struggle led by Gandhi that is the non-cooperation movement and Rabindranath Tagore renounced his knighthood as a protest to the tragedy. After the massacre an investigation committee was set up which was the Disorders Inquiry Committee also known as the Hunter Committee as the name of chairman was Hunter. In his testimony Dyer asserted that his intention had been to punish the crowd to make a wide impression and to strike terror not only in Amritsar but throughout Punjab the committee split along racial lines and submitted a majority and minority report. The majority report of the Hunter Committee used criticism tactically established Dyer's culpability but the Lieutenant-Garner Michael O'Dayar was made to walk free. The minority report written by the three Indian members were more scathing or more severe in its criticism by then Dyer had become a liability for British colonial government and he was asked to resign his command from India. This decision of letting off Dyer without punishment was approved by the British Secretary of State Edwin Montego and by the House of Commons. The conservative lords however took a different track and rebuked the government for being unjust to the officer Dyer. They were against letting off Dyer from his charge in India. Similar sentiments in Dyer's favour came from the right-wing press The Morning Post which started a fund for Dyer and it collected 30,000 pounds and also from conservative sections of the public who believed Dyer had saved India for the British Empire. Rudyard Kipling who had contributed 10 pounds to the fund put a mixed comment on the wreath he sent to Dyer's funeral in 1927. The wreath said he did his duty as he saw it. See the Winston Churchill called Dyer's deed in Jalianwala Bach as an extraordinary event, a monstrous event, an event which stands in sinister isolation. Privately Churchill also wrote that the offence amounted to murder or alternatively manslaughter. Significantly Churchill compared the event to Prussian tactics of terrorism said that the massacre was not the British way of doing things. In other words, he was resorting to British exceptionalism. To save the larger colonial enterprise as benign, he stated Dyer as a rogue or animal-like officer. The present Queen of England has termed it as a distressing example of history. The then Prime Minister David Cameron quoted the Dyer as monstrous similar to Churchill adding that it was a deeply shameful event in British history. They just said all these things but never said an apology. In the editorial article, the author criticizes that the British Prime Minister Theresa May similar to her predecessors referring to the Jalianwala Bach massacre saying we deeply regret what happened and the suffering cast. There were some expectations of a British apology on the occasion of the centenary of the horrific Jalianwala Bach massacre. But this time the demand came not just from Indians alone but also from a strong contingent of British member of parliament across political parties. He condemns the statement by saying the words are important especially in the heavily nuanced English language and those who invented that language certainly knows how to use them. One can imagine the careful drafting in Whitehall that would have gone into formulating the Prime Minister's statement. The second aspect of the statement that stands out is its passiveness, what happened, the suffering cast. The words never mentioned who did this heinous massacre and the statements were just passive. In another article, the author tries to explain why some tragedies are not forgotten by public like the Jalianwala Bach massacre. He lists some massacres in the history like the killing of every male inhabitant of the Persian town of Karnan in 1794 by Agha Muhammad Khan. These works are also reminders of what the powerful if given a chance will inflict on the weak. In this line, a documentary has been directed that throws light on Jalianwala Bach massacre on the 100th anniversary of the massacre to pay homage to the 100s gunned down by General Dyer's troops in April 13, 1919. The documentary is named as Jalianwala Bach Oru Orma Padathal. With this, we conclude this topic. The prelims and main questions displayed here will be discussed later at the last session of this video. This news article appears on page number 13 in Chennai edition and page number 11 in Delhi edition of the newspaper. The article is about fake news and misinformation, particularly at the time of election. The information given thus becomes part of current events of national importance and Indian polity under the preliminary examination syllabus and the points could be used in writing essay in paper one and under salient features of representation of People's Act in GS2 and under role of media and social networking sites in internal security challenges in GS3 of the mains examination. Now the volume of fake news spread through social media platforms is massive during the period of 12 months from October 2017 to September 2018. Facebook has identified 250 crore accounts globally as fake accounts and has removed them. The issue of fake news is a threat to free and fair elections as it influences the voting mindset and it alters the voting patterns. Thus the danger of people making their choice by voting based on fake news. But actually it should be based on reliable and authentic information based on which people should exercise franchises and this access to reliable information is a component of free and fair elections which is the foundation of democracy. The article also discusses few steps taken by Facebook on its own to help ensure that the Lok Sabha election was free from interference both foreign and domestic. The platform is said to have followed international norms of fact checking to ensure credibility of checking the authenticity of content on its platforms in India. Steps such as blocking and removing fake accounts fighting the spread of misinformation stopping abuse of Facebook platform by domestic actors spotting attempts at foreign meddling and acting against inauthentic coordinated campaigns that were these were some of the steps that were taken by Facebook. It is stated that the existing legal provisions in regulating the social media platforms considering their vulnerabilities in being used for spreading these fake news and how exactly these legal provisions could be used is still not clear and these provisions are less than adequate. We have section 126 of representation of the People Act 1951 which prohibits propagating election matters to the public through a musical concert or any theatrical performance or any other entertainment or amusement or a public meeting during the prohibitory period of 48 hours before completion of poll. Now this section, section 126 was enacted in the year 1996 at that time the problem of fake news did not surface. Moreover, the Chief Election Commissioner has stated that the section 126 is not applicable to the print media and particularly to the social media. Another issue is that the logistic challenges associated with the regulation. Hundreds of monitoring committees spread across the country may not be enough to identify and verify the news that come every single second in social media. Hence, India should consider taking Germany as exemplar in this matter as in Germany it is the responsibility of the social media platform to remove the violating content when such content is posted by individuals. The Bombay High Court recently asked the social media platforms to follow the voluntary Code of Ethics for General Elections 2019 of the Internet and Mobile Association of India. Various social media platforms and the Internet and Mobile Association of India has presented this code to the Chief Election Commissioner in the month of March 2019. The document is a set of commitments by the social media platforms who agreed to process any violation reported under section 126 within three hours as per SINHA Committee recommendations. This committee is also called as Committee on Section 126 of Representation of People Act 1951 for which Senior Deputy Election Commissioner was the chairman. Now, this committee was asked to study and examine to identify difficulties and critical gaps to suggest necessary amendments with special reference to section 126 and the prohibitory period of 48 hours before the completion of the poll. It was also to examine the type of communication technology or media platform and difficulties in regulating these media platforms and the impact of new media platforms when prohibitory period of 48 hours is enforced. Also, to examine model code of conduct associated with the said issues and to suggest changes. See, the committee presented its report in the month of January 2019. Finally, there is also another issue which is in the name of controlling fake news and misinformation, the extent of control should not violate the right to freedom of speech and the right to campaign in social media. Now, the displayed main question will be discussed in the last part of this analysis in the video. With this, let's move on to the next article. The next article talks about the controversy on the legality of the electoral bond scheme. See, various aspects discussed in this news article come under current events of national and international importance and Indian polity and governance in problems and Indian constitution, salient features of representation of people act, government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation and important aspects of governance, transparency and accountability in your main syllabus. Now, the government has argued that voters need not know from where political parties get their funds. The attorney general added that the court cannot kill the electoral bond scheme for the sake of transparency. He argued that the bond was an experiment to eradicate black money and the court should not intervene now, which is in total contrast to the stand of election commission of India. The attorney general who spoke in favor of electoral bonds added that transparency cannot be used as a mantra and elections are being fueled by black money, which is democracy's greatest evil. The Supreme Court bench added that merely knowing know your customer information would not block the entry of black money into political funding. KYC only covers the identity of the bond purchaser and would not be able to tell whether the money the purchaser used to buy the electoral bond was black or white. Further, they said black money could be converted to white by routing it through multiple shell companies. The stand of the election commission of India and a clear cut explanation of the electoral bond scheme has been already covered in our daily news analysis and current affairs video on 11th April 2019 by our colleague Mr. Shanmugam, which has been posted by our Shankar Iyer's Academy YouTube channel. You are requested to take a look at it. With this, let's move on to the next article. This article appears on page number 11 in Chennai edition and page number 9 in Delhi edition of the newspaper. The information given under this article is relevant under subtopic general science and also under current events of national and international importance under preliminary examination syllabus and also achievements of Indians in science and technology, indigenization of technology and developing new technology and awareness in the field of space for this general studies three main syllabus. The news article is an interview with experts in the field of space. It highlights the importance of anti-satellite missiles and whether it can be seen as a game changer in global space gardens. In this context, let us first understand the basics about ASAT missiles and current space loss. The ASAT missiles or space weapons designed to incapacitate or destroy satellites for strategic military purposes. ASAT missiles are of two types, kinetic and non-kinetic. A kinetic ASAT missile physically strikes an object and destroys it like ballistic missile. On the other hand, a non-kinetic ASAT uses non-physical means to disable a space object such as use of frequency jamming to incapacitate satellites. An ASAT has three uses. Firstly, it can intercept, jam communication or military satellites of enemy countries. Secondly, it can access critical information about troop movements or incoming missiles. Lastly, it can launch cyber attacks on space systems and direct laser-based weapons. Recently, India has successfully test-fired an anti-satellite missile by shooting down a live satellite in the low-Earth orbit under the project named as Mission Sakthi. Mission Sakthi was led by Defense Research and Development Organization and is aimed at strengthening India's overall security. Thus, it is an indigenous development of the ASAT technology and this will have many spin-offs that India can exploit for civilian commercial use. India thus became the fourth nation in the world to test an ASAT weapon after United States, Russia and China. Israel is said to be on the path of developing its ASAT technology. Now the intent of Mission Sakthi is to defend India's space assets and not to start an arms race in space. Thus, ASAT test was not directed against any country but as an added advantage, the capability achieved through the anti-satellite missile test provides credible deterrence against threats to our growing space assets. Also, Mission Sakthi does not violate any International Space Treaty. Let us now move forward to understand how outer space is governed globally. The most important international treaty in this context is Outer Space Treaty. It forms the basis of International Space Law. It was signed in the year 1967 and is effective since then. It has 108 parties at present in which India is also a party. The treaty bars or prohibits state parties from placing weapons of mass destruction in Earth orbit or installing them on moon or any other celestial body or stationing them in outer space. See, a weapon of mass destruction is defined as either a nuclear or radiological or a chemical or biological or any other weapon that can cause a great damage to humans and biosphere. But the treaty does not prohibit the placement of conventional weapons in the orbit. This is the reason why we can say that India has not violated the Outer Space Treaty as ASAT is only a conventional weapon. The treaty also exclusively limits the use of moon and other celestial bodies to peaceful purposes. It also focuses on protecting the space assets as everyday activities from telecommunication to financial markets, civilian navigation and relying heavily on space infrastructure. Now coming back to the news article, it highlights the need to shape up the global governance with the coming of ASAT missiles. Firstly, there is a visible weaponization of space. Secondly, China has shown much greater space competitiveness and leads in space activities. For the long time, India was just doing 4 to 5 launches per year. On the other hand, Chinese were doing 20 launches per year. While India has barely begun development of ASAT missiles, China has been at this for more than a decade. They are believed to have worked on missiles targeting high-altitude satellites at 36,000 km above the Earth, whereas we have only conducted the test at the low-Earth orbit. China has also been doing considerable work experimenting with laser-based weaponry and cyber weaponry which are likely to prove to be more effective than a whole battery of missiles targeting satellites. While India has maintained a position of no weaponization of space, but now there is a steady approval of military assets in space. This might signal a contradiction and there is a need of domestic doctrine on weaponization of space on the lines of no first use policy for nuclear weapons. Now that India has demonstrated ASAT capability, India needs to play an even more active role in the global governance of outer space. We can certainly partner with like-minded countries in this regard. The displayed mains practice question will be discussed at the end of the analysis. With this, let's move on to the next article. This article appears on page number 15 in Chennai and in page number 13 in Delhi edition of the newspaper. The information given under this article is relevant under the subtopic economic and social development and current events of national and international importance under the preliminary examination syllabus. And in Indian economy and effects of liberalization on the economy, changes in industrial policy and their effects on industrial growth in GS paper 3. Coming to the news article, RBI reduced the repo rate by 25 basis points in February and recently in April. Now the repo rate is 6.25%. Rating agency Moody noted that the recent interest rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of India will help offset rising funding costs for financial services such as loans and prevent further mortgage rate rises this year. Modgaging is the process of borrowing money to buy a house. Before understanding how repo rate affects the mortgage rates, let us know about few economic terms that will enable our understanding. Firstly, what is repo rate? See, the repo rate is also called as repurchase rate. It is the rate at which RBI lends to banks. This is done by RBI buying government bonds from banks with an agreement to sell them back at a fixed rate. Repo rate is a short term measure as it is being changed according to the needed circumstances in the economy. See, the objective of repo rate is to inject liquidity in the system. If RBI wants to make it more expensive for banks to borrow money, it increases the repo rate. Similarly, if it wants to make it cheaper for banks to borrow money, it reduces the repo rate. Next, let us know about MCLR. See, the MCLR stands for the Marginal Cost of Funds Based Lending Rate. The MCLR methodology for fixing interest rates for advances was introduced by RBI from 2016. These advances could be advances for house loans, car loans, etc. This new methodology replaced the base rate system introduced in July 2010. MCLR is the rate below which a bank cannot lend except in some cases allowed by the RBI. It is an internal benchmark means a reference rate determined internally by the bank. This has been mainly introduced to improve the monetary transmission which was not effective in the base rate system. See, the base rate calculation is based on cost of funds whereas MCLR is based on marginal cost of funds. Therefore, MCLR is largely determined by marginal cost of funds and especially by deposit rates and repo rates. Now, coming back to the article, let us understand how repo influences the mortgage rates. With the central bank lowering the repo rate, it is likely that banks will also follow suit and reduce their marginal cost of funds based lending rates that is MCLR. As house loans rate or mortgage rate is indexed to this MCLR, the transmission of this rate cut should reduce the borrowing cost of retail borrowers, MSMEs and corporates thereby boosting private consumption and housing demand. The displayed practice question will be discussed at the end of the analysis. With this, let us move on to the next article. Now, the next news article discusses about the solar e-waste threat posed at India which appeared on page number 9 in Chennai edition and page number 7 of the Delhi edition. Now, the various information of this news article could come under current events of national importance and general science in prelim syllabus and remains it could come under GS3 in environmental pollution. See, India faces a major solar e-waste threat as it plans to tap the sun in a big way using photovoltaic cells to generate electricity. The news article says that it is a threat because India does not have a proper solar waste management and a recent study by Bridge to India, an energy consultancy firm that has estimated that India's photovoltaic waste volume by 2030 will be 2 lakh tons and by 2050 it will be 1.8 million tons because though India has e-waste rules, those rules does not have any mandate for the disposal or recycle of waste from the solar cell manufacturers and also despite the e-waste regulation being in place for over 7 years, only less than 4% of estimated e-waste is recycled in the organized sector as per the estimates from Central Pollution Control Board. Moreover, India is among the leading markets for solar cells in the world guided by the government's commitment to install 100 gigawatt of solar power by 2022. So far, India has installed solar cells for about 28 gigawatt and this is largely from imported solar photovoltaic cells and India's domestic manufacturers are largely involved in assembling cells and modules. These solar cell modules are made by processing sand to make silicon by casting silicon ingots and using wafers to create cells and then assembling them to make the solar cell modules. According to the Bridge to India study, 80% of these modules are non-hazardous materials such as glass and aluminium and the remaining 20% are potentially hazardous such as polymers, metals, metallic compounds and alloys. Let us know what solar e-waste is. It is nothing but the photovoltaic cells herein we discuss that have reached their life cycle and haven't been recycled. They contain potentially hazardous chromium, cadmium, selenium, silicon tetrachloride and sulphur hexafluoride. With this, let's move on to the next article. This news article appears in page number 9 of Chennai edition and page number 7 of Delhi edition newspaper. See the information covered in this article comes under current events of national importance in prelims and under conservation and environmental pollution in GS3. See the Supreme Court has asked the central government to approve composition of green crackers after the petroleum and explosive safety organization approves the new formulation of green crackers. The court allowed the manufacturers to apply for approval. See once the approval is granted, the manufacturers may start the manufacturing of green crackers. In this context, let us know about green crackers and the petroleum and explosive safety organization. Coming to green crackers, see the green crackers are those crackers that are less dangerous and less harmful to the environment and living beings as they have less harmful chemicals that produce comparable lower emissions with respect to the conventional crackers. They are also having the capability of less particulate matter and less sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxide pollution. These crackers are called as green crackers because they have a chemical formulation that produces water molecules with or without air that reduces emission levels and absorbs the dust. Thus, they are environment friendly and it is expected that these green crackers might be cheaper than conventional crackers by around 15 to 20 percentage. Now coming to petroleum and explosive safety organization, see the organization was instituted in 1898 as a statutory authority which was interested responsibilities under Explosives Act 1884, Petroleum Act 1934, Inflammable Substance Act of 1952 and Environment Protection Act of 1986. The present purpose of this organization is to look after safety requirements in manufacturing, storage, transport and use of explosives and petroleum. Now it comes under department of promotion of industry and internal trade under the ministry of commerce and industry. It is headquartered in Nagpur. One special information related to this is that it has a fireworks research and development center at Sivagasi in the state of Tamil Nadu. The practice prelims question will be discussed in the last session of this video. With this, let's move on to the next article. Now this article appears on page number 20 in Chennai edition and page number 18 in Delhi edition of the newspaper. The information given under this article is relevant under subtopic general science and current events of national and international importance under preliminary examination syllabus. Coming to the news article, scientists have been using genetics to study wild animals for several years. However, a new genetic method has been developed by a team that includes scientists from National Center for Biological Sciences of Bengaluru. The team hopes to study and conserve wildlife by deriving information from animal sources that contain extremely low quality DNA. For example, including feces and cooked meat. Now let us see the new method that was developed by them. Their method relies on identifying multiple short portions of DNA segments in a single experiment that is a multiplex PCR. Now PCR stands for polymerase chain reaction. A multiplex PCR refers to use of polymerase chain reaction to amplify several different DNA sequences simultaneously. By targeting multiple sequences at once, additional information may be gained from a single test run that would otherwise require using reagents several times and thus taking more time to perform. And this new method also uses next generation sequencing in which multiple fragments of DNA can be decoded simultaneously. Now this method holds significance in the field of conservation efforts. Firstly, it can use a low quality DNA for information thus relying on an easier source. Secondly, it can be used for animal monitoring and gathering intelligence on wildlife trade. Thirdly, it is cost effective and the biggest advantage of this method is that it would take just 5 days while older methods take at least a month. Thus it becomes an easier and faster conservation method and on the whole it revolutionizes the conservation efforts. Next, let us move on to the revision come practice question session. We are on our last part of our video and first we will discuss a question with respect to Jalyanwala Bagh Massaka. They have given four statements and are asking which of the above statement is or are correct. The first statement, an unarmed crowd had gathered to protest at Jalyanwala Bagh on 13th April 1919. The first statement is correct because the crowd had gathered to protest against the arrest of their leaders. Now the second statement, the protest was against the arrest of leaders Bhagat Singh and Dr. Satyapal. Now the second statement is wrong because the protest was against the arrest of leaders Saifuddin Kichlu and Dr. Satyapal. It was not Bhagat Singh. Therefore, the second statement is wrong. The third statement, General Dyer, the military commander of Amritsar ordered his troops to fire upon the crowd which is correct. And the fourth statement, the Viceroy of India during this event was Chemsford. We should know that Chemsford was the Viceroy of India between the years 1916 to 1921. This massacre happened in the year 1919. So the fourth statement is correct. We find that only statement number two is wrong. The option A consists of this statement. Option C consists of this statement number two. Option D consists of this statement number two. So A, C, D can be easily eliminated. If we at least know the statement number two is wrong. So the correct answer for this question is option B, one, three and four only. With this, let's move on to the next question. Now the next question with respect to MCLR. Now they have given two statements and are asking which of the statements are correct. First statement, MCLR replaced the base rate system in 2016. See the statement is correct and it is direct and it is factual in nature. And the second question, it is an external benchmark rate that improves monetary transmission. We saw that this MCLR improves monetary transmission but it is not an benchmark rate. Rather it is an internal benchmark rate because it is determined by a bank itself. Therefore, the second statement is wrong. Only the first statement is correct. The answer is A, one, only. Now let us have a look at the third question. The third question is with respect to hazardous solar e-waste. Which of the following are classified as hazardous solar e-waste? They are asking correct options. Today we discussed that the solar cell modules are having 80% of the materials as non-hazardous such as glass and aluminum and remaining 20% are potentially hazardous such as polymers, metal, metallic compounds and alloys particularly chromium, cadmium, selenium, silicon tetrachloride and sulfur hexafluoride. Therefore, the aluminum is not a hazardous solar e-waste according to the today's discussion. Therefore, the correct option for this is option C, one, two, three, five and six only. Now the question number five reads as National Center for Biological Sciences which is sometimes seen in the news. Yes, they are giving four options and A, a non-governmental organization working in the field on environmental conservation. B, a research center under department of atomic energy. C, a technical institution under ministry of environment, forests and climate change. D, none of the above. C, it is a factual question. As all the options look close, we might get confused. But NCBC, see the National Center for Biological Sciences is a research center under Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and is specialized in biological research. As Tata Institute of Fundamental Research falls under department of atomic energy, NCBC also falls under it only. Option B, two only, is the correct answer. Therefore, National Center for Biological Sciences is a research center under department of atomic energy. With this, let's move on to the next question. The next question is a practice question for Mainz. The question reads as the importance of Jallianwala Bagh massacre lies in what preceded it and in what followed. Justify. Now the answer for this question has already been discussed in today's analysis in the first news item. When we ask what preceded it, it means the various events which happened before the massacre that led to the massacre. When we say what followed, we mean the aftermath which we have discussed in detail in today's analysis. You may incorporate those points and justify the given statement. The question reads as discuss the issues and challenges in fighting fake news spreading through social media platforms at the time of elections. Now here in we can discuss the existing legal provisions section 126 of representation of peoples at 1951 and about the issues with regulating social media platforms and the right to campaign and the issues related to right to freedom of expression and right to campaign in social media, various social media platforms really following up or living up to the commitments given in the voluntary code of ethics. These things you can discuss and you can say that misinformation is a threat to free and fair elections and this fake news may definitely influence the voting pattern and voters choices. These are some of the issues that you could bring in from today's analysis to write an answer for this question. With this let's move on to our next question. What is ASAT? How will it affect the global space governance? The first part is a direct question. For this you are asked to write in brief about anti-satellite missiles in general. For the second part you need to speak about the global space governance that includes the outer space treaty. Mention some of the provisions to highlight the current governance. Then mention about how anti-satellite missiles will increase weaponization in space. At the end you may give some suggestions in a brief nutshell about how to improve the space governance and conclude your answer. With this we come to the end of today's session.


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But it's another thing if someone else does it because if I say it, they're like, you started modern day debate and of course you'd say that. But if somebody else, a third party does it, it carries so much weight. And here's the interesting thing. I always like kind of like looking at it by different, you could say time intervals. If you break it down per day, that's 79.6 shares in a single day every day in December. That's huge you guys, seriously, that's crazy. What is that per hour? That means dividing 79.6, 66666667 by 24. That's 3.31 shares per hour. You guys, that's crazy. So I want to say, if you guys think I'm just saying that when I'm like you guys are the reason that this channel is done as well as it has and also of course the debaters are the lifeblood of the channel. So I can't thank them enough but I also can't thank you guys enough. And when you think about it, that's nuts. Seriously, isn't that crazy? Just that, it's like holy smokes. Like I never, honestly, if you would have asked me, I gotta be honest, I would not have guessed it was that many shares. Cause that's like huge amount. So that many per day, namely three per hour. So in other words, if this stream lasts 20 minutes, that means somebody shared our content independent of this stream. So it's like probably one of our other debates that they're like, oh, this is cool. I'm gonna share it. So I want to say, when I tell you guys, like you're the reason that this channel has done so well, I'm very serious and like the stats back it up. So I want to say thank you for that. I want to say hello to you and then thank you in the live chat. Thank you for being a subscriber. Amanda, thanks for all of your support. Amanda's also been a great scout. Like when we do our in-person conferences in Dallas, Amanda's actually scouted like the spots out, gone there in person. So like actually driven, taking the time to go drive somewhere, check it out and say, hey, James, like this is probably a good venue because of X, Y, and Z or maybe it's not because of X, Y, and Z. That is invaluable. So our conferences where we do our in-person debate con conferences, Amanda's a huge reason that works. Also though, people like Sideshow Nav, people like Chris G., Brian Carnes who have volunteered, Kaz and Amy, they've also volunteered at those conferences. And not only have these people volunteered at these conferences, because debate con's like, it's like kind of our flagship event. It's becoming, it's like our WrestleMania. I love debate con, it's super fun. And debate con is just huge, like it really is. Like when we look at our stats, it's like, wow, people really enjoy this. But these people are also helping in other ways as well. And there are so many people, like honestly, I can't name all of them. So like, you know, Converse, of course, helps out moderating once in a while. Carissa has helped out moderating in the past. And I think probably will in the future as well. There are so many people, but also regular debaters that we have like Ben Burgess, T-Jump, Stuart Nettle, all these different people, we wanna say thank you. You're the reason that this channel has become what it has. Namely, we're excited and believe me, this is, I really believe this. Sincerely, this is just our start. We are only small right now, relative to what we're going to become. So join us while we're small. If you haven't hit that subscribe button yet, do so right now, because we're excited about the future. We have big things coming up and we are just getting started. So join us while we're small and you'll be able to see us as we rise like the Phoenix in X-Men. It's gonna be tremendous. Wanna say my dear friends, we're excited about the future. Wanna say hello there in the old live chat though. As I mentioned, Wilmar, thanks for being with us. Glad that you were here as well as Hollick Istavane Fadreza. Let me know if I pronounce it right. I really do mean to, but I oftentimes don't do it right the first time. Christine Irvin, thanks for being with us. I see you there. LordBibi42, good to see you as well. Slicy, slicer. Thanks for coming by us as Hey, Modern Databates. Ready for an amazing stream. Woo, thank you for your support. Seriously, I love your enthusiasm and positivity and that seriously goes way further than you think as well. Thanks for your support, Jay, AM84. Mojo, good to see us as thumbs up people. Thanks for your support. That's the thing too, is that for real, like hitting the like button is a small way that if you remember to do it, it does help because it just helps our videos rank a little bit more highly when people search terms. Like let's say they search like creation, evolution, debate. Our debates are more likely to be one of the first ones that pops up for them. Cause often people like they look at the first page and after that they're like, they're not gonna click on seeing what the second page has. So that helps us in terms of our rankings. We appreciate that. And that goes a long way. Lewis Hedge, let me know if I pronounce it right, says just followed on TikTok. Thanks Lewis, seriously. That's something else I was gonna mention. If you haven't heard yet, and if you're watching this stream, there's probably like a loyal follower of modern day debate because I know people usually watch the debates that's why they're here and that's cool. We want people to find value in those. So I'm like, hey, totally cool. Make it whenever you can, if you can't, it's all right. But if you're one of our loyal followers watching right now or maybe you watch this later, gotta tell you, we are working on getting to a thousand followers on TikTok. The reason is a thousand followers unlocks the ability, the feature to be able to live stream. That's a big deal because for us, we live stream usually about two to three times a week. If we're live streaming that many times on TikTok or we're just easy, we can just set it up and re-stream where it's just an additional location that the stream goes out to. It's no extra work for us once you get to that point. And TikTok is a huge way that modern day debate can get additional exposure. In other words, we can drive people to the modern day debate main hubs, namely VR podcast, as well as our YouTube channel. I gotta tell you though, if you didn't know we do have a podcast and it's actually doing quite well, people have found it apparently useful, which I'm encouraged by because I've already told you guys this many times when I started the podcast for modern day debate, which you can find it anywhere, Spotify, Apple, Google podcasts, you name it. Whatever your favorite podcast app is, you could probably find us because we're on all the major ones and it's very rare that someone is really rare where someone's like, oh, my uncle made this podcast called Vacuum Podcast. And I'm like, okay, well, we can work on getting on it. That's how rare it is. So let us know though, if you can't find us on your favorite podcast app, we'll work on getting on there because we do want to get on everyone, even Vacuum Podcast. And that's, I made that one up. There's no Vacuum Podcast. DA, thanks for being here. Says Amy, you're awesome. Amy is awesome. I want to say thanks, Amy, for all of your support as a moderator. Thanks again to Kaz. Thanks to Saito and Ab, our head moderator in the live chat, as we want to keep things civil here. Namely, you guys know, as always, this has always been our rule. We were not into if people are trying to target groups. So if they say, this race is blah, blah, blah. It's like, no, no, no, we can't do that. We're not going to do that here. That's obviously something we're just saying. Like, it's an instant ban. Now, if you're targeting somebody, so you're like, oh man, James is like so weird. It's like, that's, I honestly don't really care. I'm like, I know I'm weird in a good way.  It's like, in the live chat, we might say, hey, you're being pretty hard on them. Like you want to just like chill out a little bit. And that's usually, if you got to be pretty hard on them, because we know it's the internet, we don't want people to feel like they're walking on eggshells. But we're pretty, that's why we're pretty flexible. Like if it's not hate speech, we'll give you at least a warning. But want to say, thanks for being here as well, and MariaLN, glad to have you here. DA, good to see you as well. And thanks for your support, JAM84, someday I will capture a battleship. I appreciate your support of these a lot. But yeah, Millahan Philosopher's Corner, good to see you, glad to have you back again. Amanda says, 100,000 subscribers soon. I'm at work and apparently suck at double tasking. Thanks for your support, Amanda. Seriously, we are excited to hit that 100,000 subscriber mark. And the reason is not so we can like brag. I'm like, oh, wow, like numbers, numbers. The reason is, that's obviously indicative if we do reach higher amounts of subscribers or viewership per month, because a lot of people who view, like they're not subscribers, and that's all right, like, you know, we're not saying like you have to, but we certainly appreciate it. It does help the channel. You could say it gives it street cred, because when a channel has 90,000 subscribers, for example, that's when a lot of people look at it and are like, there's probably something about that that's good. Like some people probably like that if it's gotten a 90,000, especially over the course of four years, like it's a pretty good growth rate. Like we're grateful for that.  Usually the way it happens is you put in years of work, years of streaming or content, whatever it is. And we, at the same time, like, you could say that like ours hasn't blown up overnight, but it has grown fast. Like I'm grateful for it. And the reason I'm saying that, though, is we're determined to carry out this vision. You've all heard it before. Namely, we want to provide a neutral platform so that everybody has their chance to make their case on a level playing field. That's what we're determined to do. We believe that YouTube deserves a better class of debate channel, and we're gonna give it to them. We're excited about that, my friends. We appreciate all of your support of that goal. Mojo, good to see you in the live chat. Clear of you, glad to have you. Clear of you says, James, you're do weird. I think he meant you are weird, and I appreciate that. It really is, I don't go out of my own way to be weird for the sake of being weird, but I like going my own way in the sense that, as you know, it is true. This summer, I got a subway for Life Tattoo. That's not a, like, that's for real. You can Google it if you want. The reason, for real, no joke, I told Bob this, is that's gonna help our conferences as we can use that subway deal for our conferences, for DebateCon, because we can help make at least part of the lunch subway when we offer this lunch for our people who buy tickets. And that's a great way for us to kind of give us, kind of give a little bit of a safety net for those conferences, and so that's for me, and a lot of people think that's bizarre. Like, but I'm like, hey, I don't care. Whatever it takes to get Modern Day Debate to grow, I've got plenty of real estate. Like, I've got a pretty big body. So, so far my upper back is taken for subway. If you guys haven't seen that, it's for real. And for me, that's something that I've been like, absolutely, I'm like, hey, like, there are other reasons why I'm glad I did it, but for Modern Day Debate, and using that to help support our conferences, and there are reasons, you know, I use it for myself sometimes too. Like, when I'm traveling, it's great to get subway, but it is something that I'm like, hey, it's unorthodox, but you know what? It works well. It's a good strategy. So, identity, thanks for being with us. Helco, thanks for coming by, says keep up the great job, Modern Day Debate. Always keep improving, thanks for your support, and we are always looking at how we can improve. Like, right now, we are definitely working on improving our titles and our thumbnails, which are key on YouTube. We're also working on improving the audio quality of our podcast. I'm really grateful that someone reached out to me, and he's actually been kind of sharing with me, like, hey, like, here's how you can improve the audio for the podcast, and that means a lot, because for me, I'm a novice. Like, I don't know how, what good sound really is, to be honest, and so having somebody else that can point it out to me, that helps a ton. Nick, good to have you. Says, what video topics do the best and the worst? Science topics are definitely doing the best. Recently, we've noticed, for example, like, Flat Earth, Creation Evolution, Intelligent Design, kind of the mix of like, science slash conspiracy. So like, was the moon landing hoax, hoax? Those are pretty popular. The reason that I think that is, is we're the only game in town. Like, there are very few channels hosting those. We are hosting those fairly regularly, and there are some channels that host them. Don't get me wrong, but I would say in terms of the variety. So for example, like, you have a lot of channels that are like, hey, we host Flat Earth debates. That's all we host, period. And that's cool, like, I don't have anything against that. But for us, we're like, hey, we also do Creation Evolution. We also do whether or not Bigfoot exists. All sorts of stuff in the natural sciences. Mojo says, can you reach to Bay Abadan, Joe of Red Judaism, maybe can debate with a Muslim or Christian? That would be amazing. That might work. I'm a little bit behind right now, but thanks for letting me know about that name. And I actually will do a copy and paste of that name. And in fact, your whole message, just so I remember it, as a possibility for the future, because I do appreciate that name. And I've gotta tell you though, we are excited, my friends. And then I saw Office 88 with some stern criticism. Office Computer 888, thanks for your feedback, you could say, because if you have a problem with the moderators, like, do feel free to let the moderators know, or if you wanna email me. First, I wanna appreciate, if you send an email to Bob first, Bob just kinda helps sift through it.  You can email me. And then I can work on seeing, like, okay, is there something? Thanks for your super chat. Do appreciate that, seriously, Andrew Rouse. Am I saying it right? I know I think I've asked before and I'm sorry that I can't remember. Is it Andrew Roos or Andrew Rouse? I think it's Rouse, but let me know if I'm wrong. So sorry, James, what? Can you please explain the subway deal you have? You have a full back tattoo, how big? Do you show it at the counter for a discount? What? Show us. Yeah, for real, it really is. If you Google subway tattoo for life and then just put my name James Coons or just James, there will be a lot of pictures that pop up and you can see the tattoo. Cause I'm like, right now it's so hard for where I am. I'm like pinned against the wall and I like the way I'm sitting, I can't take my shirt off right now. I have shown it off on stream before, but yeah, no, no, it's not a joke. It is for real and it's free subway for life. Technically it's actually $50,000 worth of subway gift cards, so I don't have to show the tattoo. But like I said, I'm committed to using a substantial amount of that. The reason that I really did do that was because I thought, hey, we could do this to do debate con and it'll help moderate a debate grow. Because like I said, those conferences, like the first one, we did lose a little bit of money. And the second one, we actually came out a little bit ahead, so we have a little bit of extra surplus funds, not much, like maybe a hundred, couple hundred bucks or something that we can put in toward future conferences. So that's really cool. But yes, it is for real and I have this unusually large subway tattoo. Lewis says, hedge is pronounced like hey, so it's Lewis hey, thanks for letting me know that Lewis. As well as Helco, thanks for being here. And yada yada yada, good to see you. It says whenever any discussion of gun control comes up, I like it when any mention of the Second Amendment is mentioning quote unquote, well-regulated military. Appreciate your feedback on that. And also though, Ted Chad, thanks for coming by, says flat versus globe worth debate, two on two with Jarenism and Witsett versus Matt DeLondi and R&R. Let's make it happen. It would be a gigantic debate. I totally agree with you. I'll write it down. It's gonna be hard to pull off, but it's a possibility. So I appreciate that, Ted. Do I have something in my hair? What am I seeing? Is that just my grays? But yeah, believe it or not, I didn't have nearly as many gray hairs before I started my doctoral program. Lord willing, my goal is that I should be done with my doctorate by the end of this year, which is another exciting milestone. Is that will give me a little bit more time, I suspect, for modern day debate. And I'm kind of being facetious because it'll give me a lot more time because the doctor is really exhausting in a good way. Like I like what I do, but these programs are usually known for like high attrition rates. A lot of people are just like, ugh, I just don't know if I love it this much. I think I'm gonna stop because it's just a huge load of hard work. But thanks for your support. Jarendel project, thanks for being a supporter, a member for three months. So congratulations. Thanks for renewing your membership. Seriously, that means a ton. We appreciate that. And that is a way you can support the channel. We do have channel memberships, but also wanna say, like I said, if you haven't yet, our TikTok link is in the description box and I'm also gonna put it right now at the top of the live chat as, oh, that's weird. It's not even, it's not in the description box, but I'm gonna add it right now. And then I'll pin it to the top of the chat. And it's exciting though that we're at 377. So we've gone by about 130 within several days, like less than a week. I think it'll probably take us about a month from right now to get to being able to stream on TikTok, but that's okay. Like, you know, if it takes a month, like that's not actually that long to get a thousand followers on a social media platform. For YouTube, it took years for me to get to a thousand. Technically, like it was, cause it used to be like, you could say it was not a debate channel. It used to be modern day hysteria where it was just me sharing my musings about all sorts of weird things, but a lot of philosophy, stuff like that. Now I'm gonna put this our TikTok. And like I said, we're excited about that. We really do think that there's a possibility that that may help modern day debate grow a lot in 2023. Diego to see you, Diego Pina says James is awesome. Not weird, thanks for that. Diego, appreciate that. And then Lando Rocco to see you as well as, let me just catch up here in the chat. Let's move in quick. Clear review, thanks for your support as well as Mojo says, did the debate channel change your mind on anything? It hasn't changed my mind on like big things. Like it's not like I went from being like politically on one side of the aisle to the other. It has changed my mind on certain arguments, but I've studied this stuff like a lot, many, many for quite a long time before doing the channel. So a lot of it, a lot of the arguments are similar, but yeah, like I've changed my mind on some stuff. Mojo says, let's see, you got that. And then Endo, good to see you there. Miguel, Quesada, thanks for coming by. Says congrats, James, greetings from Chile, South America. Wow, thanks for watching. That's cool, man. Appreciate you watching. And that means a lot. It's cool knowing that like people from all over the world are watching like that's super encouraging. So glad that it's, I hope you feel welcome here. And as we've said before, no matter what walk of life you are friends, we hope you feel welcome. Let's see, Soundbombing says, love you, James. Thanks for your support. Love you too. As well as Icifer23, thanks for your support. And all things considered, AA says, weird is good. Creepy is bad. James is weird and that's good. Thanks for your support. Appreciate that. Clearview says, JK James, you're honestly pretty cool. I didn't, don't worry, I know you guys are teasing. Don't worry, thanks for your support. And then Hellquist says, 100,000 will be coming, it's a matter of time. I anticipate probably by May, that's the goal, is by, at the end of May for sure. DJ Batman, thanks for coming by, says you'll be in the millions before this year is out and you deserve it for having an amazing channel. I don't know about that, but we're gonna shoot for the stars and even if we don't make it, what's it, shoot for the moon and even if you don't make it, you'll land among the stars. Thanks for your support and saga. So congrats guys, thanks for that. Gregory Top, thanks for your support. Says, come on peeps, hit that thumbs up. Thanks for your support. Real deal politics says, love, your content was curious to how to become part of it. Would love to argue against a Flat Earther. There's a link in the description that shows a Google doc for like how we do that process of potentially having new debaters on. Megan St. Tana says, congrats on 90,000 James, thanks for your support. And I gotta say it's totally a congrats to everybody that's made this channel possible. It is truly like a community effort. I wanna do this in the long-term for my career. Like I love doing this, but in the meantime, while I'm doing my doctorate and then I think what I'll do is after my doctorate I wanna get some years of experience in consulting just cause I think that'll actually help me to be more well-rounded to lead modern day debate. But Mojo says, Gnostic Informant versus Richard Carrier that'd be amazing. Thanks for that feedback. And then real deal politics says, yeah, dude, ridiculous, thanks for your support. And then that's funny. Thanks so much for your support. And let's see here. I draw stuff. So James you mad man, I just looked up the subway tattoo, that's amazing. That's funny, you hadn't heard of it. That's funny, but yeah, it's for real. And it is, it is a big tattoo. So, but like I said, I told Bob and I remember Bob was like, when I saw that article, cause he had heard about it too, about the same time that I heard about it cause it was all over the news. And he didn't know it was me that did it. He was like, oh, he's like, I thought, I was like, wow, that's pretty crazy. You gotta be pretty weird to do that. And then, but when I told him, I was like, but Bob, like we can, this can help support our conferences, like debate con cause part of lunch can be like someway and it'll help us have like a little bit of a safety net financially. Cause a lot of people don't realize like those conferences are a little bit of a risk for us cause like they're pretty big expense, but we nonetheless are glad to do them. And we found that like they're doing well. Like we're learning and refining and making it better and better. And it's something that we're excited about. Coffee Mom says, if you have enough people who can share that, that load, you can do anything, community matters. That's true. Thanks for your support. Seriously, it means a lot. You've been a regular supporter of the channel as well. Appreciate that Coffee Mom. And why am I out of breath? Bite ma, bite ma Higgins. Congrats on 90,000 your channel has rapidly become one of the best on YouTube. I really appreciate the time and effort you put in. It's always high quality content. Much love James and Amy. And don't forget Kaz as well as, like Joan Ave and so many other people. Eli Thies Alliance says, UK here love you. Thanks for your support. Seriously, that means more than you know. And then big Nessie says, when did you start moderating debate? It's one of my favorite channels. Great work. Technically we started in the fall of 2018. So it's almost five years, about four and a half years now. That's when we started being a debate channel. Before that, like it was just my own personal channel, modern day hysteria, where I would just hear weird thoughts about society or whatever was going on. And it was slowly growing as a very slow growing channel. And that's okay. Like there's nothing wrong in a slow growing channel, but it's just that when we realized I started doing debates. And so at that point it was like, yeah. So even though it says on the about page that we started in 2016, there were about two years, two and a half years of me, just doing like these occasional musings because I was really busy. I didn't really have a lot of, I didn't really, wasn't as good as time management. And so it's technically, we kind of started more in the fall of 2018. Ms. Sweets says, thank you James for all you do. Much love. Thanks for that support. Hamad Ahmed says, amazing. Thanks for your support. And then Nick says, what's your doctorate? It's an industrial organizational psychology. It's kind of like the psychology of work. And then Miladia says, love you James. Thanks, Miladia. I appreciate that man. I know that I'm behind on getting back to you. Forgive me, Miladia. I'm just behind on like virtually everything right now. So I will get back to you and I appreciate all of your support seriously. And then remember, Miladia, I don't know if you remember when we were at DebateCon and you were helping me like get kind of like test shots for the camera angles at DebateCon. So thanks for that support. It was one of many ways in which I appreciate all your help. And then Bader LBDRR says I like this channel. Thanks for that support as well as Mojo says, please say Mojo Jojo Freelancer KUP Send Ye. Thanks for your support. Let's see, Miladia says, if the next conference is in Dallas again, I'll be there again. Thanks, Miladia. And then, and it definitely is. We are excited about the next conference. It's probably gonna be April 22nd. It's still being confirmed in terms of we're still finding the venue. And then once we know the venue, we'll know the date for sure. And then once we know the date, we can actually invite the speaker. So Shandy says, what do you do when people are debating? Usually I'm keeping an eye on the live chat, trying to keep an eye on the conversation as well in terms of like who's speaking over who too often, as well as, and I'm not very good at this, I admit, we have a Twitch live chat that I try to peek into, but those two things alone usually kind of where I'm like, but Shandy, let's see. Thanks for being here. And with that, I wanna wrap up. Allied Atheist Alliance says, what was the drama with Matt Dillentie and some audience member, if you can say? I think that was with Alec Stein. I might be wrong, but I think that's what it was. It was during Matt's debate. But wanna say, I've gotta run. I just wanna do this really quick one. Wanna say thanks for your support. And it's been, it's been over 20 minutes, which means, like I said, at the start of this stream, every 20 minutes, a person at least one shares our channel with somebody, whether it be like a text message to a friend or they're like, hey, you'd love this channel, it's cool. Or maybe they do it because maybe they say, maybe they put it on a Facebook group and they're like, hey, have you guys seen this debate? It was really cool, just check it out. So even during this stream, we should expect that one to two people have shared modern day debate. And we appreciate that. Seriously, it goes a long way. Thanks Pancake of Destiny says, thank you for this channel. I've learned a lot about science while having fun. Thanks for that. That means a ton. Shandy says, what are you doing today? I'm class prepping for a class that I'm teaching in the, this would be the spring semester. So it starts in about a week, less than a week actually. And I've got to have all the stuff prepped and ready by tomorrow at the latest. So, wanna say, I wish I could hang around, wanna say thank you guys for your all, that's what the stream is for, is just say, hey, this is cool, it's a huge milestone and the big, like it's also a cool one because it's like, hey, like we see it. Like we're almost at that 100,000 mark, which is just exciting to know that this platform is having that much of an influence, that it's expanding that well on YouTube, on podcast, on these different platforms. Like Twitter, I think we're close, it's not far, we'll be at 10,000 followers, which is cool just because that's a way that we can communicate with people and let them know about upcoming debates, upcoming conferences, like debate con, all that stuff. So I wanna say thank you guys for all of your support seriously. It means more than, you know, I love you guys. And like I said, one quick summary, because I just got to kick out of this, if you missed the beginning of the stream, every month, this is our usual, it's about 2,390 people share, or there are that many shares of our content where a person says, clicks that share button below, and then not only do they click the share button below, they post it somewhere like Facebook or a text message, whatever. And when you break that down by day, that means it's 79.6 per day, so about 80 using standard grounding rules, 80 times per day, our channel or content is shared with people. That's huge, so that's just YouTube, like that's not counting like Twitter retweets or anything like Facebook shares, like that's just YouTube, and that per hour is about 3.31 shares per hour, which is huge, so it's about one every 20 minutes. So that's huge, you guys, thank you. I'm not just saying that when I say thank you guys for all of your support. I gotta run, one last question, that Kmax McDonald, good to see you there in the old live chat, says, James, any more debate topics on your mind? We are working on getting up one whether or not it's called, quote, our men unappreciated. So that'll be interesting, it's kind of like in parentheses, relative to women in society, our men unappreciated, so that's a juicy topic. It'll be Andrew and Rachel against Ashley and RC Radical Coder, so that'll be cool. And then, let's see, we've got a juicy one, controversial one tomorrow, Daniel Halkikachu and JF Debate, whether or not society should be based on race or religion, so that's a juicy one to be sure. Self-law, says, well done, James, and all from the UK. Thanks for that support, that means a lot. And let's see here, yeah. Thank you guys for your support. The Russells, thanks for coming by.  I hope you have a great rest of your day. Thanks for everything, we're excited about the future, we've got big things planned. We're gonna keep plugging away and keep improving, keep making this better, keep refining ourselves, working on our skills, and we say just thank you for all your support along the way. Join us while we're small, because this is just the beginning, we're just getting started, we've got big things planned for the future, and wanna say thanks for all of your support as we continue to fulfill the vision of providing a neutral platform so that everybody can make their case on a level planning field. We'll see you at the next debate, which is tonight, I've gotta get that event up soon, so that's tonight, you don't wanna miss it. Thanks for all of your support, that's Austin Witsit versus Delcos, a newcomer on, you guessed it, Flat Earth versus Glover, the battle continues. Thanks for all your support, folks, and we'll see you at the next one.


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So I usually don't get to talk about fun things on this show very often like video games movies and television So I should probably preface this conversation by saying spoiler warning if you have not seen Squid games I will be discussing spoilers that are pretty crucial to the show's plot So if you plan on watching it definitely don't watch this video or come back to this video after you've seen this series Having said that though I want to talk about Squid games because of somebody on the rights interpretation of this series Now when it comes to art some artists will leave their art open to interpretation. They'll make it more abstract Leave it purposefully vague Squid games is not that it's not one of those shows where you can kind of extract your own meaning from it It's it's very explicit in its message. It is a critique of capitalism I think that's pretty obvious if you watch the show and the creator of the show Huang Deng Hick Confirmed this saying I wanted to read a story that was an allegory or fable about a modern capitalist Society something that depicts an extreme competition Somewhat like the extreme competition of life, but I wanted it to use the kind of characters We've all met in real life now Tim Poole However after watching the show said you know what? I think the message actually is that it's about communism and specifically the message is communism bad Now it's not like he didn't know what the creator of the show said He knows that the creator explicitly is criticizing capitalism But Tim Poole is gonna have the audacity to say actually he's wrong This is really about communism when I think if you watch it It's very obvious to get a critique of capitalism Nevertheless, let's watch and see what he has to say and then I will break it down after we hear from Tim Poole so I think squid game is I Don't think it's overtly political Apparently, you know, you were telling me Gary that it was like there's like a political message in squid game Yeah, the writer at least that's what he said my takeaway from it was communism bad That was my takeaway from it Okay, so now I'm gonna say this for those that are listening spoiler alert. Yeah, I haven't finished squid game It's an awesome show. Yeah, I prefer watching it and the original Korean with with subtitles I think it's fantastic with the dub you lose a lot of that like reverb and like natural sound It's kind of weird. So spoiler alert. I'm gonna say it again. We are going to spoil this show to the To kingdom come there we go spoiler alert So what was it about you mentioned that the creator had said something and it was like the creator called it a fable for modern-day capitalism But also for life and the competitiveness of life And that message I it's it's not subtle at the end Which I won't ruin for anybody But it's not subtle at the end and that messaging was there and you know, some people can't get past it And I understand that but I thought it was a damn good So what was the messaging like what do you think the message can be? Well, it's that it's a it basically it's a cold and cruel system. They're in that fable, you know There is no resolution except for at the end.  We're gonna get into Again, I warned you spoilers. I think the whole thing is the perfect example of Somebody who thinks they're opposing capitalism, but just makes communism and wokeness look really really dumb Huh and the show ends up being in my opinion more anti-communist than anything So one of the big themes in the show is that everyone is equal There they all enter the game as equals and they're allowed to play as equals And there's an arc in the show where it's like somebody violates the equality and so they kill him and they were like That's the worst thing you could have done is strip the equality, but now Here's how the show ends. You've been warned In this equal system everyone dies, but one person who gets all of the money Okay, so that doesn't sound to me like capitalism in capitalism. We recognize not everybody is equal Not everybody does have an equal chance. We do want equal opportunity But some people are poor and some people are rich in this system Everyone is wearing the same clothes in the same room being brutalized by by the powers that ultimately results in one person having all The wealth and everyone dying that is not capitalism in capitalism. There's too much food People are morbidly obese and there are homeless people who are fat in communism Everybody wears the same clothes. They have limited access to anything. They get garbage food every day They're like, okay, the game's over. Here's the food you get and they get trash Yeah, and they're fighting each other because they're starving that to me is an indictment of communism And if this guy who made the show is actually like it's it's actually capitalism. That's bad I'm like it just goes to show this is a person who made a great show But was really dumb and didn't understand they were actually critiquing communism I don't think that the creator of the show is the dumb one here, Tim I think that the dumb one is the person who Refuses to accept that a popular television show that he likes has a political message that he doesn't like and look I I kind of understand as a political commentator if I was watching a movie that was very explicitly Anti-socialist and pro-capitalism. I wouldn't enjoy it I don't like television shows that I view as basically propaganda for the military industrial complex So I understand where he's coming from it kind of detracts from the enjoyment if you're a really political person Having said that though, I don't twist Myself into a pretzel trying to make it fit my worldview This show just doesn't fit his worldview and rather than accepting it what we see here is cognitive dissonance where he says Mmm, I actually think that communism bad is the message No Communism bad was not the message and even his co-host disagreed and said the message at the end It wasn't subtle at all, but yet Tim pool says I don't really think it was overtly political how How do you not view squid games as overtly political and as an explicit criticism of Capitalism I just don't understand how you can be somebody who is savvy enough to have a political podcast That is incredibly popular, but not really be able to extract very obvious themes from a television show That's kind of really throwing it in your face So part of the reason why he thinks that it is a critique of communism is because of the conditions of the game itself He says that they're all wearing the same clothing and they're giving shitty food and he says they're fighting each other and they're starving Right, but why are they fighting each other? Why are they starving? Why are they there in the first place? Because in the second episode Basically, what happens is they all vote to leave because one of the rules of the game is that if a majority of players vote to lead the Game they get to leave the game But even after leaving the game they come back because the conditions outside in a modern capitalist society are so brutal That they realize they're no better off outside of the game than they are in the game and at least in the game even if Certain death is going to be the outcome. Well, at least they have a small chance of Making it getting a lot of money so that way they can live a happy normal life That is not a message that is saying communism is bad that is speaking to the ruthlessness of Capitalism and late-stage capitalism where these folks are so desperate where they have so much debt We're so impoverished that they willingly and knowingly go back to a game after escaping so they can play it I mean, I just I feel like there's there's no way you can spin this There's not even a little bit of room for interpretation here It's very deliberately a criticism of capitalism But he talks about how the condition of equality being emphasized that really says something right because in a communist society You know, it's classless. It's moneyless equality is the outcome so My response to that I don't necessarily know for sure what the intent of that was but you have to think of it from the Perspective of the rich people in the game There's a lot of rich people who are betting on certain poor people in this game So if the conditions are unfair then these rich people are gonna get incredibly pissed if they feel as if Another player has a leg up on someone that maybe they bet it on but he kind of latched on to that element of equality within the game And he said that's it right there That's that's communism. I just I feel like it says something about you as a political commentator if you watch squid games and you don't view it as a criticism of Capitalism it tells me that you either a fundamentally misunderstand communism and Capitalism or B you actually do understand the differences between these two systems But you feel cognitive dissonance and you just you can't enjoy art unless it fits your worldview And so you try to twist it and that's kind of what I'm leaning towards because look Tim Poole All the things that you'll say about him. He's a grifter. He's disingenuous sure But I think he's far more intelligent than the other right-wing grifters And I think that he does know a little bit more about these political systems So him saying that this is really a critique of communism isn't actually compelling It just kind of makes him look foolish, especially if you've seen the show because again This is not a subtle message as this coho said it's very explicit I mean if you watch this and the takeaway is oh wow, this convinces me I don't ever want to live in a communist society Then you're kind of weird. You're taking away the wrong message. It's a critique of modern day late-stage capitalism capitalism and the way it leads People to kind of compete and fight against each other Just to make sure that they have crumbs That's kind of represented in the scenes where they are given portions of food that that are limited It's just everything about this show screams capitalism bad, but yet Tim Poole says oh it means communism bad Okay, whatever. I mean you're free to think whatever you want But that's not the case and you're objectively wrong in this instance So whatever if you haven't seen the show watch it and you will see why Tim Poole's criticism here is just so bizarre and off base Recovery mode my brain I did