What will be the impact of the European Union’s sweeping new rules for Big Tech, not just on Europe, but also on America? “The issue with this legislation is that there are extremely vague categories such as misinformation and hate speech that are very, very difficult to define in law … so this opens the door to a form of arbitrary bureaucratic power over the platforms,” says David Thunder. He’s a political philosopher and a research fellow at the Institute for Culture & Society at the University of Navarra. “They can also declare an emergency. And in the event of declaring an emergency, require the platforms to take special measures to counteract the emergency,” says Mr. Thunder. “So it can become part of a war machine, in a sense.” Mr. Thunder is the author of “Citizenship and the Pursuit of the Worthy Life.” Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Is EU Censorship Coming to America?—Here's What You Need to Know: David Thunder

At a time when our nation is portrayed as increasingly polarized, media often ignore viewpoints and stories that are worthy of attention. American Thought Leaders, hosted by The Epoch Times Senior Editor Jan Jekielek, features in-depth discussions with some of America’s most influential thought leaders on pertinent issues facing our nation today.

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“This catastrophic response that we faced during this pandemic will happen again in our lifetimes. The new normal is lockdown until vaccine. That is how we’re going to manage pandemics until there’s an explicit repudiation of the doctrine by public health,” says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, professor of health policy at Stanford University and one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration. In this episode, Dr. Bhattacharya shares his theory on what happened these last four years and the link between seemingly disparate events. Dr. Bhattacharya is one of the plaintiffs in a landmark free speech case against the Biden administration, Murthy v. Missouri, and the co-host of the Illusion of Consensus podcast. “The International Health Regulations and the WHO treaty are a way to essentially institutionalize this paradigm of how to manage pandemics going forward. You can’t have a Sweden next time that bucks the agenda,” he says. *Check out American Essence magazine here. Use promo code 24ATL10 for $10 off!  Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

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“In this complex machinery, there are these things called ratings agencies ... and they put a number on how trustworthy individual publications are,” says Freddie Sayers. “If they give you a zero or they put you on the naughty list, you don’t get any advertising. Your business model is pretty much turned off overnight.” Mr. Sayers is the editor-in-chief of UnHerd, and he recently started looking into the systems of programmatic advertising after he discovered UnHerd had been given a zero rating for trustworthiness and placed on a “dynamic exclusion list” by the Global Disinformation Index. In this episode, he breaks down what he’s uncovered about the workings of what he calls “the disinformation industry.” “This is taxpayer dollars flowing into completely unaccountable, self-created organizations,” Mr. Sayers says. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

The Secret Ratings Agencies That Control Media Advertising: Freddie Sayers

“When someone asks me where are you from, I say I’m from America, because I’m from so many different places, growing up in a motorhome, but also in houses, in sheds,” says Carrie Sheffield. “There were parts of my experience as a child that I really treasure that taught me to love America. But there unfortunately was a lot of abuse as well.” Now a columnist, broadcaster, and senior policy analyst for Independent Women’s Voice with a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University, Ms. Sheffield grew up with seven siblings and an abusive, mentally ill father who thought he was a modern-day Mormon prophet. Always on the move, Ms. Sheffield rotated between 17 public schools—as well as homeschooling—over the course of her childhood. The glue in the family was her mother. She is the author of the new memoir, “Motorhome Prophecies: A Journey of Healing and Forgiveness.” In this episode, drawing from her own life circumstances, she offers some profound insights into the cultural malaise she sees afflicting America—from the rise in suicide and depression to the epidemic of addiction and isolation—and a path forward. “We put human intellect in the place of God. And so even though we are materially better off, and even though we have economic wealth, it has come at a price, and that price is the humility and the recognition of the giver of our gifts. We’ve substituted worship for the giver of our gifts, with worship of the gifts. And any society that is ordered in this way is disordered,” Ms. Sheffield says. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Behind America’s Mental Health Disaster: Carrie Sheffield

In 2021, Winston Marshall sent a tweet congratulating Andy Ngo for his book, “Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy.” He soon found himself and his band, Mumford & Sons, at the center of a firestorm. Three years later, he’s the host of The Winston Marshall Show and co-founder of the “Dissident Dialogues” festival of ideas, which held its first gathering recently in Brooklyn in New York City. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

From Rock Star to Dissident: Winston Marshall

Sponsor special: Up to $2,500 of FREE silver AND a FREE safe on qualifying orders - Call 855-862-3377 or text “AMERICAN” to 6-5-5-3-2“ I noticed that my miscarriage rate from year to year had gone up by 100 percent.” Dr. Kimberly Biss is a board-certified OBGYN who has grown her Florida private practice to a five-provider group that delivers roughly 300 babies a year. Having been involved in more than a thousand pregnancies herself, Dr. Biss observed some disturbing trends in her patients once the COVID-19 genetic vaccines rolled out in 2021. “Now that people are getting the documents from the trials, there were bad outcomes in there. The miscarriage rate was 80 percent in the Pfizer trials. They knew that,” she says. “This information was first reported by my colleagues Naomi Wolf and her team at Daily Clout, and extensively reviewed by Dr. James Thorpe. Of the 270 women who got pregnant, only 32 were followed up on, and 26 miscarried. 81%.” Dr. Biss began tracking and comparing her data in real time, the bulk of which was published in 2022 on Dr. Jessica Rose’s Substack. “A lot of medical schools—over 50 to 60 percent of their money probably comes from Big Pharma,” says Dr. Biss. We dive into the data Dr. Biss compiled, and discuss how pressure campaigns from federal health agencies and Big Pharma influenced the vaccine roll-out in pregnant and breastfeeding women. “In the beginning, they locked us down, we’re all eating Uber Eats, all processed junk, can’t go to the gym, can’t exercise, don’t go outside, don’t get in the sun, which is your vitamin D. So, we were all deficient in D. I mean, everything that doesn’t promote any sort of health they told us to do,” says Dr. Biss. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and the guest, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times. This text was updated with a clarification from the author.

Is EU Censorship Coming to America?—Here's What You Need to Know: David Thunder

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