Hey everybody, how's it going? Hope

you're having a lovely day. I want to

apologize for an error that I made in

yesterday's video. One of the great

things about me making an article that

has all the sources for everything I

talk about is it allows you to

independently verify things, edit

things, and point out if I got something

wrong. In yesterday's video, I was

talking about the UK social media limits

for children, how this relates to age

verification. And the main point I was

making in that video is that when you

see it said that all these people

support it, I don't want you to get

discouraged and think that that means

that you shouldn't speak out. Because

when you take a look, I got one thing

wrong. I was talking about one of the

surveys and how they routed questions

four, five, and six and how you were

routed to a question. They routed people

to a question if they were against for

something rather than if they were

against something. But one of my main

points that I made in that video is if

you look at the the surveys, there were

three surveys given, one of the surveys

that they gave never actually had an

option for adults to be able to say that

they're fully against social media

limits for children and that they're

fully against age verification. The

option literally doesn't exist. You have

other and don't know, but you never had

a no option in some of these surveys,

even if some of them did. And the

problem here is that when you have

surveys like that that get pushed, it

ignores the overall numbers and the

truth. Regardless of the mistake I made

in yesterday's video, when you take a

look at the number of people who took

those surveys, and then you take a look

at the amount of people who signed one

of those UK government website petitions

in a very small number of time, you'll

see that the number of people that are

against any of these limits or age

verification in any way, shape, or form,

massively outnumbers the people that

took that survey, whether the entire

survey, even regardless of whether the

people who took the survey agreed or

disagree with the idea. And that's the

point that you need to have in your

head. The people that are against this

stuff usually don't have the money to

create very very detailed surveys, pie

charts, graphs, have PR firms that talk

about it. And that's something that's

going to be important as I carry this

into the discussions on 3D printing. The

organization that I was talking about

last week that was trying to have these

3D printer laws pop up all over the

country where your 3D printer that runs

open source software is now going to

have to run closed source software,

connect to a centralized database

somewhere, analyze what it is that you

print, ask the government if it's okay

to print this. is that these laws are

being pushed for by an organization that

in one year got over $50 million. They

get donations regularly from

billionaires that want these

restrictions. And the important thing to

understand is that no matter how well

organized they are, no matter how many

times they come out, no matter what ads

they run, no matter how prepared their

speeches are, you must understand that

your advantage is that you outnumber

them. And the thing is, if even 1% of

the people who disagreed with these

shitty laws came out and did something,

made a phone call, made an email, showed

up at the representatives office, showed

up at the prime minister's office, the

king. I don't know what you guys have in

the UK. I'm not really familiar with it.

King, prime minister, House of Lords. I

I barely understand my own economic and

political system, much less yours. If

you all showed up, you would see things

start to change. And this is the point

that's really important for me to make

because in a later video I do, I'm going

to be asking a lot of people to show up

in California to speak out against these

laws and say why it is they think these

laws are a bad idea. And the very

important thing to understand is that

for the most part, the people that show

up are going to be autistic nerds that

are maybe not the best spoken. Maybe

you're not used to speaking in front of

other people, maybe a little nervous,

don't have prepared marks, and you're

going to be speaking against people that

are very wellprepared. Again, these

organizations get over $50 million a

year. They have the ability to hire

focus groups to figure out what is the

best way to say this message. They can

just practice speaking over and over and

over again. They can afford to have the

best activists. They can afford to have

those activists go to Toast Masters and

figure out the best way to give a

speech. What's the best way to get this

specific politician to feel something

about what I'm saying, whereas you and I

are just random autistic people showing

up and speaking from the heart. Probably

taking off work for it. Probably

stressed because we're taking one of our

limited sick days or just not getting

paid to show up at state legislation to

begin with. You're not going to beat

these people unless you utilize the

number one thing that you have that they

don't, which are numbers. These laws are

unpopular and regardless of what those

surveys say, they are unpopular. People

do not want to show their passport or

their ID in order to use social media

websites. They don't want to show their

passport or their ID in order to install

an application on an Android phone. Most

people don't want their 3D printer that

used to run open source software to

phone home and say, "Please, sir, this

is a flashlight. I promise it's not a

Silent Hero gun. Please let me print my

flashlight piece to fix my broken

flashlight. It's not popular. And

they're going to try and make it seem

like it is. And because they have the

money on their side, because they have

people on their side that can make it

very easy for them to come up with the

best arguments, the best people to

present them. It's going to seem like

there is more support than there is. But

the one thing that you always have on

your side is that there are more of you.

And most of you, I get it, you have

jobs, you have lives, you don't have $50

million a year going to your

organization to oppose this stuff. So,

you don't necessarily have the budget to

set things up properly. But you need to

leverage the one thing you have. And the

fact that I will stand behind from last

video, regardless of the fact that I got

wrong, is that there are more of you

than there are of them. Start making use

of this. Send a message, make a phone

call, show up in person.

Make it obvious that you're not going to

go away.

That's the only way that you're going to

get some serious change. I'm going to be

giving you guys details later on a few

things. One of them, we're having a

meetup this weekend in Austin. I'm going

to put a link to it down below. The

tickets are free. You just have to sign

up because we have to have an idea of

how many people are showing up for the

event space we're having who are sick

and tired of the idea of ownership being

revoked. Just people coming together to

talk and chat about the things that I

talk about here on this channel who are

like-minded in the specific area of not

liking the fact that you don't know what

you bought and paid for. It would be

great to have some of you there. normal

people, crazy YouTubers, politicians.

We'd love to see anybody show up that

wants to talk about these things in

general. We've invited some people from

the state capital. It' be great to have

people like Greg Casar show up. We'd

like to get people together to discuss

how to push back against this at the

social level, cultural level,

technological level, legislative level,

because those are all the levels that

I'm going to be working on over the next

few years.

I can't have Blackberry show up, though.

She doesn't really like being taken out

of the house very much. If she were a

dog, I would take her. But

unfortunately, she's a cat, so she

really wouldn't like that. But

damn it, why you licky? What's scratchy

tongue, girl? Why scratchy tongue? I may

be taking this around the country based

on how things go at a later date. Uh,

we're going to see about that. I'll

include a link to that down below. And I

hope to see you in California next week,

and I hope to see as many of you show up

as possible when I go over that. But

just always remember, there's more of

you than there are of them. I don't. And

the whole point of that video, even

though I got the one factual issue

wrong, and I'm sorry about that, about

the question routing, is the point. One

of those surveys never even [ __ ]

asked you if you don't like the concept

of these bands and age verification. And

then the [ __ ] gets cited to show that

there is a massive consensus for

something that there is not a massive

consensus for it. If you want it to be

driven home that there is not a massive

consensus for this, you will have to

inconvenience yourself. You will have to

get up off of your ass. You will have to

take time to send an email, make a phone

call, figure out who your representative

is, figure out how to make your voice

heard. This will require thinking.

You're not going to be able to leave me

a comment saying, "Louis, who is my

senator? What is a senator? Where is a

meeting? What do I do?" You're not going

to be able to do that because I can

barely manage the things that I am

focusing on in my own country. I can't

help you in another country when I don't

even understand your political system.

You're going to have to do a little bit

of work and it's going to suck. It's

going to take time away from playing a

game, spending time with your

girlfriend, boyfriend, living your life,

petting your fish,

feeding your cat,

but it's worth it. If you want to live

in a world where you still have some

level of freedom, please, I'm begging

you, put the time in to do it. Don't

leave a comment saying, "Louis, what do

I do?" Don't email me and ask what I can

do. Don't wait for me to give you an

answer. Get started. Do something.

Something reasonable, but still do

something. In your heart of hearts, when

you look in the mirror, you know that

there's something you can do to figure

out how to form an email, how to figure

out who your representative is, how to

get together with other groups that

disagree with these policies and sign on

to letters, how to make some real noise,

how to push forward change. You just got

to be willing to do it. You have the

winning thing on your side. You just

don't recognize it yet. You outnumber

them. It always drove me nuts when I

would show up to one of these right to

repair hearings and I would see 14

lobbyists for the manufacturers and I

would be the only one there for the pro

repair side and they would always say

something like, "Well, 14 people showed

up against this and only one showed up

for it." Yeah. The 14 people that showed

up against it make $200 to $300,000 a

year to be professionals whose literal

job it is to do the bidding of Apple,

Microsoft, and Samsung. The other people

who were for this law were busy at the

time working jobs that pay 10 to 30

bucks an hour. like they they can't take

off in the middle of the [ __ ] day to

show up here and explain this to you. It

drove me nuts, but that's the one thing

that we always have on them. And if we

start learning how to use it, we win.

Just a rant. See you in the next video.

By now.