Sup you beautiful bastards, hope you're having a great Tuesday
Welcome back to the Phillip Defranco Show
Let's just jump into it
Some of the things we'll be talking about are some pieces of news from the digital space.
First up is some digital history being made.
Despacito, which is a song that I just got out of my head about a month ago
Is also the most viewed video on Youtube
and it has now made history because it's the only video that has over 6 billion views.
And the only video that comes even close is Ed Sheeran's Shape of You with just under 4.1 billion.
Then on Instagram we have Ariana "Small Barbeque Grill" Grande making history:
She's the most followed female creator on Instagram now surpassing Selena Gomez.
In general its been seen as Ariana being more present on social media as ever
And Selena Gomez pulling out for personal reasons.
And also if you're interested in the most followed person on Instagram it's actually Cristiano Ronaldo.
Then in kind of history making but then kinda not we have Pewdiepie on the news.
This actually connects with a story we touched on late last week which is connected to Youtube cracking down
on videos that feature children and in that crackdown we saw on the 20th Youtube had said they deleted 400
channels & disabled comments on tens of thousands of videos & reported illegal comments to law enforcement.
Along with that there were more videos being demonatised.
Regarding that there were a range of videos being affected although as we pointed it out last friday some of
the videos were of kids doing gymnastics & a split in a thumbnail. That doesn't describe all the videos that were
affected but as far as the initial case that was the example.
Then what follows is channels just getting completely having their comments disabled.
That stirred up even more panic. Team Youtube started reaching out to creators to calm them down saying this move is temporary.
One example saying:
And as we talked about on Friday this doesn't seem to be something all Youtube should be worried about
just kind of people with minor or child content which brings me to Felix because
really if there was someone who was going to call Youtube out based off of historically what he had to go through.
This week we saw him chime in on the issue & he said this:
Felix: They're not setting a president by deleting comments or demonitising these videos.
It's not going to effect everyone on the site.
It's something they've clearly done just to act swiftly at a time it is necessary & to be honest I appreciate how
Youtube does that before everyone freaks out & says "Youtube is over", no isn't.
Calm down. They are working on it & I trust that they are usually.
Phil: I feel it is important to share this with you because in a situation like this, it would be very easy to fear monger for views.
Anyway at the end of the day, I just want kids to be safe & in the meantime to react to this very fast in this specific avenue
Youtube is getting really big & slowly pulling back.
I respect so many Youtubers were panicked, but I do agree with Felix here. We also had Felix on the news because
he LOST TO TSERIES for like a second, okay a few minutes. How can I possibly minimise it?
But thanks to the previously teased Elon Musk/Justin Roiland Meme Review he popped back up &
the internet rejoiced despite the fact that he will get passed again, but that doesn't make this whole situation any less amusing to me
honestly I don't know who else could jump into the game to boost subs.
But interestingly enough this story gives us an interesting segway into a story with Elon Musk
Yesterday the Security & Exchange Commission (the SEC) asked a federal judge to hold Elon Musk in contempt
for violating a settlement deal & we've been seeing Elon Musk firing back on Twitter.
This situation started back on Feb 19th where Musk posted about Tesla.
Then a few hours later responding to his own tweet saying
So the SEC claims this raises the settlement reach back in October. This deal specifically stating that Elon Musk
must have social media posts with information that could be considered material for shareholders preapproved before posting.
The thing is Tesla did create a board to approve posts, but this said they didn't receive approve any before posting this.
And the thing is that isn't the most surprising thing to hear & I say that from what he said in a 60 Minutes interview back in December.
In the interview, Musk is asked if he had tweets censored after the settlement or if someone reads his tweets before he tweets.
He responds "No" with both questions also saying:
She follows up with by asking how would anyone know if it would impact the market at all if they've been all read. Which he said:
Musk going on to say to say that he abides by the settlement out of respect for the justice system, but
while Elon Musk did not get approval before posting this tweet Tesla claims that he didn't need approval for this tweet.
As they say the correct information is already made available for the public since January in an earnings call.
But the SEC remains saying he violated the settlement because he didn't get approval & in their filings
the information in this tweet was:
And he also actually referenced Musk's 60 Mins appearance in the other side of this Musk takes to Twitter
critising the SEC. Musk responded to the tweet with a screenshot out of the transcripts from the Tesla quarter 4 earnings.
The numbers have already been made clear writing:
One responder tweeting:
So, Tesla shares went down 3% in trade market sharing & I mention that with this interesting exchange:
A user on twitter posts:
another adding:
to which Musk replied:
SO, what now?
This isn't the first time Musk has gotten in trouble for his tweets. As you may remember, we talked about it on the show
The SEC has thought about removing him from CEO for tweets he sent back in August. They accuse him of fraud & shareprice manipulation.
And they soon reached a settlement where he was allowed to stay as CEO, but he lost his role as chairman,
that of course resulted in the mandate that his tweets be reviewed as well as
he & Tesla seperately being fined $20 million each.
and now this time around, it's not quite exactly what the consequences are for breaking the settlement.
According to Erska Viliconia (sorry for the spelling), Professor at George Town University Law Centre
He could face fines for up to $1000 per day & this is from when the court issued the order until the court rules that he's been full compliant.
So for someone like Elon Musk though, that'd be nothing, but you also have Rebecca Roythe Prof. at New York Law School
says this could only be the beginning of the SEC trying to threaten Elon Musk's position of CEO again, but
as far as what happens next, last minute updates to the story, according to "The Hill"
so that'll be interesting to see how this develops after we looked at that 3% dip, now we see the stock go back up
whenever you see someone talk about this, the market is actively fluctuating
It's going to be really interesting to watch how far this gets but, of course like we try to do with every story we talk about on the show
I do want to pass off the question to you, what's your thoughts about all this, what do you think is going to happen, what do you want to happen?
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Now for our final piece of news for today, which if you've had seen our show for a while
you know this topic is not going to be a happy one & today that story is about what's happening between
India & Pakistan. These 2 countries have been embroiled in this territorial conflict over Kashmir in a region that lines between them.
And this has been going on since both countries gained independence in 1947.
Since then, the countries have gone to war over Kashmir twice  & to give context to these wars, Kashmir's 60% Muslim, but mostly controlled by India, a Hindu nation.
So we have this territorial dispute that is over 2 distinct religion groups that is a known recipe for disaster.
This has of course led to disasterous violent conflict in the region for both sides  over the years
which brings us to this month where a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle full of explosives into an Indian convoy on a busy highway.
This happened in Pulwama located in Kashmir under Indian control
And reports at least 40 soldiers were killed it was one of the most deadly attacks in the region for decades.
This attacks was claimed by Jaish-e-Mohammed a terrorist group based in Pakistan
and leads Pakistan insurgency in Indian Kashmir, but however, India placed blame in ultimately in Pakistan.
Saying they turned a blind eye in the group's activities.
That accusation of course feeds to a reputation that Pakistan supports terrorist groups.
A reputation that even led President Trump to cut $1.3 billion in military assistance to Pakistan late last year.
There specifically because they use terror groups to achieve military objectives, but
Pakistan denies all allegations.
And that terror group even officially banned by Pakistan although
Pakistan are accused of shielding it's leader from being labelled as a terrorist by the UN which is a designation that would freeze their bank accounts.
But all that leads today where Pakistani officials reported airstrikes on their territory conducted in the Indian war planes.
And now all these countries have been at war for a while, this is the first time in decades where either party sent war planes
across what is known as the Line of Control to strike the opposing sides.
Specifically what they did is drop bombs in Balakot a town near the disputed border.
On the one side, the Indian Foreign Secretary justified the attack by doubling down the idea that Pakistan supports the terrorist group.
Vijay Gokhale: India struck the biggest training camp of Jaish-e-Mohammed in Balakot.
In this operation a very large number of Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist, trainers, seated commanders &
groups of Jaish-e-Mohammed training in action were eliminated.
Phil: and also adding back in 2004 not to allow it's soils to be used in terrorism against India.
However right now it's unclear whether the planes hit anything or anyone.
A spokesman from the other side, for Pakistan's armed forces claimed there were no casualties & tweeted out:
This along with photos of the strike & we've seen various security officials & diplomats in New Delhi call out India's claims.
This due to the fact that the Indian Prime Minister Modi made it clear that they were going to retaliate
prompting any terrorist groups to evacuate the areas near the border.
These officials also say that they doubt the existing large scaled training camps by the border
asserting instead of most likely spread out in small clusters throughout the country.
Additionally in the past few days, India has moved troops in villages near the Line of Control arresting
Kashmiri inspecting of being a part of an insurgency against India & there have also been reports of families fleeing from the border region while conflict escelates.
Confirming the fears that these families have, the fighting will only intensify from here.
you have Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan's office responding in a statement saying:
Also a quick pause to remember the super happy fun times  now that most people forget, both Pakistan & India control Nuclear Weapons.
But back to the statement accuses Modi's government of using the attack to spur the support of the upcoming election stating:
And most recently in a reporting in New Delhi they proclaim:
But ultimately that's where  we are of recording in this video, as this is a still ever growing situation
but, now you know, you should be aware of, you have now 2 Nuclear powers going at one another with one vowing retaliation
you know, that sort of thing.
but, of course with every story we cover, we'd love to know your thoughts on this situation.
Do you think that this is just posturing & angling & kind of chest puffing in an election cycle?
Any and all thoughts I'd love to see.
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