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But with that said, let's just jump into it
And the first thing that we're gonna briefly talk about today are the updates around the James Charles Tozzi Westberg situation that we talked about
earlier this week which is actually interesting because as it kind of winds down if it's even the right way to say that it's still
Chugging along and in certain places getting big if you're unfamiliar with the core of what I'm talking about
I highly recommend you watch our Monday video, you know
It's a story that started on YouTube it spread into our general industry
But even now like it's getting covered by the CNN's the Fox News's The New York Times did a piece on this
I think it really touches on how
unprecedented and historic
That this is all been so that's kind of an update on its own but some of the other big updates are on the business
Side James Charles has now officially lost over three million subscribers
and on the other side of this the person who made the expose video on him Totti Westbrook went from
5.9 million to she is getting a 10 million subscriber plaque now
She jumped more than four million subscribers
and
Even saying those numbers it doesn't really hit on how big of a deal that is if you look at where she started you're like
Okay. Well it she almost doubled that's crazy
it's even bigger than that because if you look through like the past two months of her videos her videos range between
700,000 to 1.4 million views on average every now and then you have an outlier and so really what she's looking at here with an
Injection of 4 million subscribers is an around 4x multiply
Just great for her and it also makes me wonder, you know
cuz the start of this whole situation
What kind of sale she's getting for those vitamins?
This appears to have been historically
Beneficial for her on the business side then on the other side of this for James Charles
It appears more bad news is apparel website sister's apparel went down yesterday actually looking into it isn't the most shocking news
Reportedly sister's apparel had been affiliated with killer merch and that's notable because as to filter explain killer merch is a full-service
merchandise company owned by Jeffrey star that designs
manufactures and ships products globally for the likes of jeffree star cosmetics as well as Kevin Hart little dickie a slew of other brands that
used to include sisters apparel
But as of yesterday sisters apparel is no longer listed as one of their partners
which of course is not shocking given what we have seen Jefferey star say about James Charles recently notably calling him a predator and a
Danger to society and now deleted tweets
but what I think is important to note here is we have also not gotten a
Confirmation or public statement about this business news from James Charles from Jeffrey star killer merch anyway
Although I will say I'm all
so interested to see what's gonna happen with the money because if you go to sisters apparel and Instagram some of the most liked
Comments are how can I cancel and get refunds also as far as James Charles is speaking tour according to TMZ that is still on
Which I will say for him. I think it makes business sense. But also at the same time could be a liability
I think it makes business sense because despite how many people he is lost
He is still going to have the hundreds of thousands
If not, you know low million supporting him
You know his audience before this scandal was just that big although when you looked at social media
We've seen people saying if they want refunds for that as well as far as what I referred to as a liability
but I guess I mean is just he could be exposing himself to an incredibly uncomfortable situation since this has become just such a
Massive massive thing. Well, you ask you have people that want to cancel they want refunds
I if I was him
I'd be worried that they're gonna be people buying tickets so they could go to the shows just to openly mock me and film it
Obviously while they would still be money in his pocket, I imagine just don't on a human level that would be emotionally devastated
But all that said ultimately that is where we are right now
And of course, I'd love to pass a question off to you. Do you think the bleeding is over?
What do you think about this reaction in general? Is there a potential for a bounce back? Yes know any and all thoughts
Let me know in those comments down below
Let's talk about big news around technology and privacy on Tuesday the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Approved the new citywide ordinance that bans the use of facial recognition technology by City Department the legislation passed in an eight to one vote
And to make San Francisco the first city in the United States to pass an outright ban with a stop secret surveillance ordinance that passed
stating the propensity for facial recognition technology to endanger civil rights and civil liberties substantially outweighs its purported benefits and the technology will exacerbate
Racial injustice and threaten our ability to live free of continuous government's monitor
And in addition to this ban on facial recognition technology all current and future
Technology being used for surveillance must be honored and if a City Department is looking into getting new surveillance equipment or even trying to acquire
Surveillance footage from an outside party. They must obtain approval from the Board of Supervisors
whoever it's also important to note that it will not become an official law until next week when the board meets again to ratify the
Vote so why is this happening? What happened?
And well, I mean at San Francisco topic regarding technology the future of it privacy in general
It's very attached well to some of you facial recognition technology may sound very futuristic its new
It's actually a tool that government agencies have been using for several years
They've been using it for a number of things like searching for a missing child
even preventing driver's license fraud and supervisor Aaron pass
The one who sponsored the ordinance emphasizes over and over again that this law is not an attempt to fight
Technology is about trying to stop people from taking advantage of it. This is really about
Public oversight of surveillance technology. It does not actually stop
Surveillance technology with one exception which is facial recognition
Software and this is really about giving policy makers the information that they need to safeguard
These important technologies from abuse not from their use but from their abuse and among those concerned. It's not all about privacy
it's about the technology actually working for an example why we can look to a
2018 study from MIT Media Lab that found quo error rates in determining the gender of light-skinned men were never worse than 0.8 percent
but for darker skinned women, however
The error rates ballooned to more than 20% in one case and more than 34% in the other two
But also during a Board of Supervisors meeting last week
There were several citizens from around San Francisco that came and voiced their opinion
and if you there said that they believe that this man would actually cause more crime and make
Investigations for police even harder my reasons for opposing this legislation
Are it will compromise Public Safety and it will create more barriers for law enforcement to carry out their duties
But I said even the one board supervisor who did opposed the ordinance noted that while she disagrees
It is a very well-intentioned piece of legislation
But of course the counter to that would be well, it doesn't matter the intent. It just matters the net result
I wanted to mention this story one because I thought it was interesting too
It's the first one that we're actually seeing through, although there is a similar bill that was introduced in, Massachusetts
Also three to get your opinion on this
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About the least in no way polarizing story of the day
Alabama rather would happen in Alabama last night
When the Alabama Senate passed a bill that effectively bans abortion in almost all cases and since this bill passed the state's house last month
Now the Senate all that's left for this to become a law in Alabama is that it just needs to be signed by Governor K
IV who notably it has not publicly expressed support for the bill
But many still believe that she will back in a big note around this specific
abortion ban is that it would be the strictest in the country bans abortion at every stage of pregnancy and does not make
Exceptions in the cases of rape or incest and that's despite Democrats efforts to create an amendment that would allow for those
exceptions and in fact
There are only three exceptions for the ban one
If the mother's life is in severe danger two if there is an ectopic pregnancy
Meaning that the fertilized egg is outside of the uterus or three in the case of a lethal fetal anomaly
Which is a potentially deadly birth defect it also
criminalizes the procedure any doctor who performs an abortion could be charged on felony offenses and land up to
99 years in jail and this law has elicited a number of
responses some celebrities like Lady Gaga have spoken out saying
is an outrage to ban abortion in Alabama period and all the more heinous that it excludes those who have been raped or are
Experiencing incest non-consensual or not? So there's a higher penalty for doctors who perform these operations than for most rapists
This is a travesty and I pray for all these women and young girls who will suffer at the hands of this system so many
Democratic politicians who believe that this bill is in direct opposition of roe v wade and an attack on women's rights
and for those of you that need a refresher roe v-- wade is a Supreme Court ruling back from
1973 that says that women have a constitutional right to choose whether or not to have an abortion
We saw several people in the 2020 race speaking out against it that including senator Elizabeth Warren
senator Bernie Sanders echoing that statement
He also saw a similar statement from several of the other candidates, but probably the strongest worded opposition came from Alabama state senator
Bobby singleton. Oh, I think it's a horrible bill still. I think that we raped women last night
We made women of Alabama the motto of the new Roe vs. Wade
I think that this is just a horrible bill hate to think the fact that someone who raped my daughter
At 12 years old that it's just sad to tell my daughter that she had to carry that baby for nine months
Here in the state of Alabama and look that rapist in the face for the rest of her life
But we also saw others speak in defense of this legislation Alabama state senator Clyde
Chambliss saying this bill has the opportunity to save the lives of millions of unborn
children
Alabama Senate Majority Leader Greg Reed saying that this bill aimed to quote express the will of the people which is to protect the sanctity
Of life in Alabama my representative Terry Collins really hit on the core of what this actually is
This is about creating a debate and taking aim at roe v wade saying this bill is about
Challenging roe v wade and protecting the lives of the unborn is an unborn baby as a person who deserves love and protection the thing
Is that's not a surprise because having states pass abortion laws with the knowledge that they will be challenged in court is nothing in it
Both, Ohio and Georgia recently joined, Mississippi and Kentucky and passing fetal heartbeat bills
Which ban abortion after a heartbeat can be detected Jax would say happens at around six weeks into a pregnancy
Before many women know that they are pregnant regarding those bills
organizations have already promised to take these to court and in fact today the ACLU just filed a lawsuit against the pill in Ohio and
With that we've seen a lot of legal experts
Arguing that a lot of these laws could be appealed but that's part of the plan because these cases could end up in the hands
of the Supreme Court
And now thanks to the new justices that were nominated under the trump administration
Pushed through a republic Senate the court as it is now swings in a conservative favor with five conservative justices and four liberal ones
So it's believed very likely that if abortion were brought to the Supreme Court roe v wade may not be held up
Which brings us now to the very real question what would happen if roe v wade were overturned?
So first thing it is important to know that a full and complete reversal of row v
Wade would likely not happen overnight
But that said the court could make a series of decisions that slowly chip away at it and severely limit abortion rights
But still let's take a look at the country without roe v wade just to see the most drastic change possible
so an overturning of the ruling would not make abortion illegal nation why they would then become a state issue and some states already have
Precedents in place and most of those states do use their precedent to ban abortion according to the Guttmacher Institute
Nine states have free roe abortion bans. That would be retained
If the ruling were overturned six other states have a post road trigger law that would ban it immediately upon its reversal seven other states
Have expressed intent to severely limit
abortion rights and ten states would protect abortion rights nine of which would do so up to the point of viability and only one would
protect the right throughout a full pregnancy
You know also when talking about this story we're talking about that the Supreme Court right a lawsuit states
What about just people in general, right?
There's another question here do the American people want to do away with roe v-- wait and the answer at least according to a Fox
News poll back in February is no according to Fox News
57% of responders said they wanted to let it stand with only 21% saying they wanted it overturn
Yeah, ultimately, that's where we are with this story kind of what we've been seeing in the country right now, you know
It is important to keep in mind that there is still a long road ahead
You know technically as of recording this video it is not a law in Alabama yet
We're still waiting on Governor Ivy's decision with her spokesperson saying that we would get it upon the governor's full review of the bill also
From the legal aspect if the cases were to make their way to the Supreme Court. It's likely going to take several years
That's also the reason you're seeing people on both sides
Saying that this next election is probably one of the biggest that we're ever gonna see it's believing the next Supreme Court
Justices that are going to be replaced are the more liberal justices given the younger age of the Trump Justice nominees
I mean you're talking about
Shaping what the country is going to be for the next few decades to keep in mind that I don't mean to be morbid here
That's saying that the current justices last several have had public health issues
Yeah, that's where we are with this story. Of course like with everything we talked about
I love to know your thoughts on are you happy to see this happening. Are you horrified to see it happening?
What do you think will happen any no thoughts?
I'd love to hear from you in those comments down below and that's where we're going to end
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