It, it was not a convincing legal letter.

It was not a convincing legal letter.

And, and fundamentally speaking, I think what's been interesting about the whole story and the subsequent, "He's going to become a counselor," or, "No, he's not going to become a counselor," is that there is very little about the man in my correspondence with him that struck me as convincing.

The arguments as to why he was doing satire were not convincing.

His explanation as to the rationale for the satirical direction he was taking was not convincing.

His subsequent video that he made when he knew he was about to be unmasked, and he put a video on his YouTube channel saying, "Who is the Crewkerne man?" And voluntarily unmasking himself in what...

And I encourage readers to look this up because it's quite interesting.

I think it's quite quick to allow someone to run for public office after crimes of this magnitude.

Matt Muir lives near Harvey and says he started a petition opposing the aerial cull because of the burden it puts on landowners.

said they wouldn't recoup the destroyed animals off private property so then the burden was passed on to the landholder which obviously raises other concerns about other feral animals feeding on those destroyed animals and then also the burden of having to go around recoup all of all of them and um dispose of them and what means do you do that um you know you could dig a really big hole or Well, whatever, I'll burn them or I don't know if the tip would accept them.

But, yeah, I think a lot of locals were a bit put off by that.

It's like, oh, great, that's great.

You shoot the animals on our land and then we have to recoup them.

Then they'll say, you know, it's quite disturbing seeing the action going around, like choppers flying around.

We're quite private people.

Yeah,

Picking the, picking the targeting of, of people, not drawing up the ads themselves.

N- I mean, frankly, you can literally just chuck a website at it, and it'll s- and tell it, "Make me a bunch of ads that reflect this website," and it'll do that for you, and it'll pump them out, and it'll do the targeting for you, et cetera.

Which means that the idea of locally mandated spending and things that are specifically from, it, like you can run all your ads through the national campaign.

If the AI decides that it's gonna show them to people in Makerfield, you need to be less targeted than you used to be because the AI will naturally deliver the content-

So-

To go back to the restore point very briefly, which, uh, Adam was talking about earlier, I j- I, I want to make this point very, very strongly because I still don't think anybody's really looking at this.

So Tommy Robinson, sorry, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, um, over the weekend in the wake of a whole bunch of posts about the grooming gangs and Rupert Lowe's inquiry into it and the results thereof, he posted something, uh, over the weekend, which featured an image of men who looked like they were of, um, South Asian origin all basically hanging from nooses with, uh, the caption Pakistani Rope Gangs.

And that has now reached obviously millions and millions of people.

Yeah.

Um, but all media eventually ends up being video.

And fundamentally, social media, if you think that Facebook has been around for 20 years now, more or less, and when it started, it was a place where you went to connect with friends, to attempt to flirt with people that you went to school with, break up your marriage, and post pictures of your holidays, and it is not that anymore.

Uh, it has become a far larger, far more complex platform, series of platforms, and effectively, fundamentally, most social media platforms are now like television.

Whereas before they were lean-forward participatory things, now they simply tend to be lean back.

So for example, you will log on to Instagram, and rather than posting to your grid of pictures or seeing the things that your friends have posted to their grid of pictures, you'll instead be served a vast quantity of video content made by people that you don't know that is designed to entertain you, much like TikTok does, which is exactly what Snapchat does, which is exactly what, uh, YouTube Shorts does.

Everything is basically now short-term video.

Mm.