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CNN threatened to hit YouTubers with copyright strikes if they livestream Thursday’s Presidential debate. Tim Pool joined today’s show to discuss this matter.

“You have a party who believes the internet is a human right and should be free but not access to a debate between the two presidential candidates,” Crowder said.

According to The Post Millennial:

On Monday night's episode of Timcast, host Tim Pool revealed that CNN, which is hosting the first presidential debate of the general election season on Thursday, has warned any YouTube channels that intend to live stream the debate while providing commentary for viewers that this would not be permitted under copyright. The debate will be hosted by Jake Tapper.

Pool also had a phone call with CNN, arranged by YouTube, which he discussed on air. He said that he'd received a message from YouTube last week "asking to hop on a phone call to discuss the RNC and the presidential cycle." During that call, which happened on Monday, he "briefly spoke with some individuals at YouTube... who made it clear that CNN reached out and is expressing concern, I don't know the full extent, but making it known that YouTube better contact their news programs over the CNN debate."

"They want to tell you what the debate was like and they have the luxury of very few people tuning in to CNN," Crowder said. "The live broadcast is the danger zone for legacy media. They just can’t compete.”

Pool indicated that this debate is basically historical, as never have the circumstances been as weird as this election.

"Never before has a president debated his predecessor for the next term," Pool said. "More than ever are you going to need commentary."

Press will not be permitted in the debate hall, per rules demanded by Joe Biden's campaign. Mics will be cut strictly at the end of two-minute time periods and there will be absolutely no audience. Press will be made to watch from a Spin Room, and while some selected photographers will be permitted to shoot in the debate hall, they "are required to remain stationary throughout the debate."

The network appears to believe that having been granted permission to host the presidential debate means that they are entitled to ownership of all the footage of that debate. They seem to feel that they are creators of the content instead of broadcasters of content that would exist in some form even if the network did not. Pool, however, will be a creator, a pundit, while streaming and commenting on the debate.

"The fact they are saying 'we won't allow anyone to use this' [means they want] to control the narrative," Pool said. "If it was about money CNN would sell licenses to as many networks as possible."