what not to allow. And their defenders say that they have every right to do that because they're a private company rather than looking at the context, which is that they're a private company facilitating a public space. You know? Well, it's even worse than that, I would argue, because they're private companies that got called into the hill after Trump got elected and overtly threatened with increased right regulation by people like Senator Mark Warner, Macy Hirono, Hawaii. And basically these companies were told most of these companies had long histories of not wanting to be in the fact checking or political content moderation game. You know, Mark Zuckerberg right before the 2016 election was saying like, we're not a news organization. We're a tech company, right? And then they get hauled in by the Senate. They get ordered. Where is your plan for preventing the fomenting of discord? That's the phrase that they use. Told that if they don't do that, there's going to be tax penalties and (29/43)
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