109: The tyranny of the tech monopolies

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🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Trump’s ban from social media, the crackdown on lockdown dissidents and if gay actors should play gay roles. Tom Slater, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss.

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0:00.0	2021 is looking an awful lot like 2020 so far.
0:04.3	Lockdown authoritarianism, Big Tech censorship and woke hysteria continue to run a mock.
0:10.9	We're going to have to fight for freedom, democracy and sanity all over again this year, and
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0:49.4	That's Spikes-Online.com and the red donate button in the top right corner. Now onto the
0:55.8	Spikes podcast. Hello and welcome to the Spikes podcast I'm Fraser
1:01.0	Myers and joining me this week as ever we have Spiked Deputy Editor Tom Slater
1:05.2	Hello and Spiked columnist Ella Whelan.
1:08.0	Hi.
1:09.0	Coming up on the show Big Tech Censorship, The COVID crackdown and whether only gay actors should play gay roles.
1:17.0	Twitter permanently banning the commander-in-chief's personal account with 88 million followers.
1:23.4	They will be blocking the president on Facebook and Instagram indefinitely.
1:28.0	Trump is the spiritual, but I will also say operational leader of this domestic terrorism effort.
1:34.1	What is needed now is for us to listen to one another,
1:37.9	not to silence one another.
1:41.9	Donald Trump, the sitting president of the United States, has been banned or suspended
1:46.3	from practically every mainstream social media outlet.
1:50.2	Last week Twitter took the unprecedented step of permanently banning Trump because two of his
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