Welcome to another T-Rex talk. Today we're going to be talking about de-platforming and platforms.

Last night I was talking to some political folks about some legislation that is pending here in the state of Tennessee,

which would redefine certain online social media platforms as common carriers. And this is a

kind of an ongoing debate for the last

many, many years talking about are these, these online social media platforms publishers,

or are they platforms? What kind of government regulations should be imposed on them so that they

play fair and their biases don't actually affect the First

Amendment or free speech. How exactly do we interact with these particular platforms on the free

market? And this is a very, it's a very complicated conversation. But there are some very

interesting examples just from this past week.

So today I want to talk a little about GoFundMe, want to talk a little bit about Spotify,

want to talk about Patreon, want to talk about a few things that have happened just in the last week that are really kind of interesting things that have developed in this particular category. GoFundMe is in the news

because the Freedom Convoy up in Canada is in the news. There was a GoFundMe page for the Freedom

Convoy, which is truckers, approximately 38,000 Canadian truckers who were protesting a new law

that it would prevent any Canadian or U.S.

truck drivers from crossing the U.S. Canadian border without being vaccinated.

And so the Freedom Convoy raised tremendous support from both countries.

And they had a page on GoFundMe, and that raised 10 million Canadian dollars relatively quickly

from 120,000 donors, which means that's an average of 83 bucks per donor.

So these were not gigantic, vast, right-wing monies.

These were small-town people who were contributing to this right here.

Now, as the Freedom Convoy worked its way across Canada, it was heavily criticized by the

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