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Slack.com slash DHQ. So if there is one issue that I get beaten up over more than any

other, it is my approach to big tech and my feeling that big tech needs to be stopped

from censoring our ideas and from threatening our free speech and the libertarians, especially

climb down my throat whenever I say anything about this because they are supposedly independent

actors, not government actors. And for some reason, independent actors are allowed to take

away the rights with which our creator endowed us. Blake Masters, who is currently running

for Senate in Arizona, wrote a terrific piece about this in the Wall Street Journal. He is

Blake Masters is the president of the Teal Foundation to promote science and innovation.

He is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller, The Co-author with Peter

Teal of zero to one notes on startups or how to build the future. Blake, thank you so much

for coming on. I appreciate it.

Thanks, Andrew. Great to be here with you.

So I just want to read a little bit of your op-ed in the journal. It's called Reclaiming

Our Independence from Big Tech. And the subhead was companies that censor political speech

harm competition and ruin our brains need regulation. The first paragraph is Google Conswing

Intellections. Facebook knows more about you than your spouse does. Amazon's Alexa can

record your living room conversations yet for all to talk about the big tech threat. These

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