Welcome back to the re-education. Today's show delves into the history of academics and activists who claim free expression can be a kind of violence, and why this conceit endangers the very democracy these voices are now trying to protect.

My guest is the very talented Damon Linker, the founder of the Eyes on the Right Substack, and a former columnist at the week.

So this was never targeted at conservative Republicans. This was targeted to a group of 600,000 people

because of the people who followed them.

And then you determined that wasn't fair, and you corrected that practice.

Is that correct?

Correct.

So just for the record, since you've been singled out as a social media platform before this committee,

Twitter undertook no behavior to selectively censor conservative

Republicans or conservative voices on your platform. Is that correct?

Correct.

Good. So let the record reflect that because that's the whole reason supposedly we're

here because House Leader Kevin McCarthy wrote our chairman a letter and said, hey, this is going on and we think your committee should investigate it.

And it's a load of crap.

We just heard a snippet from a hearing from 2018 in the House of Representatives where then Twitter CEO, Jack Dorsey, was asked about shadow banning of prominent conservative.

Shadow banning, if you don't know, is a kind of de-amplification of a Twitter account

or for that matter of Facebook account so that more people can't necessarily find it.

And at least when you're talking about political discourse, it's a very big deal.

Anyway, Mr. Dorsey said something that he and other

Twitter senior executives have been saying now for more than four years. We don't do it. And when

steps are taken to de-amplify tweets, no political consideration is ever made. Well, folks, there's no

nice way of saying it, but that is a lie.

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