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money. So I do want to get to the 2020 presidential race. But I'm going to begin today with something

that is really deeply troubling, and that is you're

starting to see social media instead of looking at the government as an opponent in its free

speech mission, instead of looking at the government as a regulatory body that is seeking

to quash its creativity, we have now moved from social media as capitalist countries to

companies to social media as government-enabled

companies. That is where these big companies are seeking to go. There's this grand failure to

understand how exactly big business sometimes works. People tend to say, well, big business,

rapacious, exploitative, capitalist pigs. Here's the

reality. Big businesses are in the business of profit seeking. When you have a giant government,

and that giant government can increase your profit margins by issuing regulations, companies will

work hand-in-glove with the government. Corporatism is not, in fact, fair use of the free market.

It is not, in fact, use of the free market at all is not in fact use of the free market at all.

It is use of the government to do your bidding for you. And once the government is so big that it

can threaten your company, then many companies have a binary choice. And that is, they can either

work hand and glove with the government to help quash their competitors. And they can say

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