you all were not telling the truth and you should not be trusted.

Congressman Matt Gaetz, thank you for what you did for your country tonight.

Be offended with the Democratic whip, not House Republicans, like a machine, Matt Gaetz.

Welcome to Hot Takes. This is Congressman Matt Gaetz. Let's talk about the news. And

you knew the news in advance. Yesterday, if you listen to our podcast, we previewed a lot

of the elements of the president's executive order. Tucker Carlson and I had an interview

on it last night. Here's Tucker and my responses.

The Communications Decency Act of 1996 is at the center of this. It's the reason that Big

Tech is as powerful as it now is. Section 230 of that act holds that we're quoting now.

No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or

speaker of any information provided by another information content provider. What does that mean?

It means that the Big Tech companies, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube are not considered responsible

for the content that appears on them. And that actually makes sense when in favor of that,

if they remain neutral platforms. But they are not neutral platforms. They are publishers,

the most powerful publishers in the world. Big Tech buys off Congress so as to maintain special

privileges that local newspapers and television stations don't enjoy. That's why the president's

executive order today is one very important next step because if we just wait around,

Big Tech will steal this election from Donald Trump and from the American people. In 2016,

we won three rust belt states by a point each. And that was when nobody thought Donald Trump could

win. In 2020, we've lost the element of surprise. And so we have to be as aggressive as they are.

That means bills like Senator Holly and I have filed to change Section 230. So as to out these

entities as publishers and not the unbiased platforms, they are. It means an executive order

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