read all of the emails exchanged between the White House and other federal

officials and Facebook in particular but also some of the other platforms and

I see that the White House and federal officials are repeatedly saying that

Facebook and the federal government should be partners. We're on the same team.

Officials are demanding answers, I want an answer, I want it right away,

when they're unhappy they curse them out.

There are regular meetings, there is constant pestering of Facebook and some of the

other platforms and they want to have regular meetings and they suggest, why don't you, they suggest

rules that should be applied and why don't you tell us everything that you're going to do so we can help you and we can look it over and I thought,

wow, I cannot imagine federal officials taking that approach to the print media, our representatives

over there.

If you did that to them, what do you think the reaction would be? And so I thought,

you know, the only reason why this is taking place is because the federal government has got

Section 230 and antitrust in its pocket and it's

to mix my metaphors and it's got these big clubs available for available to it and so it's treating

uh... Facebook and these other platforms

like their subordinates

would you do that to the to the new york times or the wall street Times or the Wall Street Journal or the Associated Press or any other big

newspaper or wire service?

So there's a lot packed in there.

I want to give you one very specific answer first and then

step back out to the broader context.

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