A lot has now come up in recent days as Facebook and YouTube are banning Alex Jones and you know the

couple of things that are in play here. One people saying well it's a violation of First Amendment rights

and well it's they actually do it's it's not really a first amendment issue in the sense that as

long as it's not government censoring these are companies and if companies make decisions that

they don't like the content but the question is what's going to happen you know who gets to make

these decisions who gets to decide um Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey uh made a decision not to ban Alex

Jones um but then the issue of Louis Farrakhan comes up and that was brought up immediately after

Alex Jones and then YouTube only banned part of uh Louis Farrakhan not other parts of Louis Farrakhan

and I think what you've got here very complicated issue then the issue of shadow banning or

stealth banning or ghost banning or comment ghosting is what it's an act basically that some

companies have used to block a user in their content from the online communities such that yeah

they might have put it up there but there's no way anybody could either see it or spread it

because of the algorithms that these guys are able to put in place it raises a whole host of

issues here um my prediction is is that if certain people are banned and let's listen if you're on

any social media you know how violent can get and I'll just speak for myself and my experience

uh the things that have been said the pictures that have been made up the vile vicious threats that I

have received are all there um I I tend to be myself a first amendment absolutist in other words I

think for example on television on radio on uh and on social media we all make decisions about

the content that we choose to engage it in other words you are the final arbiter and if these

companies are going to decide well this person stays and this person goes and maybe they have one

political bent over another political vent uh bent I would imagine over some period of time that

there's going to be alternative competitors that allow everybody to say pretty much anything they

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