To me, there's a lot of layers to what you're talking about in terms of being very social media and internet specific versus kind of everything else.

To me, what further complicates that is, you know, we talk about the First Amendment being, you know, not a guarantee of privacy, obviously,

but a guarantee of free speech.

To me, where the waters get quite muddy is that you have private sector for-profit companies

developing a technology, an app, a website, or whatever, that has an operating,

you know, right and left flank, it has a rule set to it that you agree to by signing up for it.

You're not obligated to sign up for it.

They can kind of run it however they want.

You know, when I see people complain about being, you know, Instagram pages being shut

down or YouTube channels being demonetized or whatever, I'm talking about the free speech

thing, like there is some gray area there and that, you know, your ability to speak isn't

any different. It's just this company is not going to allow you to do it on their, within

their rule set on their platform. Where I get a little nervous is when the United States

government steps in and now you have this weird mix of, well,

is it the U.S. government censoring company A or individual B? You know, is there influence?

You saw it at the height of COVID with our own government influencing, I mean, bordering

on threatening, maybe not even bordering. I mean, I think there were instances of DOJ and aspects of our government threatening private companies to either push a certain agenda or stifle a certain counter agenda.

How do you, how do you, you know, knowing kind of the not so black and white elements of all of that, do you feel

like there is a way for our government to navigate, both our government and private citizens

to navigate this kind of chapter of our nation's history moving forward in a way where there

is some guarantee of privacy without just

completely getting rid of everything or going to a civil war scenario.

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