Hello, this is Ron Paul with your weekly update from Monday, November 27th.

Separate Tech and State.

Some libertarians dismiss concerns over social media companies

suppression of news and opinions that contradict select

agendas by pointing out that these platforms are private property and not part of the government.

There are two problems with this argument.

First, there is nothing unlibertarian about criticizing

private businesses or using peaceful and voluntary means such as boycotts to persuade businesses to change their practices.

The second and most significant reason the they are private companies argument does not hold

water is the tech company's censorship has often been done at the request of

government officials.

The extent of government involvement with online censorship

was revealed in emails between government and employees of various tech companies.

In these emails, the government officials addressed employees

of these private companies as though these employees were the government officials subordinates.

Government officials using their authority to silence American citizen is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.

Yet some conservative elected officials and writers think the solution to the problem of big tech censorship is giving government

more power over technology companies. These pro-regulation

conservatives ignore the fact that it would be just as unconstitutional if a

conservative administration was telling tech companies who they must allow

to access their platforms as it is when progressives or

social media companies to de-platform certain individuals.

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