E17: Big Tech bans Trump, ramifications for the First Amendment & the open Internet

Censorship always starts by censoring some outrage that everybody agrees should be censored. No one even notices that what's happening is you're handing power to a group of people that they can now use against you in the future. Censorship always starts with something you like, and it ends as something you don't like when it finally gets turned against you.

There is very much a reasonable narrative, up until the Capitol storming, where the glass was definitely half full, and it could have legitimately been viewed half full, and it was just a matter of opinion because he [Donald Trump] was just such a crazy person and his style was so shitty ... After storming the Capitol, it is very clear, 100% categorically, this guy is just a complete piece of shit.

You have the leaders of many countries across the world using Twitter as a channel. Do you think they are now going to want to rely on that given that Twitter can censor them at any time? They're going to hand that lever of national power to Jack Dorsey? No way.

The social suasion that is influencing the leaders of the tech companies are largely their Democrat employees that live in the Bay Area.

Trump is now the first sitting president to cost his party the presidency, the House, and the Senate since Herbert Hoover.