Fox News host Dan Bongino and Greg Gutfeld discuss Bongino's permanent ban from YouTube for questioning the efficacy of masks.
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Beyond, the useless autocratic vaccines mandates, is the issue of free speech, and the "
tension" between your rights for free speech under the First Amendment and the ability of non-federal entities to assert that they can squelch (censor) your speech with impunity. At the 2:30 minute mark, Dan Bongino provides very insightful analysis that covers some aspects that I have not fully unpacked. Specifically, that censorship and the First Amendment should not be conflated meaning that if there is no First Amendment issue, then it is acceptable to suppress speech (censor). They are discrete. So when a company pompously squelches speech under the guise that there is no First Amendment "
intersection", it still should be called censorship and condemned. Accepting that dishonest construct is a form of deflection that requires push-back, especially considering that these social media companies assert to be a public forum.
Bonfgino also notes, that some members of Congress (as public officials) deceitfully advocate that some social media sites must take down "
misinformation". So here we have public officials, who should be supporting free speech, actually demanding that private enterprise censor content. That is wrong.