 talking about what what Twitter is doing and and what is going on and I was you know I guess I wasn't shocked I'm not shocked anymore by anything that happens on Twitter but but surprised a little bit surprised by the extent by the passion by the extent of those that would want to nationalize Twitter you know so people are talking about ooh Twitter is colluding with the government you know so what what's the solution the solution is we should have the government take them over well it's just bizarre thinking like that I you know I saw all over the place anarchists who want more government intervention and in big tech and and more controls over big tech and what big tech can do I saw conservatives libertarians anarchists all arguing anarchists slash libertarians all arguing for for more government controls yeah somebody somebody says in the chat Tim Paul who's got a huge following on YouTube wants to nationalize Twitter I wonder if if Tim Paul will have a platform if if the government nationalizes YouTube where he has millions of followers I wonder how long he says something that pisses off the authorities before he gets slammed so it truly is shocking to me you can be against what Twitter did you can oppose it you can even think it's so bad that you're never gonna use you can boycott Twitter it's completely within your right and and it makes sense for many people to a boycott Twitter to switch the different platform or to get off social media completely I mean you know life did exist and many if you don't remember this and some of you were too young to remember it but life did exist before social media so you could just leave social media you know it's not like you have to have an alternative you don't have to have an alternative the alternative could be to actually socialize with people live maybe in the post COVID ever because now it's illegal it's stunning to me the the degree to which people have principles until the principle is tested private property is fine until it's inconvenient or until you don't want those people to have private property until you don't get what you want so here's the bottom line I mean I said this yesterday on the show and I really mean this I think this is an important point I am so happy to live in a country where a private company can ban the president that's freedom my ability not to have to listen not to have to give the president a platform on my platform that's freedom you couldn't do this in China because in China all social media is monitored by the government so that all that is said in social media has to be okayed with the authorities and if the president of China wants to release something by social media God nobody's gonna stop him she's stopping to go to jail in Iran you can't do that I suspect that in Russia if let me Putin wants to say something you give him a platform you clear it out you make it possible for him so if you want 1984 1984 is what many of you want what many of you are asking by forcing Twitter to do the government's bidding to do your bidding to you to do your arbitrary bidding to deny private people the ability to control what appears on their private platforms that's 1984 China's 1984 Twitter banning Trump is the opposite of 1984 it's exactly the opposite it's exactly the ability of individuals to say no I don't want to deal with the president of the United States I don't want to deal with powerful politicians politician could call up any TV station and they will take his take his call and he can talk to them he can I'm sure even CNN would answer the phone let Donald Trump talk he can put out a press release and every news wire will carry it the idea that somehow this is silencing anybody is absurd the idea that competition constitutes you know only other I mean such a narrow view of competition it's a typical status view of competition that competition it constitutes something you know narrower that other all it is is other social media platform no competition is any means of communication and there's tons of competition so I will get to Paula we'll talk about Paula so the idea that and I saw this a lot on Twitter yesterday the idea that Twitter banning the president of the United States and banning certain conservative voices and again I'm not even talking about are they just a far is it good business for them to do Twitter's a business I don't know if it's good business I know if it's the right decision I mean in the case of banning Trump I think it probably is but in the case of banning a lot of other people in the case of not being consistent Twitter is not consistent Twitter is biased Twitter is politically culturally motivated but Twitter is a private company and has every right every right to be biased the media is biased Fox is biased CNN is biased they're all biased so Twitter is a biased and I you know I wish that if they were going to banned Donald Trump they should also ban the the that to look at a tool of harmony in Iran who calls for for death and destruction they should be banning other dictators and autocrats and they should be banning Antifa and some people and BLM and anybody who is advocating and inciting violence left or right but they don't they're not consistent which is sad and unfortunate it doesn't deny them the right to make those irrational decisions it doesn't deny them the right to be biased because again it's their platform and it's not about charity objective is give less charity than leftists or conservatives I don't know what oh that's charity charity all right I thought charitable here sorry I was confused so you know this is not these are private companies private platforms you know they created what they have they you know somebody worked really hard somebody hired programmers raised capital took the company public Twitter has not done great public because it's particularly without Trump because it's not clear how Twitter makes money it's advertising platform it's not as robust anyone years robust as a Facebook others it's got lots of users but it doesn't make a lot of money it struggled to try to figure out how to make money I think banning Trump is probably is going to be problematic for Twitter from a money-making perspective because a lot of people on Twitter because of Trump he brought a lot of people to the platform but but that's again their decision but think about the fact that this is private property par excellence in a sense that somebody made the investment somebody did the work somebody created the software somebody created the platform it's not a public square now I don't believe in public squares I don't believe anything's a public square but okay you can imagine a public park where the government has planted the trees and planted the lawn and so it's public supposedly we all own it or something and therefore anybody should be able to say anything they want there but even that's not true right if I stand up and start telling pornographic stories guess what the police are gonna come and take me away you can't just say whatever you want even in a public square but Twitter is the exact opposite of a public scale square private individuals private capital private investors private workers private entrepreneurs built created made Twitter it's I don't know what private property would be what your definition how you would define private property if Twitter doesn't qualify as private property just because a lot of people use something does not make it public which basically means you know I ran said public means that nobody owns it just because a lot of people use something does not make it that nobody owns something it's it's truly horrific once you inject the idea that Twitter is a private company the Twitter is private property that the platform is private property then you reject all private property you eject the whole idea now then people tell me but it's a monopoly no it's not so by my definition of monopoly there is no such thing as a private economy it's you know a monopoly is something protected by government like the post office that's a monopoly try try distributing first class mail in the United States and you'll get arrested by the government who protects the monopoly the post office has and FedEx and UPS have found ways around it that have been legalized but basically it's a monopoly but Twitter is not a monopoly Twitter has no government protection if you start a competitor to Twitter it's not the government that is gonna decide whether you survive or not it's the marketplace and part of that marketplace are your suppliers and your vendors and the other people with which you deal what we need today what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think meaning any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason by the intellect not by feelings wishes women's or mystic revelations any man or woman who values his life and who does 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