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Far, a lot of people. >> yes. >> neil: a lot of people that might not like ben and jerrys politics. i dont know about you, but it would take an act of god for them to pull away a pint of chunky monkey from me. what im saying is, do we go too far with this? >> no. no one is going into ross office and say you have to close executives knox, you have to get rid of your business. he can host -- >> neil: who is he hurting though? who are they hurting? in this case might be the people that work at equi...

Are calling it mass surveillance, which is not allowed on their platforms. theyve had these debates for years. who will define what is suspicious activities are, is it when they post a manifesto but not act on it? is it participation in different group? theyre not necessarily going to see what messages are being sent back and forth. now we dont know what will happen. theres the debate between individual privacy and communal security. thats something weve seen for years. >> what ive worried about...

Unless somebody else comes along that is better qualified, ill probably vote for him again. its just rough out there. you know, twitter is a good example. boy, its -- again, like a rock fight every day. >> neil: you mentioned twitter. you know twitter had taken down mitch mcconnells account after it dared show video of people gathering outside his house the other night and threatening him. it was his site that was taken down as a result. they have only just now reactivated that. what did you thi...

Disastrous policies, well go down the street. >> neil: i dont remember a lot of conservatives in the obama administration boycotting companies, hollywood companies that put out movies that they didnt like or the slant that they didnt have. i just dont remember anything like that. so should you live and let live or is this the rationale going forward? boycott the company because we dont like the heads of the companies and what theyre doing. >> its unfortunate you dont remember. i certainly do. pr...

Investors and the donors to president trump out in the marketplace and im going to put that out in the public for the intentional purpose of telling people think twice before you support this political candidate. that is going too far. >> neil: there is a double standard there, right? you supported the move against twitter. >> its not a double standard when you say because of the doxing itself. that is something that is harmful. thats trying to suppress political speech. so youre saying im going...

Antonin scalia would agree. he said if youre not able to stand for your political actions in public, that that zaps the country of the civic courage that forms democracy. >> neil: fair enough. i dont want to go too far afield here. jenna, when you hear that sort of thing, do you agree with that? that you have free reign, this is an american right, you dont like something, you can boycott, do all of that. you know, republicans themselves just exercised it in the mitch mcconnell situation where tw...

[laughs] >> bill: thank you, dave. >> i will say, an interesting week with kevin hart and the oscars, saying that he has apologized enough. i think what the rock is getting out his people should stop looking for something to be offended about as opposed to expressing opportunities for genuine offense. congressman steve king talks about whats this about white nationalism? i think what is going on? >> bill: something that david actually -- >> again, kudos to juan for doing this. twitter has built ...

Running, right? >> i dont think there is much doubt. >> bill: you have beto orourke, he live streamed his trip to the dentist. i dont know, i mean, whats next? >> sandra: who knows whats next? there are more than two dozen candidates. [laughs] >> i? >> i dont know. i dont know if anyone got it. people on twitter work serious yesterday that they had to watch this dental appointment. boycotting twitter for the day because they didnt want to see it. >> shall be, help us. why did we have to watch? >...