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Social media. you said that many platforms censor conservative speech. you have congressman devin nuñes suing twitter for the same reason. what, if any, regulation do you want to see? >> well, i hate the concept of regulation op media, but its very unfair. you talk about the word collusion. the collusion between the democrats and these people, it was ridiculous. its hard to believe i won. if you think about it, i had facebook, google, twitter everybody against me. i have the medias almost total...

Anonymity of social media and the switch that is flipped that allows people to act on violent impulses. its a combination of the two, and i think, sadly, that may be impossible to predict with an algorithm. >> thats okay. i want to get -- somebody has a real threat online, i would like action to be taken. but im nervous about these algorithms come too. member, with these algorithms that have been shutting down pro-life speech, a lot of pro-life speech has been shut down on twitter and on faceboo...

Mob over the past few weeks, the past few years, it is absolutelg essential that we wake up and recognize exactly what the marxist progressives are trying to get us to do. right now, conservative speech is consideredin violence. liberal violence is considered speech. it is an attack on what we hold dear and c fundamental. that message is getting out. understand, we are not fighting for left or right, we are fighting red, white, and blue. taking that message forward is something that is really me...

>> laura: the media research center released a devastating report today documenting the censorship of conservative speech by silicon valleys tolerant tech giants. among the findings, claims from former employees that facebook hides conservative content from the trending section. backed up by a detailed study. google, youtube and twitter partner with leftist groups like the southern poverty law center that hate conservatives. and check this out. of the 25 members on the panel that guides twitters...

But that is itself chilling free speech. >> no question. so many universities are using to shut down free speech on college campuses by saying the left is going to get violet is pretty astonishing. i dont blame conservatives who want to take their life in their hands by going on some of these -- i dont want to pretend like its happening at every campus. it is happening to a lot of conservatives. im talking to people who range from jordan peterson to jason riley to heather macdonald, charles murr...

Things like lets enforce our border or lets deport some of these immigrants. but thats not a shock. again, penn state is one of the campuses i visited and there was a near riot when i was at penn state. im sure that some of the people who were protesting against the conservatives on campus, it was some conservative groups they were protesting are the same people who a couple of years ago nearly try to break through the doors where i was speaking to disrupt the lecture that i was getting. whats a...

Were parting ways with williamson because "the language used in the podcast was callous and violent. this runs contrary to the atlantics tradition of respectable, well reasoned debate and to the values of our workplace. of course millions of americans believe that abortion itself is callous and violent, most obviously to the innocent life it destroys. nevertheless, another nonliberal voice was snuffed out at yet another esteemed publication. my friends, something alarming is taking place. the fr...

Its this malcontent in canada kicking up a fuss. weve seen it with the seven poverty law center with their obscene list of islamic folks or whatever. i think im on that list. ridiculous. they do it to shut down speech. >> no question. if youre going to talk about them, by their same logic they are responsible for the attack on the family research council a few years ago since the guy was a follower of the splc and use their apparently their map of hate groups as a target. all of this is really d...

It is the modern way of cutting off free speech. >> laura: on the goalpost, by the way are forever moving. every day more issues are taken off the table altogether and may no longer be debated at all. so in other words if you are against affirmative action you are a racist. and if you where they make america great again hat to a gun-control rally and get beaten up, dont expect a lot of sympathy from the attendees. and if you praise the military skill of robert e. lee you are liable to be branded...

Like their right to free expression is less worthy of protection than that of any garden-variety leftist, where does that leave our first amendment? as a shell of its former self is the answer. there is a contraction of free speech all around us. and few seem to even notice. many of you have become accustomed to editing yourself, lets face it. expressing views that just five or ten years ago were considered mainstream can now get you fired. it can cause you to lose a promotion or you could be br...