receive money from silicon valley but you say even if they keep them afloat it is a mistake. tell us. absolutely. what we are talking about here is purchasing these think tanks to try to keep republicans in congress from doing anything on big tech censorship. that has been going on for years, dirty little secret that the googles and facebooks of the world have poured millions of dollars into these think tanks and it has had an effect on congress, you hear the refrain that they are just private companies, nothing we can do but 2020 changed that and a lot of conservatives including in congress saw what happened with the election, 43,000 votes was the difference between donald trump winning and joe biden winning when you look at those 3 states so social media censorship, google rigging algorithms, facebook removing ads from super pacs, had a huge impact. republicans are cheap dates on this stuff, a huge mistake to