of silverback, magnus, and thousands of other users with militia leanings. and i wonder just how productive that really is. i know that a lot of people affiliated with militias, they re being deplatformed off of social media. why is that? when they haven t actually committed any crimes. i think we have to acknowledge that we are not settled as a nation on how social media should be governed. for many years they allowed plenty of radicalization to take place on their platforms. and after january 6th the social media companies say oh, that was too much for us. you know, that was over the line. and so they just shut down people en masse. and neither approach, before or after january 6th, is right. i talked to a guy who can t get a grubhub account. and i wonder if that actually makes it more difficult to monitor his activity. absolutely. and it could drive these guys
a right to rise up against a tyrannical government. they believe they do. but as we saw from the number of arrests that came out of january 6th, you do not have the right to an armed insurrection against the u.s. government. i have tried to read very carefully the words of our founders. i do not believe they meant that every tom, dick and harry could start their own militia for whatever cause they felt. and in some instances reek havoc on a community. with many private militia groups in a legal gray zone, there s little for a government to do proactively but social media companies have pulled the accounts of silver back, magnus and thousands of other users with militia leanings. and i wonder just how productive that really is. i know that a lot of people affiliated with militias are deplatformed off social media,
a right to rise up against a tyrannical government. they believe they do but as we saw from the the number of arrests that came out of january 6th, you do not have the right to an armed insurrection against the u.s. government. i have tried to read very carefully the words of our founders. i do not believe they meant that every tom, dick, and harry, could start their own militia for whatever cause they felt. and in some instances, wreak havoc on a community. reporter: with many private militia groups in a legal gray zone, there is little for government to do proactively but social media companies have taken a different approach. pulling the accounts of silverback, magnus, and thousands of other users with militia leanings and i wonder just how productive that really is. i know that a lot of people affiliated with militias, they are being deplatformed off of social media. why is that when they haven t