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Government agenda about speech, the more president trump could win whats the low probability lawsuit because they are creating whats called state action. one facebook and the government cooperate, then facebook has to obey the same rules as the government of the most important one is the free speech clause. do not disseminate on the basis of speech. >> shannon: we talked about the concern about how you identify disinformation and who decides what it is because things that a year ago were tagged ...

Because its the one that is most likely banned the quickest. speaking of banning, you remember donald trump was banned from facebook and he sued facebook and othersome companies. his arguments was social media companies had become the de facto of the government. the white house has created plenty of exhibits for them. john yoo he was on fox news at night on our program on our network talking about that. listen. >> i would not recommend facebook do this. but the more facebook listens to the gover...

The basic principle i articulate in the op-ed if its state action in disguise then the constitution still applies. thats what i think could have the states go all the way to the supreme court and give trump a chance of actually winning. carley: interesting. you have got to think if trump does win, what does that mean for the social media companies and how they operate and also what does it mean for users? >> absolutely. look, i think that the implications for the social media companies could be ...

Chance? >> im saying there is actually a food chance if he makes the right arguments in court. the media didnt love his lawsuit when it came out because normally, they are right. the first amendment applies to the government, not to private companies. but heres the thing in this case. these private companies. the big tech giants, did their work in part on behalf of the pig government. they responded to government threats. they willfully cooperated with the government in deciding that speech coul...

Most of favorite new action starved us if you watch marginalize hearings that threatened that if they dont clean up their behavior and tak democratic focus ideals give them prominence on the platforms , then there will be consequences. this is a default state action that that is directly under pending an assault on the first amendment and i dont think mos people are noticing it. love give me an example. the website i run the fox recently bought several months ago we had a story directly linking ...

Do that, we will give you basically most favored nation status or if you watch a lot of these hearings, they threatened that if they dont clean up their behavior and take democratic focused ideals and give them prominence on the platform, then there will be consequences. this is a default state action that is directly underpinning an assault on the first amendment and i dont think most people are noticing it. and let me give you an example of something. at out kick, the website that i rent that ...

Reputation. how do you get companies to be more firth coming, though, when theyre hit with a cyber attack or to do more to make sure theyre not hit with it in the first place? >> well, i think that companies themselves should look at the risk of a cyber attack as part of the cost of doing business and put in defensive capabilities, take steps to be safer in their communications and what their systems are open to. i think the federal government has a significant law enforcement role. i think it n...

And prudential terms. legally, the bill of rights, the constitution limits government or state action. you work for nbc. it is a private company. its not part of the government. you could say something on the show right now and it could decide to ban you or fire you. that is not a first amendment issue. its a private employer. facebook is a private employer. if it decides to ban mr. trump for some number of years, its absolutely as a legal matter not a first amendment issue. prudentially, its a ...

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Years prior. >> so im hearing you, that you do feel like, and as i mentioned you are running for congress, you do believe that this is a matter of an act of congress that needs to be involved, or do you see that there is some other manner in which all of this needs to be addressed, absent congress? >> i think that washington -- sure, i think washington, absolutely, needs to take the lead on this. they need to listen to the voters, put together meaningful gun safety reform that what the people ac...