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There were several fake news accounts whether it was regard to the russia investigation or to me. and we have to hold all of these people acouldn'table. how is it that every day there conservatives that are being banned? i think if twitter wants to be in the public square and they don't want to be a content developer. they should come clean. give us all your algorithms. how is it possible that i can be attacked relentlessly, hundreds of times a day by fake accounts that they claim in their terms of service should not be there. this is more than just conservatives, every american should care ab...

Candidate. mark: should they be regulateed? >> i don't necessarily think so. they should be treated as a public forum. that is an important distinction constitutionally and for the courts because they're not a content provider. they need to be treated as a public forum which google pretends they are. mark: they are a private company, how do you treat it as a public forum? >> that's the distinction. if they want -- google, for example, pretends they're a public forum because they allow different voices and opinions to be heard. facebook is not in the content creation space, they aggregate other...

Regulateed? >> i don't necessarily think so. they should be treated as a public forum. that is an important distinction constitutionally and for the courts because they're not a content provider. they need to be treated as a public forum which google pretends they are. mark: they are a private company, how do you treat it as a public forum? >> that's the distinction. if they want -- google, for example, pretends they're a public forum because they allow different voices and opinions to be heard. facebook is not in the content creation space, they aggregate other people's content. are they a pu...

Conversation with robert mcdowell, the former fcc commissioner who made the point before 2015, we didn't have these rules and it created facebook and amazon and google. why does it matter? >> well, and the answer to that is that we had several instances where people were starting to test the boundaries of net neutrality. the best example is at&t blocking facetime. and once people started to realize, once companies, especially as they integrate from being just an isp to being an isp and a content provider, now you have a strong economic innocecentive to provide your content for free and your co...

What if you have too much control of tv properties. telephones and tv, these are two different things. >> obviously it's a distribution network versus content provider. the idea is to have a complement there but you don't want one company to be so empowered it drives up costs on consumers. that's the argument. in this case it seems there is a lot of complementary nature to the deal and it's just interesting what's going on. i was talking to a hedge fund manager i know early this week who said you're guys got to pay attention to this, there's something real here. >> there's something real here ...