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Government agenda about speech, the more president trump could win what's the low probability lawsuit because they are creating what's 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 and censored unblocked and taken down are the things people are having a mainstream conversation a...

Because it's 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 government. the more facebook tries to carry out a government's agenda about a speech. the more presiden...

The basic principle i articulate in the op-ed if it's state action in disguise then the constitution still applies. that's 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 deep. there is a path by which they could actually find in the high court that section 230 is actu...

Chance? >> i'm saying there is actually a food chance if he makes the right arguments in court. the media didn't love his lawsuit when it came out because normally, they are right. the first amendment applies to the government, not to private companies. but here's 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 could and couldn't stay online. best of all for them, they were protected by a form of federal immuni...

Most of favorite new action starved us if you watch marginalize hearings that threatened that if they don't 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 don't 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 to the cdc that was shu down and it labeled as disinformation by facebook. who checks the fact che...