A former Facebook insider argues conservative content should be deplatformed because it is 'extremely radical'; The Federalist publisher Ben Domenech reacts.
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Steve welcome back its about eight
Steve. Welcome back its about eight
30 in the east.
The social media giant platforms
are accused of censoring
conservatives, but thats, not
stopping the former Facebook
insider now pushing to take it
one step further and start
pulling some plugs.
We have to turn down the
capability of these
conservative influencers to
reach these huge audiences.
They are extremely radical and
pushing extremely radical views,
and so its up to the facebooks
and youtubes in particular to
think about whether or not they
want to be effectively cable
networks of disinformation,
Steve here with reaction, the
Federalist publisher, Ben
Domenech,
Ben George, to you
good to be with you
Steve, you are a conservative
influencer.
You need to have your plug
pulled
laughter.
Well, look. I think that its
interesting that theyre kind of
saying the soft part loud now
about things that theyve been
keeping opinions theyve been
keeping to themselves for a
while and as a tryout for Aocs
Ministry of truth. I think that
that was a pretty good
performance, but in this
instance I think that we
have to see here, whats really
going on, which is that big tech
wants to broaden this crackdown
in a lot of
different ways and bring a lot
of different corporations along
with them.
They are going to collude
together, going forward to crush
conservative speech and
everywhere that it rises up, and
they are going to use arguments
for that that sound along the
lines of arguments you might
have heard in the past about
shutting down ISIS and the like,
which is a comparison that this
same guest made.
Those are the kinds of radical
comments that are the opposite
of any kind of unity message
any kind of coming together,
instead of just seeks to crush
the speech of people that you
disagree with, which has never
been the American way
Steve. You mentioned Corporation
S,
you know we have heard over the
last week. There are a
number of fortune, five hundred
corporations that want to stop
donating money to members of
Congress who, on January, six, did
not vote to certify the election
and now were
hearing that. Apparently there is
some Democrat members of
Congress who say those one hundred and thirty or
one hundred and forty members of Congress, all
Republicans who would not do
that need to be punished
because they ultimately are
responsible for what happens on
that day in part.
Well, obviously, that wasnt
their attitude when you had
Democrats on the other side of
this voting against
certification in two thousand and one and two thousand and five
and after the election in
two thousand and sixteen of course, and but this is
also a situation. I think where
this is all a part of their
agenda to play at the republican
parties being too radical to
even do business with.
Frankly, from my perspective,
im glad to see some of that
corporate money go away because
its going to be replaced by
small dollar online donations.
The kind of support that we saw,
the president garnered during
his entire career and thats,
something that I actually think
is good for the GOP.
They should be listening more to
their voters and less toward the
various corporations that
frankly, hate those same voters.
They want to be able to sell
their products to them, but also
look down on them and, as I said,
to crush their conservative
speech whenever it rises up and
becomes something that they view
as problematic for their bottom
line.
Steve sure, of course, on
Wednesday, at noon, Joe Biden
becomes the President of the
United States, our 46th and
a brand new poll finds that fifty nine percent
of Republicans a majority want
Republicans to stand up to Joe
Biden when it comes to his
legislation in the House and the
Senate.
Does that sound about right to
you?
I think that number is
probably going to move even
higher, as we actually see what
the Biden agenda looks like
so much of this pandemic
conversation pushed to the sides,
all the different areas
of policy that wed like to know
about a candidate, and I think
that, frankly, people are going to
be surprised by how much of Joe
Biden they see right now in twenty twenty one
that they saw back in, say two thousand and nine
that, as the Democratic
Party has moved left so has Joe
Biden, and I think the Biden
Harris Administration
is going to push a lot of
radical things that frankly, are
going to serve to reunify any
kind of republican in fighting
or serve ill war over the
various things that have
happened as weve seen in the
past couple weeks.
When you see that agenda, I think
youll see. That number only
continue to grow
Steve Exit question, because
its fifty slash fifty o in the Senate. Now
with Republicans and Democrats
and people who caucus with the
Democrats as well,
how much of Joe Bidens agenda
does he actually get passed?
Ultimately, you need sixty for the
filibuster thing that
crazy rule theyve got there. So
will it be a slam dunk all of
his stuff, or will the
Republicans be able to
somehow moderate what hes able
to get done?
The answer is anything that
involves spending money is going
to be a slam. Dunk
Washington loves to spend money
and youll be able to find the
votes time and again to do
that,
its going to be more, I think,
on the cultural side of things
that youre going to see the
Biden Administration
have to do things through their
administrative processes,
bureaucracy and the like,
because there is going to be a
number of members who come from
more red, more purple states
who arent necessarily going to
go along with those aspects of
the August that touch on those
cultural war issues, and I
think, particularly on energy
issues and the like
Steve stay tuned. It all starts
at noon on Wednesday
Ben. Thank you very much for.
Transcript generated on 2021-01-20.