House Judiciary Committee member and Dan Bongino discuss the censorship of conservatives on 'Hannity'
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Part of our society
by the way, sadly, I predicted
its only going to get worse
here with more Fox NEWS,
contributor Dan Bongino, Matt
Gaetz Good, to see you both
Congressman Gaetz. I understand
MR firebrand your best selling
book. They are targeting you
there targeting Dan Bongino
hes, a tiny owner of parler. He
invested in it because he
believes in free speech.
I know what he did it.
I would be a risky investment
for anybody. He wants it to
succeed and I support him in
that effort
it now they want to go after
you, too.
You are absolutely right.
We should take note of the
language. The left is using
chemical warfare- insurrection,
domestic terrorism thats not
by accident.
If there are exquisite
authorities, international laws
that allow our government to do
things to terrorists that we
wouldd never allow against our
own people
in the incoming Biden in to
administration, they want to use
those authorities against
maggot
if they are targeting Paul
Gosar. It Andy Bigs, Madison,
Cawthorn and myself, because we
had the nerve to actually stand
and point out the need for
election integrity, and we
also pointed out their
hypocrisy
for all of the criticism. They
have leveled against it,
Donald Trump. They were the
cheerleaders fund, raisers and
apologists for the people who
burned our cities, attacked our
police and were on offense
against the very notion of
America for months the summer
they dont want to account for
that Joe Biden doesnt want to
answer for it,
theyre going to go after the
president and his allies, and
they are going to use national
security authorities that you
should never use against our
fellow Americans
Dan Bongino its not
enough. We saw the video of
Mr Jack Dorsey, the twitter
guy, its not enough that he is
silencing the president and
shadow banning and all these other practices
to shut you and parlor
to shut you and parlor
down, because you are providing
competition.
He wants to be a liberal
radical, do whatever he wants,
but you shouldnt have section
230 protection pad hes, going
to align with these powerful
companies, not only to withhold
information about Hunter Bidens
laptop. Now they want to shut
you down,
I mean they want to shut us all
down.
We all have to be canceled will
wipe us clean.
I want to be crystal clear
as an investor in parler I
havent had a good nights sleep
in weeks, maybe one day I got
six hours or so
im on the phone with lawyers
and people of parler all the
time
he had the scenes its ten
times worse than you. Even how
can it be worse?
You are being attacked by Apple
Amazon and Google.
Three dollars trillion companies
its worse.
I dont think you understand
not you specifically, but really
how malicious and evil the left
is.
They want us wiped from the face
of of their attitude. Is this
at the beatings will continue
until morale improves
go on twitter? We will harass
you on Twitter. We will ban you
from writing ads on Twitter. Like
I was,
we will shadow banning your
accounts. We will ban the
President of the United States.
We will start a competitor.
No, we will wipe that clean
too,
where in history, liberals
never read history, but where in
history has ever trying to push
the beach ball under the water
and silence free speech from
people ever work?
One more point on this:
let me ask you a
question
im on parler, I dont even know
my password. I have no control
over that.
I dont even have an email im
off the grid
on parlor youre, an investor.
I will gladly donate to a
defense fund in the name of free
speech.
I will gladly help you.
I want nothing in return
on Twitter. They kicked the out
of all three of us.
It never would dawn on me to
ever say ban that person.
Now I assume on parlor. They.
Probably there are people who
beat the out of you.
Is that true or false
im, probably the most
parodied account on parler and
I own a portion of the country.
I told you Dan Bonginos
Hairline, we dont kick them
off.
As a matter of fact, we did this
bounty thing in the beginning,
where we offered ten thousand dollars to
prominent liberals with the
following to come over.
In other words, our commitment
to free speech is for them.
I never recall you ever ive
known you a long time ever
saying that twitter should be
deep platform to.
We believe in this crazy idea.
Like free speech and open
dialogue,
liberals dont feel the same
way.
The one I remember you told me:
what do you do when someone is
racist or anti semitic?
You have standards, you may not
get it the second its put up,
but you have people monitoring
it right.
We are not a surveillance
platform because we are not a
publisher,
the New York Times. They read
it, they censor it.
We are a platform. It takes time
once we report it,
you would never take down a
New York Times. Article, even if
you thought it was big news,
a lot of people want to silence
a guy on here, Matt Gaetz.
He gave a speech the other day
and I thought heads were going
to explode
if they didnt. Like your speech,
I liked it. I thought it was
powerful.
I appreciate that
Dan and you are fellow
conservatives. We take a high
view of the american people.
We think we are actually
resilient and capable enough to
confront ideas or speech that
might not be comfortable, but
that we can resolve through
research and critical thinking
the left take such a low view of
all of us.
They think they have to control
what we see and what we hear so
that they can manage how we
behave
its like the Woke Tobia is no
fun for intellectual. I think
this country is great because we
believe in our people and our
ability to decipher from what we
can incorporate to the value
system of the greatest country
on earth,
silencing and cancel culture
is the left in America.
Conservatives are the champions.
Transcript generated on 2021-01-16.