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He's just being tough on them because there are a lot of people who are legitimately frustrated and concerned with the recent shift in policy these giant social networks are adopting to combat the backlash being thrown their way for their platforms influence over the 2016 election that gave Trump the slight edge he needed to win the election.

I can sympathize somewhat with their position being a conservative because I understand that their job is to create the most profitable product and its hard to take a more conservative position on things when frankly our base tends to be of much less volume because were often defending unpopular ideas based on higher order philosophical principals we feel are worth protecting no matter the cost.

For example, I dont like white supremacists or racists, but at the same time i think its important we allow those ideas to persist in a democracy because we see any censorship as a slippery slope that it might seem like a good idea at first to go down but just because it seems to be the quicker and most straight forward path to get down off the mountain (which btw is where we all want to get to in a polite society) that doesnt mean we dont end up tripping halfway down and tumbling to the bottom with broken bones.

In other words if we start down this path with seemingly good intentions whats to say were not going to be trying to take further steps in this supposedly moral direction just because in order to be continuously progressive and push such an agenda that gets you the votes, you need to invent some new issue and solution to progress towards.

In other words what do democrats campaign on to remain in power when they actually achieve a Utopia?

Isnt that kind of a conflict of interest for democrats then if they want power for the sake of just being in power?

Btw in all fairness i should point out that the Republicans are all about creating crisises for them to campaign on being to solve as well. (hence the fact we dont take libertarians very seriously within our caucus)

All im saying is that at the end of the day, we need conservative and liberal ideals to promote a healthy democracy and sometimes the liberals get it right and sometimes the conservatives do.

When it comes to my gut feelings on the issues of free speech we need to be less concerned about the individual's voice and whats being said and be more concerned by the volume we give to select voices to say things so loud they can drown everybody else out.