The smart thing to do now is stand up for conservative freedom of speech, especially if you disagree with what conservatives do with that freedom.

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Trump is a special case. A cancer in our communication, there's a valid case for cauterising him away from the body.

But that must end at Trump.

There's a tactical reason for this, and a wider ethical argument.
Tactically, it's better to treat Trump, not as the leader of an insurrection, but as a LIAR who DUPED many Americans.

Make the narrative on Trump one of a singular evil, and as far as possible pardon those he corrupted.

This is the surest way to truly destroy the man.
Ethically, you face a worse enemy than Trump or his minions.

Liberals and conservatives are both in a war with the same enemy. Conservatives know it now. Liberals still don't see it.

You're both going to get stomped by the tech giants.
Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter now have an insane amount of power over your lives.

This week they exercised that power against conservatives.

You really think they won't do the same to liberals when it suits them?
I've made the effort in the last four years to tune into conservative media.

As I've said, I'm not generally won over.

But the conservatives really believe they're being stamped on by big tech. And I suggest that's because they are.
Apple, Google and Amazon completely destroyed Parler.

Right or wrong isn't the point.

The example is set. The tech giants now have de facto powers of censorship, unregulated and without oversight.

This is very, very bad.
The tech giants all pose the same problem.

They are "disruptive".

And read disruptive as "rapacious".

These companies are a modern day barbarian hoard.

Their "business model" is to rape and pillage one industry after another and leave no survivors.
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