"Happy Saturday morning, Playbook readers. I’m KARA SWISHER (or, as I like to be known as, NOT BEN SHAPIRO)..." Ladies and gentlemen, @karaswisher is a gift humanity does not deserve. We are live tweeting Playbook this morning.

"...amid all the entirely avoidable destruction, a relentless and bizarre focus by some in the GOP and elsewhere on perhaps the most pointless part of the crisis: Their loss of Twitter followers and gnashing of teeth over censorship by Big Tech."

"Since this me-me-also-me crew — led by laughables like Rep. MATT GAETZ (R-Fla.), who seems to live in a permanent state of inaccuracy and way too much hair gel — seems to be persistently unable to read the room, allow me." YES. LET'S.

"The most important part of the equation is that, in the case of de-platforming President DONALD TRUMP, tech companies did the right thing..."

"Trump deserved what he got and, frankly, his absence has lowered the twitchy and reactive temperature by a lot, at least online. Well done, tech."

"while some have described Trump to be the digital arsonist in this case,...he was only following the rules set for him & it was entirely the fault of the tech companies...[l]Like a parent who gives a child endless bowls of sugar & then wonders why their kid is batshit crazy..."

THIS: "...these companies have turned themselves into the digital arms dealers of the Internet age, amplifying and weaponizing everything. They might have cleaned up the Trump mess, but they also made the Trump mess possible by architecting systems that thrive on enragement."

"I have always been amazed by Facebook CEO and founder MARK ZUCKERBERG’S statement that he did not want to be an “arbiter of the truth.” My question for him: Why then did he build a platform that requires it?"

Is @karaswisher accepting fanboys?

"...while justifiably putting a sock in Trump’s toxic pie-hole, they also showed how swiftly they could end whole businesses, as was the case with the right-fave social media platform Parler." TOXIC. PIE. HOLE.

"What [tech] needs is reform, which will only come when know-nothings like Gaetz hush their exhausting bellyaching and the real legislators sit down and sort it out in a measured way."