The Social Meeting Company's Kicking Off

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I was very conflicted when a, the social meeting company's kicked off. Alex jones is free to create his own platform, i guess, but no one'll even hoast it. I don't think having white supremisist or virulently anti semitic content on the platforms is something that they should be obligated to do if that goes against their own values. If they were subject to the first amendment, no, it would be, i, you know, they actually wou would disappear. We would lose what's valuable about them,. And there'd be so many scammers and phornographers polluting the platforms nobody would want to be there any more.

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