I said to myself I will mentally boycott them. But wouldn't it have been good if I had a platform I could just click them off for a week and I can give them, how about this, shouldn't the public be able to give Facebook a one week suspension? That's the way to frame it. Finally okay I accidentally got to the right answer by feeling around. Right now social media platforms can give an individual a one week suspension but the public cannot give the social media platforms a one week suspension. But why not? How hard would it be for that to be a thing? Now I'm not saying that the conservatives should all cancel their accounts with Facebook if they see somebody get a suspension but you could certainly make your feeling known by simply giving them a one-week suspension of clicks. And if something like a quarter of all conservatives gave Facebook a one-week suspension they would actually see it in their bottom line. They would actually notice that their graph just plunged 10 percent for no reason or whatever. So just something to think about.

So here's the general thought is this. Whenever you have competition you get better results and the social media situation has evolved to a point where we don't have equality of competition. The customers don't have as much power as they should have. You know usually the customer is always right. Social media is the one place where that's just not true. Am I right? For most businesses the statement the customer is always right you know within balance of course is a fair statement and companies actually act as though that's the case. Oh whatever you want we'll make this right. We want to keep you as a customer for life etc. But the big social media platforms they don't really need you. They need most people but they don't need you apparently. And so there's nothing stopping them from just you know slapping off a customer even if that customer maybe was in the gray area. There's just no penalty for it. So I think to stop the slippery slope you need a little bit more customer control than we currently have. So maybe we'll see that.

And by the way my original statement about the deplatforming of conservatives was always that the slippery slope doesn't exist meaning that a counter force always always appears when it looks like a slippery slope is gonna happen. So you never really get the slippery slope because the counter force always appears. And the counter force is people saying okay you got rid of that person and I can see why you did it even though I would prefer for a speech like that wouldn't make sense. I don't like it but at least I understand why you say here's our standards this is outside of our standards. At least I get it. It's credible even if I prefer it didn't happen. But when you start throwing in a Candace Owens that's not credible. The conservatives who look at that saying whoa whoa what did she say they got her kicked off the platform. And then you say that's it you got kicked off the platform for that. And there was a big pushback. So the pushback does appear when things go too far. Now that exact level where things end up might not be where you want it but it's not going to go forever and I think you already saw the pushback.

I think the irony, here's the irony with the conservative being banned. The worst problem about being a Trump supporter in 2016 was that you were associated with the worst people who were on the same side. My biggest problem in 2016 is that I could so easily be lumped in with some of the worst things that people could say in the world who also happened to like the president for their own reasons not the same reasons as mine. And what happens when those people get deplatformed? My credibility goes up. So I'm having a hard time completely being against any banning of anybody when that banning is good for me. I hate to say it but because I'm lumped in with a class of people that I would not love to be lumped in with you know I would not identify with other people's comments. I just have my own comments but it's easy for part of the country to say yeah you're a Trump supporter you must be a neo-Nazi because those guys like Trump too. I would be pretty happy if all of those voices the neo-Nazis etc. should they violate anything I'd be happy if they go away. It makes me look better. So it's sort of a make a phone call go away. There we go. Alright so that's enough of that. That's all I got for now and I will talk to you.

Somebody said then who will defend you? I don't know what you mean. Am I happy with unequal banning? Yes I am happy with unequal banning. Let me complete that thought. Somebody said would I be happy if the conservatives got more banned than the people on the left? Yes. Do you know why? Because when the people on the left are allowed to be terrible they're ruining the brand of all the people on the left. The anti-Trumpers can self-immolate if the worst of them pollute the rest of the brand. If on the conservative side the people who are most extreme get banned then my brand, people who say good things about President Trump, improves. Now is that free speech? No it's not free speech. That is not free speech. It is speech within a prescribed zone which is you know not too extreme in any direction. So am I happy if I can live within the approved zone? Cuz I don't think I've ever said anything that would get me kicked off a platform and I also don't think I ever would. I don't see any situation where I personally would get deplatformed. I just don't see it. But if people who are making my brand look bad get deplatformed I say two things. Hey that's not free speech because it isn't but it's also a private company and they have rules and standards and they get to enforce those. On the other hand I say hey it makes me look a little better. I don't know. I'm not so sure that you should worry about the other side not giving us bans because every time that they're allowed to go forward with their awfulness it just makes their whole side look less credible. Alright that's all for now and I'll make a bet with you that if I ever get deplatformed I will deserve it. There's my prediction.

Alright so here's another case where you can use your filter on life to predict. My filter on life says that there is no slippery slope for these bans of conservatives. That there is no slippery slope because the counter force has already formed. There would have been a slippery slope if no counter force had formed but they always do. So my filter says that somebody like me will never get banned unless I really did something that was legitimately bannable. I don't think I would intentionally. So that's the prediction.