{"id":381137,"date":"2021-02-02T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T21:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=381137"},"modified":"2022-02-02T08:52:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T13:52:46","slug":"ron-desantis-declares-war-on-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/02\/02\/ron-desantis-declares-war-on-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron DeSantis Declares War on Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Have I mentioned lately how much I admire the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis? Details coming up, but he has launched “an ambitious crackdown on Big Tech.” Somebody with the guts to do it. He\u2019s somebody also not closing down his state because of the COVID virus.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, Ron DeSantis. This guy has got what we call an iron-enforced spine, the governor of Florida. “In a 45-minute speech, the governor [of Florida, Ron DeSantis] identified Big Tech companies as the leading threat to American democracy and freedom of expression today, and pledged that Florida Republicans would take action.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“[He] accused the tech giants of ‘clear viewpoint discrimination,\u2019 highlighting the censorship of Donald Trump and the removal of Parler from the internet and Apple and Google-controlled app stores. ‘The core issue here is this: are consumers going to have the choice to consume the information they choose, or are oligarchs in Silicon Valley going to make those choices for us?<\/p>\n

“No group of people should exercise such power, especially not tech billionaires in Northern California,'” and, man, oh, man is that right. Tell me: Where else do you hear anybody speaking out like this — in government? Yeah, you have some op-ed writers, some other people speaking out on this, but this? You don\u2019t hear elected officials so much. Some members of Congress do.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m looking for a piece that I have. Here it is. I found it. Miranda Devine in the New York Post today has a great piece on the same subject, and that is these tech oligarchs literally running the news business, running the opinion business. They\u2019re running the information business in America. Now, we\u2019re watching… Let me just tell you: We are watching the de facto merger of media and social media and state — government — the merger of giant corporations and state.<\/p>\n

This is when Democrats control Washington. The propaganda arm of the Democrat Party has never been more powerful than today, and don\u2019t forget that they\u2019ve got Antifa and Black Lives Matter soldiers as their military arm. Republicans who do not cave to the extraordinary pressure exerted on them in Washington today… Do you know who they are?<\/p>\n

They\u2019re tomorrow\u2019s leaders. Republicans who do not cave to all of this are tomorrow\u2019s leaders. Trump is the model going forward. Yes siree, my friends. Donald Trump is the model. You find something interesting? It was just made aware to me… I got a note from somebody who said, “You know it\u2019s been two weeks we haven\u2019t heard from Trump at all?<\/p>\n

\"\"“Two weeks! That hasn\u2019t happened in four years. Two weeks. In these same two weeks we\u2019ve heard nothing but ‘Trump, Trump, Trump\u2019 from the Democrats and the media,” and I had the same observation today. I was watching CNN, and they were doing a story about how compensate the Trump team was last December in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

I said to myself, “Is it so bad that there\u2019s no news, that the only story you\u2019ve got is what a rotten guy Trump was last December?” It was a story about how “conspiracy theories” were the dominant subject in a knock-down-drag-out conversation\/discussion in the Oval Office in the middle of December. I\u2019m saying, “You know, we\u2019ve got a brand-new president.<\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve got all kinds of stuff happening. We\u2019ve got the impeachment coming up and all you guys is the CNN can do is a long, drag-out story on Donald Trump\u2019s December? He\u2019s gone! He\u2019s no longer president. It doesn\u2019t matter,” and yet it does, apparently, to them. They are not going to let up on the gas pedal, folks.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re gonna continue whatever they think they have to do to destroy the guy, to impugn the guy, to ruin the guy, his family, supporters. They\u2019re not gonna let up on the gas. Just amazing. So here\u2019s Miranda Devine, and “Facebook\u2019s Squad of Thought Police”<\/a> is her piece. She says, “When you see him speak, it\u2019s hard to believe that such a gormless geek as Mark Zuckerberg may be the most powerful person in the free world.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“But socially inept tech oligarchs now wield unprecedented power to censor political thought and speech and are transforming America into an authoritarian surveillance state. For now,” and that\u2019s the key in that sentence. “For now, it is conservatives they are silencing and demonizing, in partnership with the Democratic Party.” For now.<\/p>\n

But after a while when they think they think that they\u2019ve finished that, they\u2019re gonna move on to whoever else is insolent, and they\u2019re gonna begin to demonize and silence that group. Who will it be? We don\u2019t know. But they\u2019re not going to stop exercising this power they have simply by vanquishing conservatives. This kind of power, you have fun using, and they\u2019re gonna be doing it day in and day out.<\/p>\n

“We already know Silicon Valley leans left… But the partisan power of Big Tech was laid bare this month when they acted in concert to censor Donald Trump and many of his 74 million voters, and then crushed free speech competitor Parler.<\/p>\n

Now Facebook has turbo-charged its woke corporate agenda with a new ‘vice president of civil rights\u2019 — an Obama administration alumnus obsessed with systemic police racism — and a global ‘oversight board\u2019 of retired politicians and human-rights activists paid to rubber-stamp [Facebook\u2019s] crackdown on conservatives, a.k.a. ‘domestic terrorists.'”<\/p>\n

So Facebook has hired a new squad of thought police aimed at conservatives, “for now.” For now. Trump is the model going forward. He hasn\u2019t spoken… Two weeks, he has not said a word. The Democrats have done nothing but talk about Trump. I think they\u2019ve been trying to get Trump to react.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve been trying to get Trump to say something in response to what they\u2019re doing. He has not taken the bait. But they can\u2019t forget him. They can\u2019t. They\u2019re not gonna ever be able to forget him. The media, CNN, will never see the day where they do not lead with a story on the Trump administration, even if it\u2019s three years from now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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