{"id":393334,"date":"2021-04-20T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=393334"},"modified":"2021-04-21T15:12:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-21T19:12:46","slug":"rush-saw-ron-desantis-had-the-makings-of-a-great-leader-when-he-took-on-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/04\/20\/rush-saw-ron-desantis-had-the-makings-of-a-great-leader-when-he-took-on-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Rush Saw Ron DeSantis Had the Makings of a Great Leader When He Took on Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: Apple reversed its ban on Parler. This is from The Verge. Parler is a competitor to the hate machine of Jack Dorsey called Twitter, the censorship machine of Mark Zuckerberg called Facebook. And if you doubt that — if you think that\u2019s, you know, an exaggeration — there\u2019s audio I play in my show in Seattle. I love to play Mark Zuckerberg speaking privately with his staff talking about the mRNA injections and saying…<\/p>\n

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He says, Mark Zuckerberg, “I\u2019m concerned about what this effect will have on our DNA.” You will be banned from Facebook for saying that; Zuckerberg says it in private. And these platforms are so powerful. It\u2019s great that there is a competitor, Parler, and what\u2019s happened… There\u2019s a timing issue to this.<\/p>\n

The interim CEO of Parler, Mark Meckler, said in a statement, “We worked to put in place systems that will better detect unlawful speech and allow users to filter content undesirable to them while maintaining our strict prohibition against content moderation based on viewpoint.” So Apple reversed its ban. It\u2019s back in the Apple store.<\/p>\n

However, there\u2019s something else. There\u2019s a timing issue. It was a couple of days before a hearing in Congress about Apple\u2019s behavior, \u2019cause in my judgment, they clearly banned Parler because people were discussing election integrity. Most of the planning for January 6th went on at Facebook and Twitter, just like the planning for the riots to come go on Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s great to see them win this victory — and I\u2019ve got lots to say about tech because I worked in it for so long. I want to get to this. Rush Limbaugh was too powerful and too beloved to ever be effectively banned. It wouldn\u2019t work. But Rush knew full well the efforts the leftists put into destroying any platform they don\u2019t control<\/a>, he was very, very happy with Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida, who understands the technocrats and their attempts to rule us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: 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

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“[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

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? 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” 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

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