Matt Gaetz: “Does it feel sometimes like we are living in a crazy sci-fi movie where powerful entities and interests are trying to…”

“Does it feel sometimes like we are living in a crazy sci-fi movie where powerful entities and interests are trying to control what we see and what we hear and what we read? Because they ultimately want to dominate what we think and how we behave. My fellow Americans, there is a broad effort underway to deplatform, demonetize, and destroy anyone who has a conservative America First perspective. We have seen this with ``Newsmax,'' with ``One America News.'' We saw Google work to demonetize ``The Federalist'' and my question is this: When did we become so frail as a country? When did we take the position that if we saw something we didn't agree with that somehow that would dehumanize us and limit our ability to participate in meaningful dialogue? I think we became that frail when the left started to say that words were violence, which they are not. Speech is what liberates us from violence. It gives us an alternative path, but people get frustrated and concerned when they see that the choices that they want to make in telecommunications or the digital world are deemed unacceptable by the powers that be. When did this realignment happen? I remember when I was in school, it was always the liberals, the classical liberals that wanted this robust marketplace of ideas, and it was a few conservatives who didn't want you to see certain things or look at certain things or read certain things.…”