Recently, Fox News allegedly edited out some parts of former President Donald Trump’s speech. This was in an interview Trump had with Dan Bongino.
Bongino is very anti-censorship, which to many seems like a conflict of interest since Fox News doesn’t seem to care as much about free speech as many others. Bongino takes issue with anyone who may imply that at all though. He didn’t know anything was going to be edited apparently. We reported more comprehensively on that story here, saying in part:
Many people erupted in anger on Twitter after former President Donald Trump spoke with Dan Bongino on Fox News. There were claims that Fox News edited out election fraud claims in the interview. Liz Harrington, a spokeswoman for Donald Trump tweeted this:
“WOW. So I went to post a clip from President Trump’s great interview from @FoxNews last night, and lo and behold, Fox News EDITED and CHANGED what President Trump said, censoring out 45 accurately describing the Fake Election. Here is what President Trump said:”
Jenna Ellis went to bat for Bongino:
“I’ve known Dan Bongino for years. He is 100% a conservative and against censorship. I just spoke with him and he’s going to find out exactly what happened with the Fox YouTube clip. Dan is one of the FEW that is principled above anything else. He has my full respect and support.”
Bongino said Harrington hadn’t reached out to him before she blasted Fox News about that alleged editing. Trump had apparently made election fraud claims that Fox News wasn’t thrilled about according to reports.
Bongino spoke out yesterday, saying simply:
“NOBODY tells me what to talk about my show. Nobody.
Not now, not ever.”
Bongino played a role in the starting of the social media website Parler. Parler was supposed to be for free speech. After they were banned by the Apple store, they had to fire one of their top men, include some censorship after all, and revamp. They are now back on the Apple App store, but it took them months to get the site straight, after also having to find a new server, after Amazon booted them as well.
Although they seem to be back up for the most part now, and we post our stories there as well, many who initially flocked to Parler in the beginning, don’t seem to be coming back in droves. It’s a challenge, to challenge censorship, as Bongino and many others have learned.
Andrew Torba runs Gab, which is also off the app stores but is seemingly having some success. Torba says he doesn’t have to worry about Amazon servers because he doesn’t use them. He is also starting his own payment processing system and advertising system.
It remains to be seen how successful that all become, but he is a pioneer in what he is doing and has avoided being banned by many groups who want Gab.com gone so far. Many say you can’t have a platform that offers free speech, because it harbors so-called hate speech.
Others say you can be for free speech and still not support “hate speech”. This is an ongoing debate in our nation that will continue as long as there is censorship, to begin with.
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