get to decide what kind of platform they want to be and that is not censoring donald trump or dennis prager but they can go set up their own the site and go on parler and on [inaudible] and donald trump is set up his own blog and his not having a problem getting his message out. it sets aside the fact that many conservative speakers do quite well on social networking and get traffic but they're not being censored and again, the platforms can set their own speech rules and can decide what kind of store are we going to be. they don't have the obligation to host every single piece of content. that's important because they can decide they want to cultivate and moderate the kind of healthy community on their surface. >> host: so facebook and some of these other social media companies are publishers, in a sense. >> guest: i don't like that term publisher in the sense of the term but they do have their own rights as the speaker and the first amendment first amendment rights and just like fox news does or msnbc does and i think that is not widely understood. they are not neutral platforms. they can

is into by nationally syndicated talkshow host dennis prager. >> host: jason riley, it's a pleasure tobe with you. we have been together on my radio show. you have made a number of videos and i read you in the "wall street journal." you are pretty ubiquitous in my life, i just want you to know that. >> guest: thank you, thank you. good to be h

is into by nationally syndicated talkshow host dennis prager. >> host: jason riley, it's a pleasure to be with you. we have been together on my radio show. you have made a number of videos and i read you in the "wall street journal." you are pretty ubiquitous in my life, i just want you to know that. >> guest: thank you, thank you. good to be here. >> host: good. you would have done a service to the intellectual life of america by writing a biography of thomas sowell and i'll begin in an odd way. how do you explain, i think under the answer, , nevertheles, i want your answer, how do you explain that one of the finest minds of the last half-century is unknown to half america? >> guest: well, i guess to use today's prologue, he was canceled, canceled a long time ago. he's a conservative, a black conservative, and way back in thewn 1970s when you begin writing about racial controversies he got in trouble with a lot of his fellow intellectuals in the academy, and in the media. he's never really shocked that. i think it's something that has cost him a a professional insurance of notoriety a

events with candace owens, and open space in a campus where she changed people's minds, we brought dennis prager to campus, 1200 students from across the state of colorado and wyoming, came to your different perspective and a different point of view. by the time i was a senior i saw hundreds of people walking around with turning point usa stickers on their water bottle, social conservative socialism sucks pins and don't tread on me t-shirts on campus. when i was a freshman no one would become did doing any of that and it spoke to the power of one person willing to be the first person. it was never easy when i did any of these things and like a lot of you i got failing grades on assignments and had professors not want to be my mentor and lost a lot of friendships, my reputation probably wasn't as stellar as i intended to be when i was a freshman by the time i graduated a lot more people knew me as that turning point girl or that conservative girl than isabel brown. i live that every single day but sometimes people need somebody else to be the first person to raise their hand, to say something to

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