lyrissa lidsky, thank you for being here. all of these social media platforms are taking alex jones off their sites. they're arguing that he visplats wonder what your reaction to that is? >> there are two things that need to be understood. one is the flrst amendment y protects citizens against restrictions on their speech by the government and government actors. and platforms like facoreboo google are not government actors. th the first amendment simply does not speak tir conduct. the other thing that peoplemi sometimeunderstand is that hate speech itself is not aca legalegory, although it may overlap with things like true threats or defamation that are legal categories. so the government cannot broadly at it mightything label hate speech, but platforms can if they wish to. >> brangham: twitter's c.e.o. as we saw, jack dorsey, the c.e.o. of the company, said he's taking the opposite of the proach. they're not banning alex jones. he wrote, "we didn't suspend alex jones or info wars yesterday. we know that's hard for many, but