Hold up. There’s a bit of nuance here because we literally had some guy hawking poison during the whole pandemic.

Like I get the sentiment here but the height of the pandemic was wild. There were some folk “just talking” trying to make a quick dime hawking things and thoughts that were getting folks killed.

Locally to me, we had Phil Valentine who was big in the “I’m just saying this whole thing is a big hoax” all the way up till he drowned in his own fluid filling up his lungs. How embarrassing. And you know if you call the local talk radio now and mention his name, they just hang up on you, because they want to act like Mr. Valentine didn’t happen.

So yeah, there were a few social networks a little too eager to please the government. But at the same time, we had some folks “just talking” about something that went from nothing to the third leading cause of death in less than a year.

So I think it’s worthwhile to mention those “free speech” folks like Herman Cain and Phil Valentine that some like to conveniently skip over.