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Nicholas Begich: “People were being canceled, their accounts were being…”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Live with Nick Begich for U.S. Congress

Published | Video Starts at 44:21

Not talking about that. But I'm talking about free exchange of ideas and perspectives and information. And, you know, we saw this happen during COVID and it was. It was terrible. People. People were being canceled, their accounts were being banned, they were losing their jobs, all because of one prevailing perspective that didn't even turn out to be true [during COVID]. Right. Yeah. You know, and so when you start constraining speech, you're going to lose access to the truth. And this is what's so critical. (44:21–44:28)

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Asserts that people faced consequences for opposing a prevailing COVID perspective that was later proven false.

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