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Tony Lyons: “It was absolutely unconstitutional. They were writing…”

Featuring: Tony Lyons, President and Publisher of Skyhorse Publishing | New York

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Book Publisher, TONY LYONS, CEO of Skyhorse Publishing, on defending the FIRST Amendment

Published | Video Starts at 09:52

And to me, it's perfectly clear that those books and those people would have just gone viral, and the world, if they had got those messages, would have responded to it. So that's what I think was prevented by government action. It was absolutely unconstitutional. They were writing letters, they were threatening big tech companies, they were installing people in big tech companies. So it was this concerted effort to change the thinking of everybody in this country. So, I mean, I even have trouble blaming people for the things that they did wrong because I think that they were subjected to just an incredible propaganda campaign. (09:52–10:02)

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Asserts that government actions against certain books were unconstitutional and involved threats to big tech companies.

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