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Tony Lyons: “People from government agencies or people from the executive…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 06:54

And there are, you know, there are many cases now that are, that are pending where it was clear that People from government agencies or people from the executive branch actually called up Amazon or YouTube or other places and told them to take material down. and in a sense, threaten them. I mean, they have so much power and the big tech companies were scared of, you know, antitrust lawsuits or, you know, other regulation, so they pretty much felt that they had to do it. (06:54–07:10)

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