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Tony Lyons: “We are actually living in 1984 right now, where they're not…”

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 04:30

I mean, it's a crazy time when you think about the fact that it's not about somebody's credentials. Why are things being banned? They're being banned because they go against a very specific narrative. So We are actually living in 1984 right now, where they're not even people making these decisions. They're bots that are looking for specific narratives that go against what they've decided is the truth. And that's an incredible thing, and it's a scary thing, and it's something that we all need to fight against because we don't want a future where the only speech you can get is speech that's approved by the government. (04:30–04:47)

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Asserts that bots, not people, are making decisions about banning content based on specific narratives.

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