Big Tech has the power to ‘manipulate’ and ‘control the message’: Dave Rubin – Fox News

"Rubin Report" hostDave Rubinreacted to former congresswomanTulsi Gabbards scathing comments against Twitter and Big Tech on Wednesday, saying that tech leaders "coordinated"to remove then-President Trump from social media.

In an interview "America'sNewsroom,",Rubin added the message they sent by banning Trump was that if they can "take out"a sitting president, they can do the same to anybody on their platforms.

During an interview with Tucker Carlson on Tuesday, Gabbard said the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters behaved ike "domestic enemies" but asserted that the "John Brennans, Adam Schiffs and oligarchs in Big Tech" were more dangerous in their attempts to undermineconstitutionally protected rights and turn America into a "police state."

TULSI GABBARD SLAMS SCHIFF, BRENNAN, BIG TECH AS 'MORE DANGEROUS' THAN CAPITOL RIOTERS

DAVE RUBIN:"Look, her language is strongbut, in essence of course she iscorrect.Everyone absolutely condemnsall the violent rioters at thecapitol on January 6.Goes without saying. They're domestic terrorists andthe law should deal with themand by the way theres really nobody arguingthat's not the case.As far as what's going on with Big Tech and the Democrats,they are in effect now decidingwho can say what.It doesn't matter what youthink about what Donald Trumpsaid a day or two before the Capitol event.In essence Big Tech took himout.They coordinated to not onlytake him out so he couldn'tcommunicate on Twitter and say YouTube platforms to get out a message out, but they took him off Spotify, they took him off Pinterest.They coordinated, a few tech leaders to say this guy can't speak ...

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And the message that's sending to you andto me and everyone watchingis if we can take out thePresident of the United States,the sitting President of theUnited States, well, we cantake you out too.And Big Tech just has anextraordinary amount of powerto control the message, tocontrol the tenor of what isbeing said in the United Statesand we just have no idea howthe algorithms are manipulatingus and well, actually I think we do have someidea and it is is not well.Which is why the country sortof feels at odds rightnow ...

Mike Lundell is a good guy. It doesn't matter if everypolitical belief he has fallswithin exactly what they saythe Overton window is on that given day.He is allowed to expresshimself as an American.But, now he can't be on there.And again, who will be next?It is not as if they take outone person and then they all sit down and go OK, we solved the problem.Its we take out one person andnow theres blood in the water and who elsecan we take out? I believethe answer to this is we need to buildnew platforms.We have to build new platforms.I have started locals.com andit has blown up right now.But, we need many solutions to this.We can't have so much power inthe hands of a few.That's what the Founders wereworried about as far as thegovernment, but now it's interms of Big Tech."

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Big Tech has the power to 'manipulate' and 'control the message': Dave Rubin - Fox News