- Two major developments over the weekend

dealing with big tech andpotential free speech issues.

First Twitter, permanently suspended

President Trump's account,

then Google, Apple, and Amazonbanned the app for Parler,

an online free speechcompetitor to Twitter.

Parler is completely offline today

after Amazon Web Services took them down.

Parlor CEO, John Matze, saysbig tech companies claim

that they were somehow responsible

for the assault on CapitolHill, but he told Fox news

they've never allowed violence on Parler

and they don't even have a way

to coordinate an event on their platform.

And he says this couldbe the end of Parler.

- It would put anybody out of business.

I mean, this, they could destroy anybody.

If they did this to any app, any company,

it would completely destroy them.

And we're gonna try ourbest to get back online

as quickly as possible, butwe're having a lot of trouble

because every vendor we talked to

says they won't work with us

because if Apple doesn't approve

and Google doesn't approve, they won't.

And they've given us no legitimate remedy.

They've tried to ask usfor, to cooperate with them

on a few things.

We've tried to give themeverything that they wanted,

of course, withoutsacrificing our principles,

but there were remedies to doit and they just don't care.

They just don't want us on the Internet.

They just wanna get rid of us.

- Conservatives, callthis a big tech crack down

on free speech and theypoint out many others

have posted threats of violence on Twitter

with no consequences.

With us now for more onthese moves by big tech

is Dan Androse of faithwire.com.

So Dan many conservativesare calling these actions

a war on free speech,even one supermodel warned

if President Trump couldbe banned from Twitter,

so could anyone else.

Tell us about that?

- Yeah, well, EmilyRatajkowski was speaking out

and she tweeted and she said,

"This gives Facebook, big tech,Zuckerberg, the most power.

If he can shut the President up and off,

he can shut any of us up and off.

And often she is not a conservative.

She's not some sort ofoutspoken Trump supporter.

This is someone who just seesthe problem with big tech

being able to indiscriminatelyturn people off when they

when they so choose.

And there are a lot ofarguments being made.

There are some saying thatit's a private company

and they should be ableto do what they want.

But of course, when youlook at the trifecta

as you saw with Parler andthem getting it shut off,

when it was Google, Amazon,and Facebook and Twitter

and these big, the giantcompanies, they can act quickly

and they can essentiallydigitally delete you

from existence and shutdown an entire business

that has people concerned

because while it may bealigned with a lot of people

who don't like President Trump,

that that may be in their favor right now

to see someone like him banned,

well, what happens when the digital guns,

so to speak are, are drawn on them.

And so Emily was pointing that out

and I think it's a valid concern,

and one that more and more share

as big tech seems to try to sensor things

that they deemed violent

but they don't really seemto do it in an equal way.

At least according to a lot of complaints.

- What can you tell us about Parler?

The creators say that they'recommitted to free speech.

What's wrong with that?

- Yeah, well Parler isan app that's fairly new.

It was created and it wasborn out of that idea,

from these complaints,

they saw a hole in the marketwhere people were complaining

at the unequal sort of banning

that seemed to be heavily kind of targeted

at conservatives and conservative types.

So they created that.

That's been sort of their marketing hook

and yeah, they value free speech more

and they're not gonna ban you.

Now that doesn't meanthey have no standards.

They, of course, don'tallow extreme violence

and things of that natureto be posted on their site.

So it's kind of a head-scratcher.

Why they suddenly turned on Parler

but what the chillingeffect is the coordination.

As I mentioned,

you have Google, Apple,Amazon removing them.

All of them just deciding theydon't want Parler on there

because it's a risk.

And that's the other thing, Efrem,

is it seems to be likea "Minority Report"-ish

type of thing.

It's future crimes here.

It's, well, the risk is too great

so we can't have them out there.

That should be chilling to anyone

on any side of the political aisle.

- Even though PresidentTrump is gone from Twitter

some foreign countries, like China,

have actually been known tobrag about their activities

that others call repression or genocidal,

but they haven't been punished.

- Yeah, that's again, part ofthat double-standard, Efrem,

and it's glaring.

You mentioned China andthe official account

of the China Embassy ofthe US did Tweet recently,

from an alleged study

that sort of supported their efforts

to quote, eradicate extremism.

And of course, they'rereferencing their rounding up

of Muslims and other religious minorities

and putting them inessentially these prisons

where they brainwash them about the state.

That's clearly a humanrights violation there.

And Twitter has allowed that to stand.

Colin Kaepernick himself,earlier over the summer,

Tweeted about the violence,

the riots that were going on then,

and he said, "Look, your calls for peace

are gonna fall on deaf ears

because now we're getting your attention

and the violence is working.

So keep fighting back."

And Jack, the CEO of Twitter,

donated $3 million to Colin Kaepernick.

So that sort of hypocrisy

has people very frustrated right now.

I think they'd be a little more on board

if they could see an even-handedpolicing of these policies.

- All right. Dan Andros, faithwired.com.

Thank you so much for your time.