David Sacks on the need to end hyperpartisanship in the wake of Big Tech's attack on free speech
00:00:00.000 | I want to tie in this issue with what you said about the off-ramp, okay?
00:00:03.920 | Which is, you know, what is the off-ramp from this?
00:00:07.380 | Look, everybody understands, I think, regardless of what side of the political spectrum you're on,
00:00:12.160 | that we are caught in a cycle of insane hyper-partisan warfare and tit-for-tat retaliation.
00:00:19.160 | And that is the thing that we need to, that is the ledge we need to walk back from, okay?
00:00:25.480 | But the problem that everybody has is that they can only see the other side doing it.
00:00:31.160 | You know, they can't see themselves doing it.
00:00:33.960 | This is a two-way street.
00:00:35.660 | Both sides are doing it.
00:00:37.100 | And that's how de-escalation works, is both sides have to concede something.
00:00:40.960 | Yes, and unless you concede when your side is doing it, we're never going to break the cycle.
00:00:46.520 | Now, the thing that is happening right now, now what Trump did was absolutely outrageous.
00:00:50.880 | And I think it brought him to an ignominious end.
00:00:55.620 | And I think it brought him to an ignominious end in American politics.
00:00:58.820 | He will pay for it in the history books, if not in a court of law, okay?
00:01:02.020 | But now what has happened is the next step in the tit-for-tat retaliation,
00:01:05.380 | the storming of the Capitol has now been used to implement a sweeping attack on free speech.
00:01:13.140 | You know, the Twitter employees who sent that letter to Jack, who've been demanding this for years,
00:01:19.260 | have finally gotten their way, and there is a widespread purge going on.
00:01:23.260 | And not just of Trump.
00:01:25.120 | Not just a permanent ban on Trump.
00:01:27.360 | And then a whole bunch of other people, you know, conservatives.
00:01:30.320 | There are now liberal accounts.
00:01:32.040 | There's an account that I wasn't even aware of called Red Scare.
00:01:34.840 | They're basically, you know, pretty much on the left.
00:01:37.840 | No one can say exactly what it was that got them banned.
00:01:40.800 | I guess they had Steve Bannon on their podcast.
00:01:43.520 | They are suddenly banned from Twitter.
00:01:45.280 | Nobody knows why.